Catching up on pictures from December

Goodness, Keith and I have some beautiful kids! 

Playing around with my camera, trying to make EK smile. :)


My handsome boy!

AC and one of her good friends at church. The kids sang in the evening service a few weeks ago. They did a fabulous job! (Notice AC has braces!! She's so happy!)

Our little ham!

Mimi goes shopping at Easter and Christmas so all the Hoyer cousins match (SO BLESSED!) but getting a picture of all 9 is quite the challenge. The poor babies were worn out after a morning of playing in the nursery. They did NOT want their pictures taken!



Then we had AK's preschool Christmas program. This is EJ when she realized her daddy was talking. It was so cute!! "my dadda"

Cousin C walking in

Our boy...such a difference a year makes. Last year he said he was sick and didn't want to do the program. This year, he owned it!

Front and center...sang all the words, did all the motions, watched his teacher. Go Andrew!


We put on our Christmas jammies early this year to go driving to look at Christmas lights, which didn't go as well as planned. However, we did see some good lights. It was just WAY too busy in the neighborhood we like to go to. The line was stop and go for over 30 minutes and we probably moved only 100 yards. I turned around in the first culdesac and went to find some other, less crowded neighborhoods.

EK wasn't in the mood for a picture. But I got the other three looking and smiling. It's about as good as it gets. Ha!

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