Final December Posts

Happy New Year!

Happy Anniversary, Mom and Dad!

Disney on Ice

More Snow Fun

Another Gingerbread Masterpiece

Preschool Sing-Along

Since Sienna's holiday sing-along was snowed out last month, it was rescheduled for tonight and it became a winter sing-along instead.

We decorated one last gingerbread house.
The children listened to The Gingerbread Man.

They pretended to be gingerbread children through an obstacle course before they went back to the cafeteria to decorate gingerbread people. It was fun for us to do something special with just Sienna!

More...

Finding Ornament (the Elf)

'Twas the Night Before Christmas

Merry Christmas

Catching up...

Update:
Here are a few more...

La Salette Shrine

Puzzle Time

Giving Back

Home Sick

Snow Fun

Up on the Housetop

I finally starting posting some of our pictures from December. You can either scroll down to December or click on each of the links.

Christmas Card Photo Shoot

Enchanted Village

A Weekend of Christmas Traditions-Old and New


Here are a couple more:

More Christmas Traditions

Gingerbread Houses


Stay tuned for more! I'm on a roll!

Tom!!

Elijah loves our neighbor, Thomas, who happens to be the nicest 11 year-old boy you'll ever meet! He's really sweet with Elijah and he doesn't seem to mind Elijah's obsession with him.
When it gets to be close to the time to walk down to the busstop to get Isabella, Elijah watches for Thomas out the window. We happened to open our front door right as Thomas was walking by the other day and Elijah yelled, "TOM!!" so loud that poor Thomas jumped about a foot. It was so funny!! Here's Elijah watching for Thomas yesterday.

Thomas and Elijah walking to the busstop

Mini Dada

UPDATE: I added a picture of Mike when he got home from work tonight. Guess what he was wearing...

I pulled this hand-me-down shirt out of Elijah's closet this morning and he immediately said, "Dada!!" The girls said that he looked like a mini Dada, too! They suggested that I put black (actually, charcoal) pants on him with a belt, but we settled on blue jeans (which is Mike's casual look). I wonder why they said that!! Is it the princess cup?!?

Is this any indication? Don't be fooled by the colorful casual shirts. At least 90% of Mike's work shirts are blue or blue and white. No wonder they all thought that Elijah looked like Dada!

I think so, too!!

See?!?!?!?

Dada and Mini Dada!

Uh-oh...

... Spaghetti O's!!!!!!

Being the procrastinator that I am, it's no surprise that I'm way behind on my blog posts. I have so many pictures that I need to post from Christmas, Halloween and even the summer. I promise to get on those this week. (Okay, Kim?!?!) :)

Lost Tooth #3!

Isabella lost her third tooth yesterday afternoon while she was at her friend, Hope's, house!! Last night she wondered if the tooth fairy ever brings toys (instead of money).


This morning after telling me that the tooth fairy left her $1, she asked me why some of her friends get more money from the tooth fairy. One friend claimed that she got $4 for one tooth (which I know isn't true). I convinced Isabella that her friend was talking about the total amount that she has gotten from the tooth fairy for all of the teeth that she has lost.

Isabella sure asks a lot of questions and she's always thinking!!! She has asked several times who God's dad is!! We still don't have an answer for that one!!!!

Happy New Year!

Last night we rang in the New Year with some of our friends. Sienna was happy to hang out with Molly and Lily.

The big kids took a break from playing long enough to have some pizza.

All of the littlest siblings enjoyed themselves, too! Here is Elijah's buddy, Sammy.

Is that Sammy or Spiderman?

Elijah wanted to be Batman.

Don't those two little superheroes look a little different than they did last year when they enjoyed their first New Year's celebration?

After we put our kiddos to bed at our friends' house, we enjoyed some Wii bowling and watching the ball drop with Ryan Seacrest and Dick Clark.

Happy New Year!!

Happy Anniversary, Mom and Dad!

We were happy to help my mom and dad celebrate their 44th Anniversary today! The best gift we can give them is being all together with our whole family, and here we are!!!
The kiddos enjoyed riding the Aunt Katy and Uncle Nathan horsies today, too!