Trevor's Valentine's/President's Day Program

Due to some crazy snow delays, Trevor's February program at school was moved to this past Friday.  He did a great job and made big improvements in how he was up on stage.....he sang along and really got into it for the whole time instead of only doing the songs that he really knew.  We were SUPER proud!

Happy New Year!

Since I always
a day late.......






and a dollar short......







Here we are, better late than never....


are you ready for your big surprise?



The Chapman Family blog is NOW.....[drumroll please!]

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We're moving on up in the world.  

(that, and the two hypens were still throwing people off even after five years)

The Big Huge Christmas Post

We spent this year's Christmas alone in Virginia, but we did our best to make it just as fun as if we were with family.  We spent Christmas Eve doing our last minute decorating and shopping and then settled in at home to hang out for the rest of the night.  In the evening we took a Christmas light walk through our neighborhood and then opening our one present of pajamas before heading to bed for the night.

All the CHristmas excitement got Shelby tired out....good thing that Santa arrived early with a new dog bed for her!  

 Merry Christmas to all!  Time for bed.....because Santa is coming soon!

Christmas morning we woke up and opened gifts before our traditional Christmas breakfast (yum!) and then headed to church before returning home for just hanging out and napping in pajamas for the rest of the day.  

From that smile, you would think that Olivia knew what was about to happen!

Trevor was overjoyed to have a TRAIN!

Olivia and her new addition to her Olivia library. (ack, short hair is not stellar in the mornings.  apologies for the lack of makeup.)

Phone calls to our CT family.  

Merry Christmas!!

Christmas Numero Uno

The weekend before Christmas my parents came down from NoVa to celebrate the holiday with us since we couldn't be together with us on Christmas Day itself.  Trevor enjoyed making a gingerbread house with Grammy while we all hung out and then we just spent the evening together opening gifts and playing with Miss O.  

Slowly working on his work of art.  

Reading the tiny book for our Advent story calendar.  

Our Advent Tree is almost full!