Goodbye 2014!

Tonight we celebrated the close of a very emotional 2014 filled with so much love.  

We felt it so much tonight surrounded by the bestest of friends.  

Cheers to a year of joy, laugher, support and tears, and making it through stronger with memories of dancing on the ski mountain, splashing in the waves, sailing in the sunset, ditching the training wheels, endless hugs and coming home from the hospital to heaps of support.  

So very VERY grateful for all of our blessings this year and can't wait to see what memories we can make next year.  Bottoms up to the adventure!

Baby it's cold outside!

So we're bundling up and making s'mores!

Merry Magical Christmas

So SO many magical moments sprinkled into the photos below.  

Memories of pure joy I hope I never forget!

Christmas this year was literally perfect. 

The girls are such fun ages to enjoy the build up, the anticipation of the morning, opening their gifts, family time and giving gifts.  Pure delight for them, and same for us experiencing it through their eyes!  So glad to have Grandma and Grandpa with us for Christmas morning, and to be able to spend the afternoon at Nana and Papa's, then with a big family celebration at the Butler's with our cousins!

Highlights:

- Life size frozen dolls from Santa - Dragging them everywhere they went... sleeping with them, putting them in car seats, dancing with them.

- Handing down our American dolls from childhood in Wisconsin.

- Kendall entertained with Legos for hours, before she fell asleep with Anna in her bed and a book in her hands

- Mollie's giving us a huge, awesome handmade 2015 calendar made with her handprints

- The cousins performing Christmas Carols for the grown ups during dinner.

- Both girls LOVING playing the drums, and being grateful it lives at our cousins house

- Mollie ready to giddy up on her new big bike!

- Kendall mixing tunes on her new DJ piano

 Merry Merry from our whole family!  We are so grateful for our many blessings!

Merry Merry from the Hanrattys!!!

Merry Christmas Eve

One of my favorite days of the year!  Long and wonderful and packed with fun! We had the most precious night watching these little angels glow in the church Nativity.  They were so excited Kendall kept trying to go "back on stage" after their part was finished.  And Mollie was so proud to finally hold her own candle during the candle lighting and sing the words to silent night loud and proud!

We capped off the night with some great behavior since Santa was coming, cookies for santa and "t'was the night before christmas" with Grandpa and Grandma. Can't wait for tomorrow!!!

Lobster Shopping

Our Christmas Eve tradition was not a hit with the girls this year!

Cookies for Santa

The girls didn't forget santa's request for cookies and milk.  And after a big search for poppyseed filling in the south, we were able to keep the Polish family tradition going with the help of Kendall's bombastic needing :)