CHRISTMAS 2013

Noah was in another play..... "A Christmas Carol". He was young Scrooge.

Cousin's sitting at Great Great Aunt Ruthie's House

The Christmas Train!! We love doing this every year

Noah got to carry the Banner for the Grand Marshal in our local Christmas Parade :) He was so happy.

My Sweet Nephew Gunner aka "BeeBee"

My first Christmas Party in our new addition

Christmas at Nana & Poppy's house

Christmas Morning 2013...Please excuse the lackof makeup and horrible morning hair.

Christmas at the Family Farm

So we have done a lot this year! I have been horrible at recording it but as I said before, that will get better. I am ready to start recording some memories again. I am very thankful for my life and all of our family. We are blessed more than we deserve.

NOAH'S 7TH BIRTHDAY

Holy cow it has been forever since I updated this thing!

I do have a good excuse though......our laptop died. So, thanks to Nana & Poppy we got a new one for Christmas and I have just now taken the time to get it up and running.

Noah turned 7 in October. This year, instead of a large party together, we settled on 2 small more quiet parties. Noah chose Duck Dynasty as his theme and as you can see from his expression...he LOVED the cake. Then the kids all carved pumpkins because his birthday is so close to Halloween. It was a nice time with friends and family.

Stay tuned.....now that I know how to work this thing I am going to do a massive November thru January Update. My New Years Resolution was to get the pictures/blog/scrapbooks in order so here is to 2014!!

IS SHE REALLY 6???

It doesn't seem possible, but it is true. Laurel is 6!!! We didn't plan big parties this year b/c of all we have had going on working on the house. We still had a great time with a silly photo booth I set up. Everybody was a great sport! Laurel got a beautiful bicycle, a saddle, boots, a baby seat for the back of her bike, a pink saddle pad, coloring stuff and a playdough dentist set (horrible yes, but she loves it). She had a great birthday and we are grateful to our friends and family for all you do for us!

Budding Photographers??

The babies and I went on a nature walk a while back and I was trying to teach them a little about photography. Not that I know much but I would like them to enjoy it like I do! I enjoyed teaching them about centering objects and how to get the camera to focus on objects close up. They both had a blast and  took some pretty good photographs! The last 3 I found on my camera after Noah had it without me knowing. I was pleasantly surprised!! The last one may be the one he enters in the fair this year. Which one do you think he should enter? Laurel won't be entering one this year because she will be showing Rachael's horse Lilly...which she is SUPER excited about :)

WOW!! HAS IT BEEN THIS LONG??!!

Arlington National Cemetary

Laurel Graduating Pre School!

Washington DC

Lincoln Memorial

Nana, Poppy, Aunt Michelle, in DC

Vietnam Memorial was my favorite!

Finding a name of one of Poppy's buddy who was killed in Vietnam

Cookie decorating!

Sight and Sound Theatre seeing NOAH!! AWESOME!

Amish Buggy Ride

Waiting for the Train

Dinner Train!!

Gettysburg

HAPPY 4TH!!

Has it really been this long??? Wow! Lots of pictures to catch up the summer. Here are the some highlights....
--Laurel graduated Preschool! She's officially a kindergartener
--Noah survived his first year homeschooling and starts 1st grade!
-- We went to Pennsylvania with Nana & Poppy for vacation this year. The kids just love Amish Country. Saw so much and added DC to our trip this year. So much fun!
-- Went to the beach for a short weekend trip (pics to follow)
--Laurel got her second Cochlear Implant and is doing great!
-- Celebrated 4th of July with friends, swimming and fireworks
-- working working working on our addition and close to being finished!!

So.... that's it for now. No great words of wisdom. ;) we are just trying to get into some normalcy and routine and ramp up for another homeschool year! I promise I'll post more a lot sooner next time!