Douglas is Three Months!

Michael is Three!

Michael turned three on December 27th! He got a big boy bike for his birthday!Opening presents:

ROAR!!

All he really cared about was that he was going to have a dinosaur cake. He "helped" "sprinkle" the brown sugar dirt and put all the dinos onto the cake.

My parents, Elizabeth and Richard, and Joey and Heather's family were here to celebrate.

Michael and Jack (Joey and Heather's little guy)

I'm pretty sure Uncle Jeremy had just this in mind when he sent light sabers to his nephews for Christmas.

Pizza Party!

Happy birthday, buddy! We went to the doctor and he's now in the 96th percentile for height and the 90th for weight. He's a happy, sweet boy and we love him tons!!

Christmas!

We had a great Christmas!

Ashley made Michael a sword and shield. She's such a sweet big sister! They also all picked out books for each other and it was fun to see that they really tried to get ones that the other kids would like.

Santa brought a trampoline! He even set it up in 20 degree weather on Christmas Eve! Thanks, Santa!! He brought a safety net, too, but I guess he didn't have that much time.

Can we put our coats on and jump on it RIGHT NOW???

Of course!! We even let them play on it in the snow. We're such nice parents... :)

Sunday Before Christmas

All the kiddos wore their special Christmas outfits to church today. I know Douglas looks a little bit like a clown, but I couldn't resist the matching bow tie!

Brothers :)

James' Birthday!

Friday was James' birthday! We celebrated with pizza, a movie, and brownies :)

First Snow of the Year!

We got about 4 inches of snow on Thursday, and we got Thursday and Friday off of school! The kids had a great time playing in the snow, coming in, drinking hot chocolate and getting warm, and going back out. I could barely get them to come in even when it was completely dark out!

Gymnastics

The kids had an open house at gymnastics this past week!
Michael will tell you--he's really, really strong--here he is showing off those muscles. He got up there all by himself! He climbed the wall with his feet without help, too!

He's a good jumper!

Paigie on the bars!

Ashley on the bars--

Paige on beam

Going up to a handstand.

Ta-da! Michael got a medal and a star ornament. The girls got little trophies.

Ringing the Bell!

Ashley, Paige, and Michael all started gymnastics a few weeks ago. Ashley got almost to the top of the climbing rope the first week. Tonight, she got to try again and made it all the way to the top and rang the bell! I think she must have thought it was like a doorbell or something because the coach yelled to her to ring the bell and she yelled, "I don't know how!" back. It was pretty funny! Ashley was pretty excited!

Douglas Dec 5

My Girls

The girls got to open their Christmas dresses from GrandMama and GrandDaddy today! They looked very festive at church!
I look a little out of it in this one, but maybe that's normal these days :)I guess Paige and I do look a little alike! She thought it was really funny that I was taking pictures of us.

I think Ashley was a little smiled out by this point...

Douglas and the Bear: weeks 5-8

Our little Douglas is growing! He was 11 1/2 pounds when we went to the doctor this week and was in the 50th percentile for everything!

(I didn't forget the 8 week picture after all! I found it on my camera yesterday!)

Paige's Thanksgiving Party

Paige's class had a Thanksgiving pizza party on her birthday. Douglas, Michael, and I got to go in and celebrate with her.

She brought ice cream for her birthday treat.

She loved having the whole class (and most of their parents) sing to her!

Here is one of her little friends.

With one of her teachers.

I didn't take pictures of our real Thanksgiving, but we had a great time at our house with Richard, Elizabeth, Joey, Heather, and their kiddos!