February Fun

Here's a glimpse into our home this past month:

Rachel going for a ride (and loving it!)

Our Valentine cupcakes

Rachel taste-testing some new food

Big sister Abigail helping take care of Rachel

Our little Scandinavian girl

Abigail was going camping

(that's Rachel's changing pad fastened to her back!)

Rebecca hanging out with Rachel under a toy

She's getting so big!

What are these funny things on my feet?!

Chubby cheeks.  Gotta love 'em!

Our little Valentines ready for church

Need I say more!?

(are you ready for this, Amanda?!)

Rebecca's 'angel' hair -- Lillian said she looked like an angel

Thanks for looking!

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Until next time ...

A Couple Videos

Here are the videos that I had wanted to post before. The first two are videos that Lillian taped with her camera. The last video is of our little acrobat (with super abs, I might add), requested by Uncle Nathan...

Stuff

Rebecca waked right into a table at church a few weeks ago!  This is her second black eye in her whole two years of life (she's also had a huge goose-egg on her forhead)!

Rebecca and Rachel spending some quality time together

(not sure what kind of outfit Rachel has on... )

Daniel and Lillian have been into playing Dutch Blitz lately... Lillian's getting pretty fast!

Our happy Rachel

Sweet

Daniel's car recently reached over 350,000 miles!  Go Nissan Sentras :)

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The following pictures are from Lillian's new camera:

this is a self-portrait

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If anyone knows how to post videos using the new editor on Blogger, I'd love to know!  I can't figure it out!  I can't find a video option anywhere!  My videos will just have to wait...

Christmas

This was our year to stay in WI/MN for Christmas. We had a really nice time with my family (as usual!). Our drive to my parent's house was very snowy! It was so fun to have a white Christmas! We spent Christmas Eve at my parent's house with my brothers and their families, and then we celebrated Christmas Day at my Grandma Haglin's house...

Lillian and Rachel enjoying my mom's rocking sheep


My mom made all the girls bonnets like Laura Ingalls Wilder. They were a big hit!

So happy!

We do gag gifts with the adults and some of the older kids joined in this year. This is what Abigail ended up getting...


This is Christmas Day at my Grandma's house. Lillian, Abigail and Alan are helping cousin Ayla with a gingerbread house.

BINGO anyone?

Back at my parent's place, Rachel liked watching this little remote controlled car.



I think they like eachother :)

Abigail snuggling with her two new dolls from Christmas



This past Sunday we finally had the chance to open gifts at our house.

Daniel is holding a little frame that Lillian made for him to bring to work. Lillian is holding an Indiana Jones tree ornament that she also gave to Daniel.

This was THE gift that Lillian had really been waiting/hoping for -- her very own camera! Sometime I'll have to post pictures that she's taken. It even takes videos!



What fun would Christmas gift-opening be without Duplos or Legos?

Poor Rachel, she didn't get one gift! She doesn't seem to mind though...


I KNOW! You can lift your jaw off the ground now!! Your eyes are not deceiving you! DANIEL GOT ME A CELL PHONE!! :) What a guy!!


After receiving 6 dolls this Christmas, I thought it would be fun to take a picture of ALL their dolls (15 to be exact!)... I spy the cutest one!!

I guess this is what happens when you have 4 little girls...

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Church Christmas Program

The girls had their church Christmas program, A Mini Christmas Musical, on Sunday evening. Lillian, Abigail, and Rebecca were part of the Christmas carolers who sang songs, played handbells, and had small speaking parts (except Rebecca). They did such a great job! The pictures aren't very good because the lighting was dim - my little flash can't make it all the way up front! I tried to lighten them a little...

Here's Lillian singing, "Happy Birthday, Jesus!"

Lillian and Abigail

Lillian and Abigail listening to a story (I couldn't get a picture of Rebecca because she was all the way on the other end of the stage)

Here are all 3 girls. Rebecca and one other 2 year old girl got to wear the cute fluffy headbands!

Having fun with the props after the program was done (notice how the manger is sagging to the right!)

Enjoying some yummy Christmas cookies after the program.

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These videos are mainly for the grandparents who weren't able to make it. You can't see the girls at all until someone takes a picture and their flash goes off! But you can atleast hear them!

This is all the little kids playing handbells (ages 5 and under). They each had their own colored bell (Lillian and Abigail each had two bells to keep track of!) and they had to follow the color-coded music. They did a really good job! I wish you could see Abigail... she stayed so focused on the music and when she played she would ring her bell very tense-like! It was very cute! Rebecca was given her own little bell that she could jingle whenever she wanted!

This is Abigail saying her 'big' part... (they were telling what each letter in Christmas stood for)

Here is Lillian's 'big' part...

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This was their first Christmas program and they loved it :)
We hope you enjoyed it too!

Getting our Tree

We went searching for our Christmas tree last Saturday at a nearby tree farm. Here the crew is on the look-out for the perfect tree.

Abigail wanted her picture with this tree because it was just her size!




For some strange reason, it has become a tradition that the tree falls on Daniel (aka: Daddy) after it has been cut...

... but Rebecca didn't remember this tradition and didn't think it was very funny! She was worried about her daddy!



Here is our tree all decorated and ready for Christmas!

Let the Christmas Season begin!! :)