Happy double digits Merry!

Hard to believe this girl is already 10.

 We went to Busch Gardens for her birthday with her friend Amory but it decided to rain.  So they rode the bumper cars like 15 times.  We can home and they decided to put make on, hence the blue eye shadow.

Unfortunately they decided to put makeup on Grace too.

 

Merry with her cupcake she took to school.

Beautiful girl.

I can hardly believe she is this old.

Where did the time go?

After Christmas

 Jacob trying out his slack line.  Notice the girls carefully observing.

Eliza was the cheerleader.

Good job Jacob you made it.

 For some reason Santa thought it would be a good idea to bring a swing mat.

I am not sure how safe this is going to be.

Merry decided to glitter her lips and eyes.

She found out the hard way that glitter does not taste good.

Notice the blue in her hair, that was from an odyssey of the mind painting session where they were painting the ocean but some how the whole groups looked like avatar.

Luckily it was washable.

Christmas craziness

 Adam was very excited about a Chewbacca hat and new pedal car.

 Eliza was excited to open any presents.

 Grace was excited to get the Grace American girl doll.

 Jacob took a while to wake up.

 When he finally did he was excited about getting a gray hoodie, hopefully I do not see him on the news in it.  He also got a kayak.

Merry was happy to get a weapon to defend herself from Jacob.

 Brian and I were glad this is only once a year.

Merry Christmas

Happy Christmas Eve

All the kids in their Christmas PJs ready for bed. 

There is a high possibility that I forgot to send out half of my Christmas cards, so if you were in that half. Merry Christmas. Notice how happy Eliza looks to be up a 6:30am so I could get pictures in the fog.

Visit to Santa

We went to Busch Gardens to visit Santa.

He told the kids to be extra good and pick up their stuff.

Eliza was friendly with him at first and even gave him a hug, but then she didn't even want to be in the picture with him.

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.