Valentine's day

 Eliza ready for church with her pink monkey.

 Sweet Adam

 Grace-pretty in red.

Merry, Merry has grown so tall it is hard to find dress that are long enough.

 Jacob with the broken thumb.  He broke it in January on his second day of PE playing basketball.  Because breaking one time wasn't enough, he rebroke it a couple of weeks later, when he was supposed to be wearing a splint, playing hockey.  Now he is stuck wearing a brace for another month.

 Grace made an owl box for her valentines.

 Adam made a love tank for his Valentine box.

Eliza was lucky I taped the suckers to her valentines and put them in an undecorated box.  Poor last child.

100th day of school

Grace and Adam in their 100th day of school finery.

Grace smelled good as she had baby powdered her hair.

Happy birthday Brian

Happy birthday to the nicest Dad and husband.

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.