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Christmas Morning

Briggs was a super happy baby!!!!
Tayloran loving her spa kit!!!
Brae and her Baby 'b' Live - as she calls it!
Addisyn and her polly pocket mall!!

Christmas with the Merkles

Briggs' 1st Christmas ornament from Nana and Pappy. He was really enjoying chewing on the paper!!!

This doesn't do the pile justice! You should have seen it in real life!

Phillip, Debbie & Briggs

GG, Briggs, & Ryan

Ryan, his Aunt Karen - Debbie's sister - and Briggs

Look at Briggs - he's sitting up all by himself!!!

Avery & I with our Ipod shuffles

Tayloran and her ds game

We are going to try to keep the pieces with the game this time!!!

Addisyn wanted polly pockets

We leave straight from my mom's side and go celebrate with Ryan's mom's side of the family. We got so many nice things...too many to mention. The girls are definitely spoiled!!!!!

Christmas w/ Hills

This is my mom's side of the family. She has one brother who has 2 daughters - Ang and Pam. The three of us have multiplied quite well. There are 14 kiddies - only 2 boys. They girls have such a great time when they all get together. They play so well, that you'd never guess there were so many of them. We had a wonderful meal of soup and lots of finger foods - my absolute favorite!!!! THe kids all do a gift exchange. Tayloran and Avery can't wait to go to Barnes and Noble. They love to read, so I'm sure they will have a hard time deciding what to buy. Addisyn got some pet shops - a favorite of hers, and Braelyn received some Dora books. We have read them several times already!!!

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Almost all the girls - plus Zach

The Tates - the girlies want to be on the go!!!

The Ruwes

The Millers

Pam, Gracie & Loran - this book Gallop is soo cool!

Briggs taking a little nap

Addisyn, Loran, Tayloran, and Allison

Ang with the two boys - Zach and Briggs.

Christmas with the Millers

THis is the 2nd time since Ryan and I have been married that we have been able to get together with the Miller side of the family for Christmas. It's so hard to get all of us together. It was such a fun time. Ryan's aunt had suggested for us to do a white elephant exchange! We had so much fun. This was the girls' first time doing this. We had a couple of "almost criers" during the process! Braelyn took Isaac's present of ladybug soap. Both parties were pleased - Isaac went and took Tayloran's present which included a Spider man toothbrush, etc... We laughed and laughed! I was sad when I realized I had left my white elephant present - especially handpicked for me - a very noisy train! Sorry Mary! I'm sure the grandkids will love playing with that!!!! Thanks to Chris and Mary and Fam for hosting all of us! We are quite a crowd.

Braelyn decorating Gpa with a pom pom. He was a very good sport.
Gpa, Ryan & Briggs

The girl cousins were lining up tallest to shortest!

The little table - Eva, Addisyn, Braelyn, & Samuel

Mary, Gracie, Gma Kaye, Madeline, Briggs, and Lisa - these three little ones were new additions this year!!!!

Tayloran is 11!!!!

I can't believe my baby is 11! Why does time have to go so fast? Looking thru pictures to find one of each birthday has been fun - yet sad. I've found pictures of the girls with Winston and Lexi, pictures of just Ryan and I... in our first year of marriage - the only time we didn't have kiddies. I can't believe our chubby cheeked toddler has turned into such a skinny mini!!! Tayloran has such a loving personality! She always wants to help the undergog. She is a people pleaser, loves babies, loves to read, and can be a tv junkie - when allowed. This past year we celebrated her 11th bday back in August. She wanted to have a pool party. You can't do that in your backyard in Dec., so..... She still got to open some presents, had a great bday lunch at Gma Bobbies, and brownies at Nanas.

Tayloran - 1 day old

6 months

first birthday
2nd birthday
3rd bday
4 bday = still sporting the cheeks!
5th bday
( i am missing 6 and 7 - gotta hunt thru the pix) 8th bday
9th bay
10th
11th!

Christmas Church Service

We attended church at OCC for their Christmas program. The girls enjoyed getting to see all of their cousins perform in a skit. We then went for lunch at Gma Bobbie's house. She fixed my favorite - meatballs! YUM YUM!!! We all stuffed ourselves full. Tayloran thought that it was the perfect bday lunch!

Hungry Baby

Briggs is such a little beefcake! For the last week or so, he's been moving his mouth in a chomping way when he sees us eat. I decided to see if he was ready for some cereal. He LOVED it. It didn't even roll back out. He thinks it is just the berries!!!! He had quite the audience for his first feeding!