2017 family santa picture!

Easily our greatest Santa picture yet!!! The kids were bickering and griping the entire way up there, but after all these years they know when to shut up and smile for DAD'S FAVORITE PICTURE, hahaha. 

bits and pieces of december :)

Volunteering to make sammiches one morning for a good cause - in the spirit of the season! :)

Celebrating Nery's birthday at Hooters (even though he wasn't there!). We rocked our Patriots and Lakers "gear" to honor Nancy and Nery, who were on vacation haha.

Richard couldn't comprehend wearing either, so he opted for Cowboys. ;P

Super casual vs. super dress! ;)

An ACUTAL POLAROID we got at a work event. 

A few videos clips from the month ;P

Important concepts, a la Kent.

Texting with Blake about the Hairspray musical! It's been so long! 

With BIANA DEL RIO. #omg

Celebrating Nery's birthday once he got back into town!

Another round of lobster mac and cheese JUST CUZ.

Emily & Juju, being hilarious.

Revolution ready! (He loves his new hat... whenever it's freakin' cold enough to wear it!)

Work husbands at the Hesse Christmas party!

Work wives!

Our first ever caricature from said work party, haha. #accurate

Sadie's Grumpy Cat face is sooo good! She makes me laugh so much!

Emily rocking my old Pearl Jam shirt, BLEST.

Secret Santa picture for my husband! We weren't able to get a full family one this year due to sickness and schedule conflicts, so I found one at the nearby food truck park while Handsome Man went to a holiday work dinner. ;) (Meghan dressed up for school, coincidentally enough!)

Emily reveling in her "basic as hell" hair bun (that I did for her so she didn't have to wash her hair in the shower). She came tumbling out of the bathroom saying, "Daddy, can I have some Starbucks?!" ;P

THIS AMAZING VIDEO Emily worked on for hours. I love her sooo much!

santa pictures!

Thanks to Yesenia for inviting us to Ebby. :)

family santa picture!

I hope everyone is having a fabulous Christmas season so far! I can safely say we are 99.9% done with shopping and it feels fabulouuus! There's nothing better to get me in the Christmas spirit than being done with shopping (to me, it's all fun after that). Also, Santa pictures! Richard loves family Santa pictures. Like, "you know we have to take a Santa picture sometime this month, right?" ;) And well, I think they're pretty great, too. R has one of him and the kittens taken a few years back and it's just so precious. I have visions in my head of wrangling the kids' schedules when they're in their 20s/30s to get a family Santa picture together, because TRADITION. (And if I've learned anything about family traditions, they're equal parts warm fuzzies, laughs, and eye-rolls.)

This year was our first family Santa picture, which took place at Ebby's Jupiter/190 office in Richardson. SMALL MIRACLE: ALL KIDS ARE BEARING TEETH.

I'm so tickled this Christmas-y picture showcases all of us in short sleeves and R3 in shorts. Texas!

Fun side-story: Emily and Meghan's friends, Cindy and Krystall, were over for the weekend (we were quite a gaggle of kids in the Ebby lobby) so we threw them all in front of the camera together, too. :) Other fun side-story: Santa was trying to talk R into working as a Santa, too. "You'll be great, the beard is awesome, just work on growing your gut, the money is great!" ;P