Thanksgiving '09

We have a lot to be thankful for this year - both big and small things but we're especially thankful to be proud parents, healthy, employed, and to have great family and friends. To those of you we see on a regular basis; we love you! To those of you we're not able to see as often as we like; we love you, miss you, and hope to see you soon! To all of you - we hope you had a great Thanksgiving! Here are some pics from our day that started with brunch for Grandma Myrt and Grandma Sharon and ended at Corie's house with round two of delicious turkey, dressing, and all the trimmings....including Toni's first ever pie!

Kate Turns 4!

Wow...it is hard to believe that 4 years ago today I gave birth to Katelin Lily! After over 3 hours of straight pushing without a working epidural, she finally decided to meet her parents. She weighed in at 7 lbs 11 oz and 19 inches long. Oh, and her head was in the 95th percentile! That I do remember ;)

It has been so fun to watch her grow into such a fun, smart, and caring little girl. She continues to amaze us each day with the things she says and does. Tonight I was asking the girls what they were going to tell Santa they wanted for Christmas when they see him. Annie was talking about princesses and Snow White and Kate said all she wanted to tell Santa was that she loved him! Aaahhhh :) She is definitely our sensitive and caring one. She takes such good care of Annie too. The past three school mornings she has woken Annie up, took her to the bathroom, changed her pull-up, got her and Annie dressed all before they come into our bedroom! What an amazing little helper she can be...when she wants to! ;)

Yesterday we celebrated her birthday with a family party at our house. Kate had an absolute fabulous time opening and playing with all her new toys! Annie did too of course (even if she had been in time-out 5 times that day before the party even began!) Thank you everyone for making her day so special. Today we let her pick her restaurant of choice for her birthday dinner. No surprise that she chose Chipotle! Her teacher gave her a birthday cake crown to wear and she proudly wore it singing "I'm the Birthday Girl" everywhere she went! Speaking of school, she will be joining the Rainbows class at school too now and will be back in with all her little girlfriends!

We will also be celebrating her birthday with her first kid's party in December. Wow, has that been interesting to plan. That will be a post all by itself in a few weeks :)

Below are some pics of her birthday party we took yesterday. Happy Birthday Katelin! Mom, Dad, and Anners love you very much!!!!

Dancing Queen

Annie had her second in-school dance show yesterday but it was the first one she actually danced at! The first one consisted of Annie sitting on mom and dad's lap with face buried in our chests while the rest of her class hopped and danced around the room. Not this time..Annie stole the show! Check it out!

Preston!!

This is long overdue but we're getting around to editing and posting some videos....as you may notice by the other recent posts. Here are Kate and Annie so happy to be gently holding their new cousin Preston after his Baptism in August!

August Magic Show

A little slow getting this one posted but prepare yourself for the debut performances from Kate The Magician and Annie The Magician Conductor!

Happy Halloween!

Boo!

Well there weren't any ghosts here this year but there were two cute princesses! Check us out with our pumpkins AFTER we had been out trick or treating for several hours.....which means we were hopped up on sugar for this picture! Look at those smiles!