Santa Pic

I was shooting for two santa pics this year, but that didn't happen. We got one and only one and even that only happened because I let the girls sit on my lap vs. Santa. So, we have a "not so thrilled" family pic with Santa this year. Oh well. One of these days, I'll do a collage of all the santa pics and give it to the kids.

Decking the Halls

The weekend of Thanksgiving we got the lights on the house, the decorations up and the tree out. We have never been on top of it that much! The kids are really getting into holidays now and had a blast decorating the tree and watching dad hang the lights on the roof. Every night before bath time, we go outside and look at our lights. The kids are so excited by them and love looking at them in the dark.

The kids prefered the "cluster" method.

Abby was so proud of the finished tree. They all had a blast and it only took about 30 minutes with all the little helpers. Of course after they went to bed that night, I had to "decluster" some of the ornaments.

Thanksgiving with the Cousins

We had Thanksgiving in Stephenville this year and of course I didn't get any pics of the meal, but did get some great shots of all the cousins.

At my mom's...

Jake LOVES his big cousins.

At Grammies...

Paige is getting so big!

Who says three's a crowd?

She does smile!

The whole gang :-)

Sisterly love.

Trying out my new camera

When our new camera arrived, I immediately took it out of the box and tried it out. The kids were more than happy to be test subjects in the backyard. Pretty good for not reading the manual yet :-).
My baby girl is getting so big.

Such a handsome fella.

Awe - so big, and serious (its REALLY tough to get this girl to smile on camera).

A little action. Lily was not happy she couldn't jump like Abby and Jake.

The Pics are here!

YAY!!! I can finally retreive all our pictures from our new camera! We spent the month of October without a camera but I have pics from November and December to upload. I'll try to spread it out :-). Enjoy!

Back up and running soon

Well, it's been a month since my camera met it's frightful fate (Jake dropped it on our tile floor as we were heading out to the pumpkin patch), and I'm happy to say we finally picked out a replacement camera. We are stepping it up to a SLR and John even surprised me with the next model up from what we had picked out. Yippee! The newbie should be here Friday and so I'm hoping to figure it out a bit this weekend, at least enough to start taking pictures again. I can't believe I have no pumpkin patch or halloween pictures this year!