Favorite Songs of the Neelys

Just wanted to share the latest favorite songs from the Neely Kids.

Austin: Anything by Taylor Swift, especially "Mean," and "You Belong to Me"

Ella: "Two Princes" by the Spin Doctors

(Loves rockin' out and dancing to it)

Emmett: "1-2-3-4 Sumpin' New" by Coolio

(Except he sings it, "1, 2, 3, 4, Put your woman on the floor" - a bit funky coming from the mouth of a 3 year old)

Emmett: "Home Boys Home" by the Irish Rovers

(This is actually his favorite bedtime song. It's hard to sing as a lullaby - it's a bit spirited, but he asks for it nightly.)

As I write, Ella and two friends are having a dance party, dancing to "Lollipop," "The Monster Mash," "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Bikini," and "They're Going to Take Me Away."

Karissa

A relaxing Christmas

I guess I'll get this posted while I'm on here checking it out....

We had a great Christmas. Our kids were super spoiled but the highlighted gift was the kitchen from Santa. We are so glad we have some place for Turner to create all his culinary masterpieces. Although, it still doesn't keep him out of the kitchen while I'm trying to make dinner. We played at home all day except when we forced our kids to sit through 1.5 hours of church, yes it was that long because the program went long and the bishop didn't shorten his message. Our children were NOT happy. Honestly, there is not much to tell about Christmas other than that. I mean, Turner didn't eat hardly anything all day because he wanted to play with the "ticken" (ironic) and Britta played dress up with her new necklaces and drank her baby's bottles instead of feeding them to the baby. I read a new book and Jared played with the iPad we got. It was a low key, relaxing day and I wouldn't trade it for the world.

Hope everyone else had a good Christmas!

And BTW, I have updated my blog recently so you can check it out.

Erin

Starting off the Moll Wall

Okay, so here goes, family. I'm starting this off finally, because I am very bad about calling all of you. When I think of calling, it's usually too early your time, or way too late my time. And then I have to come up with something to actually talk about - ehh! So, this way, we all can keep in touch, but at our own time zones, and people like me can actually think of something interesting to say.

So I will first start off, by answering this month's challenge (see the right hand sidebar by the way).

For this last Christmas, we were way spoiled. Our kids had toys from family, friends, and even an overzealous Secret Santa. It was absolutely wonderful, but also, because I have the Miller genes in me, a bit guilt-inducing.

But aside from all of that, I will say, one of the biggest highlights of the gift-giving was getting the iPad from Mom and Dad, with help from Jared and Erin. Austin has absolutely loved the almost-weekly Facetime chats with Kyson, and would love to do it with the Moll boys too. Ella simply likes all the drawing and ed games I've put on it. And Emmett, well, he's in techno heaven, and has done things to it, that we've had to look up how to undo online. The boy could fiddle on it for hours if we let him.

Cam, let me just say, I finally get your obsessive love of Apple!

-Karissa