Soccer

I was wondering where the past 2 months had gone then I realized that December and January were spent at the soccer field.  

Jacob with his long hair blowing in the wind.

Merry chasing down the ball.

Number nine

Happy birthday to beautiful Merry.

Number nine is mighty fine.

Merry is very sweet.

She loves reading, dancing, soccer, gardening and all things crafty.

She loves to learn about Greek mythology. 

She is Jacob's video game compadre.

It is hard to believe she is already nine.

 

She is not so much a fan of taking pictures especially when it cuts into video game time with Jacob.

Happy 2015

 Happy New Year.

All the party people on New Year's Eve.

Merry and Grace made us these lovely party hats.

We played dominoes, video games and lit fire works and Chinese lanterns.

Caps for sale.  We have enough monkeys in our house to reenact this book.

 

 Eliza loved the fireworks and black-eyed peas.

Post Christmas blues

What mom makes their family wear coordinating outfits?

 How annoying.

Jacob, with the shaggy hair.

Merry, with stars in her eyes and on her skirt. The skirt leaves a trail of glitter where ever she goes.

 Grace lost one front tooth in time for Christmas

Adam is bearing the scars of a close encounter with the wildlife (aka Eliza).

Eliza, looks so innocent.

Eliza is 2

Happy birthday to our beautiful Eliza.

 What better way to start the day then to cuddle with your brother and sister.

Can you tell she had red velvet cake for her birthday.

 Modeling her birthday pjs.

Eliza is very opinionated about her apparel and usually wants to wear her pjs all day long.

 With her birthday cupcake.

After Jacob demonstrating how to blow out candles several times she finally mastered it.

Eliza is a little monkey and can climb into the tree house and onto the trampoline by herself.

She loves baby dolls,

horses, books and 

 playing peek-a-boo.

She is sweet about 90% of the time and very feisty the other 10%.

Yet another picture of Eliza.

Dang canoe bar ruining my pretty picture.  

Eliza and her elf to see how much she has grown since she was born.  (She was playing ring a round the rosies with him)

This is what you get when you ask her to make a silly face.

We love our sweet, sassy Eliza.

Christmas dance demo

 Merry at her Christmas Dance demo showing off her ballet moves.

 Merry's troop

Grace's demonstrating her back bend

 

and ballet skills.  

The both have loved dance this year and they are looking forward to the recital.

Happy December

 It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas with tank tops and shorts.

If you look closely one of Grace's front teeth finally fell out this week.

I am hoping her other falls out before Christmas that way her and Adam can sing a duet of all I want for Christmas is two from teeth.

Another picture from visiting Santa to get us in the holiday mood.  Eliza was not too sure about the man in red.