Christmas morning

Geeze la weeze (is that how you write it, I don't think I ever have before).  I'm having the darndist time keeping up on this blog, maybe we've entered a new phase of life here with 1 walker (Henry's still content with crawling) and 2 curious 1 year olds.   Not to mention Ada.   In the last week she has downed half a glass of wine (yes, she was a little tipsy), and half a bottle of children's Tylenol that I failed to close all the way to the "click".  Anyway, we've been busy and I'm behind on the blog, but I'm actually caught up on the laundry (folded and put away 9 loads yesterday!), which is a miracle and makes my insides happy knowing my kids now have clean socks so we don't have to search through the dirty clothes for decently clean pair.  I also came up with a new shoe organizing system that I am feeling quite optimistic about that might help avoid the morning scramble to find shoes... oh I hope so!  Well, I've gotten distracted now and forgotten what I'm posting for, oh yes, Christmas!  We had a wonderful Christmas.  We spent the morning with Maz and Papa and then we headed over to the cousins up here.  And then a week later we went down south and celebrated with my side of the family.  I love the compressed cousin chaos.  I'll post some pictures from our time down south soon, but for now, here are some from Christmas morning.



This is Will talking to Santa on Christmas Eve, I like this picture.

I bought Will some new pjs, but before we went to bed he asked, "would it be ok if I wear the Star Wars pjs that grandma got me instead?"  I mean, how can you beat Star Wars?

Outside Life

We finally completed our back deck and it has already gotten a ton of use. Here we are enjoying our first meal on the deck with Nate's bro and folks

This was the first meal we enjoyed on the deck.  Looking at it makes me want to eat it all over again.  Lime Chicken Baked Burritos with Sweet potato fries. Yes Please!

Uncle Scott and Lu.

Ada enjoying Maz and Papa

Will in the backyard chillin' in his car with his freshly bought walkie talkie.  Lucy and Will entertained themselves all night with these gadgets (and the occasional trucker talk coming through).

Triple Baptism- May 16

Big day- all three babes baptized by dad.  We haven't waited this long to baptize babies before, but we thought it would be great if Nate could baptize Ada.  It was a wonderful day.

I didn't have enough hands, so we had  my dad hold Henry and Nate's dad hold Molly- it was special to have them up there with me.





None of the babes cried- a little shocked, but no tears

(doesn't Henry look so cute perched up there?)

                                     Here are the grandmas at the after baptism party with Molly.

We're here!

We made it! We are here relaxing in Florida, and we really are relaxing, it's great!

Occupying our Children at the Hospital

The kids have come to the hospital with Maz and Papa everyday. They have been really sweet and love Ada so much already. Will is always saying, "Me hold baby Ada now?" He is also very concerned that Ada always has her pacifier and is curious about what everything in the hospital room does, "what dis doos?" Lucy came to the hospital with her baby doll and didn't put her down the whole time and was very concerned that her baby gets enough food. When I had a baby, she had a baby too I guess. Introducing the two of them to their new sister has been such a delight. When they start getting antsy we have found a couple things to entertain them. Papa and Nate take the kids to have wheelchair races, need I say, they love them (Maz went to document)! I'm surprised they haven't gotten kicked out of the hospital yet. Lucy and Will also play in the cupboard in our room, "where'd Lucy go?" and such.