St Lucy's Feast Day!

Every year on Dec. 13, (St Lucy's Feast Day), us kids get up early to get our beautiful breakfeast ready and then to wake up Daddy, Mom, and Grammy by coming into their rooms and singing "Christ Be Our Light". This year Cecilia and Rose were St Lucy. We always have coffee cake, eggs, orange juice, tea or coffee and fruit. Besides tea parties it is the only time we use the china! Pray for us St. Lucy!

And one more thing.....

Ben has finally started to talk! He has been saying, "da da" for a long time but two days ago he started to say, "what" and then yesterday he started saying, "and that" and "daddy"! It is so cute! We are all trying to get him to say, "ma ma" but he isn't saying it yet!

Random moments

These are just a bunch of random fall pictures. But since I never got around to posting them I just threw them all together. Included are a couple of pictures of a hay ride that we went on with a bunch of friends.

Thanksgiving!

We had a very nice thanksgiving at Aunt Lorrie and Uncle Fred's house! The first picture is of John, Grandad, Cecilia and me playing Rummy together. Then the last picture is Rose dressed up in the armor. She was extremely cute!
Anyway, our thanksgiving was wonderful!
Thanks Aunt Lorrie and Uncle Fred!

Grammy Moves In!

In the middle of November Grammy McDonnell moved in with us! It has been very enjoyable with her here! Welcome Grammy! The first picture is of us playing rummy the first night she was here! Then the last three pics are of her cloud bedroom!

November Birthdays!

At the beginning of November I celebrated my thirteenth birthday with the Anthony family. It was a lot of fun!
And then on November 25th Max had his sixth birthday. When he was at the store to find a theme, he asked for a Jesus birthday. And he wanted to get dressed up as a priest and say mass at the party.
His homily was very cute and included messages like, "Children should obey your parents... people need to be nice to other people," and stuff like that.

All in all we had two great birthdays!

Halloween!

Now I know this a little late but, on Halloween we had a princess,(Rose), dragon, (Max), pirate,( John Paul), masquerade person, (Cecilia) and woodland fairy, (me).
Max's dragon costume had a flashlight in the mouth and red cellophane that looked like he was breathing fire in the dark.

We went to our good friends the McLain's and trick or treated in there neighborhood.

One Crazy Fall!

I have been trying to post more. But with moving, and school, I have been really busy.
So I am going to try and post things in the order of when they happened!

Our little Walker!

Ben is really a good baby! But over this past weekend he has learned how to climb up on chairs and tables. He LOVES the computer and so we have to put the key board up high and pull away the chair. He has also suddenly realized that he can feed himself and that he does NOT like it when you feed him. He has to feed himself or he screams! The last thing I will say is that he also loves the phone. So we let him play with our old phone. He holds up to his ear and talks in his little baby language! He is really cute!

Family Biking Adventure

A few weeks ago we went to the park and went on a bike ride! Max stayed behind with our dad at the playground and played baseball. But the rest of us biked three whole miles! It was a lot of fun!

Packing Up!

We were all super excited to start packing! Our first job was the family room books. It was fun and sad to pack away all the books. The task was accomplished quickly and we have since then packed just about my whole room, just about the rest of the family room. A lot of Cecilia's room and are just about done with the boys room.

Wall of Boxes

I am so sorry for ignoring the blogs for so long. But with all this crazy moving stuff and cleaning and packing, I just haven't had time.














When we first got the boxes John Paul got the very cool idea of making a wall of them.








John Paul proudly showing off his wall.