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Laughing at the ridicu­lous “Year With No Santa Claus” while play­ing Power Grid

Christmas Eve: watch­ing “It’s A Wonderful Life” with the girls (their first time), look­ing at lights pro­jec­tor on ceil­ing while ly­ing on mat­tress, eat­ing choco­late, and open­ing the Mom Koser’s gift

Wrapping pre­sents for Ruth with the girls

Lydia lost her key­chain at Publix, I prayed, and God im­me­di­ately an­swered.

Having an im­promptu romp with all three girls on the mat­tress af­ter din­ner. Tickles, pil­low fights, horsey rides, and wrestling.❤️

You’re the least of my wor­ries.

Lydia tak­ing her first shower by her­self, and en­joy­ing it im­mensely. “I love you, Mommy.” Dancing to mu­sic af­ter­wards.

Holland Farm with the fam­ily. The corn pit; strid­ing through the corn maze with Lydia and Ruth; the pic­nic by the car; send­ing Lydia and Amber on the zi­pline, each by her­self; rolling through the big pipe with the girls gig­gling and try­ing to stay up­right; the pic­nic at Bucee’s.

Melissa: I mocked it at first, but I’ve come to ac­cept it.

Brian: Hey, that kind of de­scribes our mar­riage!

Melissa: It’s Friday night, what do you want to do?

Brian: Curl up with a sexy…book. But not Facebook. Facebook’s a hussy.

Folding the church laun­dry with Lydia. She helped be­cause she wanted to.

Singing “Do You Want to Be a Bullfrog?” as a fam­ily at the din­ner table (to the tune of “Do You Want To Build a Snowman?“)

Melissa: Ooo, I know what I’ll do for your fu­neral! I’ll re­lease a bal­loon to rep­re­sent your soul ris­ing to Heaven, and it’ll be teal be­cause that was your fa­vorite color–

Brian: No, don’t do that.

Melissa: But as we cel­e­brate your life–

Brian: Celebrate me now, not at my fu­neral! I want you to be sad when I die; I was a cool guy!