New Year's Eve!

Happy 2017! 

We had a wonderful, fun-filled day! 

The girls and I took off for a day of fun! 

We dressed in our best shoes and headed off to the zoo. 

We dropped the ball on the lights this year so I wanted to squeeze it in. 

We were there early so we didn't get the full affect but we still had a fun time!

Ava learned a lesson in mating while at the zoo while viewing the otters. 

"Why are they trying to drown each other?" 

The girls received Build A Bear gift cards for Christmas so we headed there next. Addy chose a pink bear and dressed it like Poppy from Trolls. Ava chose Brutus. 

They named them Brutus and Poppy. Original, huh?

We headed home to watch the OSU game and ring in the new year. 

The best part of the night was they were able to toast in real glasses. They were so excited!

Dave and Buster's Fun!!

One of the perks of vacation time is no agenda. 

Uncle Nate, Nana, Emily, and all of us headed out to Dave and Busters for an afternoon of fun! 

It was a little big for Addy but she still had so much fun! 

Ava was in love with that place! "This is where I'm having my birthday party!"

Cousin Fun!

We road tripped to Medina to see the Houghtaling family! We stayed with Uncle George and had tons of fun with the cousins. They haven't really seen each other since Outer Banks in June. They picked up right where they left off. 

We had a great visit with everyone! 

Christmas 2016

Ahh...Christmas. 

We had a 5:15 wakeup call from a certain two little girls. We let them open gifts and then we went back to bed. Because lets be honest, they wouldn't have let us sleep any longer. We had Christmas with my parents in the morning and hosted our family Christmas in the afternoon. 

I love that this girl still lets me dress her up!

The littles opening their gifts!

We had a gift exchange between adults. It was so fun!

And then a surprise visit from Santa! 

My grandma. It's not often she will smile for a picture. We always tell her how pretty she is when she smiles. 

I hope all of our friends and family had a wonderful holiday! We sure did!

Christmas Eve

We kicked off Christmas Eve with exchanging gifts with Nana and Jojo! The girls were spoiled but were so very thankful. 

During breakfast we checked our plane app and saw the Santa was in Shanghai! Ava was so excited!

After we opened gifts, had breakfast, and cleaned up, we headed to see the movie Sing. All of us were very excited to see it! It was so adorable!

After the movie we had to rush home and get ready for church. We didn't get our official picture, so we snapped a selfie before church started. 

Addy didn't last long at church. She was exhausted from the day. 

Then it was time to prepare for the big guy in red. The girls were super giddy with excitement!

They were asleep by 10. I was impressed. That gave Santa plenty of time to stop and spend some time at the Houghtaling house.