What the?!

 Sometimes my kids are weird. It's just a fact. They do odd things. I found this egg in Addison's bed. Yup. And that's all I have to say about that.

 While packing, I came across this used box I had gotten in a large amount of other boxes. I found it amusing. Someone really didn't want their bibles put in storage. But it's true, right? I found that when we get busy (like moving, selling/buying a house at once, yikes!, etc...) we can forget about our day to day things that are important. I really need to make sure everything looks perfect for the showing tomorrow so I will stay up until midnight cleaning, but other days at 9 p.m. I'm too tired to read my scriptures. True story, people. Sad story.

So this might be one of the funniest things ever. Who is this guy with all these candy bars in his mouth? Yes, he is an adult. But let me explain... So the Tidwell's moved into our ward (old ward now). Funny side note, his sister bought our house! Well, we knew we immediately liked these two and we didn't' know why at first. Then, we realized that we are all honorary McKee's! We share a mutual friendship with this family, which is of course why we "get" each other. I don't know how it started, but Ivan (pictured above) asked Nathan for one of his Halloween snickers bars. Nathan refused of course, which led to never ending taunting of begging for a Snickers every Sunday. What adult doesn't try and get candy from kids? So, Nathan thought it would be funny one day to buy a Snicker's and take a picture of him eating it and send it to Ivan. Ivan had to retaliate with picture above. I still don't think this war has settled.

Ben-G

At the end of every year, Ben's office crowns a top associate. The one who brings in the most money over the course of that year wins this lovely trophy. It's a name only prize, so no trip to Hawaii or anything, BUT obviously you did well that year to earn it so no complaints:) It was a tight race towards the end, but he pulled ahead of everyone. I am super beyond proud, so he gets his own blog post just about this! All of us here in the land of Home appreciate his hard work. He does it all for us, not really the recognition from work. That's a perk of course....

Christmas 2014

 I think these are pretty good looking kids. I love the Christmas Pj pictures.

 All ready for them to come out and tear it apart.

 Bailey wanted aviator sunglasses for Christmas.

 Kate in her Anna wig. Addison got Elsa. I am glad they had it worked out between the two of them who gets to be who.

 The twins also each got an Etch A Sketch. I used to love mine, and of course had to play on it.

 Later we went to my dad's for dinner. Nathan ended up being tied up? Who knows with this one.

 Uncle Curtis had to torture a few of my kids as well. It wouldn't be Christmas without someone almost peeing their pants, right?

 Emma and I taking selfies.

The present from Pops was a karaoke machine. I may have encouraged this but shhhhhh....

 On Christmas Eve, we went with the Blankenfeld's to the snow. It was rainy and nasty and the snow wasn't super great, BUT my kids did not care. They just liked actually being able to wear their snow clothes and see something white. We ate at In and Out on the way home. This picture is the sky coming back into Lincoln. I have to say, as much as I still find it odd to call Lincoln out actual home town I do love some of the spaces out here.

Finish the Blog Book or Bust

Curse Facebook and Instagram and the easy way it allows for you to share pictures and thoughts!!!!!!
However I really do not want to have our lives remembered by just that. I enjoy writing down more thoughts about what was happening in the picture, and the funny stories. Just last night, for Family Home Evening, we talked about how many times we had started a chart for scripture reading, or prayers...or you name it. We laughed at how many times we had done this. What I pointed out to the kids is at least we are trying! What if we tried once or twice and gave up because we obviously couldn't do it? That would be terrible. So, here I am again, trying to keep this blog up to get printed. The emails from the blog printing company with coupons haunt me monthly. So here goes nothing (again).

Emma as Thomas Jefferson and Kirby as Pocahontas in their class play last December. These two girls are hilarious. Full of drama and all other things girl, but good friends for a really long time. This "Thomas Jefferson" outfit was put together very last minute but I think she pulled it off. 

 The many faces of December! All of these girls (and woman!) have December birthdays. Why the heck would we do that?! We get asked this a lot. Well, some things aren't planned. Three of them came early, one was planned around break between semesters and I have no idea what Laurie's parents were thinking. But, it happened. And it calls for one large celebration right before Christmas.

 My mom made these dolls for Kate and Addison. They were favorites for sure.

Emma drowning in sock monkeys. This love of monkeys all goes back to Bananas. This is the stuffed monkey she got for her 7th birthday from an older neighbor girl named Gabby. Emma cannot live without Bananas, even at 11 years old. This has led to a further obsession with all things monkey. 

 Again, Melanie doesn't disappoint as best Mother ever. We decorated Gingerbread houses in style.

 Levi (Arianna's little boy) and Ginny Miller.

 Emma was invited to a Cookie party at Kirby's over Christmas break. She has quite the talent for making cookies.

 Posing, as only these two can

Of course, the Christmas dress picture. Maybe I can find a holiday where the boys get something new to wear and I make them pose.

#rbbkadventures

 This year for the Lenahan Christmas Party Weekend Extravaganza, we were able to go with our friends the Blankenfeld's. Rusty works at Ben's firm, and is the newest attorney!

 Everyone needs a serious selfie at the ocean.

 The boys.

 The girls.

 The obligatory Christmas tree picture at the formal dinner.

Look at us! Two non huggers hugging. 

The weekend was fun, as always. Mostly this is because we have a free getaway. I did have way too much fun at the expense of one of the attorney's very drunk date. When people are that far gone, they have the funniest conversations and you can make fun of them right to their face and they think it is hysterical. That might be my new favorite past time.

Churn Down For What!

Kate and Addison love to have me on field trips. 9 years of them down, 6 more to go.

 When cleaning out stuff from our house to take to the DI trailer, I had an odd surprise when I opened it up. Apparently someone didn't want their homemade tree with painted dolls as ornaments anymore.

 Nathan, as person of the week, modeling the grape caterpillars I brought in. This might possibly be my first real Pinterest success with food art.

 Celebrating Dad being awesome at Chevy's. Of course, this calls for tortilla dough on your head.

 Robes are an obsession in this house. I am banned from having one because it would probably be all I wear. Instead, I let my children enjoy the beauty of robes. 

 We love this joke in our house. Yes we are strange, but we also say "poopus" a lot instead of purpose, so this one isn't so bad.

I tried sending the twin to school with covered legs, but I found these tossed in the backseat after I dropped them off. They know what they want I guess.

Nathan: Soccer Star in Training

 We had absolutely no clue Nathan would be as good at soccer as he is. At the end of the season, the coach of the #1 team in the division (Nathan's was #2) contacted us to have Nathan play on his team next year when Nathan moves up to U10. I had no idea kids got poached in Rec soccer!

 Nathan loved his coach this year.

 The Jaguars! This was such a great team of boys, and we are really glad we got to know them.

 One night, for FHE, we ended up on the soccer field. Nathan had run his mouth a little to Ben tat he could beat everyone in our family-all at once. I think Ben took that as a challenge:)

It was rough, but we kept up with the kid. We can't let him think he is too good, or it will go to his head, right?