SMILING

even though my idea to get an updated picture of all three boys together didn't go as well as I had hoped.

{...this is the best one...}


{...and Jack wouldn't even participate in most of the efforts...}

even though Nolan's first taste of icecream didn't impress him quite the way I intended.


































even though Jack flushed his underwear down the toilet and flooded the hall bathroom upstairs... a first even in this household.

even though Warren was trying to be helpful and shut the back gate on the van before Daddy had moved completely out of the way... ouch!

even though we are liquid nailing a "powder room" sign to the downstairs bathroom door to cover a hole that "just showed up."

even though I sometimes feel like we are a spectacle out in public, kids hanging off the shopping cart at Costco, eating more than our share of samples.

Smiling because this is my beautiful-crazy life, and there is much to celebrate under the glowey light of an early, already installed Christmas gift.


And when we all sit down at our big dining room table as a family, I feel lucky.

And none of those "even thoughs" ... even matter.