Abby and Lily's Show

Here is a little video of the girls. They were playing dress-up and put together a ballet show.

Israel and Anna's Wedding

Here are some pictures from Israel and Anna's wedding. Jacob and Lily looked absolutely adorable as ring bearer and flower girl!

Isaac's High Flying Adventure

Isaac has officially flown, not in an airplane, but off a 4-wheeler. He was having fun with Nathaniel over at Grandma Connie and Papa's house. Isaac was driving the 4-wheeler, Nathaniel was driving the Yerf Dog (go-kart) over in Great-Grandma Lind's field. Isaac thought he saw something run in front of him, took a sharp turn, tipped the 4-wheeler on two wheels and went flying off! After a couple of trips to urgent care they said his left wrist was sprained and he had a fracture on his right wrist. Three days later he had to go see the orthopedic doctor to find out both were fractured and now he gets to have two casts for a month. These are some pictures, I took them a couple days after it happened so his face looks A LOT better then it did when it first happened.
Needless to say, he needed a lot of help to do just about everything at first, but now he's got the hang of life with casts.

Catching up...

Well I haven't posted for a while but here are some things to catch up on. The boys finished their wrestling season at the SLL Tournament at Eastwood. Nathaniel had the toughest group, got through three rounds, but didn't come home with a medal. (He did great though.) Both Isaac and Jacob came home with second place medals for their weight class. It was a fun day.

































































Abby had an Earth Day program that she was supposed to dress up as a tree, so the weekend before the program she stayed the night with Great-Grandma Achter. They ended up at the fabric store and made a tree costume for her. Too cute.

Victories at the Wrestling Meet

Last night the boys had a wrestling meet at Lake vs Northwood and Lakota. All three boys came home with a victory, Jacob with two. It was the first win for both Isaac and Jacob. Nathaniel won another by pinning his opponent. I ran out of room for the rest of Isaac's match, but I got a picture of his hand raised at the end. Here are some clips from the night.

Jacob's Birthday-He's 6!!!

Jacob's birthday was this past Thursday, the 11th. We had his party Wednesday night and it was great. We had tamales, rice and beans for dinner and Grandma Connie made him a pineapple upside-down cake, which he has had picked out for his birthday cake for about a year now. Jacob also got a lot of help from Lily to open all his gifts. When we got home that night he told me he was very thankful for all the gifts he got (how sweet!).

Abby's Birthday-She's 8!!!

Abby's birthday was on Dec. 6th. She had a family party during the day and a sleepover with her friends that evening. She had 7 friends stay over, they all got to make their own pizza for dinner have cupcakes and rice krispy treats for dessert and smoothies for breakfast. A fun time was had by all (minus a couple emotional breakdowns at 3 a.m by some of her little friends!). She had a great time, but was exhausted the next day.