Happy 1st Birthday Garrett!

I can't believe we are already celebrating this little guy's first birthday. I got up and made blueberry pancakes this morning as a birthday treat. Do you think he enjoyed them? There will be more birthday festivities to come in the next couple of days.

I had picked up a kids daily devotional at Lifeway during their Black Friday sale. Jon and the big kids have been reading one every morning during breakfast. After he reads he asks the kids if they have anything they would like him to pray for. Addie's hand always shoots right up and she always has something or someone she would like him to pray for. Ben's prayer requests are usually animals, the last two days it has been giraffes.

A Birthday Surprise

On Jon's birthday we hosted our class Christmas party. We had about 40 people at our house and everyone was having fun chatting when there was a tap on the door. I opened the door to see a gorilla crawl by me. He went straight to Jon, gave him the balloons and did a little dance to the music playing on his Ipad. It was one of the scariest/funniest things that has happened at our house.

It was even funnier when we found out the person in the monkey suit was our mild mannered friend Jeff. What a fun birthday surprise! And the kids are still having fun with the balloons.

Happy Birthday Jonathan

This year Jon celebrated the big 3-0. We hosted our Sunday school class Christmas party on his birthday, so the night before I made him some brownies and we had a family celebration.

Addie's Christmas Program

There is nothing sweeter than watching Addie sing her songs in her Christmas program. She is so good about practicing her songs, it is always fun to hear the whole chorus of little voices singing and watching them do the hand motions. Addie is toward the front, in the middle of the photo.

Garrett had a lot of fun watching Addie, at one point he started yelling what we think is his version of her name. It was so sweet, and loud.

My Boys

I love putting Garrett is clothes that Ben wore when he was younger. My boys look so different and their personalities are as different as their looks.

Here is Garrett all dressed for our 'cold' weather, he is 11 1/2 months old.

This was Ben in January of 2010, he was about 7 months old in this picture.
They are even wearing the same shirt underneath. I love these little guys and all of the beautiful chaos they bring with them.

Saturday Pancakes

I am not a morning person, but everyone else in my house is. Thankfully Jon has gotten good at making pancakes and he gets up with the kids and makes them all breakfast. I was up this morning and I couldn't resist getting a picture of my chocolate chip faced Ben-Ben and Addie.

I couldn't believe how much this little guy ate, 3 whole pancakes. He sat there just putting more and more food in his mouth. He didn't chocolate chips on his, but he was still pretty happy.
And here is the chef, finally getting to fix a pancake for himself.

Addie's First Trip to the nail Salon

My Mom, sister and I love to go get pedicures when we are together. This time we decided to let Addie come too. She didn't get the whole pedicure experience, but she did sit with me while I got mine. My feet are so ticklish that when they scrub my feet I laugh and squirm. Addie was wondering what they were doing to me to make me laugh so hard, so our lady scrubbed her feet just a little, and she is as ticklish as I am.

Addie did get her fingers and toes painted while we were there. She sat so still, she was so excited to be with the big girls.
Of course she picked a pretty pink.
It was so much fun to be able to take Addie with me, I look forward to many more trips to the salon with my sweet girl.