Twins Turn 14!

Another year has passed - the twins have turned 14! 

We have always told the kids that they couldn't have a smartphone until they reached high school age. Unfortunately, Maddie was missing out on a lot of communication between her volleyball teams and friends at school due to "chat groups" being made and she couldn't be a part of them with her simple phone. Matt & I discussed our options and decided to give her a smartphone a little early - with a lot of restrictions. Watch the video for her reaction. I also love to see Will watching her while she's opening the gift. He knows what she is getting and is waiting to see her reaction as well. 

Will has taken an interest in fishing and asked for a fishing kit. He's researched licenses and such and is very anxious for nice weather so he can get out and try out his new pole!

Happy Birthday Twinsies! We hope that your 14th year is full of wonderful memories and adventures. We love you!

Barman Christmas - 2019

For the first time in many years, the whole family was together for Christmas. It was wonderful! We made sure to get a family picture too!

We always enjoy our time with Aunt Barb & Uncle Willy

Grammy put together some fun games - including this candy cane relay game. Leave it to Teri to find the loophole, lol!

Grammy & Kaitee worked on the Christmas pageant this year. It was very well done, as always.

Then we moved on to the talent portion of the evening...

Will wrote a skit about the different types of people who open presents (the slow opener who doesn't tear the paper, the kid who always gets socks/underwear, the kid who guesses their gift without opening it, etc). It was a cute idea and he did a great job of putting it together.

Alex played her flute

Kayla & Emma sang a song

Judah shared some "Dad Jokes" - had us all laughing

And Kaitee rewrote "Copacabana (At the Copa)" - making it a Christmas classic!

We continued our evening together with gifts, eating and lots of laughter. Our time together is never enough...

We finished our evening watching Elf and eating Whitey's - pretty nice way to close out Christmas 2019!

Us girls were blessed to find an open evening and head out for dinner. Girl's Night Out with these ladies - pretty special!

Our time together came & went too quickly. We definitely need to be intentional about setting time aside to be together now that Teri's family is in Indiana.