Picture Sunday

Results of late night and 7:00 A.M. meeting:

Results of no tv or computer on Sunday:


                                                                      The Bride

The Happy Couple

                                                The Guests

                                                       
                                                                      The Sealer 

Afterwards I finally got some pictures of Elizabeth in her baptism dress (thanks to WeeMama for putting in the sleeves). Such a beautiful girl! She let me take pictures until satisfied, okay, not really, until she said her mouth hurt too much. Love this girl!



The Big Man is 4!

Well yesterday was Coop's 4th birthday. We started off the morning with a haircut. Definitely not fun for him. This was his before picture, which actually, I think his hair looks good, but it won't stay. I gel it and it's all crazy in like 10 minutes. I could have trimmed the sides and kept it long, but I love me a boy or man with a new clean short haircut. Well, only one man. :)

See..... so much better right? Well, of course after the haircut we had to take his 4 year old pictures. Again, not very fun for him, but he endured it well and with a sometimes semi smile. It took some work. For lunch we met up with Brian and took him to play at Chick-fil-A. That he enjoyed. We were there for about and hour and his favorite thing was getting the fruit punch. I hardly ever buy soda pop, so he was really excited to get some.

We bought a the Megamind movie at Sam's club with some of his birthday money from Grandma and GranChud, so we came home and he watched that. He told me he wanted pancakes for breakfast, but he didn't eat any and I'm thinking he thought pancakes were his birthday cake. His cake was super easy for me this year. He wanted Batman and so I went for easy. I'm sure I could have gone more elaborate, but no time or patience for it right now.

After dinner we played some BINGO and the kids really had fun with that. I was trying to make it more of a birthday party for Cooper, but BINGO was as far as we got and he seemed pleased enough. Then we opened his presents, watched his birthday video and then had cake. All in all I think it was a good day for him. We went to bed and read his new Superhero Squad book. He was pretty interested in all the heroes and that was fun to see. Here are a few more from our "photoshoot". Isn't he so handsome?!

Yikes!

This girl wants to crawl! She was rolling over at 3 months and 1 week. She may be crawling before she hits 5 months. Time to keep the floors clean already?!!! Great!

I hate February!!!

I know... it's not a very uplifting title, but I do hate February! It's cold, dreary, and just blah. I'm sick of being inside, I need a vacation somewhere warm and sunny, but looks like that ain't gonna happen, so we're stuck trying to entertain ourselves. At least there were 2 sunny warm days in a row! The girls wanted to paint their faces so I gave them the paint and told them to have at it. Caroline painted Elizabeth a rainbow princess

and Elizabeth painted Caroline an ice cream sundae. I thought it was pretty funny. They only kept them on for less than an hour this time, but it entertained for about 20 minutes.

Bella wanted a heart. That was easy enough.

I told her to make a happy face and this is what I got. I love it! I wish it would have been in focus. So cute.

I tried to think of something to do with Caroline so we made a felt headband. She loved it and so did Liz,

so the next day she asked if she could have 2 friends (a rare occasion) come over and all make their own. They seemed to have fun doing that.

Today, President's Day, we got out and went sledding. We haven't done much outdoor play this year. I'd love to send them outside, but we just can't seem to make that a happy place, so we haven't done much. It was fun to do today for a little bit.

These 2 could have stayed longer, but the little ones were done.

I got Charlotte all bundled up and she ended up falling asleep before we got in the car, so she stayed in there and ended up sleeping 3 hours. That doesn't happen too often, and funny enough, when it does, she's usually bundled up in her car seat.

After that, we started a paint project which we don't have pictures for yet. Watch for those to come! And there ya have February in a nutshell!

Great to be 8!

We had a great weekend this past weekend. Elizabeth was baptized on Saturday, February5th, by Brian. The day started out with a trip to some wedding shops to find the perfect dress for my sister Caroline. We were not disappointed as we walked away with several possibilities. However, we are shopping again this weekend, so no purchases were made. After a few hours of that we rushed home to eat lunch and get ready for the baptism.

