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| happy 2015! |
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| we started out the night at the capital grille for dinner. |
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| tess was a perfect little angel. i was kind of nervous about bringing a baby to a fancy restaurant but she did great. |
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| the group. |
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| after dinner we walked over to my uncle's building to watch the space needle's firework show. we had music going and lots of treats. it was very fun. |
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| the girls. |
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my favorite new years eve partner. 
take that back. THIS is my favorite nye partner.
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| last sunday craig blessed our sweet tess. it was a special day with family and friends. |
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| she wore the dress i was blessed in (and that my grandma had sewn!). it was perfect. |
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| we loved having everyone there. |
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| craig's family too! |
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| the five of us. |
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| TESS! she looked like a little angel. we sure do love her. |
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| christmas was extra fun this year with this little girl! look at tess and her new stocking (made by my grandma)! she could basically fit in it! |
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| every christmas eve, craig's practice provides free dental care. this year, it made the news! (we might have watched craig's fifteen seconds of fame a few times) |
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| on christmas eve we went out to dinner at one of favorite local restaurants. i love getting dressed up and having someone else make the meal. :) |
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| fun at matt's. |
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| even more fun at matt's. is it just me, or does uncle of the year look like he is gritting his teeth? how rude. |
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| two girls with their pretty blouses. |
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| tucker tried oysters for the first time. ewwww. |
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| the group. man, do they love when i make everyone get together for a group shot. no. they do not. |
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| my little nuclear group is only slightly better about picture time. 'tis the season! |
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| after dinner we headed over to my parents' house for a white elephant gift exchange and to act out the nativity. cutest shepherd and sheep around. |
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| late that night, santa dropped by. the calm before the storm. |
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| yay! |
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| in the afternoon, we went over to my parents' house. taylor and rachelle are so cute with tess. and tess is cute with her flash tattoos! |
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| four generations of girls! |
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| that night we went to our traditional christmas night movie. into the woods was horrrrrrible but we still had a blast. love these humans. |
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| such a merry christmas. |
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| tess loves her brothers! she was starting to get fussy while i was taking this shot but then tagg started talking to her and she calmed down. so dang sweet. |
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| i took the tagg, sully and tess to the bellevue light garden last week. we brought hot chocolate and the rest of my family. very fun. |
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| tess had her two month check up. she weighed nine and a half pounds. i looooove this girl. |
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| and i might be a stage mom already. she was asked to be baby Jesus in the live nativity our church puts on for the community. my cousin, eli, was jophes (as sully says it) and was one proud papa. it was incredibly sweet. |
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| not going to lie, when they were playing o holy night and everyone was surrounding "baby Jesus" i got a little tear in my eye. :) |
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| a few days ago tess smiled for the camera for the first time! |
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| last weekend, we went downtown to ride the duck. we boarded the duck and were driven thru the streets signing carols and waving (like lunatics) at everyone. it was very fun. |
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| about to get on the holiday duck! |
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| it wasnt raining that night but it did get quite windy when we started going fast. good thing we were bundled up. |
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| we loved every single second of it. |
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| after the duck, we had dinner and then walked over to the sheraton to see the gingerbread houses. i love doing festive activities with my family and having tucker in town! |
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| baby tess is really starting to smile, coo and just being an all around lovely little nugget. we LOVE her. |
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| i hosted the ornament exchange this year and had fun decorating the table in preparation for all the treats! |
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| and tagg had fun getting all up in tess' face. |
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| my friends really know how to do treats. |
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| i was only a little proud of the hot chocolate urn i had set up. and kaitlin makes it look even better. |
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| all of us with our treasures. we really missed you, hanna! |
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| last week megan made gingerbread houses for us to decorate. she provides the houses and i provide the candy. we have a good thing going. please dont ask me what eli is doing in this picture. |
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| apparently tagg couldnt stop licking his fingers long enough to smile for the picture. |
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| i went back and found the pictures from previous gingerbread house decorating parties. i freaking love my family and their traditions (but not my hair in pictures 3 and 4. ew). |
