Timehop Tuesday: The End of the Decade

It is December 31st, 2019, which means it is the last day of the decade.

Ten years ago we were 9 days into parenthood and the change of the decade was nowhere in my consciousness.

This has definitely been the biggest, most special, and most challenging decade of my life, as I have navigated raising babies into elementary school kids and also lost my dad halfway though.

This winter break I have spent a lot of time organizing pictures on my computer, so I have had the opportunity to go back and look at memories from this past decade.  I tried to figure out how to best post about moving in to 2020 and I'll admit I was at a bit of a loss.  So I decided since the 2010s were mostly the evolution of our little family, that I'd find random family pictures from each year.  So here's my DECADE long Timehop...

And now all the other years in the decade! (My very scientific way of choosing one picture from each year out of the thousands of pictures, was to do a random number generator on my phone from 1-12 to have it choose which month to focus on for each year). 

Have a great New Year's Eve!  Happy 2020!

  

Weekend Wrap-Up

Happy Sunday! We had a pretty good weekend!  Here are some more cute Mitchell pics from Friday night:

We didn’t so much of anything yesterday. Except I fell hard on the ice right away in the morning and Maya got slime everywhere.

There is video evidence of my fall, which is painfully hilarious, so if you see me in person I will show it to you. But I don’t need to put it out on the interwebs...HA. My children think it is very funny. 

Today Uncle Dan, Auntie Hanna and Baby Mitchell came over. Maya finally got to hold him because she is finally healthy.

Then Mitchell stayed with the boys so we could all go and meet Boom, Auntie Yoda and Auntie Mari for pedicures!

Tonight we went to see the Helds and the kids had a blast playing at their school gym.

And then we had dinner and got the kids together for an oldest to youngest photo op!

One more week of break! It is both awesome and I hope we all survive.

A Picture Update: The Week of Christmas MEGAPOST!!

Happy Friday everyone!  The fact that I even know it is a Friday seems like a Christmas miracle.  WHAT A WEEK!  Here is a megapost of all we have done over this Christmas holiday week.

Monday: The girls and I headed downtown to hang out with Boom, Auntie Mari and Lucy!

Click here for some cute videos of those crazies!

Maya fell asleep on the way home after all running around!  Later the girls played Mini-Quidditch, thanks to Callie's new Lego set.

Tuesday: Merry Christmas Eve!  We went to church at 10am, and then headed to Boom's house for the Henderson side Christmas celebration. We had a delicious fajita lunch (which none of the children ate) and Christmas cookies (which all of the children ate).

After Lucy's nap time we opened presents!  Lots of fun stuff!



When we got home, the girls opened most of their presents from us and each other (and Luna!).



After bedtime, SANTA CAME!



Wednesday: Merry Christmas!  Callie was up before 6am but not allowed to come see the Santa stuff until 7am.  Maya slept in and came down about 7:30.  The Santa presents were a hit.

Then we headed to the Gosselin side Christmas celebration with some big presents (and forced smiles).



Right away we tried to get a family photo, but Luna was a WEIRDO LUNATIC.



Finally we got a good one.



Then we got to hang out with all the rest of the family, including G-ma, Pa, Auntie Cat, Uncle Dan, Auntie Hanna, Baby Mitchell, Nana, Papa, and Boom! Lots of people got a lot of Mitchell snuggles.



We had a yummy brunch and then Chris read the Christmas story.



The faces of Mitchell are PRECIOUS.



And Hanna had fun making us laugh by making him do funny things with his face.



Then it was PRESENT TIME!  Again, so many fun ones.


Maya got 2 baby dolls and now you must guess which one is the real baby!!

Then we had time to just hang out, play games, and watch Chris and Pa set up their new TV.



And finally a real cousins picture.



Later we went to serve dinner to families staying at our church over the holidays.  While we were preparing the food, the girls were running around on the stage like crazy...click here for video at church.

Thursday: It was the day after Christmas and we were looking rough...the girls and I did some errands and stopped at the library.  Then later we made some crunch peanut butter balls from Callie's new Harry Potter cookbook.

Later that afternoon we went back to Boom's house to see all the Johnson cousins.  There was more good food and delicious desserts.  And a different baby to snuggle- Baby Henry!



Friday: The day after the day after Christmas.  Chris was off work and told the girls that they could play our new Nintendo Switch right away in the morning since we hadn't gotten a chance to do that yet.  I think he regretted that when they both came down at 6:50am and relentlessly woke him up until he agreed to go play.  We then played some other games and had a nice relaxing day at home.

Later our college friends came over, which brought 4 more kids into the house and increased the volume and crazy factor by a lot.  But it was fun!



Lastly, I got to go hang out with Baby Mitchell tonight at G-ma and Pa's house tonight!  Baby snuggles for the win.

Have a great weekend!

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas from our jammy queens!

They have loved jammies at Christmas for a long time!

Have a wonderful day!

Timehop Tuesday: Merry Christmas Eve!

Merry Christmas Eve from these crazies!

Happy Birthday Callie Joy!

It is nearly impossible to believe that this girl is TEN.

As I wrote in her card, she is A DECADE OLD!!!

I just can’t believe it.

This sweet, smart, sassy, and super cool girl is growing up so fast...as you can see with her 1 through 9 birthday pics.

But here she is... double digits! We had a fun day. First she opened presents, of course!

Then she and I went out for breakfast so she could get BACON!

This afternoon we went to see Cinderella at a local theater.

Tonight we had the fam over (well, most of them...Pa was sick) for a Harry Potter birthday party!

Callie planned a couple games- Harry Potter trivia and Pin the Scar on the Harry!

Then Cal opened presents! She got so many awesome gifts and made so many good faces. 

Then there was pizza and cake!

And then Cal got the BEST BIRTHDAY PRESENT EVER. Uncle Dan, Auntie Hanna and BABY MITCHELL stopped by!!!!! He got out of the NICU on Thursday and has been doing great! Callie and Maya were SO EXCITED to meet him! Callie held him for a long time. 

Once the party was over we let her stay up until she officially turned 10...7:55pm. 

Again, she was very excited.

It was a truly wonderful day! Thanks for all the birthday love! 

I’ll leave you with a video...click here!

A Picture Update

WE MADE IT TO FRIDAY.

It was quite the week. Maya didn’t start to get better until Wednesday afternoon. We had a few overnights that were super rough and she became really yell-y about taking medicine and following any kind of direction. After spending the day with me on Monday, she was lucky enough to spend Tuesday and Wednesday with G-ma.

Chris was finally able to go meet Baby Mitchell this week!!

The Holiday Dance Show was on Wednesday night. Maya was still coughing too much so we had her stay home (with G-ma again...thanks G-ma!) but Callie did the show! 

Click here for video of the dance (one of the girls got a little confused at the beginning and also I apologize if you have “I Feel the Magic” in your head for the rest of the year).

Luna was extra snuggly last night.

 Cheers to WINTER BREAK! 

But no rest for the exhausted. A CERTAIN CHILD IN OUR HOUSEHOLD TURNS 10 ON SUNDAY. TEN!!!!!!!!