Caleb's Baby Blessing

We had a wonderful experience on Sunday as Caleb was blessed by his dad.  Thank you to all our family that made the trip up to see us.  For those of you that were not able to come up, we missed you and look forward to seeing you soon.

Santa with Cousins

On Saturday we got to visit with Santa and get a pictures with our Clark cousins.  Caleb was such a good baby, just sleeping through the whole thing. :D

Lily's Dance Performance

Lily had a dance performance on Saturday at the Festival of Trees. She did a great job and had a lot of fun on stage. We are looking forward to her recital next week.

Here's her dance!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a nice thanksgiving with the Wolfe family.  The prep was a little stressful since I have never done a turkey, or cranberry sauce, or yams, or green bean casserole, but with some great help from Katie and Randy and Tommy, we made a delicious thanksgiving dinner.

I also made these cute turkey shirts for my kids and their cousins.

Yes, Caleb had been crying... maybe because he couldn't find his other sock?

We had a nice weekend of football and family.  Isaac loved his "bompa time" on the couch watching football. :D


Lily says:
"I love the new turkey shirt my mom made me. And I loved the pumpkin pie. Katie and Randy did a wonderful job on the pumpkin pie. I had fun playing tigers with my cousin Tyler. I loved when Grandma Shauna played with me. She was always there for me. And Grandma Lanie gave me a Christmas pillow case with kitties on it. How did she know those are my favorite? And my mom is so smart. She is just the best mom in the world."

Yep, she really said all that. :D

Lily's First Voice Recital

Last night Lily had her first singing recital at a retirement home.  About an hour before we were supposed to be there she started feeling really sick.  She had a sore throat and a little head ache.  She was pretty sad and didn't want to miss her recital so we gave her some medicine, said a prayer together, and hoped for the best.  Well, by the time we stopped at the store to get some throat drops for her she was feeling better and her spirits were high.  We were so grateful our prayer was answered so quickly and that Lily was able to go and sing.

She sang two songs, "The Tree" and "Castle on a Cloud".  We were soo proud of her.  After her recital she walked around the room and introduced herself to all the sweet elderly people.  They sure loved that.  She made so many people smile and she really felt good inside.

Enjoy these videos!

Snowing!

A most interesting spelling

Lily has been writing notes and spelling words all on her own like crazy lately.  Today she wrote this word:

kweschjon

Very good job sounding out each sound in that word!  Now, what's your question?

A Fun Thanksgiving Project

This week I got together with a couple friends and we each made this "give thanks" banner. I love how it turned out. I also made this cute Thanksgiving turkey shirt for Lily. It just needs a face and feet added with embroidery thread. Here's a link to the tutorial.

Here are my cute kids last Sunday.  Isaac got so many complements on what a cute little man he is with his suit jacket and tie like his daddy.  He was pretty happy about wearing them.

The Perfect Fall Day

We had wonderful fall weather this past week and on Saturday we got outside for a little bit to enjoy the last of it before the cold hit.  The kids had a fun time raking and playing in the leaves and I enjoyed just watching them and taking a few pictures.

 

Caleb has started being more observant to his surroundings.  Yesterday he was watching his swing mobile so intently.  Don't let the swing picture fool you though; he still prefers to eat, sleep, and be held. :)

A Good Report

Here is one of Lily's homework pages.  You have to click on it to see it larger.  Tommy thought this was blog worthy...
In the bottom right corner it says, "What about pink and gray?"  He thought that was pretty smart and funny of her to notice, and take note, that there was no pink or gray on the page to practice and color.  That's our little Lily, very perceptive. :D

Today Tommy and I met with Lily's kindergarten teacher for our first ever Parent-Teacher Conference! She got a great report, no surprise to us but happy and proud to hear it. Her teacher is going to give us some reading packets to work on with her at home and she is going to work on more advance math with her at school. She also said Lily is dramatic and sensitive at times, yes, and always a good helper.

A couple days ago I chopped off some of Lily's hair because it was just getting too painful, for her and for me, to brush every day. We both love the new short look!

Here is my little one-month old!

A few more pictures

 Lily with our "Lil' Monster".

I found Isaac in the washer swinging back and forth.  Wonder where he got such a crazy idea!  He thought it was a pretty fun ride.  Good thing his sister didn't close the door and put him on the spin cycle!