blogging? what's that?

alrighty peeps - all this talk of trunkiness and planning of reunions has caused some guilt inside of me for my lack of blogging more family pics while the grandparents have been missionarying in far away lands. so to remedy this i'll be picture dumping on this blog as well as our blog. hope you likey. warning: this post is not for the faint of heart. good luck.

celebrating the early december birthdays at the east side mccoy's house last sunday

kennedy - 2
kenzie - 17
brandon -60



apparently kennedy was slightly horrified by brandon's blowing of the candles



and much more careful with her own candle



which i made her do twice since i'm OCD about picture-taking



she then unabashaedly ate the frosted top off her cupcake



and handed me the rest



then started again



peeking into her presents



coloring her gift from the lockwood/maloy clan



and kissing her gift from the other mccoys
hoot hoot



on her actual birthday we did a birthday breakfast and present-opening in the morning
well mostly atticus did the present-opening because he's a real helpful brother like that

my girl tried on her clothes as she went along
this gold glittery number was a real hit
wish they came in my size



we also visited bass pro shop last weekend for our annual free family picture with santa
the boys both asked for ipads
kennedy just asked to be rescued from santa

not
a
fan



a very skeptical two year old here
safe only in her brother's arms



when at bass pro shop
act like a bass pro shopper



clearly the apple does not fall far from the tree
pssst, darek...that's a kid's game



then it was the visiting of the very large fishies





and the very large aquarium



and the very large tree



the maniacs were there too

and speaking of maniacs - this little gem is from way back on mother's day
when i asked them if i could get a nice picture of us all together
not so much

 

alrighty - congratulations if you've made it all the way to the end of this marathon post

my guilt has been temporarily relieved

xo

~amber