I am completely sucked in (no pun intended)!

Happy 30th Birthday!

My sweet and wonderful husband turned 30 this month! It's hard to believe that we are aging right out of our twenties. To celebrate Tyler and Jeffrey went with friends to a Motorcross show and the report was that they had a wonderful time..... Then after Church on Sunday we went to lunch with the whole Joyce/Goffinet family and celebrated Jeffrey's and Amanda's birthday together. Rhonda has been waiting for this day for a very long time because Jeffrey promised her when he turned 30 he would tell her the story of how he got the scar on his chin. I think from all the laughter it was worth the wait!

Happy Birthday Honey Bunny I hope we celebrate many more together!

Celine Dion

A few weeks ago my darling husband took me to see Celine Dion for the second time (secretly he was dying to go). We were blown away by her amazing voice and how effortlessly she uses it. We had a great time but I really wish Jeffrey could have seen her in Vegas because the performace was really good but it just was not comparable. BTW her Vegas show in now playing on TV (we have already recorded it)!

Celebrating With Friends

God has blessed us with some wonderful friends that have become like a second family to us. We enjoy celebrating all special occasions with them and the holidays (as you probably already noticed from previous blogs). Here's a look at us ringing in the New Year. They made it as far as watching the ball drop in New York but then it was off to bed with bellies full of smores! (I don't really know why the pictures are placed all over the place but I tried to fix it twice and can't so I'm posting it like this. )

All the kids in birth order...five outta six looking isn't too bad!

Jeffrey may have to keep a eye on this Caleb fella!

Making smores on New Year's Eve is now offically a tradition.

Sparklers were a big hit (thanks Aunt RaRa)!

The Three Amigo's!!

Tyler's Show

Waaay back in December Tyler had his first Christmas performance. But I am a bit behind on keeping our blog updated seeing as it's now the middle of January!

Tyler and his class getting ready for Jingle Bell's.

This isn't the best quality of a picture but it cracks me up because he was singing his heart out and with such passion!

He was really into doing all the hand motions with the songs (here he's "making a list")and if you'll notice he's the only one. I don't mean to brag but he had only a fraction of the practice as the others kids and he rocked the performance!

Tyler showing Maddie all the cool things he does at school. This picture kinda makes me sad because they both were starting to feel badly and I can see it in their faces (Tyler was actually running a fever).

Here's just some random pictures that I've been meaning to post of us at a Christmas show at Amanda's Church and of the kids and I just playing around snapping pictures.

I just love this sweet little face!

Our House at Christmas

Our living room tree.

Our entryway


My favorite Christmas platter.

Christmas definitely must be in the kitchen!

Our dining room tree at night (it's always what I miss the most)!

Dinning room

Meet Clippie...Santa sent him to be our house guest for December to make sure that Maddie and Tyler were being very nice.

This was one of Maddie's favorite decorations!

Welcome to Tyler's room..

here's his night stand...

his holiday bed..

and two silly gooses!!!

Christmas at Aunt RaRa's house

We always start the Holiday's off with a wonderful Christmas party, with lots of delicious food, at Aunt Rhonda's house. Unfortunately, this year we all passed around a horrible stomach bug and most of us spent Christmas week sick. But here are some pictures while we were still having a good time and enjoying Rhonda's awesome holiday treats!


Maddie and Aunt Rhonda

Zach got the best gift of all!!

Everyone just gathered around watching the kids.

Amanda and Hailey are always the life of the party (they get that from their mom)!

PawPaw and his best buddy enjoying their holiday feast.

Uncle Jarod hanging our with Maddie.