December events

 Bringing Christmas cookies to preschool with THE christmas purse

 Community Creche exhibit with our good friends Jack and Elizabeth

 Miss Jan!  Jace's old and Brenna's current preschool teacher.  She is the BEST!

 Jace and Brenna got to dress up and sit in the cold for 30 min!  Brenna took her job very seriously rocking baby Jesus.  I was lucky to get her to look up once for a picture.

 THe most exciting thing about December in our house is December 1st when Mart comes!  Its more exciting than Christmas morning.  Mart is the coolest elf ever.  He decided to treat the kids to a North Pole breakfast.

and THE christmas purse again.  She brings it everywhere.  

 Chad took Natasha up to Utah with him for a week while he hunted(while Tasha stayed with her cousins).  2nd attempt at a mountain lion without any luck.  He is crazy to keep trying for one.

 Grandma and Grandpa Hutchings who will probably be leaving us soon.  Glad he got the opportunity to spend time with them again.

 Lunch with Jace!

 Jace and his best school buddy Ian

 Big deal in Jace's world--raising money for his Fun Run.  He made calls and collected money all on his own.  He is really big into winning prizes so he ran the most laps you could.

 The Goat--that is luckily at the office and not at my house!  Tasha loves it

 Really dark pictures- annual Zerorez Christmas company dinner.  So fun to see how much we grow each year!  We have wonderful employees and feel honored and humbled to be in charge of so many.  Proud of Chad and how is has grown a successful business.

 Big news!  After 3 months and 25 showings the house sold!  Literally, the day I was going to pull it off the market for December and January, we got a call for one last showing and the made an offer that day!  We were headed to Texas in exactly 1 week so we had to pack and find a rental in a hurry!!  Quite stressful and shed a few tears but felt like it was meant to be.  Tasha was sad about it too.

 Typical... Brenna "had" to pour out all the cheerios because Natasha told her she was hungry

 Playing violin for Jace's school class---and it was PJ day and crazy hair day

Our one awesome picture with Santa...

2012 Family pictures

 Always a fun experience with a 1 year old!  We were lucky to have patient friends to humor us in our attempt to take a family picture.  At least North Carolina is not lacking in a million beautiful places to take a picture.

 Im so excited about this...

 99.9% of our pictures looked like this-- the classic "arch the back"

 Some how we lost a shoe during this whole process...I promise when I have no kids under the age of 5 and my tummy tuck, our family pictures will ROCK!

Winter Recital

 SO much fun sharing recitals now with Jace.  Poor Chad, little did he know what he was signing up for when he married me.

 Jace played Humoresque from Book 3 and then we played Deck the Halls duet

 Love my Beans- she has to always get in every picture

Mart the Elf wanted to watch Jace play so he hid in his violin case!

better late than never!- November Disney trip

Chad had a business trip down in Florida, so we decided to make a Disney trip out of it.  First time for all the kiddos!  Grandma and Grandpa met us there for all the fun.  Made such a difference having them there to watch Natasha and run ahead for Fast Passes.  The weather was perfect and had zero lines. We got to hit Animal Kindgom, both universal parks, Magic, and Hollywood.  Not the most relaxing trip but sooo much fun!

I can't remember all the details now that it has been a few months but here are some favorite memories!

Brenna's fav ride that little dare devil!  Everest

Tasha's least fav Bug show--spiders coming from the ceiling were a tad scary for all of us

Tasha getting her daily dose of caffeine from poppa

Soaked!  mom hates to get wet btw

poppa and jace- twins!

Brenna in princess heaven- we had to stop at EVERY store

Fav dinner at Downton Disney--so much fun walking there at night listening to all the bands.  Def a highlight of the trip

Fav show

Magic Kingdom- no lines!  and we got a sneak peak into the new Fantasyland.

Brenna and moms fav ride- new Arial castle

Jace dominating Gaston at pushups!

Belle's castle- sooooo magical!

Hilarious to watch Jace stop at every height stand to see if he was growing throughout the day

SOOOO mad he barely missed the Rip Ride Rocket.

Jace stole the show dancing at Dispicable Me

 and soaked again!

 Natasha couldn't get enough of the hot air balloons

 Chad hitting on Belle

My little princesses ;)