Tuesday, January 22, 2013

10 Year Anniversary

Mike and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary last week.  It is really hard to believe that we have been married that long!!   Looking forward to many more, Lord willing.  Here is a look back at our past 10 years.

2003

2003

2004

2004

2005

2005

2006

2006

2007

2007

2008

2008

2009

2009

2010

2010

2011

2011

2012

2012

2013 – this may have technically been in 2012, but close enough. =)

2013

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

A little more Christmas

I have a lot of pictures from Christmas, but they all kind of look the same, so I’m not going to post them.  I do, however, want to post a few pictures of the kids opening their gifts from Mike’s VERY GENEROUS “Bloomington Bosses” as the kids call them.  Thank you so very much for your continued generosity toward our family!!! 

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Creighton opening his gifts – He has played with the orange Elmo letter game every single day since they gave it to him.  =)

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Lincoln opening his gifts – the guitar gets MUCH use.  =)

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Kate and her gifts – Kate has spent a lot of time coloring her new bag

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Family Night – Dinner at Culver’s and then on to the Festival of Lights

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Creighton LOVES to read books and I’m thankful that Kate and Lincoln are usually willing to read to him when I can’t. 

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Spiderman and Wonder Woman

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We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!!

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Hiding Out

Creighton is quite the character.  He is sneaky as can be, mixed with curious and adventurous, creative, and …we often refer to him as our own little Curious George.  =)  He keeps us laughing, that is for sure. 

Creighton LOVES chocolate.  We had made chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast and told him not to eat the chips out, but to eat the whole thing.  He tried to hide from us so we couldn’t see him eating just the chips. =)

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This lil’ dolly hates to be laying down or in the bouncy seat.  Thankfully, she will lay in her swing and is strong enough to sit in the bumbo seat already, which she loves!

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Lincoln continues to love holding his sister.

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Christmas Celebrations

I can’t remember what the kids were doing here….

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We were grateful to be able to celebrate Christmas with Mike’s Grandma Rassi at the nursing home.  She turns 95 this week!! 

A few pictures of the kids acting out the story of Christmas.  Anya was baby Jesus, Kate was the Angel, Gabriel, and Lincoln was a Wise Man. 

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Grandma gave each of the Great Grandchildren a pillow with a unique pillowcase.

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Lincoln swiped the camera for awhile.  =)

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Playing games during a bit of downtime between Christmas’s. 

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Some snapshots from Christmas at Grams and Popsy’s.

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Pictures before the kids’ program at church

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