{pretty, happy, funny, real}

Happy New Year everyone!  We are back from the depths of illness-two week Christmas vacation at Grammy and Grampy's house-illness.  Everyone but JMC was sick in December.  Then we were all healthy for Christmas vacation (thank God!).  Then, a few days after we got home, JMC woke up vomiting.  It was the morning after the National Championship.  I wonder if there's a connection.  Hmmm...

Anyway, I hope you had a wonderful Christmas season and that your 2013 has started well!

pretty

I know he's a boy, but everyone is always telling us how pretty he is.  Anyway, this is XLC at a pit stop on our Christmas road trip to South Florida.  These huge bins of oranges seemed like the perfect photo op.  So juicy and delicious.  The oranges look good too!

happy

This was our hotel overnight on the way down to Florida.  We were able to stay in a brand new (as in only open 4 days!) Drury Inn.  The front desk confirmed that we were the first people to ever occupy the rooms.  The five younger Happy kids are sporting their awesome Hanna Andersson jammies- CAC has hers on too but refused to participate in the photo.  I started buying these jammies in 2006 and as the years have gone by, I've passed them down to the younger kids and bought larger and larger ones for the big kids.  They are still in great shape!

funny

JMC received this hat in his stocking.  He LOVES it.  I haven't decided if he looks like a terrorist or like a San Francisco Giants pitcher.

real

You can now follow me on Instagram!  I never had any intention of joining it, but CAC is on it now, so I needed to get on it to understand it.  The truth is that I check her account (what?  Of course I have her passwords!) more than I check mine.  And I know it looks like I only have one child (there are just lots of photos of XLC on my feed because he's always with me!) but you know I have 6.  CAC's friends have all requested to follow me on Instagram, which is OK with me.  I'd like them to see images of a large, happy family since most of them come from small families.

Have a great weekend!