Seriously.

Who wouldn't live this girl to pieces. She's amazing.

Fun date night

Chad and I got to do something last night that had been on Chad's bucket list: glad blowing. We had a great time watching them blow glad as thin as a sheet of paper (or even thinner!) and playing with the molten glass ourselves. Well have two glass hearts to show for it next week. I don't think that chad is quite ready to cross it off yet. Im sure he wants to continue this passion.

Boys will be boys

Nathan broke his thumb this afternoon. He smashed it in between to weights. At first we thought that he just smashed it. But it became so swollen that we decided to take him into urgent care. It turns out that he broke it at the very tip of the bone. He will have to wear a removable cast for the next 2 weeks. Hopefully he'll keep it on.

Oh what a pair!

It took a lot of time but I'm pretty proud of the way they came out. They're going to look great in our bedroom.

 

 

 

Christmas fun

For our friends Christmas party this year we decided that we would do a fun activity instead of exchanging gifts. So we ended up having a paintball fight. It was a ton of fun, but we missed Sarah who was sick at home. After our paintball fight we went out to chad and I's new favorite BBQ place: Allison's Texas Barbecue, and Sarah joined us there. It was a great time and I think the start of a great new tradition.

Belated Christmas

Grandma and grandpa O'Loughlin were our of town on Christmas so we celebrated it with them yesterday. Nathan got a game called "Pop the Pig" and you would have thought he had won the lottery. He has been inseparable from it since.

Garage sale

We had a garage sale and we had a couple of the cutest girls working the bake sale. They got so excited, especially Maya, when someone bought something.

So cute

Here are a couple of our Christmas photos. I like to get a picture of the kids in their Christmas church clothes, but it's always touch and go to get it right before church starts. I count these as successful!

It's actually a blessing

Chad was involved in an accident. It wasn't his fault and he's fine so this is actually great! We get to have the number that already had previous damage fixed. Were going to count it as a blessing.

Growing up

Caitlyn turned 10 last week and today she had her first teenage-style phone conversation. It was spontaneous and has been going on for 45 minutes with a friend from school. It's fun to see these little milestones. I'm sure this is the first of many conversations to happen