Christmas of 2011...I will catch up from here, and then it truly is a fresh page for us as there would be tooooo much to catch up since where I really should. So for Christmas, we had my entire family here to celebrate with us in Chicago. So much fun!!! It went all too fast with many highs and well, a big low of Greta breaking her leg on our trampoline. :-( So sorry, Greta!!! With so many people and fun going on, there was hardly time to grab the camera a snap our happiness, but here are some pics.
Elsa feeding Eliana. Elsa is so cute and very into babies, so she enjoyed being the older kid for once and loved talking/playing/feeding our "baby" Eliana.
Ah, one of the truly few pictures of the kids as this was the night before Greta broke her leg and then the camera really did stop. Here are the kids playing on our new Wii game of Just Dance. The kids really liked this both big and small...we don't have pictures of the big kids aka the adults, playing, but trust me, it was a blast! I can't hear "Cotton Eye Joe" and not think of this moment!
My Mom and Dad were the first to come out to Chicago. This was taken on Christmas day, right after church...can you tell that the kids were done with pictures and church clothes?! Just look at Eva...her picture really catches a slice of the energy she had that day! Baby was fussy, Ariana is done, Regan is telling her just one more picture like Mom and Dad keep saying, my Dad is laughing, and my Mom is glazed over as this was the 8th picture we tried to capture....ah the joys!
Here we are...the best of our pictures... :-)So...we have fallen behind on the blogging wagon. Last time I remember posting, I was trying to catch up from the kids' last day of school...yikes! So with it being a new year...and the last day of January, I thought I would start a fresh page and start posting to catch our lives before the kids are gone off to college... :-) Ryan and I have been talking a lot about how in 5 years, Maile will be off to some university...EESH! Five years is not a very long time and since our kids are close together in age, it will be one after the other. It is a very sobering thought for us indeed. Where did the time go?! I find myself staring at Maile frequently and thinking, "I'm not ready!!!" It seemed like just yesterday we moved here and had our favorite babysitter, Katie Berns, who had just turned 12...and now she is well into her college years! How did this happen?! So, I will try to document our lives more in a simple way to catch the moments that we have at our current season in life.
