The Holidays...

Have been busy!! We had a great Christmas. We had most presents wrapped before Christmas eve (thanks to Grandma)so we had a fun night after the kids went to bed because we finally started to watch our "24" collection that Dave bought us last year for Christmas. We used to love this series, but haven't watched it for a really long time. I don't know if it is even on TV anymore, but we have the 1st 5 seasons in our DVD pack. We have stayed up late every night this week watching it after kids are asleep. This is when I usually clean the kitchen, fold laundry, write on this blog etc, so I feel behind in everything. Certainly there is no time for any of these chores with our 6 all at home for 2 weeks. We have had a great break and I'm kind of sad to go back to the craziness of the school schedule. Here are some pictures

Silly girls...we took a lot of walks...

Santa came and brought a lot of presents!

Dave gave rides on the go cart on the Street (no police around on Christmas day, I guess)

And we celebrated this cutie's 5th birtdhay.. Happy Birthday Jonathan!!

Halloween

Halloween really is so fun, isn't it? The getting ready for it this year was busy. Matthew, our dinosaur fanatic, of course wanted to be a dinosaur. I looked EVERYWHERE for one in his size, but the biggest I could find was a 4T. I tried to talk him into many other options, but he wouldn't budge. I found a penguin pattern that I sewed into a dinosaur over the course of two nights (really-all night). I haven't sewn anything for about 4 years, and am very much a beginner. I bet Matthew had 15-20 safety pins holding that thing together as he trick or treated.

So...Michael was an army man, Meg, an angel, Jon was Zorro, Rachel was flower only long enough to take a picture. She couldn't stand the costume on. And then Cinderella and T-Rex. They were so excited.