Sunday, November 29, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving!


We have so many things to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. We have four beautiful and healthy children.


We have wonderful parents who are always willing to help us with whatever we need and whom our children adore. We also have great siblings who indulge our children beyond our wildest dreams!


We also have a great group of friends, most of whom have amazing children who are some of our kids best friends. Life just wouldn't be half as fun without them!

This Thanksgiving was one of my favorite days we've had with our kids. I got to enjoy a quiet early morning with Tate and the babies watching Sesame Street while TJ and Nathan slept-in. Then we turned on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade while TJ made breakfast for me and the kids. It was such fun watching the parade with Nathan and Tate. They were constantly amazed by the floats and the balloons, saying "ooohhh" and "aaaahhh" when they saw their favorite groups or characters. Then we packed everyone up for an afternoon with TJ's family at his dad's house. We enjoyed a yummy dinner with Spahr's and all of our kids fell asleep on the way home and were in bed by 8:3o!!!


Please enjoy these few pics from our day. The picture of the kids is one of the best of the four of them. Thanksgiving also marked the first time our little Lana got to dress up. She wore a pretty dress, headband, tights and patent leather shoes! It's so fun being able to dress a girl after so many boys who love to wear sweatpants, t-shirts and blue jeans!!!

Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Our New Family

We have had an amazing week and a half with our new twins. It hasn't always been easy learning how to take care of twin newborns, a 21 month old, and a 4 year old, but we have been able to enjoy a lot of quality family time since TJ is home from work for the month. Nathan and Tate love their new sister and brother and enjoy trying to help take care of them. They both love feeding the babies and holding them. The babies have even inspired Tate to learn a new word, "babo" for baby, or "babos" for babies. He's not much of a talker, but when one of the babies is crying he'll run over to the pack-n-play and yell "BABOS!" to let me know that they need me. We're very grateful that all of our kids are happy and healthy.