Abby's Performance

Abby got to show what she's learned in her few piano lessons. Her school had an assembly that let students who take private music lessons perform. Here's a video of her first performance. She's getting so big, sometimes it makes me wanna cry!

Pictures from Christmas

Here are some pictures of our Christmas.

Abby's Christmas Surprise

Here is the video of Abby getting her Christmas surprise-her new puppy that she named Spots. We had her open up his kennel while I carried him in from the back of the house. After she got the puppy I asked her if she had any idea she was getting one and she told me "No, I thought you guys just got me a cage so I could put a stuffed animal in it to make me feel better." Who knew it could have been that easy!

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.