Pictures from the last few months

Well, has been too long. Rob got me this wonderful new camera for my birthday in April. I LOVE it! Unfortunately it can hold like thousands of pictures so I haven't had to dump it yet. Which means I haven't gone through all the pictures. I'm going to attempt to now and just throw some pictures on here from the past 3 months so you can see what we've been up to :)

At the Beach over Memorial Day weekend

Jonathan performing at the Concert in the Park Day for  band

She hates touching grass with her feet

Seth learned to tap from a friend at church

It also included some ballet, these are the cuties he took class with :)

Zoo time!

 
 

Just learning to walk

Park day

 

Elizabeth and her cute friend Leila

 

This and That

Elizabeth had her second recital a few weeks ago. She played a song called "Skating". She is really loving her piano lessons and her teacher Ms. Kristine. I love that she loves it!

Meredith is now pulling herself up on everything she possibly can.  

Unfortunately, the kitchen chairs are not so stable. Yesterday she pulled one over on herself while on the tile. Luckily her diapered butt landed first then her head so it wasn't as bad as it could have been. Still scared us both pretty good.

This last Friday was gorgeous out and it just so happened my brother was in town. So we all went to the zoo! It's been a looong time since I've taken the kids, we hadn't seen any of the changes yet. They redid the monkey enclosure and added lions to Africa. It was all pretty neat, and fun to see new stuff! Was also very nice to spend the day with my brother.

Getting tall!

Meredith liked the orangutans.

Christmas Trees!

We got our trees up earlier this year than last year, feeling pretty good about that. I opted to get a fake white tree for the downstairs since it shows off all my purple and silver ornaments better. We got our tree for upstairs at a U-cut off of 209th. Wow, that tree sure smells good!! I don't think we've ever gotten a tree that has had such a wonderful scent. I love it!
We spent time last night getting the ornaments up. The tradition is each person gets to pick a Hallmark ornament for themselves every year. So the tree is starting to get loaded down :) The kids have stuck to a theme most years. Nathaniel gets Scooby Doo, Jonathan gets Spiderman, Elizabeth picks out a princess, Seth started getting Disney characters and who knows what Meredith will end up with. We had fun, the trees look great. Just need to finish getting the rest of the decorations up and we'll be set!

Meredith just played and looked cute while we all decorated.

Jonathan loves this set he got when he was little.



First ornament, went straight into the mouth as soon as we handed it to her!





And...looks better in real life :)

Aloha's First Tree Lighting

My Dad had heard that Aloha was going to have it's first ever tree lighting ceremony today so we decided to go check it out. We think it was well attended. Santa showed up on a fire truck, they had live music going on, and they did a raffle. An hour into it Santa came up and turned on the tree lights.
The best part was the raffle. My brother won a turkey. He's a vegetarian. Shane had just been telling me how he never wins anything in a raffle. As soon as they mentioned they were giving away turkeys he knew he would win. Sure enough, they called his number. The turkey is now in our freezer :)

Someone looks just a little hyper!

My brother, Shane. So sad, such a great picture of him and it came out a little blurry.

The grils all bundled up nice and warm!

Nathaniel and Jonathan and a friend from school.

Warming up at DQ afterwards with a cup of hot chocolate. Yum!!

Pictures!

We had a photo shoot done of the kids at the end of August. We received the disk recently with all the photos so I thought I'd get some of my favorites up. Julia Shinkle took the photos. They turned out GREAT and we had such a fun time! I love how she is able to capture the eyes of her clients, that's what drew me to her.



One of the few where Meredith was smiling. Unbelievably we couldn"t get her to smile. Too much for her to look at.



Me? I'm not up to something!



LOVE the eyes!