Christmas 2018!

Christmas day was great!

 Mark, BethAnne and Joy 

 Joy and Ginny

 Andy loved his scarf that BethAnne made.  BethAnne crocheted several great homemade gifts for us.  So talented.

 Andy loves his new toy kitchen from Great-Grandma Shurtliff.  She recently passed away and we'll miss her so much.

 Mark got me this sweet surprise present.  Love my sweet, thoughtful husband.

 Naptime!  Grace is so great with Daniel, he takes naps for her best.  She recently went out of town over the weekend (See future post about her choir tour) and we had a tough time getting him to take naps for us (we had to drive him around to get him to sleep, which is how he usually takes naps, but on weekends Grace can sometimes get him to go to sleep for her without needing a drive).

 Brothers playing K'nex!

Everyone loved the new air hockey tabletop toy!

It was a fun Christmas topped off with yummy Thai takeout food.  Life is good.

Holidays!

 Christmas tree! Ginny loved to spend time under and in the Christmas tree.  And Daniel loved to re-decorate it and that kind of drove me crazy. 

 Playing with legos at the Festival of Trees. We go everything Thanksgiving, it's a great tradition

 Pretty girls at Festival of Trees

 This was our first big snow (and I think one of the only big snows of the winter).  Daniel was so cute all dressed up to play!

 Gingerbread houses!  Another fun tradition.  My gingerbread house had all of us represented, even our angel babies.

 Grace a Joy ready for their Cantus Christmas concert.  They did amazing!

 Daniel loved this toy Nativity Set, he was such a fun age for Christmas (except for his redecorating of the poor Christmas tree)

 Adorable kids in their Christmas PJ's.  I feel so blessed to have these sweet people in our home.

New Addition

In November, we got a sweet cat we named Ginny Angel Weasley Rogers.  She's a great cat and we love her.  She's a little scared of the dogs and Daniel, so she's an upstairs cat lately (hopefully that's temporary), but we try to give her lots of love and attention.

Halloween!

Daniel was most seriously displeased when I tried to put an Elmo costume on him.

 Cute Andy Robot (he wanted to repeat last year's costume and that was fine with me!)

 Pretty 50's girl, Grace! 

 Joy made her emoji costume.  Very cute and creative!

 BethAnne was a space time traveler or something, but very pretty.

 We settled on making Daniel into a cookie jar by having him just wear a t-shirt I decorated.  It worked well (at least he kept it on).  

 The cookie jar was meant to match our van which we decorated as cookie monster.  

After he got a few treats from the trunk or treat he just wanted to sit and eat candy so he got to go inside the cookie monster with Dad and help hand out candy.  So much fun!

Playing in the Leaves Fall 2018

We have a great grassy area across from our house.  The kids wanted to go rake leaves and play in them, so we all went over and had a fun time one evening.

My pretty older girls were spectators most of the time

   Life is busy but good, especially with this guy!

Random Adorable Baby Pictures

Here are some random adorable baby pictures from the last several months.  We sure love this baby!

Sweet baby curls!

Learning to walk a few months ago, so cute!

Hannah and Daniel a few months ago.  Daniel is so big.  His reach is way too far, almost nothing is safe from his grasp!  It keeps us on our toes!

He's such a sweet, snuggly baby! 

Standing on his own and so proud!  (he plopped down a second after this picture was taken) :)

Daniel loves books!

Riding in his car!

Now he's walking around great!

And he loves to sit in the fridge, he's done this for months, anytime the fridge is open.

Swinging again!  His feet are so big!

Yummy Spaghetti!

Stay tuned for more fun posts!  I hope to get caught up sometime!