Her dance recital

Victoria's Christmas Dance

Victoria has started taking dance here and we have had three appearances already! First they were in the Nashville Christmas Parade...at night in 22 degrees! Then they had their recital, and finally they performed at a local nursing home and brought the residents a home made card and ornament. Busy busy busy!

Breakfast with Santa

This was an event we had with POTATO (Parents Of Twins And Triplets Organization) They had Santa and Rudolf there and you were able to take your own pictures. Then we tried to take a group picture....hard to fit when the kids come in two's and three's...Hard to believe that this is just a small portion of the group!

The Grinch on ICE!

We took the kids to How the Grinch Stole Christmas - on ICE at Opryland. It was so neat! Everything was carved out of ice. They gave you these blue ponchos so you wouldn't freeze to death. It was like walking in a meat locker. The kid (Matt included) loved the huge ice slide.

Victoria's Birthday celebration - Part 2

On her birthday we made a cake and opened presents at home. Then we popped popcorn and watched a family movie! The next day, Victoria picked where we were going to eat lunch. She picked out Aquarium Restaurant, which is a very nice place. It has a whole under water theme, complete with a gigantic tank in the middle of the restaurant...big enough that divers have to go in to clean it. It was great and she got a complementary hot fudge sundae to boot!

Victoria's birthday celebrations! - Part 1

When we were home for Thanksgiving, we had a birthday celebration for Victoria. It was nice having most of the family together for her day!

Joseph Wrestling

So Joseph is Wrestling this year. I know, it came as a surprise to us too! I think it has been good for him and he is doing well. It is hard though, trying to figure out how loud I can yell without completely embarassing him since he is now a cool teenager. Also, it is kind of tough seeing your youngin' slung around the mat by some stranger!

Christmas pictures

Here are the Christmas pictures. It took us forever to get all five of them to look in the same direction!

Trick or Treat!

This is Victoria, Jacob and Patrick at the Trunk or Treat at one of the local churches. TOO MUCH CANDY. It might be gone by Christmas!

Joseph... who is too cool for family costumes

Joseph went to the church Youth's Party. Victoria was hoping for him to be the Mad Hatter or White Rabbit, but no such luck. He was the Insane Clown?!?!?

Halloween Pictures

Here they are Alice in Wonderland, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum!

Jacob smiling...Patrick sleeping

This is how my day goes...one wakes up and the other sleeps. Finally get the that one asleep and then the other wakes up.

Victoria steals the camera for a bit

And this is what you get.

First smiles

These aren't really the first smiles, just the first ones caught on camera!

Here are all the kids and their pumpkins! Lots of carving and painting.

Napping with Daddy

When we feed them early in the morning, Matt grabs Patrick because he eats fast and goes back to sleep with daddy!

Joseph....Guns and fishing

One of the reasons Joseph loves going to NC so much! The gun was Poppie's and he caught the fish in a pond behind mom and dad's house.