Holden's Birthday

Highlights from Holden's 6th birthday . . .

Morning playing at home in his pajamas:



Dinner of chicken wings (one of his favorite foods!):



Followed by cake and presents:















He told me last night that it was "the best day of my life"! Happy, happy birthday to our sweet, loving boy!!!

Happy Birthday Holden!

Look who's 6 today:

*This picture is from last Saturday night's basketball game with Daddy.

We'll be celebrating with a birthday dinner, cake and presents tonight. There will be a special lunch treat for school friends on Thursday and a BounceU party with buddies Friday night. In other words, we'll be celebrating this big guy all week! :-)

Movie Night

We spent the afternoon at the movies watching Frozen! :-)

I was a little afraid that it would be too "princess-like" for the boys, but there was tons of humor and action. They LOVED it!!!

Christmas Fun

What a wonderful Christmas!

Christmas highlights from this year . . .
Christmas Eve dinner at Mama Carol's (with Aunt Brandi):





Christmas Eve candlelight service at church:



Christmas Eve night (3 EXCITED little boys!):



Christmas morning:















Christmas lunch with Papa/Mama Quinn:



*The Chestnutts (Uncle Larry, Aunt Renee, Lorry and Lorrin) joined us too, but I forgot to get a picture!

Christmas Blessings 2013

Merry Christmas from "my boys and me"!

School Christmas Party #3

While I was at the big boys' school last Thursday, Brant was with Fletcher at his Christmas party. It was a sweet time for both of them!





*I am very thankful that Brant's schedule is so flexible and that we can divide up some of these school events! :-)

Recent Random Pics

Q's school buddies Ty and Tristen invited 1 friend each for a birthday play date at Jumpin' Jax. I'm not sure which one picked Quinn . . . but, I do know that Q had a blast! ;-)





I am VERY lazy when it comes to our Elf on a Shelf (Buddy). But, Brant really has fun with it. One of his latest ideas? Bumblebee protecting Buddy, on the top of our kitchen cabinets!



Early release park fun last week (for 3 days, we had 45 minutes to spend between getting the big boys and picking Fletch up from preschool):



Eating candy canes and watching Christmas movies:



NC State basketball fun for Q and Daddy (we beat ECU on Saturday):



Playing astronauts and "blasting off" in the driveway:

Q's Christmas Party

I spent the morning with Q's class at their Christmas party. It was a fun, special time . . . filled with many sweet treats! ;-)




*When we were leaving, I saw this in the hallway outside his classroom. Loved it!

"Play Group"

When Q was a baby, we were part of a little play group; the other babies were Landon, Elizabeth and Aidan. We started an annual family Christmas party in 2006, and we've gotten together each year since to catch up and celebrate. It's amazing how our families and kiddos have grown. All of those original babies are 2nd graders now, and we've added 4 siblings to the group!

The Charlands hosted our annual party last weekend. We were sad that the Rohrbachs couldn't join us, but it was great seeing everyone else. What a fun tradition!

Crafts - Q

Quinn's Christmas crafts came home last Friday. Some of my favorites:









*It's always so fun opening the bag and finding all of these sweet surprises! :-)