So long, Freddie!  Peace be with you.

 One more day until it's officially winter break!!  Bennett made the local paper, and H got to snapchat with her favorite second grade teacher, and...

 Colie arrived!!!

The Kimble Christmas cookie baking tradition continues with year two.  And, AMK knows how to get stuff done!  In 2 ninety minutes sessions we whiped up countless cookies - cream cheese oreo balls, peanut butter balls, sugar cookies, gingerbread peeps, corn flake wreaths, pretzel/rolo treats...  With an assembly line of solid child labor, repeated step by step directions, and lots and lots of sprinkles the mission was accomplished.

Parents of the year goes to...

Bennett loves Papa's jokes, almost as much as he loves Papa.  He came up with an idea for a perfectly, funny gift - 365 Jokes.  As Bennett started googling "a joke a day" I quickly intervened, pulling rank and enforcing a "mom internet censor" just in case, but Bennett did all the rest. Cutting each joke, we laughed while this gift was being created.  

 Cheers to starting each day of 2018 with a chuckle, Papa!

💞  Prose Family 2017  💕

Headed to the River for Prose Family Christmas - dressed in our semi-coordinated "I want to look like Nicole" outfits, with a truck full of gifts and ice fishing equipment.  I love this day so so much.  I love the chaos and the noise and the food and the laughter that fills the house.  I love catching the glances of love across the room, as Wes and Rita's eyes connect.  I love when a flag pops up and Andy and his brothers race down to the ice, the little boys follow, as mothers yell "PUT YOUR COAT ON!!"   I love the big tree, and the football game in the background and the cookie crumbs.
We are certainly the luckiest.