Meeting our new niece, Lilah

The week of Christmas was a busy and fun week with family in town, birthday parties to celebrate, and getting to meet our new niece, Lilah Laine Harding.

Mom opening a gift surrounded but her grandkids.
Teresa's birthday was that week......opening a present with Alanna.

Five of my nieces......can't believe how grown up they all are now.

Lydia H., Pauline, Adina, Anna, and Charity

Alayna Joy

Pumpkin

Mae w/Lilah

Nathan, Andrew, Adrian, and Landon

Daniel with his newborn daughter

My turn to hold Lilah!

Lilah Laine

Alayna

part 3

One afternoon while the kids took their naps in the car, we took a drive, and Patrick and I enjoyed driving through the mountains and seeing all the snow.

Gatlinburg trip, part 2

This day we had fun sightseeing the town of Gatlinburg, although it was freezing cold out!!

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.......

Snow covered cabins near ours.

We woke up on Saturday morning to discover that it was snowing. We were all so excited, and the children had been asking if they would get to see snow. God made it happen for them, and they had so much fun playing in it. We found a trash can top works very nicely as a sled :)

Adrian had fun sledding down this hill.

Brandon like walking around in it.

Our car experiencing snow for the first time ;)

Hannah-Lynn just dove in, she loved it, and didn't mind that she got wet just laying in it!!

Sledding down the hill.

Adrian was so happy that it snowed!

More fun...

This was a pretty cool place.............

Patrick did this ride, looked pretty scary to me :)

Out having fun with the kids..

The children enjoyed getting to do lots of firsts this trip. Adrian got to drive a race car by himself, which was a first, and Hannah-Lynn got her first ride on a carousal. They really enjoyed this place, although it was freezing cold!!

Adrian driving his own car!

Brandon and Hannah-Lynn were under the age limit for these cars, but the guy running the cars said since nobody else was in line behind us they could ride around in one for a little bit, so Patrick and the worker pushed them around the track. They loved it!!

Our little eskimo :)