a shower for tess!

my friends threw a beautiful shower for tess. i loved the metallic banner amy and kaitlin had made and seeing tess' name all spelled out. reminded me how much i love her name! :)

tess, with her party dress (and shoes) on. 

amy (foreground) and kaitlin (background) put together the morning and i couldnt have loved it more. tess and i are very lucky.

such a special party with family and friends. we love you tess!

snowflake lane x 2

one of our favorite things to do during december is visit snowflake lane in bellevue. its very festive and so fun for the boys.

music, lights, dancers, free peppermint lollipops and snow... who wouldnt love it?

SNOW.FLAKE.LANE! HO.HO.HO!

sully's three loves: ga, suckers, and fake mice.

my love: tess.

two nights after we went to snowflake lane with my family, the smiths came into town and we did it all over again. i could get used to this set up.... the men and kids at one table....

jocelyn and me at our own. :)

we love the smiths so much and are very excited to have them live close enough to enjoy holiday traditions together.

our christmas tree

it was fun picking out our tree this year because there was a bit of snow on the ground. felt a little more legit.

we found it!

and my mountain man cut that huge tree right down.

which was a good thing because i wanted to get this nugget out of the cold.

our christmas tree. all ready for santa!

it snowed!

a few days ago we woke up to a surprise snowfall. there is honestly nothing better.

sully was loving life even though his "globes" were about 1000 times too large.

brothers in love. with the snow. :)

the girls? i dont think they were loving it as much.

such a gorgeous day. just wish there had been christmas lights on my house instead of pumpkins on my porch!

my crazy little snow angel.

mini snowball fight (i didnt have gloves so it couldnt last long).

tess was bummed she didnt get to play out in the snow so i put her snowball hair pretty on her and she felt better.

thanksgiving 2014

we had a wonderful thanksgiving holiday with plenty of blessings to be thankful for aaaaaand delicious food.

my mom sure does love tess. she shoveled down her meal so she could hold her favorite granddaughter. :)

blurry, but i love how happy they all look. i am very grateful we live near the gees. they are always up for a good time.

the seahawks played on thanksgiving which kind of bummed me out because it interrupted our family day (we usually play games and go out to a movie). so i made sure tagg and sully had little projects to do during the game. this was tagg's turkey. kind of derpy but super cute.

megan made turkey sugar cookies so the boys could decorate them. sully was so proud.

i came upstairs to start cleaning and found these two hooligans wheezing the redi-whip.

the reason for this season? left overs.

tess

this little girl is a month old now and we love her so much! she went in for her one month check up and had gained 26 ounces in 20 days. for being a month premature she has done so well and we feel very blessed. look at those cheeks!

so serious. :) when she was first born i thought she looked exactly like sully but in the past week or so i think she is looking more like tagg. either way, i want to eat her up. i looooooove my tess.

halloween

it has been a crazy past few weeks but luckily we were still able to fit in some of our favorite halloween traditions. i was very excited to decorate my mantle for the first halloween in this house. 

little did we know that only about 48 hours after going to the haunted house with megan and alex my water would break. maybe thats what did it! sorry, tess. 

i had made and mailed out the donut party invitations a week before tess surprised us. oops. 

it was a hard decision, :) but in the end i just couldnt host a full blown donut party this year. (it would have been only 7 days after having tess) but i had all the supplies and still wanted to eat a donut, so my mom fried a few up and we had a mini party. 

mini party. sully loves himself in this shot.

the five of us!

halloweeeeeeeen! i cannot tell you how obsessed i was with my harry potter and draco malfoy. 

also, with this little pumpkin. i found this pumpkin costume at a second hand store when sully was a baby and i freaking love it. i would have 10 babies just to put them all in this.

sully is such a sweet brother to tess.

hedwig, naturally.

i honestly dont know how we will top this next year. i could stare at this picture all day long. 

on halloween night we went over to my parents' house to trick or treat around their neighborhood. they boys had fun doing that but mostly wanted to get back to pass out candy to other kids. 

my favorite wizards.

my favorite humans. happy halloween!