Valentine's Day

 

We sure have had a fun few days celebrating Valentine's Day! Michelle hosted her 2nd annual Valentine's Day party at her house this morning! The kids had a blast, and all the mommy's had fun talking too!  :)

 

The kids sat in a circle and exchanged Valentine's! They all did such a good job passing them out!

 

Aren't these two the cutest?! They are getting so big!

Some of the girls doing a craft at the table.  I LOVE how Grace Ann is hanging right with the "big" girls now! I NEVER thought this would happen!! I really thought she would be 8 years old and hanging on my leg. :)

I tried to get a picture of the kids in their matching Valentine's Day shirts I made them...didn't happen like I really wanted it to.  Oh well, you can sort of see the shirts.

 

Owen and Andrew doing their craft.



 

Eating their heart shaped grilled cheese sandwiches and other goodies!

Ms. Cindy had a fun Valentine's Day party at the library on Thursday! She always has so cute crafts and fun snacks for the kids!

 Justin and I got the kids some new bubbles for Valentine's Day so we had to go outside and try them out!

You can check out what we did last year for Valentine's Day here!

Snow!

We have had our fair share of snow here the past few weeks!! We live in a great neighborhood with lots of good hills to sled down! Our good friends also live just down the street so we can still get together and play even when we can't get our car out of the driveway! How perfect is that!! :)

 

Justin and Chad had some fun in the snow and showed the kids how to have a snowball fight!

 Racing down the hill!!

My little man trying to make a snowball.

Grace Ann wasn't interested in sledding or having a snowball fight. Instead, she was perfectly content to stand and eat the snow! :)

Rainy Day Fun

It has been cold and rainy here for the past several days, so this morning we invited our friends over for movie and popcorn! The kids had a blast laying on the pillows and watching Cinderella! All four kids sat nicely and ate their popcorn and watched the movie for a good 20 minutes.  Overall, I think they had fun! :)  We are ready for some sunshine!!!!

 

Owen and Grace Ann's Announcement...

Yep, we are going to be a family of 5 in just a few short months!! We knew we needed to get a bigger car but I would have NEVER thought we would be the VERY PROUD owners of a minivan!! We absolutely love our van!! Owen thinks our van is magic because the slidding doors open and shut "by themselves". Ha! :)
These next few months are going to be a little crazy, but we are so excited about what's to come in 2013!!

Christmas 2012

We had another wonderful Christmas in Tennessee! Justin had two weeks off from school and we did a LOT of traveling in those two weeks! Aunt Jan got married at the beach, so we packed up and headed down there the first part of the break. After the wedding, we stopped by Huntsville on the way back for a few days, then made our way back to Tennessee to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas morning at home! 

 

 



I tried to get a picture of the kids in front of the tree in their matching pajamas, but this is the best I got!



 

Owen got a train and a train table from Santa, and Grace Ann got her own Cabbage Patch Baby and some other doll things!

 

 

 

After we opened presents at our house on Christmas morning, we packed up and headed down to Alabama for the last week of Justin's break! We had a wonderful Christmas, but I'm already looking forward to Christmas next year! :)

LMU Campus

There is this really pretty amphitheatre on the LMU campus that we have visited several times. It has a big open area where the kids can run around.  They also love climbing up the stairs and running around on the "stage". It's also a really neat place to take pictures! Michelle called one day and said she was going to dress her kids up and take them over there for some pictures, so we joined her! :) I actually got several really cute pictures of my kiddos!! I'm shocked that they sat still long enough for me to take their picture! 

 

More Fall Fun!

We enjoyed some beautiful weather and went to a really nice pumpkin patch with some sweet friends in October! All the kids had a blast! 

 

This was the best we could do for a group picture! :)

 

Owen and Natalie

Owen had been telling us for weeks that he wanted to be a ghost for Halloween, so here is our little ghost and skeleton!

There is this really cute, small pumpkin patch just down the road from our house that we enjoy taking the kids to every year! I made them matching candy corn shirts! Love how they are holding hands in this picture.