No Time

Being we are having our little family christmas tonight, I don't have time to post the MANY posts that I am behind on.  Including Ellie turning 8 months old.  Yes, I got her mini photo shoot on the day of her turning 8 months, but no time to post.  So this one quick shot of her from TODAY will have to do for the time being.  Her VERY FIRST pig tails courtesy of daddy:)

Merry Christmas!!

Elijah-10, Caden-7, Liam-3, Ellie-7 months

Worn

 

Not sure why exactly, but today this song just won't leave me??  My heart is going out to all those kiddos who are "worn".  Not even sure why, but my heart is feeling for those Haiti kids. Little faces keep flashing before my eyes....Why Haiti??   Im praying for those orphans today.

 

Wow....not sure what this is all about??  Maybe someday I'll know??

Leon Waibel Christmas

This past saturday Nick and I hosted the Leon Waibel Christmas.  Usually Marcia and Gerry host it, but I asked if it was ok if I did it to give mom a break.  It went over great, we had a wonderful evening and as of now, I hope to host it next year too.

 Dinner time!!  We enjoyed some wonderful Ham Loaves that Mom W. made.  Everyone pitched in and brought one or two items.  Such good food.

 The kids table....plus Elijah, Caden and Avery sat up at the bar(in previous picture).  The adults sat in the dinning room.

 Grandpa Leon and his Great Grandchildren.

 Of course I had to throw in a couple other pictures too.  What do you think.....enough toys surrounding this girl??

 Nick is traveling this week so I let Caden pick out our dinner for tonight.  He chose Sloppy Joe Buggy's.  They were a hit and the kids thought they were so fun to eat.  Good choice Caden!!

I did it!!!!

Thats right folks, you are seeing correctly....my mommy isn't holding onto me:).  I have been sitting for 10 minutes now without falling over!!!  7 months old and 5 days.  WOOHOOO

7 months!

 

This is a bit late I realize, as sweet Ellie turned 7 months old 2 days ago.  I went to upload these photos and was unable to.  I had run out of storage and needed to figure out how to delete the pictures from my blog.  So I got to use a nice little thing called Blurb and create my very first blog scrapbook.  It has been ordered and so the first year 2007 of which I started my blog has been deleted from this blog....and now I have room for more posts with pictures!!

 

So with this photo shoot I decided to keep her in her everyday outfit and snap a few pictures of her in front of the christmas tree in which I put up this weekend.  My dear little 7 month old can hardly even sit on her own!!  She seems so behind but maybe this is somewhat normal?  I just know that at 3 days before turning 7 months old Elijah pulled himself up to a standing position in his crib!!  Now that was advanced:)

Here is my attempt to sitting up on my own and smiling for the camera:)

 Over I go again and again and again.......

Tada.......I am sitting:).....ok.....not really.  My dear mother is holding my arm(but you just can't see it).  Maybe someday soon I'll decide to sit on my own??

A Twist on Ice Hockey

What a beautiful fall day today!!  This morning we decided to defrost our garage freezer while hanging the outside Christmas lights.  It wasn't long before the kids were chipping away at the ice in the freezer and collecting it in a bucket.  Soon we heard a competative little game of Ice Hockey going on. 

 So because its so nice out, they put on their skates, grab a broom and a "hockey puck", and away they go. 

 Even Liam was playing his own little game of "slide the ice puck around with a broom" game:)

 Here is their bucket of "ice pucks" near the end of the driveway (where their goal is).

An in action shot of them passing the puck.  I think its safe to say it looks pretty even.  Elijah has the small hockey stick and Caden has the LARGE hockey stick, Elijah has 4 wheels in a row on his skates and Caden 4 wheels all spread out:).  I LOVE when my kiddos use their imaginations and play things so well together!!