Happy Holidays from the Fehlings! – 2015

Yep, we’ve now got a full year of the Queen City under our belts, and we’re lucky more than 47% of our collective wardrobe isn’t some shade of blue-green at this point. It’s been a big year for our family. And for our cumulative waistline. Thanks to the Panthers we’ve probably gained a combined 481 pounds via discounted Krispy Kreme (you may have seen this video once or 14 times), and it’s been worth every extended belt loop. #KeepPoundingDonuts

Page

Let’s see…well, really, Page’s (and Charity Bailey’s!) 2015 highlight reel begins and ends with this video. Just…TV gold. ‪#‎donttouchitagain‬. In other news, literally, she interviewed our star linebacker, lost a tall-off to our newly-elected mayor, and became best friends with Beyonce. When she’s not chasing children and delivering the news at 4:30 a.m. (?!), she loves nothing more than an uninterrupted afternoon nap, which happens about as frequently as the Panthers lose at football.

Jake

Another year, another 365 days of Jake wearing sweatpants to the bus stop. He has convinced no one that he has an actual job, and the neighborhood now universally mocks him as “the LinkedIn guy.” Jake continues to post to social media about as frequently as the Panthers win at football…and then about 100x that rate. In his spare time he has picked up Pure Barre, and enjoys getting his hair blown out. 2015 was peak Hop Drop, Hornets Fever,Heels Football and Ted Ginn’s Hands, so it’s basically all downhill from here for Jake.

Ford

Our first grader recently passed up a family trip to Raleigh, explaining to us that he “needed to stay home so he could play in his basketball game” because his “team needed him” so we “should go on ahead without him.” So, naturally, we…left him in Charlotte with Page’s parents and went ahead without him. We have no idea where he gets that kind of athletic commitment, but we’re throwing mad side-eye to the owner of Rising Crossfit Ballantyne. The Fudgeman has two girlfriends…at BOTH his elementary school and his after school day care. He wears old school girls Jordan’s, he’s reading like a bawse, and he has shattered the record for most minutes played on Practice Mode on Madden for XBox. Kid loves it. Practice makes…purrrrrrfect? Sorry, bad Panthers joke. Keep dabbin’ on ’em, Ford.

Cal

Still working on mastering that tricky…alphabet. Finds the front collar of his shirts edible and delicious. Screams with, we’re convinced, a malicious intent to napalm eardrums. Oh, Cal. This kid, y’all. Funniest human being alive, and it ain’t close. He’s loving Kindergarten, and his teachers, once they’re able to regain their hearing at home each night, we’re sure would admit to loving him too. We’re pretty sure. OK, they probably love/hate him, but whatever. He’s our little bowling ball of energy, and if he isn’t destined to block for or pummel a quarterback in his future, no one is.

June

Who run the world? June. Who run this mutha? JUNE. Neither Ford nor Cal went through the dreaded Terrible Twos, but June? Sigh. She’s currently putting a bow on a Jerkmaster Twos season for the ages. Despite this, c’mon man, she can do no wrong…and we all know it…and she knows that we all know it. Game over. She and her fleet of dolls, stuffed animals, and princesses run the show around here, and when they aren’t ruling over our house like tyrannical monsters, she manages to squeeze in time to potty train and fake-read board books to us. Is she still our favorite? She’s still our favorite.

So there you have it. Another year, another collection of train wrecks for our crew. Maybe next year we’ll get our act together and actually mail one of these out. Maybe not. Probably not.

We love and miss all of you! Merry Christmas!

The Fehlings