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!)