One of my Favorite Traditions

One of our New Year's resolutions from last year (the one we actually stuck with ;)) was to make Friday nights, family night. The kids often pick the menu then we do something together...play games, watch a movie, take a walk, go somewhere....whatever.

Of course it hasn't happened every single Friday; sometimes other things have come up here and there. There have been some business trips for Todd, tween nights for Brandon, and Kristen often doesn't make it but that's o.k. On those nights we spend the evening with those that are here :)

I can't tell you how important this has become to us. The kids literally count the days til Friday! This time we've carved out just to hang out and be together has become part of our schedule and we all love it!

Megan's making her "mad" face after Todd had her draw four :)
This is what Nicky does when he has to draw:
mmhmm he pouts. (I love how Megan's cards are showing here. She plays most of the game with her cards flipping around!)

Megan gets her daddy back though with a nice series of draw fours and draw twos ;)
Nicky decided that he would rejoice in that too!
Their expressions in these pictures from last week are common to us on Friday nights. We have so much fun! This really was the best resolution ever :)