Thanksgiving or Christmas!!!!

This is a pic of all the cousins that were together in Ohio for Thanksgiving! Can you imagine how much fun they have when we are all there? Can you also imagine how loud it can be at times???? Anyway, as tradition the two Grandmas get all the munchkins Christmas PJ's for the Holiday Season. So what do you think we do? Get them all dressed in their Christmas pajamas, line all 16 of them up and take a Thanksgiving picture! What else would we do?

This is our smaller family with just "our 7"

Griffin and Sophia had some matching ones to show how much Grandma loves them!

Watch out Santa, Me and my many chins may just steal your job!

Kalahari!

We headed to Ohio this week for Thanksgiving with our cousins. On our way we met them at Kalahari, an indoor waterpark, for a night. We had 16 kids under the age of 9 and all the parents. Grand total of 32 people I believe. The kids had so much fun with each other. They had everything there from 2 kiddie pools, a wave pool, lazy river, simulated surfing and countless waterslides. I really don't know who had more fun, the kids or the parents. I think we have made a new tradtion which is fine with me.

A big boy slide that Parker could go down all on his own!

Part of the clan taking a break!

Parker and Lily racing once again!

Parker, Hunter and their cousin Carson

A Gift From God!

Today we had Griffin's Dedication which takes the place of Infant Baptism in our church. We as his parents are making the commitment to Christ that we will do the best we can to raise him in a Christian home and teaching him about Christ to the best of our ability. We will try to instill good morals and values and raise him to love the Lord with all of his heart. Our verse for Griffin is James 1: 17 Every good and perfect gift is from above. So, below is a picture of our precious gift.

After church we had family over for lunch and some cake. Thank you to everyone that shared in Griffin's special day.

After dinner some of the kids went outside to play in the snow. Jeff and Jeremy pulled them behind the golf cart in the sled and had the first snowball fight of the season.

Jesus Loves You Griffin!

And Winter Is Here!

This morning I was woke up by Parker running into my room yelling..."There is snow outside, there is snow outside." From that point on I heard, "Can we go outside yet" about every two minutes. So I got the sled and all there snow stuff ready and this is what I found not even 5 minutes later when I went back to get Griffin. Out cold. I would fall asleep if I was that warm and cozy too! Anyway, we went outside, played in the snow and had a riot. Hope everyone else gets to enjoy it as well!

4 Months Old!!!!

So, Griffin is already over 4 months and we had his check up just the other day. He is growing wonderfully and as healthy as can be. Weighing in at 17.5lb which is between 75% and 90%. He is 40% for head and 50% for height. We are so very thankful for him and feel so blessed to have him in our lives. Parker thought he was along for the ride at the Dr. and then we threw the whole flu shot on him. I think this was the first time that he was really, really mad at me. I felt horrible b/c I didn't know we could get one at Griffins appt. I planned to go in for the Sat. clinic. As a matter of fact I felt so bad that I made the Dr. tell him so I could blame it on someone else. I am so sorry Parker!

And Here are a couple more Halloween pics of the boys! It was such a fun night!