Merry Christmas | 2018

it's christmas eve!
the kids (mostly harper, due to her age of actually understanding anticipation) ;) are getting anxious and excited awaiting for santa to come tonight! i think tanner might actually be connecting the dots and i am so excited to see the christmas magic through their eyes tomorrow morning. tanner asked santa for a walking puppy with a leash. and harper a walking unicorn with a leash.
(thinking they influenced each other with their wishes!) :)

we are feeling God's blessings this year and thankful to have our new baby tatum this christmas.
how sweet it is, a baby at christmas!

later this afternoon we'll be heading to christmas eve church service and follow that up with having family over to our house for some christmas eve fun and food!

Merry Christmas, from our family to yours!

christmas cards of years past:

2017 card

2016 card

2015 card

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

John 3:16

Xoxo

-Brittney

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Suncadia | 2018

it's year four that we've taken our getaway to suncadia right before christmas. we look forward to this every year. to escape the craze and busyness that the days leading up to the holiday bring, and just stop and enjoy eachother. it's so special to me and always make the best memories.

we've always stayed in the same exact condo. it gets me so sentimental that year after year it's been the same place. until this year. with our growing family of now five, we decided a house would fit us all better. it's so fun to think we started doing this when we were just a family of three!

and here we are, keeping this tradition going.

i dream about all the childhood memories our kiddos are making and will one day look back on.

these littles in their snow pants and matching hats!! 

#hearteyes

7 am

cookie + coffee for breakfast

 8am

9am

packing, packing, packing.

loading, loading, loading.

we need a bigger car.

10 am

 11am

all that medicine ball goodness for the roadtrip

 12pm

picking the perfect carrot for frosty's nose

 1pm
mad dash to the car to fill that babe's tum

 2pm

3pm

4pm

5pm

6pm

7pm
no nap for the day and he passed right out on dad for the first time in a LONG time.

8pm

9pm

sleepy babe on that cozy bed.

10pm

and into bed in the 11 o'clock hour.

successful first day!
top of the list for day two is to hit the bakery for fresh cinnamon rolls and then to build a snowman.

Xoxo

-Brittney

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Merry Christmas! 2017

merriest christmas from our family to yours!
we were dreaming of a white christmas- and it happened!!
JUST THE BEST.EVER.

christmas with these young children makes for the best christmas we could imagine.
keeps getting better and better & we are thankful for it all.

Merry Christmas!!

christmas cards of years past:
2016 card
2015 card

Xoxo

-Brittney

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christmas 2017 pictures

another year in the books and what a great, busy, loving one it has been.

looking back on last year's christmas pictures, boy have these two littles of ours grown and changed!

it's always hard for me to narrow down my favorites after we get our pictures back from kristal cause i'm usually in love with them all... so here are a good majority of our pictures i'm sharing!

merry christmas, friends & family!
we are so very thankful for where the Lord has brought us and for all the loved ones in our life.
...maybe i'll get back to regularly blogging... but until then hit or miss will have to do ;)

Xoxo

-Brittney

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family getaway | suncadia 2016

while putting together the post + pictures for tanner turning 6 months, I ran across so many fun and sweet memories from our pre christmas family getaway to suncadia. although it was now over a month ago, I can't not bring all these treasured photos together and make a post out of it. and how much sweeter these will even be when I look back at them next year! I find that I so cherish pictures in the moment, but even so much more so when looking back after some time has passed.

so here ya have it! our family getaway to suncadia right before christmas 2016.
for memory's sake :)

Xoxo

-Brittney

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