So This is the New Year

  I am going to wrap up 2014 with one last post that kind of straddles 2015 as well.  Daryl's dad, also a Daryl, came to visit after Christmas and went home after the New Year.  We had a good visit.  It's been a while since we've seen him since he lives in Texas now.  The girls enjoyed playing with him and got to go out to lunch to McDonalds with Grandpa Daryl and their Dad since Daryl wasn't really able to take time off work.  As usual I forgot to take pictures, so when we did think to take pictures Emery was already in bed and Avery and Harper were super grumpy.

   2014 was a great year.  I'll give a rundown of the highlights:

• Avery started full time Kindergarten!
• We moved to Bellevue very close to Daryl's work!
• Daryl was accepted into grad school!
• Luke was born!
• We had two cute nephews join the family: Hudson and Logan!

  Like I said it was a great year.  We had some changes and had to say goodbye to West Seattle and the friends we made in Church there.  We especially miss our old view, but we don't miss Daryl's terrible commute.  It's going to be a great year with more changes to come.  We're ready for them though, and are eagerly awaiting the return of eight solid hours of sleeping!  Happy New Year!

The one picture with Avery in it.

The one picture with Harper in it right before I carried her off to bed.

At least we go this picture with Grandpa Daryl and his cooperative grandsons Tyler and Luke.

We accidentally left a bucket out for months.  It collected rain and when it froze a really cool ice formation formed called an ice spike.  Our accidental science experiment.