celebrating the New Year

So ... about three weeks ago we celebrated the New Year with friends from church. The girls had a blast hanging out with those older and a similar age - 

Perhaps most fun (not for Ashley who stayed inside because she was too nervous to watch, she can't stand kids around fireworks) was the fireworks show, complete with sparklers.

At some point (I did not see this happen), Grace brought out a resolution poster. Eden wrote she was going to play with Lydia more. So sweet!

Not sure when, but at some point I took the girls to Whole Foods - all Lydia would eat was blueberries. She ate an entire pint and asked for more. She got them.

At some other point, this is how I found EB ... cozy place for a horse for sure.

And yet at another point, Ashley hung the pictures Boston and Whitney got us for Christmas. Very cool! A family photo gallery is started - and first thing you see when you come in the back door (nice after a long, tough day).

During the holiday season, we often stay up late, which means that there is a period of time when we have to stop doing it. This particular night was not the night for that battle. We sat there while EB ate something and asked me 100 questions about the show Ashley was watching and we could hear.

Continually, after Christmas and still now though it has gotten better with our purchase of a fish (post to come), she reminded us that she wanted a puppy from Santa. It seems inevitable that we will be the proud owners of something that sheds hair in our house and causes us to spend $500 on a robot vacuum.

Still in her creative mode (which is always really), Ashley framed the birth announcements from both Winters. They are now on the same table but on the right.

I looked at these pictures a few times and have no clue about them except they are super cute. Really, you should look at them at least a dozen times. Love 'em!

So, that's how we celebrated the start of the new year. Now that we are in full swing of the semseter, I suppose blogging will be rare, but we'll try our hardest (really I'll try; Ashley will have pictures up it's just that I don't do a great job of writing in a timely manner...sigh...).