The Suits Sisters

Mom's famous casserole and then some Look at these precious old men sitting in the living room talking about I don't know...Baseball? The stock market? Kent's beard? Liza's First Christmas!  And Finn's!    Mr. Christmas Cheer Opening stockings. Also, a dad with his daughter on Christmas morning? Stick a fork in me. I'm done. The Princesses Paraphernalia couldn't wait Caris wasn't the only one to receive snazzy head gear Our secret to opening presents without the distraction of kids You know you're old when you gift each other Pyrex without knowing! 

In honor of the Christmas Story, we traveled many miles over the span of 9 days. However, this year I was not great with child which made the trip a lot easier. And Kent's determination to drive through the night from hither to yon meant that the girls fell asleep in Florida and woke up in South Carolina.  I wish that I could post all of them, but here are some highlight pictures.  Breakfast with Pops   Our silly snow wo man  This is real life  The Ziggle bike from Papa and Yaya was a huge hit  Our trip included a few lows   Ma reenacting the Nativity Scene  We finally met Finn!  We were the last to leave Pops and Gigi's and this was the The House is Empty Christmas is Over scene.

We've done a few things in the past week  We put an offer in on a house! They countered! We accepted!  The weather dropped into the 70's while it was still light outside  so we broke out the hammock and hoodies. My phone fell out of said hoodie, landed just right (wrong?) and died. We save a lot of money on my pre-paid phone plan each month  (THANKS KENT!)   which should translate into money saved towards a new phone when needed, but when we're faced with buying a tiny gadget for like, four h u n d r e d dollars, that will live in my back pocket, keep my butt company and eventually break, we balk. So after a few days of living on the edge without a phone, a fellow youth pastor gave us an old phone. TEXT ME. We celebrated our first Thanksgiving away from family. And although we missed everyone, pooting around in our jammies until 10AM and not traveling with 2 little ones was definitely nice. We hosted another family + Ilse (have I still not told you about he