#HatfieldXmas15 + 52 Weeks of Brotherhood update: Last Wednesday, my iPhone was in a plastic bag with rice. When I went to grab a picture for 52 Weeks of Brotherhood off of my iCloud account, I realized I hadn’t set up the photos to backup to iCloud when I got my new phone. In September.
Yikes.
Thankfully the Rice Bag was magical yet again and my phone works just fine.
#HatfieldXmas15, November 29

What? You don’t pretend like the Christmas tree measuring stick is a bazooka? Your Christmas tree farm visit must be boring.
#HatfieldXmas15, December 6
Our Advent activities are also going along mostly swimmingly. The boys really enjoyed baking cookies the other night as they did almost all of the work.

Someone is being bossy in this photo. Can you tell which brother is doing the bossing?
I broke the egg because our chickens have tough shells and I wanted to crunch down on M&Ms and not eggshell. Details.
We’re really trying to make the most of this busy season by spending time together as a family. It’s hard sometimes, with everything going on, but we’re doing as well as can be expected.