The Girls family Birthday Party 2011

Princess birthday is 1/18 and Sweet Pea's is 1/29
so on 1/29/11 we had a combined family birthday party for them.. These are the pictures from that party.

Christmas Day 2010

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This was Christmas morning and afternoon at our house, and then Christmas evening at my grandmas.

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Christmas Eve #2

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This is at my In laws place on Christmas Eve with my MIL, FIL and two BIL's and there families.
The sweet Little baby girl in these photos my younger BIL and his wife just brought home from the hospital on Christmas Eve.. At the moment they are her foster parents but we are all praying that they will be able to adopt her soon.

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Christmas Eve #1

In the afternoon on Christmas Eve we went to my brothers house for a little Christmas celebration with him, his wife and kids.. My mom and dad and grandma were there also.. This is the video from our time there.
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4th of July 2010 post #2

After the picnic with my inlaws. My parents took a few of the kids to the hospital to see my brother, his wife and the new babies.
This is my brothers wife E, and the twins C and H.
Here is my sisters dd, A holding C and Mr Man in the back there.

Sweet Pea holding C
Sweet Pea, My brother, Little Man and HLater we all waited at my Grandma and Grandpa till it was time for fireworks..

Here is Grandma with Little Man and my nices Little E.

my sisters youngest Little E
my youngest Little Man
Getting snacks before going to the fireworks.

in this shot.. is my uncle J, Mr Man, Little Man and Sweet Pea and the back of my grandma's head.

Here we have my Grandma, Little E, and A

The Firework crew all ready to go watch.

A, Mr Man, Sweet Pea, Little E, and Little Man. all the cousins minus P, H & C who were spending there 4th of July in the hospital.. and Princess who took off with friends to watch the fireworks.
At the place we went to watch the show.. waiting for it to start.

in back is my sisters husband D, and my sister(but you can't see her in this one) in front we have Sweet Pea, A, Uncle J, my Grandma, Little Man and Little E.

Sweet Pea, Little E, and Little Man
Little E and Sweet Pea

Sweet Pea, Little E and Little Man
Mr Man

DH didn't want to miss all of the 4th of July stuff with the family so he came at the last minute to the fireworks.. though as you can tell he would have done better staying home in bed.. Poor Guy.. Here is DH and Little Man

The whole gain

Little Man, Little E, Sweet Pea, & A

DH and Little Man

And here is a slideshow of the fireworks well a few shot of the fireworks that I snapped :-)

Wordless Wednesday #7 of 2010(1st 2 volleyball tournaments)

1st J.O. Volleyball tournament of the year. it was a 2 day one Feb 13 &14 2010

2nd J.O. Volleyball tournament of the year Feb 20, 2010

New Years Eve 2009

Ok... so I'm like way behind.. but I wanted to get our New Years Eve 2009 memories onto my blog even if I'm like 2 months behind.
If you recall my 3 younger kids were in TX with my parents visiting my sister, while DH and I were home with Princess and her friend from out of state. Since the younger kids were not home to bug Princess and Friend for New Years Eve I let Princess have a NYE party here at the house..
This is the slide show of pictures from that night.

Here are a few of the pictures from the kids NYE in TX
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And these are two short video clips from the party back at our place.

This one was taken right after the ball dropped at midnight..when they went out to yell Happy New Years.

Getting caught up Christmas Break...

I know it is already February 2010, but I'm still posting about December 2009... yes I'm just a little slow.. I have finished up with Christmas, it only took me a month and 6 post but I have shared my Christmas with you all....
If you missed any of it and would like to know how I spent Christmas and see pictures you can view our Christmas by clicking on these. Post #1 ... Post #2 ... Post #3 ... Post #4 ... Post #5 ... Post #6 .
Now we move on to our Christmas break. For the whole break my younger three left us. Mr Man, Sweet Pea and Little Man at 5:30AM on December 26th loaded up into my parents van and took off with grandma and grandpa to Texas, to go spend Christmas break with my sister and her girls
Here they are loading up and leaving that morning.
They all enjoyed there time with there Aunt, Uncle, cousins and grandparents in Texas.. The reason the rest of us didn't go was 1) DH didn't have vacation time left, and 2) Princess friend who she meet at church summer camp and who lives in IN was coming to OH. to spend Christmas break with us, this was planned before the TX trip was.
My 3 younger kids spent all day Saturday driving 1/2 the way to TX.. While they did that Princess had her friend J over to spend the night.. J went to church with us in the morning and also to the Mall(midway point between our house and where Princess's camp friend and her family were staying at an aunts house for Christmas)
The girl from IN got to our house on Sunday December 27, 09 and stayed at our place until January 1, 10..
On Sunday we spent a few hours at a mall shopping and hanging out and that night the girls went to a movie. On Monday we took a little trip and spent the night at an indoor water park hotel.. where the girls had a blast both Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday in the afternoon the girls meet up with some of there other camp friends they picked a meeting point about an hour away from our house which was middle meeting spot where they spent hours and hours hanging out at the mall getting caught up with there friends. That night Princess went with her C(the girls staying with us) to spend the night at C's aunt house(who lives here in OH) Thursday, Princess and C was back at our place for New Years Eve(which I'll write about in my next getting caught up post) and Friday evening C's parents picked her up and took her back to IN.
Saturday night Princess went out with some of her school friends and DH took me out to dinner. After we got home and Princess got home.. we colored Princess's hair.. back in Sept she wanted to go lighter blond so I let her, Her normal color is a dirty dark dishwater blond.. but Princess was tired of the light blond and wanted to go dark brown.. UMMMMM I wasn't to sure on that so I let her go with a natural light brown which looks really close to her normal dark blond.. so she is pretty much back to her normal color now and loving it..
Sunday January 3rd.. we had church and then waited and waited till we got a phone call telling us the rest of the family was back in Ohio so that night we headed over to my parents house to pick up all our kids.. brought them home loved on them some got them into bed for school in the morning.
This is a slide show of our time with Princess and friends over Christmas break.

and here are a few pic the other kids came back with from TX.

in my next Getting caught up post I'll post about New Years Eve.. until then hope you all are well.. Happy Tuesday..