FINALLY.....new family pics!

So, it has been quite some time, like 2010 since we had family pictures made....and these kids have grown quite a bit...as seen below:

So.....here are the new pictures displaying the much more aged Riggles.....we blinked...........

Our beach house....9 months ago

So, funny story, I lost the memory card that contained all the pictures from our adventure, and after moving our bed during a little spring cleaning I found it...so the post may go on...9 months later.  

So, a few weeks months ago we rented a house in Seagrove Beach, Florida with two other families and spent some much needed time together.  By the end of our visit Matthew told me repeatedly that he just wants to live at our "other" house.  I wish son, I wish.

The weather was gorgeous, the sand was...well EVERYWHERE and the kids loved digging in it, the water was still a bit churned up from Isaac but that didn't keep us out of it.  Kimber was a little fearless with the waves, Matthew got to snorkel with Willie and thought that was AWESOME.  We had this big giant table we ate most of our meals and there is something dream come true-ish about gathering 10+ people around a big table.

There was a lot of cheeseball consumption.

and a lot of sunscreen applying, though not so many pictures

and a lot of digging

and a wedding

that we may have crashed...well technically they crashed our vacation as we 

claimed our shady spot a good 8 hours prior to their ceremony???

 

and some wrestling

 

and some bucket duty

 

and some pirating of ships

and some eating

and a little resting

 

some hand holding

We were glad to get home and feel ever so blessed by our Alabama family. 

Christmas 2012

We flew solo this Christmas.

Will's parents usually come for Christmas but due to a surgery conflict they could not join us.  We had a great holiday with our little family and enjoyed having friends over for Christmas dinner.

Before Christmas Eve Service

No luck in getting a serious picture.

Love these guys

Self portrait

Lego building

Sprinkling reindeer food

Santa's delivery

Crashed out boys

So excited

Digging into his stocking

Why yes, more Legos

Snuggles

Clean little kidlets on Christmas

Rare moment of love between Lyla and Muppet

Enjoying their climbing wall from Nana & Gramps

This little dude took Mr. and Mrs. Claus several hours to construct