New Year's Resolution

Okay, so I started one of these when Noah was a baby and thought it would be a neat way to keep everyone up to date on all the ways that Noah was growing and changing, and well, what can I say...life and seminary and busyness in general has kept me away too long. And to make matters worse, we now live much farther away from all of our family in Florida up here in Chattanooga.

So with that in mind, I'd like to resolve to keep this blog up to date with all that's going on in the Hayse household. I'll start by giving you a short run down on the holidays!

We went to Tallahassee to see Tim's family. We had a great time and even squeezed in a FSU game!

Here we are on Thanksgiving day...it probably looks familiar because it was the picture on our Christmas card. Christmas was wonderful for us. We stayed home in Chattanooga this year and it was the first time since being married that we stayed home. It was great to watch the kids wake up in Christmas morning...very excited about all the presents that had appeared overnight!

Here they are peering over the coffee table at all the presents. We had breakfast, read the Christmas story and and then enjoyed watching them tear into all of their presents. We are so thankful to all of you who sent presents for our kids to open, it was fun to explain to them who they were from.

Here we all are on Christmas Day just after dinner.

We did a lot of other things to celebrate Jesus' birth. We had a lot of rainy and cold days here in Chattanooga so there were many many days of Arts and Crafts! Noah is so into it right now so it is really fun with him. We made ornaments and stockings and christmas trees and snowmen and...we had lots of fun.

Here's Noah with his tree ornament.

And here they are decorating the tree with their newly made ornaments!