Happy New Year

We had an awesome New Year's Eve and Day. My brother and his family came in town and we went to ICE at Gaylord Opryland. The kids (and adults) loved the ice slide and it was pretty incredible what they do with blocks of ice. That night, we cooked a nice dinner after the kids went to bed and I passed out on the couch at 10:45. My kind of night! The video at the end is a kind of slide show of some of my favorite pictures form the year. A look back at a blessed 2013.

We also had the privilege of watching Auburn play in the National Championship. What a game! Despite the loss, it's still great to be an Auburn tiger:)

 

Christmas in Nashville

After a wonderful time in Collierville, we packed up our goodies and headed back to Nashville where we just kept celebrating! We loved every minute of time with the Lowe side of the fam, and were especially excited to have Uncle Reno, all the way from Denver, and his fiance Bryn in from Birmingham. We are so blesses to have people love our children this much. And they love them with SO much more than gifts. Attention, hugs, spending hours outside in the cold playing with a stomp rocket, you name it. New golf clubs, a peddles bike and more. These kiddos (and us!) racked up.

 

 

Tiger Woods, y'all

 

 

Christmas in Collierville

We headed to Memphis the Sunday before Christmas and had a wonderful time as always. We got to go see Starry Nights, ride a camel and have our annual Friends Christmas Dinner. The kids love going to Savannah, TN and seeing cousins on Christmas Eve. Christmas day is spent seeing what Santa brought, brunch with family friends and dinner and brother and sister in laws. Even though are time went by quickly it was very sweet.

 

Nice attempt at an outfit picture.

Leaving cookies and milk for Santa

I wish he was more excited. (note:sarcasm)

I wish she were more girly. (note:sarcasm)

As usual, the boys eat up every minute together. They have no idea how lucky they are to be this close in age and distance from one another.

I hope you and yours had a wonderful Christmas. Every year I'm sad when it's over. The time spent at home with family and friends is so energizing for me but it also makes me sad because every year I lose sight of what we are really celebrating. I am so thankful for the hope Christmas brings and look forward to living that hope out daily in 2014.

 

Christmas Fun

This Christmas was hectic as usual. In the craziness though we were blessed to get to do some really fun things together as a family. Robbins had his Christmas program at school where they shouted sang Rocking Around the Christmas Tree, Little Drummer Boy and We Wish You A merry Christmas. He did a great job, front and center!

 

 

Then we had our annual Happy Birthday Jesus Pancake Pajama Party. We love getting to spend time with our friends and their families. Seeing these kids all growing up together really is a great picture of "living life together". This is something I am really being challenged to do. To deepen my relationships so that we are going through it together, the good and the bad. I long for that type of community, God built me for it, and I'm excited to grow in it.

Another great event was Christmas at Cheekwood. They had Santa, reindeer, cookie decorating and more. It also happened to be 65 degrees the day we went! One little Lowe had no desire to sit on Santa's lap. A hello and wave from a distance was good enough for her.

 

This was our Christmas card this year. I just love it. Merry Christmas from the Lowe's!