Here are a few pictures before the baptism with Brian and Elizabeth is their jumpers.

We had all my family here but missed having any of Brian's here. Elizabeth was baptized by Brian and confirmed by Bri, Papa John, Uncle Paul, (soon to be Uncle) Jayde, Brother Oliver and some other guy I don't even know. :) Her session she was baptized with 2 other girls, Brynlee and Olivia, from her school class. I was surprised to see their school teacher there. Not something that I think normally happens.

It was such a wonderful experience and a spiritual one too. We are so proud of Elizabeth and she looked so beautiful. What a sweet daughter we were blessed with! So crazy that she's already old enough to be baptized but so wonderful too. 

 I've been having fun taking pictures of Charlotte lately, trying to get a good smile and just having fun with it. Today she turned 4 months old. She's so much fun. She started rolling over at just after 3 months. She's pretty strong. I'm pretty sure she's teething too 'cause she is slobbery and always trying to gnaw on her hands or someone's face! Love this nugget!

Also need to mention that Caroline lost her first top tooth. It is so funny! She was thrilled about it and now we don't have to worry that she's going to swallow it! One more tooth down!

Elizabeth snagged this picture. We're going to have to work on camera to person distance. Caroline's face isn't that odd looking. :)

Superhero to the rescue!

Last week a friend gave us a bunch of her boys dress ups. Cooper was in heaven. He actually doesn't even really have any "dress ups", so he was so excited.

and so was Bella.....

                                                   and so were Elizabeth and Caroline.

It was so funny to see the girls getting into all the boys dress ups too. They played for hours switching them back and forth. Cooper wanted to sleep in the Spiderman one. The next morning he woke up, walked to the mirror and flexed. I was laughing at this oh so comical sight! And this one is just because I thought Bella looked so pretty.

8 years old!

It's hard to believe that this is where we were 8 years ago. Not so much that it went by fast, I'd say it feels like 8 years, but just where we were 8 years ago. It was around 4:00 PM in Norristown, PA at the hospital on the way to changing our lives forever! And what a great change it was. I get so caught up in being frustrated with the day to day things that I forget to stop and realize how wonderful every thing is, and how wonderful my sweet little family is. Although, not really so little now. :) Crazy that 8 years from this picture we are now a family of 7!

 January 25th 2003 changed who we were and who we now are because we got this wonderful sweet spirit sent to be part of our family. It was so fun and exciting, that first new baby making us not just a couple anymore, but a family. I loved every minute with her. I loved when Brian would go to school and she'd wake up so he'd bring her into me in bed and we'd sleep for another 2 hours. Boy those were the days! I loved that she was my best little buddy and we did everything together. 

She was always so happy and so crazy loud... still is! She was a spunky little thing and we've gone from this tiny bundle of joy....... 

to this wonderful 8 year old! For her birthday she said she wanted pizza for dinner. Her favorite is Pizza Hut so I was totally cool with not making anything. She had a great day at school as the spotlight and then Brian brought in doughnuts and chocolate milk to her class for her birthday treat. I told him to just grab a bag of suckers of whatever was cheap. I think he must have zoned out when I was talking! His treat was better than mine would have been. He said he wanted to do something that would make her feel special.

I spent part of the day trying my hand at fondant. I really lack in the creative part of it. I didn't really know what to expect so I made the cake and fondant the night before. She said she wanted blue, brown and white for the colors. I could have doe something more creative but the cake layers were small so it was hard to do much. I did what I could with Charlotte fussing the whole time. It was frustrating, so I just hurried and finished it.  She loved it though so that's what counts. The more I look at it the less I like it. Oh well. Next round. Although really, I don't know why we make cake. They aren't big cake eaters. Tradition I guess.

I think she had a great birthday with good presents, lots of phone calls, bday cards and a little special treatment. So great to be where we are 8 years later and with such a great daughter!

LOVE