[Snow Day]

A few inches of snow to play in!

And fun cousins to play with!

I had to go out and check on my little girl

who was thinking she was so BIG playing outside with her cousins.

A 1-2-3 Baby Shower

We had a baby shower for the triplets last Thursday afternoon with delish food, fellowship and lots of generous guests!
We had the shower help bring all different kinds of dips, spreads and sauces!
Yum I could of just stood by the table all afternoon!

The cream cheese spread had a secret ingredient..... of Mango!

.....Could any one tell?

The babies tired from all the activity and ready to go home

1~2~3

Thank you Lord for wonderful friends and family who helped with food ,

and gave gifts for these 3 beautiful creations from YOU!

{California Christmas}

Ready to head to the Airport

Arabella was quite pleased with her new baby & back pack from Grandma & Grandpa Boone

Good as Gold...... OK, this is still in the first 5 minutes of our flight.

My dear friend Ruth in her beautiful store Fleur de Lis

I will share more pictures of her store in it's Christmas finest later along with another adorable shop called Laura Bell's soon.

We got the opportunity to spend the evening with Jeff. Tara. Casey & Kate They are like a second family to me. I started babysitting for this family before Kate was born.

WOW time flies now Casey is in High school!

My dearest friend Genesis from High School with her sweet Baby Julia

Table ready for our Christmas dinner @ my parents

Leah's many talents{beautiful wreath}

Our lively dinner table

Beautiful packages all ready to share

Cousins

Orrin & Jared

Bella & Maria

u.V & a.A.'s gift was a hit with the children

One evening A. Leah was enjoying some tea, Arabella wanted to join her...

yumm

The sun was setting just as we were getting to the bird refuge

Me,Marylis, Amanda,Leah

A. Leah is the best!

Thank you for having us allllllll over your house.

Did you get it all back together!? Hopefully!

We love you!

Beautiful Pacific Coast pictures still to come

Ohio Christmas

We had Christmas @ Thane's parents early, before we left for California.

All of our stockings ready to fill
Finally after a couple of years I got around to making 2 stockings(supposed to be 4 but...) for Arabella & Orrin

The triplets of course were at Grandma's

The boxes are always seem more fun than what is inside!

Sweet Little M

So fun to be with cousins!

The night before we left for California our little family shared our gifts in the kitchen!?......

the carpet and couch were drying in the living room

(the ink came out YAY)
We just gave our children little stocking surprises this year. They receive so much around this time of year that we try not to overload them with so much more.

I was talking to a friend about this once and she shared what her family does. After they have given gifts to one another they then have each child pick out one of their new gifts to then be given to needy children. A hard thing for a child to do yet a wonderful lesson that we need to give our best to God and His people( all people are His people, He is just waiting on them to Choose HIM). I would love to implement this for our little family next year.

Thrilled with her new jump rope

our little cool man