gifts from Santa!

the girls were extremely excited for Christmas morning. They couldn't stand to wait for their father to go downstairs and their papa to get upstairs and see what Santa left them!

Princess Bed Tents

Both the girls got princess bed tents for Christmas and let me tell you they were the hi-light of the night! All three kids love them and of course Maddie had to take Kristen straight upstairs to get inside!

Gift exchange with the Sigler Family

We don't usually buy for friends, but the Sigler Family has really become a huge part of our family is really more like family to us now. Their boys are so awesome to our kids and we really enjoy being a part of things with them. The came over Christmas eve night a did a gift exchange with us. All the gifts were so awesome this year, you could tell we all put a lot of effort into getting stuff for one another that was truly a meaningful gift! Tiffany FINALLY got scrabble, thank you Kristen.

WE decided this year we were going to bake for Christmas. WE had friends over on Christmas eve and spent the entire day baking. It was a total blast, we only had one disaster but was able to fix it. I am sure we all gained weight just by making the stuff we did! But oh was it a yummy Christmas eve!

thank you to our awesome friends who spent such a fun day with us. Our neighbors were very happy as well!

Natalia finally gets her first haircut!

We have been holding out FOREVER on getting Natalia's hair cut, but finally came to the point her hair was so out of control it didn't look nice anymore. Kristen convinced us to take her in and get her hair trimmed. We ended up with the nicest women who has a three year old at home, so she totally was awesome with Nat. She trimmed all the baby hair off so her hair would be even and left her look like such a big kid!

just plain silly

We have such a good time with the kids. They are alwasy doing something to make us laugh.



Is it possible to have a LONGER tongue???




Alexander suddenly was determined to go to sleep on his fathers feet while he was working.

Nat's last day at MPS

John an dI have choosen to take Nat out of MPS and enroll her into Bethel. This is due to the time consumption required by me in the classroom. We also from day one really wanted to have her in a biblical school. But we gave the whole co-op thing a try, unfortunately it just didn't work out for us. These are pictures from her last day at MPS.

Ms. Amanda explaing to the class