Merry Christmas 2014

Christmas best...

At the Church Christmas party

Skyler & Abe

(Jeez Hobbes, way to get right in there...)

Good Morning Dec.25th!

The joy of Christmas morning.

Twinsies & twinsies

We were happy to be able to share Christmas morning with Skyler's family after some festivities we made the drive up to see my parents. 

So fun to see everyone. 

Super Archibald boy! 

Thanks for the green corduroy skirt set gramma, even though I kind of look like I should be selling girl scout cookies ;) She loves it!

...and why choose only one pair of jimmies when you can obviously wear both?!

Merry Christmas!

Congratulations Emma & Beau!

My cousin got married!! It was such a beautiful wedding.

She's super into Disney, so it was a cinderella themed wedding. Not over the top though, just occasional disney songs during the dancing and, beautiful venue, and a classy horse and buggy carriage on the invite. I had such a great time. 

Mom, Shelley, Grandpa and Becky

My phone was being dumb and half my pics are odd like this.

Shelly & Emma

I made  myself a fancy skirt just for this occasion and it was awesome! 

Total party skirt, will definitely wear again.

More Fun...

An eventful Thanksgiving for sure, and closing it with a bang! 

Bowling with cousins..

Lighting of the Seaside Christmas tree, day after Thanksgiving.

Hayley was pretty sad to see Milena go. These two are peas in a pod. They spend every waking minute together every chance the family is together. Love them.

This kid...who's kid is this? He loves orange, and  the fact that someone gave him a pair of orange basketball shorts, well good luck getting them off him. A lot of times we just have to put them back on over his jeans, or under them hahah

Happy Thanksgiving!

This is what happens when you take 8 grandchildren to Costco. 

Since the Archibald side of the family were all gathering for Thanksgiving this year, we decided it would be more relaxing overall to have festivities at the church building. 

It was awesome. Plenty of room to spread out, kids ran wild in the gym with balls etc while we set up snacks and got dinner ready in another room. 

After dinner and once the allure of gym space and balls had worn out, I brought out a bunch of minute-to-win-it games. We had a blast! They really got into it too! 

After that we settled back down at the table for some Thanksgiving BINGO and pie.

Just for kicks, Joell got these funny turkey hats. 

Jacob took a liking to them and was wearing it all over. Funny guy :)

November Fun

Would you like some cheese with that? ;)

The blazer is a tad big but he LOVED it. 

Feeling a bit shy about Skyler taking pictures at her Kindergarten Thanksgiving program.

Being a working Mom, I missed out. :( I was pretty sad. 

Hayley got strep. Again. 

But so brave and still smiling even after they stuck the long scary q-tips in her throat. eek. 

School fundraiser Turkey Trot fun run.

Assessing the other runners...

 She was so pumped! But ultimetly chickened out and refused to run along with them. 

She was excited about the shirt...and then I could barely get her to put it on for a pic. 

I think she is the turkey... 

Skyler's brother's wife had Twins!

Maximus and Oswald