Merry Christmas!

I hope everyone's had a wonderful Christmas. Ours was pretty great - I was at a birth all morning but the family was sweet enough to wait for me to open presents so we didn't end up opening presents until lunch time. Then we spent the afternoon playing with the new games we got. This year, we got two really fun games - Redneck Wisdom (well, it's *my* game, not the family's) which is a Duck Dynasty trivia game (my favorite!) and HedBandz, a charades game where everyone knows what the answer is except you. Both are really fun games (especially the Redneck Wisdom game!).

My laptop has been acting weird for the last year or so and it's gotten worse the last few weeks. Every time I try to edit pictures, it crashes on me so not many pictures have been edited. However, it decided to work for me today so I'm uploading a few pictures from Promise's birthday (including lots of weird family pictures).

Well, actually, the first picture is of the baby who was born on Christmas. Ain't he cute?!

Promise's birthday cake. Yes, I made it. It started as a chocolate cheese cake but I messed the cheesecake up so I then made a chocolate cake. Well, the chocolate cake didn't exactly turn out either so I combined the two (hey! They tasted fine!) and she had a super tall cake. :)

Duke Gardens Trip with the Zhaos

Birthday Kingdom and Life

I made her a grand piano cake for her birthday so this is her seeing it for the first time

I made these.

2013 NC State Fair!

We went to the fair for a whole entire very long but very fun day last week. I'll show you the day through pictures:

Miss Diva, all ready to go

Nathan won second with his Lego minion

...I could name a few free ones...

no, we didn't buy any caramel apples but I thought they were pretty

this little acrobat was rather...impressed...with her own importance

"What do I do now?!"

"Hold on, I got this!" 

only homeschool kids get excited to board the bus...

...that would be Dad and Nathan on that...

..."we are not amused..."

about to board a ride...

see them?

"Hey look, there's Danielle - wave!"

slow shutter speed fun of an amusement ride

slow shutter speed of the ferris wheel

from the top of the Ferris wheel. The ferris wheel was so much fun!