In Recovery

We bit the bullet and had Hudson's tonsils out. After three antibiotics in the last two months, we felt we didn't have many options. I have some souvenir photos and a DVD of the whole procedure so we will never forget how BIG they were. I hope he feels better down the road.

Merry Christmas

Hope you all had as wonderful of a Christmas as we had!!!

Let It Snow

The kids were hard at work building snowmen. Ellie decided to build a snow queen. Chevy has gotten back his shoveling privileges. He left it in the snow for two months last year, and then it spent a month in the snow at the start of the season. Maybe that was his plan to get out of work--hmm--

Christmas

I have officially decided, it is impossible for four kids to take a good picture at the same time.

Tea Party

Who says boys can't enjoy a good tea party. They usually aren't this good of sports, but she caught them on a good day.

My Little Wolf

Hudson has been working so hard on his scouting. He earned his wolf badge. We couldn't be prouder.

Christmas Pageant Gilbert Style

I had a crazy idea for our family Christmas party. I wanted the kids to put on the nativity. Not wanting to make that many costumes, I thought it might be fun to let the kids "create" their own. Wow, did they do me proud. I was worried they wouldn't like the idea, but they were off and running. They all drew parts out of a hat except baby Jesus. I thought Ridge would crawl away so the job went to Macklee (you couldn't even tell she was a girl). Here are my kids as a sheep, wise man, Shepherd and donkey.