The Baldwin Family: Christmas 2013

These are in no particular order, but...this was Christmas! It was crazy, hectic, wonderful.

The party on Christmas Eve at Uncle John and Aunt Kerrian's house.

Judy and Riley :)

Dave on baby duty :)

Aunt Mimi organized a craft for all of the kids. She's so good!

This was just before Christmas. Aunt Kerriann found these awesome kitty-cat masks and the girls LOVE them!

Galina's Christmas dress :) I don't have a picture of Johnny on Christmas Sunday...I took this picture from the couch because Brian and I both had food poisoning and were busy puking for 24 hours. I've never experienced food poisoning before and once was enough.

We moved into the Blue Creek house on Christmas eve so that we were able to wake up, with our little three foot tree that Dad got us the night before and we were grateful for, and open our little presents. It was a change but it was nice!

We also got a cat.

A cat.

Galina and D.C. (short for Darn Cat!)

He loves to "hit" things...goodness does he love to hit things!

I love our dogs. This was their reaction to the cat, and has been since. They've snapped at her maybe twice and it's only when she full-on attacks their face. They're just awesome dogs.

It was definitely an unplanned Christmas gift that Christmas night the kitty slept with Galina all night. It was awesome. She hasn't done it since, but that night really counted and was appreciated :)

Went to Granny and Pops after opening our presents and got to see all of our cousins!

And then came New Year's Eve!

Auntie Erin came up with a bunch of 'Minute to Win It' games - we had a lot of fun!

We ended New Year's Eve around 11 - kids don't know or care by that point and all of us grown ups were just done :)

So - random picture of Johnny...

A few days after New Year's we drove down to Wilmington so that Brian could talk to an Army Recruiter - it wasn't a very fruitful trip, but any trip that includes a Krispy Kreme stop is FANTASTIC!!