Bringin' in the New Year

Hopefully the way we ended 2015 and started 2016 is not foreshadowing to how we will be spending the new year.

SICK

Bruce on his second round of antibiotics for double ear infection, Kate on steroids, nebulizer, inhaler, antibiotics, and chest therapy sessions 4 times per day (she had serious 'roid rage... I can't even begin to tell you) and Ben having surgery on NYE.

YUCK

I was the sole survivor.  Ain't nobody got time for mama to get sick!

Nonetheless, we all got super cozy in our house and brought in the New Year by going to bed early (I'd be fine if that was a theme for 2016!)

New Years Day we headed to Monroe and cheered on the Dawgs while the kids were no nap ninjas and ran wild and loved every second of it.

I didn't take a single picture of Kate and her boyfriend.. Way to go, Becca.

In my defense, they would have all been blurry because those 2 Never. Stop.

We ended the weekend with beers, wings, and hamburgers...

When did this guy get so big?!?

He is so proud of himself sitting at the table with everyone.

Sweetest boy.

Resolutions/Goals are Coming!

Happy 2016 Everyone!

8 Month outtakes

After Bruce's photo shoot....

"CHEESE"

8 Months!

My baby boy is 8 months old!

I dare you to try to look at this post and not grin at this sweet boy

No lie, these monthly photo shoots literally take like 3 minutes.  This guy is just so dern happy and always excited to be a ham and pose for the camera.

Look! Someone got 2 teeth this month!

Those teeth mixed with a couple of ear infections messed with his sleeping a little bit, but he bounced back once he was feeling better!

He is constantly talking, making motor boat noises, and starting to say mamama and dadada

He loves food.  Favorites this month include yogurt, applesauce, pears, and avocados

He is sleeping on his side and moves and flops all around in his crib at night.  He loves his loveys and likes to have them all snuggled up around him.

We call him the electrician... loves the tv remote, cell phones, ipads and basically anything electronic that he is not supposed to have... Trouble.

He wants to move so bad... no crawling yet, but starting to scoot on his booty to get to the things he wants

Our little bubs is just the sweetest, happiest, and most content babe. Although he spent a lot of this month feeling kind of crummy, he still giggled and smiled his way right through it.

And what's a photo shoot without his silly sissy joining in on the fun?

These 2...

This one kind of sums it up.

Oh my goodness.. these 2 love each other so much

Happy 8 months to our little Bubba!

Christmas 2015

We packed up our car like the Beverly Hillbillies for a few days in Alpharetta with the whole Nyquist crew.

With 2 kids and a dog, we literally looked like we were coming for a month!

Poor Wrigley..

Wednesday night we did our annual "Feliz Navidad" and ate yummy mexican and drank lots of margaritas.

Kate was so excited to be with her cousins

"Hold my hand"

Christmas Eve we had a fun day full of food and drinking.  We got to see lots of old friends and just relax and catch up.

We really didn't have to pay a second of attention to Kate all day because she was in 7th heaven with her sweet cousins

Unfortunately, the afternoon ended with a quick trip to the urgent care for my little B man.

Another ear infection

He tried to rally for Christmas Eve, but in the end decided to just stay up all night waiting for Santa ;)

These cousins are just the cutest.

Am I right?

My 2 over tired... (and sick) little christmas elf loveys

Christmas morning was full of some serious excitement and chaos.

This guy... so sick and miserable, but so sweet.

Kate wasn't totally sure what was going on but was pretty happy being around her cousins and opening presents.

Her "birthday cake" toy was her first present which she immediately wanted to open and play with.  After a few minutes I asked her if she wanted to open another present..

"No, I happy"

Love that sweet girl.

She started figuring it out and opened presents and clapped and was just so excited.
This princess dress was just too much... she had to just roll around on the floor for a bit

The kids played and played and played all morning

Kate was super excited about her new bike (although she needs to grow another inch for it! whoops!)

Eventually the Christmas crazy slowed down a little, the Donges crew headed to Dave's families house and the everyone else went home to relax.  Our little foursome had fun playing at the Donges house and made a fun afternoon of video games, toys, and movies.
(and maybe drinking some of their beer! Thanks Donges'!)

On Saturday the boys and Kate went to see Star Wars.  I stayed home with our little girly girls and sick b dub.

Then we packed it up to Athens to have Christmas round 2 with DiDi, MRG, Meg, and Dick

These head phones were definitely a hit... 

(and mom and dad might be just as excited!)

Sweet snuggles with our sick boy who was very happy to be home and decided to finally get some sleep (phew)

Did I mention it was like 80 degrees and rainy the whole week of Christmas?  Crazy! 

So we definitely took advantage of the sun when it finally came out!

Soaking it all in...

 Despite lack of sleep and sickness, it was a Merry Merry Christmas.
Loved every second of being with our amazing family and friends.  So grateful for all of our many blessings and my heart is so full.
Can't believe Christmas is over and a new year is beginning.

Merry Christmas from the Nyquists!
(this is the only family pic we got... sporting all of our great presents from Uncle Pete!)