We’re having a…

On New Year’s Eve we found out that we are having…

another GIRL!  And we are over the moon excited!

That night we asked everyone to pick a blue or pink balloon, depending on which gender they thought we were having.  Everyone except Elna chose blue, and everyone was wrong except Elna :) ha!  Brian picked pink (even though we both knew) so that the others could see that the pink balloons blew up, but the blue ones didn’t (or at least they weren’t supposed to—I poked about 15 holes in each of them, but the pin holes must have been pretty small because a few of the blue ones still blew up a tiny bit as you can see)

Elna really wanted a baby girl, so she was pretty excited.  When we ask what is inside my tummy, Hattie now says “baby girl”, which is pretty darling.

That evening (New Years Eve) we stayed late at Brian’s parents and played games and ate yummy food.  We put Harriet to bed in a back room, but Elna stayed up until about 11 pm when we headed home.  Happy New Year to you all!  2015 is going to be especially exciting with the birth of our next little girl in June!

December little things.

Sleeping Harriet // just-woke-up Harriet with rosy cheeks and flipped out hair.  I love how she looks when she wakes up.

Sitting on Papa’s lap and listening to Eye Of The Tiger on his computer.

Harriet’s new funny trick.

We took a few selfies one day for a calendar Char was making.

Elna captured these pictures of me and Hattie.  I love Harriet’s laugh!  I had no idea she was taking them.

Lounging Hattie.

These pictures of Hattie wearing sunglasses on her stool crack me up.

I wish these pictures were a little better quality, because Elna is just so darling in them!  They are so her!  Can you believe how tall and grown up she is looking?!

Grandma dresses.

Sweet girls in dresses from their Grandma Fae and Papa.  They are darling in these dresses!

I just love these sisters!

I love how happy and content they look in this picture!  I hope they always love each other this much!

Family in town.

Elna, Hattie, Callie, & Jace.

I think this picture was taken the first night Nate and Char’s family was in town.  Elna was giddy about having her cousins here!

One of the nights they were here we went to see the lights at the zoo.  Unlike other years we’ve gone, the weather was really nice this year.  None of us were too cold, which was especially nice since we had to stand in a line for the train for an hour.

All of us on the train to see some of the lights around the zoo.

A family picture in front of the train.  After the ride we walked around for a while until our kids were ready to go eat dinner—then we split ways—we got some dinner and they went home.  Elna and Hattie were so great the whole evening and we promised Elna that if she was happy the whole night we would go to Voodoo donuts after—when we got to Voodoo there the line was so long, and we almost left, but in the end we decided to stay for Elna.  They were so well behaved even though it was a very late night for them!

A few days before Christmas Char made sugar cookies for the kids to decorate and for us to put on plates to take caroling.  Our girls loved it!

After caroling on Christmas Eve Grandma and Papa gave these cute jammies to the grandkids.  Here they are reading with Papa before opening the jammies, and reading a story with Grandma after.

Elna and her fun Uncle Jared!  Once the girls warmed up to their aunts and uncles they were huge fans.

The day after Christmas all of Brian’s brothers and their wives, and Jace, went to a Blazer game in Portland.  We parked at Lloyd’s center, had dinner at Qdoba—my new favorite mexican food restaurant, and then we walked from there to the game.  The Blazer’s won, and it was a fun night!