Spin spin spin

Turn on some music at our house and you will probably find Gibby preforming his signature move. I was looking through some videos and found a couple of his debut.

Advent Prep

Owen and Lilly helped me put the finishing touches on our Advent-Jesse Tree for the Christmas season. We start tomorrow, so we are finishing just in time! The excitement for Christmas is already starting to build around here.  Let the countdown begin.  And, may we, by God's grace, teach our children the true meaning of the season...and that it is more blessed to give than to receive.  

  

Everett is already enjoying them.

Happy Birthday song--big brother love

I just love it when my kids do something sweet for one of their siblings.  It melts my heart when they think of their sibling and show them love.  Owen wanted to play "Happy Birthday" for his sis on her big day yesterday.  Lilly, as you can see, soaked up every note. After all, who doesn't like to feel loved?!

Happy 4th Birthday, Lillian Grace!

Literally, from the moment her 3rd birthday party ended last year, Lilly has been planning to have a "pink" party for her next birthday.  After 365 days, she had not changed her mind--not even for a split second.  She told just about everyone: "I already had my purple party, now I am going to have my pink party!"

So, pink it is. For our dear sweet Lilly Lou....the girl I willed to be a tomboy while she grew in my belly and swore was not gonna be a "frilly-pink-princess-kind-of-girl" is exactly that. Now, don't get me wrong she can hold her own with the boys.  But, goodnes gracious, this girl LOVES anything girly, pink, princessy, and frilly.  And I love her for it.  I love the dynamic her little girly self adds to our family.  

Our cousins got to join us for the pink party.

The birthday girl in the headband she saw at the dollar store when we went to get her "pink party stuff" and just had to have. 

Present time.

 Now, get ready---and believe me when I tell you the next two pictures were taken literally 2 seconds apart. I am not kidding. 2 seconds.

 She can work it. Let me tell you. 

Games with the cousins after all the birthday happenings were complete.

Happy 2014 Thanksgiving!

Here are our pilgrim and indians.  We learned about the history of thanksgiving that last week or so of school. We did some fun projects, a nice break from the normal school routine.  We made hats, indian and pilgrim paper dolls, mayflower boats, read lots of thanksgiving books, and other thanksgiving themed activities.  

It is a job to get a picture of all four of these kids together--Whew!  Here's the best I got.

Got alot of this. 

I did remember to take pictures of our Mayflower boats.  We even tried floating them in the bathtub. And.....

 it worked!! Yay!!

Everett prefers to feed himself.  He had the privilege of indulging in oatmeal all by himself.  I kinda had second thoughts when it was clean up time. Yikes. 

Gibby wanted a picture of hi eating oatmeal too.  Silly, silly boy.

Happy Thanksgiving!!