3 year pictures

 Pretty Eliza at 3 years old.

 She is very sweet and sassy.

 Smelling the flowers.

 She was reading a book to herself the other night and she started "once upon a time"  then she turned the page and said "something else" and then continued turning the pages and saying "something else" until she was done with the book.

 She still puts herself to sleep by rubbing her ponytail. 

 Which means if her hair is not up she screams bring me a ponytail.

 She loves her Daddy.

 She loves to climb, slide and swing.

 She loves all stuffed animals and usually is carrying 2 or 3 around.

Cute, cute Eliza.

Happy Birthday Eliza

 Eliza turned 3 today.  She wanted a pink giraffe cake.

She is very sweet and very feisty.  She gets very upset if anyone gets in trouble, but has no problem yelling at her siblings herself.

Christmas wear

 

The whole family in Christmas wear.

 Adam is glad he did not have to sing all want for Christmas is my 2 front teeth.

 Eliza dog-napped the puppy from Merry, pretty much any stuffed animal in the house she claims.

 Grace, sporting her cute dimple and a bow tie dress.

 What a long tie you have Jacob, this is why you should sit up straight.

Merry, very merry in her red tights.

Eliza and her elf

 Look how much Eliza has grown.

 Cute Eliza.

The elf.

Examining the elf.

Visit to Papa in Gainesville

We went to visit Papa in Gainesville during Thanksgiving break.

We went to the natural history museum to see the butterfly exhibit.

 It was very cool, we even saw butterflies hatching.

 Every one was duly impressed.

They had some awesome poinsettias as well.

Happy Thanksgiving

         For Thanksgiving this year we visited Brother Dave and Sister Leslie with our crazy clan plus Papa.  We only talked 9 out of the 10 double cousins into posing with Papa. 

 They live in the house I grew up in so it was fun to go and visit.

 This about looks like what we did growing up.

 We visited the woods climbed the trees and swung on the vines.

Jacob survived a collapsing vine.  He was very disappointed that I didn't catch it on film.

 Eliza loved climbing the trees, visiting the cows

and being driven around by her cousin.

 Merry looks so grown up all of the sudden.

 Eliza and her Papa

The Stott grandkids and Papa.

Happy 15th Anniversary

For our 15th anniversary we left our kids for the 1st time and went on a cruise.

This is what we look like without 5 kids hanging off of us.

We visited sunny Bahamas, Brian even went snorkeling.

Meanwhile back at home, Grandma Stott wrangled the rowdies.

We were so glad she could come and spend sometime with the kids. 

                                                                 Grandma Stott and Merry.

Eliza became great friends with her and was sad to see her go.