A Peek at the Poulsens

So many pictures...so little energy to caption each one...  family trees for our genealogy come follow me lesson  poor sick Natalie "rabbit trap" Natalie had the flu and did not like them sticking probes down her throat and up her nose to diagnose    he found his old iron man jammies that are hilariously small on him we switched the bedrooms around, so the boys are now on the bunkbed in one room and Natalie and the crib are in the other room...I love the symmetry of boys/girls rooms!   I spy Stockty reading my niece, Katara! her parents are Kevin and Makenzie school was cancelled at least twice because it was dangerously cold Sam's fiancee, Kristy! (dubbed "Krispy" by us) they will marry in August  keeping his balloon close, even when resting Natalie hides Kitty before school so no one steals her Natalie's bulletin board Pop ...

Ah! One of the worst parts of getting behind on blogging is forgetting what I have/haven't written about yet...I just went to download photos from Christmas 2018 and realized that I had deleted most of them off my phone thinking I had blogged them already! Oh well. It was a fun holiday - low key, as seems to be our M.O. for holidays, and filled with family and food. Austin let me have lots of good naps (truly the best gift he could give me), the kids were tired of their Christmas presents just days after they opened them (whyyy do we buy them anythinggg), and I was definitely ready for them to go back to school. I used to say I hated summer and preferred winter (with fall being my favorite season), but now with kids winter is so hard. Too many layers required to leave the house, too slushy and wet and cold and dirty, too many hours cooped up in the house. So now I appreciate summer much more than I used to. Back to Christmas...we walked to HyVee on Christmas Eve to burn off som...