Well, we have arrived home after spending a couple weeks in Charleston for Christmas and then heading directly to Christmas conference in Milwaukee. It has been a crazy last couple of weeks so we are now looking forward to spending some time at home. Here are some of the fun things we were up to.

When you are married to Matt going to home to Charleston means fishing. So…in December, in the cold, we went out on the boat with our 1 year old and went fishing! Don’t worry, we were only out for probably a total of 30 minutes.

Annie got this really neat tea set from her Great Grandma. I didn’t think she would be old enough to really play with it yet, but she loved it! She poured and drank out of the little cups. She has a blast with it.



We played lots of games and had an oyster roast.


Annie giving kisses to her BB

Pajama party on Christmas Eve.

We all went out to watch “The Christmas Carol” in 3D. Well, Annie didn’t. She had to go to bed.

This is the first time that Annie has actually reached to grab our hands while we were walking. We went to a plantation and went to a little animal farm. It was fun besides getting chased around by an oversized turkey!

This is Annie’s first time using a spoon by herself. BB was feeding her and it took but a couple minutes for her to get her to bring a spoonful to her mouth. Now whenever she eats, she wants to eat by herself. I guess that is a good thing

Christmas morning at Nana Lisa’s house. Under the tree was FULL. Annie had such a good time opening presents.


Great time in Charleston for Christmas. It was nice to be able to get out of the snowy tundra to beautiful weather. The first couple days we were there it was in the mid 60’s. Such a great break! We might need another break in a couple weeks here since the high tomorrow is around 0!
Christmas conference was another great success. The theme was “Restless”. Matt gave a talk called “Resting among the restless”. His talk was amazing. We are working an including a link so that you can listen to any/ all of the talks including Matt’s. Hopefully that will be up soon.
Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!