Sis' BIG day!

Sis has waited patiently for her time...

December 11, 2010 was her BIG Day!!!

Everything went smoothly, everything was perfect, and she looked beautiful!

Congrats Sis and Chris!

Rehearsal dinner at Fricanos. Taylie tagged along with the

wedding party for feeding reasons :)

This was our ride in. They look excited don't they?

The van was full with 5 kids, and somehow we

hardly heard a peep out of any of them. (thanks to Parent Trap)

Wish I had more pictures, but my dad took a LOT so I at least get some of his! :)

Here comes Santa Claus!

Last night was Christmas in Colon. Area churches, restaurants, stores, offices, gas stations, and pharmacy had various things going on. We went to a cookie walk, got free hot cider, doughnuts, appetizers, signed up for drawings and got our family picture taken. Then they closed down the street for the parade. Small town means SMALL parade. This was the longest they've had in awhile and it lasted a whole 3 minutes :) After the parade everyone headed to see Santa at the library. Every year Macey and Kelsey have cried when they have seen Santa and this year they were actually really excited to see him and enjoyed sitting on his lap. Macey asked for a Princess oven, and then after Santa mentioned how she looked like Rapunzel with her long hair, she then wanted a Rapunzel dress. Kelsey asked for a jewelery box and a Snow White dress. Taylie was the last to go and she wasn't happy to be on his lap. She stopped crying after a bit but was happy to come back to mom. Hope Santa still brings her something! :)

I brought the smaller cheap camera along for convenience so the pictures are quite blurry.

Keeping the "Santa" idea going is getting harder every year. Mace is full of questions of "Why did Santa have glasses on this year and not last year?" Then we saw Santa at Walmart today as we were shopping and she asked, "Why does this Santa have dark brown boots on and last night he had black boots on? He doesn't have glasses and he's bigger!" Then when watching the video above, she noticed the lady steering the horses and said, "I think we know that lady! Why would she be with Santa?" The questions are endless and I am not doing the best job of answering all of them because she somehow finds a flaw in my answer everytime.

So Thankful

Here are a few things I am so

very thankful for this year:

my husband

my three girls

a healthy Taylie Mae

no more colic/acid reflux

the opportunity to be a stay at home mom

Jason's job

the small town of Colon

our cozy home

good friends & family

coffee

pumpkin pie creamer

our computer

hip2save.com

online shopping

my minivan

heated seats

Amish stores

my camera

slippers

Since Jason had a basketball scrimmage at 6pm, the night before Thanksgiving, we decided to come into Holland in the morning. This year we decided on a bit more relaxed atomosphere with heavy duty paper plates and cups done buffet style. I think the guys were happy to be able to eat in front of the tv and it make a lot less work for us girls to clean up and more time to sit and chat :)

We decided to put up our Christmas tree on Saturday afternoon. The girls could hardly wait this year.

Even Taylie got in on the action.

Posing so nice with their new ornaments from Grammy.

As soon as we got the tree up, Kelsey ran to the window and said, "I don't see the snow. Why isn't it snowing?" She thought that since the tree was up, it was Christmas, and there's suppose to be snow for Christmas. Looks like she will have to wait a bit for the snow.

I am excited to bring out the Christmas music finally! From now until Christmas we will be listening to it while we eating breakfast together every morning. Somehow that became tradition last year and they've been asking for it since summer.

Here's an idea for you! I made these shirts for the girls the other night. I cut the girls' initials/name from some material that I had in the house and just used fabric glue to glue it on some of their old shirts that are normally worn as under shirts for layers. Now they can be worn alone as well! I might start thinking of more things to glue material to to make it unique and more fun.