Christmas in Colusa

Twas the night before Christmas and I found all kids sleeping in our bed:).

From Karen's camera. . 

Sisters. . .

Aunt K set up a salon for the kids:). 

Uncle Luke and Aunt Erin's house for dinner! 

Grace is FIVE!

Grace was excited and talking about her birthday for about six months before it happened! And so it was very fun to actually arrive at her big day! First she got to have a party with some of her friends, then we celebrated her actual birthday.

Pretty party dresses from Aunt Kelly! 

Professional pics. . . .

Over the past couple months, we have had three sets of professional pictures taken!  My friend offered to take pictures of Annie after she was born, we had my friend Missy take family pictures of us at the St. John's bridge, and Will and Karen had someone take pictures at Bill and Maureens.  Below are some of the pics from the photo shoots!


My friend Andy took pictures of Annie and the kids when Annie was about 7 weeks old.  

Then my friend Missy's pictures. . . 

This is at the end of the photo shoot, and the kids were done at this point:).  Will is jumping,  and the girls are freezing! But it's really cool of the bridge:). 

And at Maureen and Bill's... . . 

FALL

I have a bunch of random pictures from this fall! From the pumpkin patch, to soccer, to Thanksgiving, to our overnight adventure with my mom.  Below are some of the highlights.

Fun with Louisa and Teddy at Daisy's first birthday party!

Going down /up the big slide at the random play structure near our house. 

I almost hate to put a picture of us at McDonalds, but the play area is so fun for the kids! 

Walking in our old neighborhood on Thurman.  The trees were so pretty!

My mom was a trooper and had a sleep over with Grace and Will! 

Thanksgiving at the Kessis

They got to watch the Peter Pan musical! It was so fun because they never watch movies!

Halloween

We had a great Halloween! The kids were so excited, and we had probably more fun getting ready for the big night, then  trick or treating! 

For some reason, they were cracking up during dinner!

Action shot:).

So much fun!

The day after Halloween.  .

I was a little nervous for the day after Halloween,given their stashes of candy! But I think the candy worked in our favor because they were super excited to eat it, and had so much energy, that they wanted to be outside running and playing all afternoon!

Grace and Will played with the neighbor kids for 45 minutes on their own, which was awesome! And then I took them to a farm where they played on a haystack for an hour! I was so grateful for an awesome day!

Grateful for haystack mazes:). 

Annie and I just watched them run around!