christmas eve...on february 1st.

haha. a little late? well...i have been wanting to put up our holiday pics since...well, the holidays. the problem? tyler's fancy new camera that they were taken on...and my incapabilities. we finally sat down tonight and i learned a few basics about raw files. yay!

now i know that it is super late to be posting these pics from december 24th, but i like to record things and want to make sure to have these pics on my blog. so i will be backtracking a bit to get caught up. :)

we were home for christmas eve this year...i think this was the first year that we've been home! we had a great evening. tyler lead worship at relevant community for their christmas eve service, and his buddies, jared and matt, both played with him! so fun for tyler. after the service jared, katie, and halle came over for soup and appetizers. we had such a nice relaxing evening...we ate, watched the kids play, played games, and stayed up way too late talking. good memories.

i made our favorite soup - shrimp and sausage chowder!

our cute little guy.

jared and katie's cute little girl - halle.

opening his last christmas chain present!

going in for a smooch...

oh boy...what are we going to do with these kids?

now a love...that's better.

i think she was excited about a snack!