Happy Thanksgiving!!!

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. We had a great time at Greg's parents house. Greg's uncles, aunts and cousins come every year (this year we were short two cousins). We celebrate Christmas at Thanksgiving so I have a few pictures from the opening of presents. I forgot my camera but Greg's uncle is a great photographer and had his camera... i took a few pics from his camera but he is going to send me a disc of all the pics!!!! There are some really good ones of Caroline.Greg's parents, sister, and me!

Birthday Girl

I can not believe it but my baby is now four years old. Where has the time gone? We celebrated her birthday on Saturday. We had the party at her gymnastics place. The kids and adults had a great time. We had around 11 kids come play with us. It was a lot of fun but the present opening was a bit chaotic. I will need to be more stern next year with a few more rules:)

The first ones to arrive are sitting quietly listening to the rules. Hannah, Caroline, and Bryn.

Greg just threw Nicholas into the foam pit... as you can see from the expressions it was fun for all! The gym had two employees there to keep things from getting too crazy. They enjoyed hanging out in the foam pit with the kids as well as one mom is in there too.

Greg swinging like Tarzan over the girls. Hannah is hiding while Rebekah watches all that is going on:)


Caroline is jumping into the foam pit... this was the highlight for all the kids I think.

Four separate trampolines for everyone to jump on.

We practiced blowing out the candles and Caroline did a great job. She was able to blow them all out this year.
Had to play with and put on all our new stuff, when we got home from the party. Yes it is 64 degrees inside but she wanted to wear her new leotard and rain boots.
Birthday morning. We took this picture this morning before going to church. Today is her actual birthday and we have a tradition where we are supposed to wake the birthday person up by singing and bringing presents to them in bed... well Caroline got out of bed before we did so we told her to go back to bed and as we walked to her room we could hear her giggling... she was so excited when we got to her room to open more presents. I even let her have birthday cake for breakfast... but then she had to eat oatmeal... had to have some nutrition before church.

Big Helper

Caroline found a new place to play/nap. I did not think it was big enough for her but she found a way to fit inside our bench. We usually keep blankets in there.

Caroline's friend Jackson came over while his mommy went grocery shopping with Addi. Caroline had a great time playing with Jackson. As you can see below she fixed his hair... which he tolerated for a while. Caroline loves to play with hair and fix everyone's hair.

They also laid on the couch while Caroline watched a movie. Jackson watched Caroline. He originally was sitting up but Caroline thought he would be more comfortable laying down... so she every so gently pushed him back. You will also notice his belly is showing... Caroline later worked hard to try and pull his shirt down to cover his belly while he was laying down. So cute!