Saturday, December 20, 2008

Hello everyone,

Here are the rest of the pictures from Thanksgiving weekend. Just in time, too, as we have more pictures to share from Deuce and Lili's school Christmas program, Bug's school program and our Christmas with T.L., J.A. and the girls. They will be spending Christmas with J.A.'s family and then we will all see them the Saturday after Christmas for a party at the home of Grandpa's sister and her family. Busy times, lots of pictures and lots of fun!


Daddy holding Smidge who is wearing a sleeper that Bean used to wear! That is Bean telling secrets to Deuce in the background!

More of Daddy and Smidge.

Bean and Deuce waiting for their turn to get ready for bed.
A squeaky clean Fess after her bath.

Still more of Smidge with her daddy. She likes the camera!
More Daddy and Smidge with Grandma in the background holding Zoo, wearing his VERY little boy sports jammies!

Smidge with Mommy playing by Grandma's door mirror. As you can tell by the little hand prints, the little ones really like to play by the mirror!

More Smidge! Her hair looks really light here. Maybe a blondie?

What a little cutie! She is such a happy baby!

Since they can't be here for Christmas cookie decorating, we decided to do some early!

Hard at work and so very creative!

Grandma is the designated froster while the girls do the REAL decorating!

And, of course, there MUST be eating of Christmas cookies!

Smidge in her caterpillar sleep sack!

She is happy to be toasty warm AND to have Mommy holding her!

Getting her diaper changed.
All dry and ready to go!


We had a very fun time with everyone. Smidge has a little separation anxiety, so it took a while for her to come to Grandma. We had a lot of fun together, though, especially when she could see her mommy or daddy!

I hope you are all enjoying the holiday season and NOT stressing over gifts and food and whatever! Remember the REAL reason for THIS season! His Name is JESUS:

John 3:16-17 (AMP)
16For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life.
17For God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge (to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence on) the world, but that the world might find salvation and be made safe and sound through Him.

God so loves YOU! And don't you ever forget it!!!

Shalom in Him,

Robin

Monday, December 15, 2008

Hi everyone,

Here are some more of the Thanksgiving pictures. One more posting after this and we should have all of them posted! Then it will be time for
Christmas pictures!!! After T and Fenori left to have Thanksgiving dinner with T's family, we went with T.L., J.A. and the girls to the Elementary School play ground to play. Here are the pics from that trip:


The Smidge is all bundled up to go for a car (actually, it's a van!) ride!

Bean was excited about the play gound!

Bug wanted to check out the tire swing!

Bean on the "Balance Beam"!

Bug and Bean on this bouncy apparatus!

Bug liked riding on the horse.
Bean was on the frog here.
Bug wanted her turn on the frog!

Grandma trying to stay warm while pushing them up and down in the airplane.

Grandpa riding on the dinosaur with Bug.

J.A. with Smidge in the baby swing!

Grandma doesn't do spinning rides, but Bean looks like she's having fun!

Bug does, too, but she DOES look cold!

J.A. and Smidge, looking toasty in that pink snowsuit!

Another turn on the spinning thing for Bean and Bug. I'm out of here!!!

Daddy seems to be giving them a spin while I take pictures!

Bean does a pretty good job on these bars.

Bug climbing while Grandma tries to stay warm!

An extremely cute pose for the Bug!

And the Bean is upside down!

Bug at the bottom of the slide.

Bean holding Smidge.

Smidge covering Bean!


We always have a great time when they come for a visit! The rest of the pictures are from we got home and there are a lot of Smidge pics!

Have a most blessed week!

Shalom in Him!

Robin

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Hello everyone,

Here are some more of the Thanksgiving weekend pictures that we took.


Zoo having fun in the play room. All those toys and he had more fun with this!

Bean was the Champion of the Memory game she played with Grandma!

Zoo discovering the Pooh poster!
Grandma and Zoo playing Crazy Eights with Bean.

Zoo loved the chalkboard, too.

"Look Grandma, I'm writing, too"!

And he's writing some more here.

Daddy showing Smidge the Christmas tree.

NOW she sees the tree!

Smidge is wearing a dress that Bean wore when she was a baby!

Starting to decorate the Christmas tree.

Time for popcorn and a movie! They watched "Polar Express"! Here is Jessi, Bean, Deuce, Lili and Bug.

The Smidge loves her mommy AND Tigger!

Tigger gets a very big smile.

Watching a movie and eating frozen "Gogurt".

Lili, Bug, Bean, Deuce and Fess enjoying the treat.

And then there was Zoo with his favorite blanket just chillin' with Grandma!


We always decorate our Christmas tree on Thanksgiving night and watch Christmas movies or play games. It was a very fun weekend! T and Fenori went to have a belated Thanksgiving dinner with T's family on Saturday, so the rest of the pictures are of the time we spent with T.L., J.A. and the girls. I'll share those in a few days.

Remember to stay thankful ALWAYS for all of the good people, places, things and events in YOUR life! And remember WHERE every good thing comes from:

James 1:17 (Amplified Bible)
17Every good gift and every perfect (free, large, full) gift is from above; it comes down from the Father of all [that gives] light, in [the shining of] Whom there can be no variation [rising or setting] or shadow cast by His turning [as in an eclipse].

Shalom in Him,

Robin