pictures - 01/09

Pictures finally!
Dec 1 - Levi
watching tv

whip cream!

Dec 7 - Levi helping with dishes

Dec 31 - Happy New Year!
We had fondue for dessert
watched a movie, with chips and treats.
then the kids popped crackers and "toasted" the new year
(at 10pm... with sparkling apple juice!)

I still need to get the kids' Christmas pictures, and shots from Christmas Eve and morning up!
But in the meantime there are videos from the Christmas Concert - on Dec 21st. Enjoy!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year - 01/06

Welcome to 2012! Sorry it's been such a long time between posts - things got very busy for us through December... haven't slowed down much yet, really. I have a bunch of new pictures to post and some videos from the Christmas Concert. I'll try to get them uploaded in the next few days and will post again when I do.
For now we're all well and enjoying the break. Unfortunately everyone goes back to school and work on Monday. I'm not sure if that will slow us down or not!

a bunch of pictures! - 11.21

The past couple months... in pictures!

Zech had his 7th birthday on Oct 16th! As always, we had cupcakes for dessert after a supper of his choosing that night.

We had his birthday party the following Sunday (23rd). Some of his friends came over. We had a fire in the field across the field, roasted hot dogs for supper, and had cake and presents.

The day before halloween the kids made their jack-o-lanterns. Normally we do one for each, but this year I wasn't touching pumpkin guts! So, Josh opted for 2 pumpkins for everyone.

Ruthie made a vampire.

The boys made a zombie.

We all went out for Halloween and did this side of town. Then Isaac, Levi, Josh and I came home while Ruth and Zech went to do the other side of town with some friends.
Ruthie - vampire

Zech and Isaac - pirates

Levi - Yoda

Ruthie's 9th birthday was on Nov 9th! Once again, cupcakes and gifts after a supper of her choosing that night.

On the 11th Ruthie had 2 friends over to play video games (Josh set up the projector on the wall in the playroom), and for supper and cake.

And in amongst those pictures, a few of Levi just playing around the house.
sweeping the carpet?

playing cars with the kitten

eating cheerios - don't you hate it when this happens?

That's all for now. Hopefully I'll be able to post more often from now on!

gotta get better from here - 11/18

Wow. Sorry it's been so long since I last updated here. We've had a lot of things happen in the past month - Zech's 7th birthday and party, Halloween, Josh's 31st (!!) birthday (no party yet though), Ruthie's 9th birthday and party... and we found out we're expecting #5 in June! Told ya, a lot has happened! Pictures have been taken, but haven't come off the camera just yet. Hopefully this weekend.
As if all that wasn't enough, we had a heck of a week. Isaac had gotten sick on Nov 1st - we weren't sure if it was a bug or too much candy, but there's something going around town (school, day care, nursery school, and Josh's school) so we figured it was that. Everyone else seemed in the clear... until I got sick Monday night. It continued all through the night and Tuesday morning - Josh took a sick day for me. Wednesday all was back to normal, until Josh got sick that night, continued all day yesterday. Obviously he stayed home, and again today as he was still sick into the night last night.
Levi caught the bug as well, though he didn't have any vomiting, but diarrhea instead - which has caused a very bad, very painful, diaper rash for him. Poor little guy. He seems to be feeling better today, and after some cream and tylenol last night the rash looks a bit better.
We're assuming this is the same bug Isaac had, so he should be in the clear. And I'm hoping Ruth and Zech get passed over. But I'm not holding my breath!

Happy Thanksgiving - 10/11

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! We had a nice weekend, doing nothing at all. The kids only got dressed to go outside to play, we didn't leave home for anything. Now it's back to work and school for everyone. I think Levi is happy - yesterday morning after breakfast he was standing at the window saying "bye isaac". Apparently he's gotten used to 2 day weekends and back to school!
No real news or new pictures, we're all just busy. Zech's birthday is coming up on Sunday - we were thinking about having his party that day, but I think we'll do it the following Sunday instead. Gives us a bit more time to get everything ready. This week is busy enough - with kids' activities, Josh going to Winnipeg on Thursday for school, and then he has a fundraiser thing on Saturday all day - it's a video game thing, at the school, so Zech will be going along. We'll probably go in the afternoon to join in for a bit. But with all that happening, we don't really have time to get to town to get things ready and gifts bought. He's not upset about waiting till the following week though.