Monday, May 21, 2012

Soccer Saturday

Lately our Saturdays have been all about soccer.

Danielle "plays" for the Sabres. That's probably an exaggeration. What she actually does during soccer games:




Samantha plays for the Avengers. Unlike Danielle, Samantha actually plays in the soccer games.


And Rebekah is on Team Clash! She likes playing and does pretty well.

Happy Birthday Rebekah!

It's my baby's birthday today! Hard to believe it's been a decade since she was placed in my arms. I remember the panic I felt that first night home - She started crying, really crying, and I had no idea why. I wanted to reach for the owner's manual. Now we've made it through all the diaper years, and I'm starting to look around for the pre-teen parent's manual. Good times! Happy birthday, Becks!

We had such a fun birthday party on Friday - easy barbeque, simple crafts (wooden picture frames) and games (pictionary and charades). And of course we had to take pictures for their picture frames, so I printed out some cute props from go.tipjunkie.com and www.accenttheparty.com (thank you Pinterest). And I made some cute new birthday banners that I can use for all our birthday needs. Very fun!






Sunday, April 8, 2012

Easter girls

A nice, quiet Easter with our sweet girls:



Danielle's having fun hunting for eggs in the backyard, in her pajamas, with her shoes on the wrong feet. Love it!

More catching up ...

Back in February we had fun taking our three budding artists up to the Crayola Factory:


We felt really special standing by the largest crayon in the world:




In March, Rebekah participated in the county fine arts festival. She sang with her chorus group, and she had a piece of art on display:




 And Samantha's proud moment came from pulling her own tooth!

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Catching Up

Here are some random pictures from the last couple months.

We visited the National Cathedral. Beautiful!




My favorite pictures - Christmas morning:




Our ward Christmas party was wonderful - "Christmas around the World"


This week ...

What did I do this week? I finished my second cake decorating class. I finally had enough flowers to decorate a whole cake (which the family promptly devoured):



Then I finished the unthinkable: I put some order to my storage room. I know it's still an ugly, unfinished storage room, but now at least I don't dread going downstairs. Yea for organization!

Before:




After:



Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Family pictures

Our friend Celeste took some wonderful family pictures for us last month. Here are a few for the grandparents to see: