December 2023

 Madden and his buddies crashing the Annual Bressi Ranch Christmas Party.

Skylar and her girlfriends annual white elephant gift exchange.

Lennon and Morrison came down and spent the night with us.

Madden and his buddies Annual White Elephant gift exchange.  

Liam stole the show at the Christmas Eve present opening ceremony. He was at that delirious baby point where he is but having the best time but you know he could crash at any moment.  Lucky for us he didn't and was having a blast with all the kids.  It was fun to have a little one for the holidays again.

Choke hold on Skylar.

I'm so upset at myself as I did the worst mom job ever and got ZERO...yes ZERO pictures on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.  I think this year I was just soaking it all in and enjoying all the moments, which still isn't an excuse but I really was.  I feel like we had a blast at Christmas Eve with all the family and playing unless games of Left, Right, Center.  

I really wanted to take our time opening presents Christmas morning with the kids and enjoy that special moment with them so below is the only picture I got of any presents.  

We had a pretty chill New Years Eve by going to the Aviara Resort with the Rossitto's.  Had a nice sushi dinner and played Top Golf.  Sadly it was our first NYE without Skylar who was having a slumber party at a friends house...she was missed.

2023 Holiday Card

 Recreating the iconic Vibe Magazine/Death Row magazine cover was an idea I had been thinking about doing for the last couple years.  We were so happy with how it turned out and it was actually a lot harder to recreate than it looks.  We got a lot of messages from all our 90s hip hop loving friends who thought it was a hit!

Jake's 42nd Birthday

 Glad had a pretty mellow 42nd Birthday.  His mom came down to celebrate and we also had Morrison and Lennon make a special guest appereance.  Madden started his day off with a Madden Special aka an omelette.  If you haven't had one you are missing out since he cooks the eyes in bacon grease.  

Morrison made Uncle Jake a crown to wear on his big day.

Suzie made Jake is childhood fav tamale pie and we made him a massive ice cream cake to top it off.

Friday Night Lights 🏈 North Carolina Tar Heels (Fall 2023)

🎵WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS, MY FRIENDS🎵.  
We had an awesome season playing in the 5th/6th highest level conference.  We ended the regular season 8-1 and a little bitter that we weren't crowned conference champions.  We took that and used it as motivation in the playoffs.  We made it to the championship game playing against a tough team.  Our boys stepped it up playing in probably the most intense FNL game I have ever been apart of.  We were down 2 touchdowns with under 4 minutes to plays.  Our boys were incredible those 4 mins and ended up winning the game with 2 seconds left with Madden catching the tieing touchdown and catching the game winning extra point.