Happy Thanksgiving!

Maddie is thankful for her family, friends, the whole world, rainbows and God.

Gabe is thankful for dinner.

Dave is thankful for a healthy and loving family, and for having the opportunity to remain employed in this bad economy.

I am thankful for having an awesome husband and smart, beautiful kids, a wonderful and loving family and great friends.Here's a copy of my usual Thanksgiving post.

Veteran's Day Assembly

On 11/11/09 we attended a Veteran's Day Assembly at the Vinton/Shellsburg Middle School. Madison's class sang a couple of songs. It was a very nice assembly and at the end Madison remembered that her Grandpa and Papa are veterans and wanted to make sure they were thanked for serving our country. Here is some video of her class (and the rest of the Kindergarten classes) singing.

In the first movie, Maddie is behind the kid in the black coat. You can actually see her a little bit later on in the video.

I Skipped Right Over Dave's Birthday

He turned the big 4-0 this year and we celebrated a lot.
Gabe sang...

Maddie sang...

We all sang, several times. We had a great time celebrating with everyone!

Sleep Over Update

Maddie and Kinzley had a great time! They made forts and watched movies and stayed up until midnight.

This is what I've been up to lately...

A very good friend of mine had a baby girl recently, so I thought it would be fun to make her a gift. Christina, if you're reading this, stop now. I've been working on this for a long time. I had most of it done before Baby Elizabeth was here, but I had a few things to finish up. Her parents wouldn't tell us what her name was going to be, so I had to wait to make her a t-shirt.

Our First Sleep Over

Maddie is having her first slumber party tonight and I don't think I've ever seen anyone as excited as her. I'll post more about it tomorrow, but right now we're off to girl scouts.