Bailee Renee is here!!!

She's here! Bailee is so precious, and we are so greatful for her already!!! Kristie went to the hospital around 7:30 Thursday night, and around midnight I joined everyone at the hospital. It was like a party in her room! I was greatful I had the opportunity to be there. Brad was really bummed cuz he had to work the next morning, but he was able to come Friday morning before Kristie had the baby and see her. Over all, it was such an amazing experience. I'm so greatful I was there to see that precious life come into this world. Mike and Kristie are going to be such amazing parents.

Mom waiting anxiously!!!

She's almost here!

She's here:) She was born at 12:36, and weighed 8 pounds, 5 ounces

On the way home from the hospital, Brad kept saying that he couldn't believe his baby sister had just had a baby. It was cute:)

They had just barely brought Kristie uo to her new room, from the delivery room

Here's Mike in the nursery with Bailee

Anika was so excited to see her sister for the first time:)

Here's the boys

This is shortly after they brought Bailee to Kristie for the first time:)

The day after she was born Brad went to the hospital to visit and get lots of pictures for me. I unfortunatly was home with the stomach flu:( I was so sad I wasn't able to go and see her.

Look how good Kristie looks for just having a baby the day before!

This is one of my favorite pictures of her so far. She is so precious!

A few days after she was born, we went and visited at their house.

Love this one

I love this one, look how content they both are:)

Me and the girls!

Our goofy kids

We love our cute kids! Obviously we look forward to the time that we'll have kids, but for now- we are greatful to have Max and Lexie! They both are very loving, and have fun personalities!

I love this picture, it's so cute:)

Max loves to lay in the sink, and the bathtub

Brad dressed Lexie up in his work clothes- she is surprisingly patient:)

New Years Eve!

Our traditional new years eve party was at our house this year! We had so much fun! We went to Texas Roadhouse for dinner. I'm SO glad we called ahead! Apparently we weren't the only ones that decided not to cook for new years eve. We couldn't even walk in the door!:) After dinner we went back to our house and just played games and hung out. It was awesome! We have all hung out basically since high school, so I think it's so cool how close we all still are! I don't know what I'd do without these guys!

Angie and Kailee:)

Sarah and Candice

Savannah and Andrew

Can you tell how much fun we all have together?

For those of you who don't know Andrew, here he is in a nutshsell:)

Angie and Becky!

Here's classic Can and Jacob:)

Here's Jordyn, she's adoreable!

Kailee had fun chasing Lexie around all night!

I love this picture:)

Angie and Jacob

Angie's little girl Kailee is so cute! We had fun watching her and Becky and Andrew's daughter all night:)

Christmas

Okay, I know, I know I'm almost two weeks late on posting about Christmas, but I decided to do one anyway. I need to learn how to do one of the slide shows- so I apologize in advance for all the pictures. Christmas is hands down the craziest time of the year, but also my absolute favorite time. We start out at Grandma Harper's house Christmas Eve, spend a few hours there, and then go to my parents. Growing up my dad always had to work on Christmas Day, so "Santa" would come around midnight and we would open all our presants, then go back to bed and wake up and play with all our new things. Over the years, the tradition stuck. We have all grown up and gotten married, but we've kept things the same. It works out well, because then we can spend the whole day Christmas Day with Brad's family! We look forward every year to this time we get to spend with our families:)

Baby Sam- he was opening his first presant:)

My two oldest nephews in their new jerseys. Their Uncle Brad has made them HUGE football fans:)

Every year my dad reads a letter that he wrote to us kids shortly after they had joined the church, when most of us weren't born yet. My mom put a book together of pictures, and christmas songs. It's one of my favorite traditions:)

Here's all the pictures I took when Brad's family came over on Christmas Day- well, not all, but most:)

Dancing with the stars

For those of you who know me well, you know I am a HUGE reality tv addict. My sweetheart of a husband surprised me and got me tickets to dancing with the stars for Christmas. We had so much fun. It was one of those experiences I'll never forget. It was so cool to see it live! I spent the day shopping for a new skirt, because I had heard we were supposed to dress up. We went to Jonny Carinos for dinner, and then headed to the E Center. We got there and everyone was in jeans. Aaah, O well:) It was fun to get dressed up and spend time with my hubby. Thanks babe for an amazing night!!!

Tony Braxton sang three different songs, so it felt like a mini concert too! So cool!:)