Party Time......

We had a little family party on Thursday night for Ana.....she waited so patiently all day to open her gifts....




And then it was time for cake.....


On Friday I let Ana have a party with some of her friends....It was a "Princess party"...but really there wasn't anything to "princessy" about the party...the girls lasted all of about 3 minutes in there dresses and then they were on to bigger and better things.


This little princess is always ready for the camera....


This was Ana's choice of dress for the party....



Check out this table of kids.....Ana had 3 friends over and all their siblings....so in all total there were 9 kids at the house...the oldest being 5 and we were missing one special little guy that was sick...so there would have been 10 kids in total.....it was a busy group.


Cake time...I tried something new.....Cake pops....let's just say it was more about the look than the taste....and I would probably never make them again...a little too much work but the kids enjoyed them.



Even this kid.....whose kid is she anyway???

Happy Birthday

Sweet Ana!!

You joined our lives 4 years ago today and we couldn't be more blessed and proud of you!!

We hope you have a great birthday and we are so excited to see what the next year holds for you!!

2 Weeks old....

Since my Mommy isn't keeping up with the blog...I decided to take over this time - seems that I was 2 weeks old on Monday and it's already Wednesday!


This is pretty much how I spend my day....lounging some where...either my chair, my swing or in someone's arms...but I can tell already I am going to have to compete for the "arms"....there seems to be lot's of other kids around here competing for those "arms" too!


No, my eyes are not red from crying....thanks for noticing though.....seems that my sisters and brother already decided to share some "gunky" eye with me.....there much better now though...(remember these pics were from Monday)


And this is my new quilt that my Grandma Judi sewed and hand stitched for me....isn't it lovely!!

I know everyone wants to know..."am I a good baby?"....Well I seem to think so....but really what defines good?..I sleep most of the day, eat every 3 to 4 hours and have already gone through a few packs of diapers!! I'd have to say my finest hour is about 3am...or just after my middle of the night feeding....I am awake and ready to start my day....but no one else seems to be and there tends to be lot's of grumbling about me going back to sleep....but a kid can only sleep so much!!

Well at this point I'll probably be back to post again about myself....maybe in a few days when I turn 3 weeks so stay tuned!

3...2...1...0

Adi in B & W

Community Bath

Adi had her first bath today and it turned out to be a family affair....everyone wanted to watch Adi get a bath!






In the end I think Adi was happy to be rid of her audience and back into some dry clothes!

Nanny 911

Aunt Shasta has been with us this whole past week - she graciously gave up part of her Christmas vacation to come and put her SUPER nanny skills to work and boy will she be missed!!

Cute as a button

This is Ema's favorite new "position"........

Where did the week go?

Little Miss Adi was 1 week old YESTERDAY! (I'm already falling behind taking pictures and blogging)

This is how she spends most of her days so far.....sleeping and really only waking to eat or fill her pants!

Don't be deceived in this picture - she really isn't as long as she looks in this sleeper...she hardly even fills it out length wise - first baby we've had that I actually think could fit into newborn clothes.

Christmas Eve gifts....

As much as we would have rather spent Christmas with family....it was nice to have a low key couple days given all that we have had going on....


We let the kids open one gift yesterday afternoon - books from Aunt Sonja and Uncle Dan!
The kids loved them....and I am sure it will provide hours of reading for them and us.


Getting ready to open their gifts from Grandma Judi and Grandpa Hal......


The kids were really excited about opening gifts this year and really didn't require much assistance....I will remember for next year though to do "simple" bows on their gifts or no bows at all...because we ended up having to "un-do" all the bows for them.


Ana wore her "santa" hat the entire time......



Ana showing off her prized possession from Santa - her very own camera - which she managed in about 90 minutes last night to take 212 pictures and fill the memory.


And Ema with her prized possession....her very own "car" no longer does she have to share the one in the garage that they all three end up fighting over.

And well Eli's prized possession was his matchbox cars and parking ramp...but I failed to get a picture of it....