February Sunday Evenings

Jo and T got a little gecko and named him Pepperoni...

One Sunday evening at the dome while we were playing games, Ben came and climbed up on Josh's lap, was a fun buddy for a few minutes and then snuggled in and fell asleep :)

One Sunday night at our house...

January Creations

 I got some birthday cookies done for the first few months of the year.

A few dance flowers...

January Odds and Ends

 I love catching Ben with his ankle up on his knee like this.

I think this was after dinner one evening and he just stayed and did his iPad for a while.

We had Chad Ford come and do a devotional for us one Friday.  Our friend Ravi came over from the university and introduced him.

Also, Josh and his girlfriend of a few months, Karlie.

This was taken at the Institute's masquerade ball that Josh came home from work, hurried and showered and then dashed off to for the last hour or so.

New Year's Eve

We had Mom and Dad over to our house for New Year's Eve.

(The boys and T had other plans) 

While prepping some veggies I cut into a pepper and found this cutie!

I took it as a good omen for the year to come :)

We ate and then played games. (Matt left for another party after eating)

Dad even joined us for one of our new games, Chameleon, and actually seemed to really enjoy it.  He kept pushing for extra rounds.

When 10 o'clock rolled around we celebrated with New York and Mom and Dad and then they went home.  We used Mom's cool, new streamer confetti...

Notice Ben in the background peeking over the couch ;)

Then, those of us that remained filled our time with finishing our Lord of the Rings marathon and trying to make each other laugh by telling Dad jokes...

And then another countdown and celebration...

Happy 2026!