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Man.  When did I become a bad blogger?  In order to (finally) finish off last year, here a post only my mother will love... A picture montage of the last of 2013.  Now I can print my book!

Brooke, Adrienne and Sydney in a food coma at Old Country Buffet for her birthday party.  They ate for hours...

 Then hit DSW shoes and tried on all the sweet heels and boots.  This is one of my better mom moments.  The girls had so much fun.  We stayed for an hour and a half and it was so fun.  They are a great mix of young-enough-not-be-too-self-conscious-but-old-enough-to-be-totally-interesting-and-fun.

 As if she weren't tall enough without 6 inch heels on...

 A little afternoon snuggle time.

 Alix and Ethan "cleaning" her room.  He's the cutest distraction around!

 Brooke's turn to put the star on the tree

 We love getting a real tree and having the whole house smell Christmasy

 Christmas morning.  My favorite moment of the day...

 Ethan didn't really know what was going on...

 But he got decorated anyway...

 We all got Nerf guns and had some epic battles during the Holiday.  It was the highlight of Christmas.

 Ethan tried all kinds of new things...

 We cut this beauty out of our neighbor's yard one night.  Seriously.  The girls snuck over with the saw...  It's a weed that they've let grow along the side of their house for 7 years (we know, we counted the rings...).  So we helped them out with some weeding and got ourselves a sweet kids tree!

 After Christmas, we burned our trees.  I was shocked at how little time it took.  Less than 30 minutes from big ol' tree to nothing.  The girls LOVED it.  

 Ethan eats food now.  He's even pretty good at it!

 The men of the house taking a quick man nap...