Our First Video

I finally took the time to figure out how the video mode works on our camera (and it probably took one minute, if that!)! I now wish I had taken the time 4 years ago when we got the camera! Anyway, I asked Lillian to sing "Jesus Loves Me" for the camera so I could see if I had figured it out correctly. She did such a great job singing that I thought I'd post it (you can also hear Lillian's back-up singer, Abigail, in the background). I hope it actually works for you and that you're able to watch and hear our first video! :)

These next pictures are from today. The girls helped make some fun Thanksgiving "hats" to take over to Grandma's house tomorrow.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy 3rd Birthday Abigail!

Three years ago today I went to my scheduled prenatal check-up. Little did I know that while at that appointment my doctor would discover I was 5 cm dilated and in labor (and to top it off, Abigail was born on her due date - right on time!)! My doctor said that was only the second time in her career she found a patient to be in labor during a routine check-up! Oh the memories... How can that be three years ago? Where has the time gone? How can our little Abigail Evangelyn be 3 already?!!

Well, she is 3 and what a fun 3 years we've had! We've done some "celebrating" these past couple of days as you'll see in the following pictures:

This was right after I had finished her Curious George (or as she would say, "Curious Gorge") cake. I wanted to get a picture before any of my little monkeys got too curious!

On Friday the girls and I met my mom, sister-in-law Susann, and her three girls, Mikayla (8), Serena (5), and Lydia (1 - she's only one month younger than Rebecca!) at a mall. This mall has an indoor 2 level carousel! Mom treated the girls to a birthday ride - they loved it! Well, all but Rebebcca. She cried the entire ride after she was (accidentally!) put face to face with a horse! Although, she wasn't the only one who didn't like the horses. Abigail (another one of my daughters, of course) didn't want to be on a horse either. She was more than happy to ride in the sleigh thing. Oh well, it was still a fun treat!

Birthday girl

This was today. We stopped for lunch at Sonic before heading to our birthday destination. Daniel has been itching to get to a Sonic ever since they finally appeared in Minnesota! I guess there were a few by his college in Florida and he loves their real juice lime slushes. This is like an "old time" drive-in restaurant where you order from your car and then eat in your car. The guy even brought our food out to us on rollerblades (but the food was in a bag and not on a tray - the temp outside was around 34 degrees!). If you've never been to a Sonic, GO! It's very, very good!!

This was our birthday destination. A huge indoor playground! They loved it! They even had an area for kids 3 and under. Being it was Saturday, it was a little more crowded than we would have liked. BUT, the girls didn't seem to mind at all.

Ok, well, Rebecca didn't like the ball pit very much. Other than that she had a blast!

Lillian is definitely our athletic one. She scaled this wall like a pro!




Stopping for a picture while playing in one of the high mazes.




Here's Rebecca trying to catch up to her big sisters. Maybe next year, Rebecca!




Taking a 3 second break.



After getting home we finally got to eat some of that cake!





Happy Birthday to you!!!













Happy 3rd Birthday Abigail!
We love you!!

Finally - A New Post!

We haven't had much going on lately - we've just been trying to stay warm! It's cold! The pictures I've included for this post are just various ones from the past couple of weeks. Nothing too exciting. Our big outing for this week will be bringing Rebecca to her 15 month well check-up. Oh! Can't forget Abigail's 3rd birthday on Saturday! I guess that will be next week's post! So until then, here are some pictures of our 3 giggling girls:

This was Halloween night. The girls all cuddled with Daddy (well, long enough to get this picture anyway!) while we watched a movie.

I'm not sure what she was doing here. Just being Abigail, I guess!

These funky pigtails were too fun!

Rebecca's really becoming quite the monkey. Now that she's walking 90% of the time she thinks she can do anything! She has to keep up with those big sisters!

Our second year Awana Cubbie. Last year she was a "Jumper," this year a "Hopper!"

Lillian wrote the entire alphabet all by herself! Some of the letters aren't exactly right, but I'd say that's pretty good for a 4 year old!

Lately Rebecca's been looking at books while sitting in the book basket. This was taken last Sunday after church. Do you like the leopard print dress with matching boots? She's stylin'!

Thanks for looking!

Fun Dressing Up

Ok, so we're not the biggest fans of Halloween, but I've had these two costumes and thought I'd try them on Rebecca...

I was extra careful about not letting her see the giraffe's face while putting this on her. I knew that would only result in tears and screams.

These are the tears and screams I was talking about!

Lillian and Abigail wanted in on the action too ...

This is a size 12-24 month costume. Need I say more?

After this picture was taken, Abigail proceeded to chase after Lillian saying, "The zebra (yes, zebra) is going to get you, Lil-lin! The zebra is going to get you!" They both went running and screaming around the house... too bad you couldn't be here to enjoy :) it with me!

More Leaves

Here is our leaf maze! The girls played with this for a long time! I don't know what gave me the idea for this, but they loved it!

Come on, Rebecca, let's go to Grandma's!

Traffic jam

Awe... so cute!





Guess what? The girls and I bagged all the leaves this weekend! Now what am I going to take pictures of?!




Here's Shirley ready for church this morning. She was just too cute so I had to take a picture. The outfit is from a family from church. That's actually a coat she's wearing and under is a matching dress. She wore the hat the entire time we were at church. Really, too cute.

Playing Outside

Our house in the fall (can you see Rebecca swinging under the tree?!)

There's Becca-Roo! (Daniel calls her Becca-Roo. It's a take off of Buckaroo. Although I think Lillian and Abigail think it's after little Roo from Pooh!)

Cheap entertainment! Thank you, God!

Yup, that would be our Chuckle!

This is Rebecca's favorite place while outside - in the swing.

Rolling down our big hill

Riding down our big hill! They do this quite a bit and have been accident free... so far!

Rebecca has been walking alot lately while pushing something. Now if we can just get her to do it by herself!

Here is Lillian working on her car (By the way, Lillian is our warm child. She is always so hot! That is why she is always seen in cool clothes while her sisters are bundled up! She doesn't get that from me! The girls complain about my cold fingers!)

Daniel has been working on his car for the past 4-ish weeks so that's why Lillian is working on hers. Just like Daddy, you know! It's really been testing my patience not having a car. We haven't really needed to go anywhere, I think it's just knowing that I don't have a car that's been frustrating. If that makes sense! Daniel's car almost has 330,000 miles on it! That's right ! No joke! Go Nissans! I guess he thinks it still has some more life to it... or he just doesn't want to part with it. HA! He's almost done. He's put a LOT of time into it (not money though, which is good and which is why he's been doing it himself!). Now I'm just praying that it will actually work once it's all put back together!

Thanks for stopping by!