Happy Thanksgiving!

A quick photo before church...

 After church, I let them open one present each since the presents were Christmas movies (and we would therefore want to watch them before Christmas).  They have been so excited to open these DVDs since I wrapped them.  I think they liked the cute Mickey boxes that they came with:).

For lunch, we just had to go upstairs:).  Before dinner was ready, Layla politely sat waiting at the table.

The boys have way too much energy to just sit and wait for dinner, so they played until dinner was ready:).

Harper and Greta...

 At  night we got together with Joe's family in a church gym.  It's always great to see his cousins and the kids of course loved running around!

 Last year on Thanksgiving, cousin Paula and I were about ready to pop and sat there uncomfortably watching everyone else play games.  It makes me cringe to think of how swollen I was that week! I looked pretty terrible! Thankfully Greta arrived the next day:).  It's cute now to see these cuties together.  They've changed a lot in a year!  I'm a little sad that Greta is a year old already, but I'm very glad to not be at that pregnant stage anymore:).

 

Happy Birthday Harper!!

Our sweet little niece Harper turned 1 today!  She sure has grown a lot in the past year!

We love Harpityhoo and it has been so fun watching her and Greta interact more and more the bigger they get.  Harper started crawling now too so her and Greta can now get into trouble together:).

Souvenirs

My dad and Joyce got home a bit ago from a trip to the Netherlands and Paris and brought home some souvenirs for the kids.  I thought it'd be goot to document some of this type of stuff so that the kids some day will know where these items came from.  Her dress is from Paris and the little Dutch kids are obviously from the Netherlands:).  They each got little Eiffle Tower keychains and Greta got a little Holland bear (the shirt the bear is wearing looks similar to Gibs').  I thought they looked pretty cute in their new clothes:).

Couldn't Resist

I found a few Disney costumes the other day for 90% off so I couldn't resist.

 

Layla loved hers and then wanted Greta to wear a Minnie costume too (Greta was borrowing it from Maddy when I had thought of having her be Minnie for Halloween).

 Woody and Minnie!

 And although I sold almost all of Elv's costumes at the garage sale last year (sorry, but now that we have kids, our dog doesn't really need a new costume every year.  Sorry Elv), I couldn't resist this one since it was so cheap...

Late Summer Pics

We did family pictures with my side of the family in early September.  Again, You By Julie did a great job:). 

 

Hopefully you can tell by who is in each family based on their shirt color:).  We almost had an issue with two families wearing the same color, that would have been a bit confusing:). 

 

 Worked out well that Greta had just turned 9 months, so we quick snuck a few "9 month" pics in...

  

 Not the greatest, but it'll work as our Christmas card pic this year...

And one of Grampy and Gigi...

Summer Pics

You By Julie also did a great job on these pics!  These were for Greta and Harper's 6 month pics (Layla had just turned 4, Gibs was almost 2 1/2 and Gavin was almost 5).

Spring Pics

I never post the kids professional pics, so I thought I'd so that now.  Better late than never, right? :)

You By Julie always does a great job!!  These are Greta's 4 month, Gibs' 2 year and Layla's 4 year.