My first digital camera...yay!

Grace and Grandpa admire her new American Girl Bitty Baby

Holy smokes! What a mess! Santa was good to us this year.

Look at our new Chrsitmas jammies...time to go wait for Santa!

Aren't I cute...hey Dad, isn't the towel for my face??

Okay...Gunner's turn to pull

Almost to the top of the hil

Look, it's me and my Mommy

Okay, I've had enough...time to go in for some hot cocoa

James and Addison, enjoying the fresh fallen snow

Making snowballs...

Time to go home...mush Alley!

Look, we're almost home, keep pulling

Hi Mom...Look at all this snow!

Alley loves to play in the snow too

Sombody ganna puch me down the hill??

Who is that masked man? Oh, it's Gunner

Ooohhh....what do you have here daddy? A video game? Can I play?

What?? I wasn't doin' anything....

Okay...you caught me, I was trying to play too!

The ice is thick on everything in Northern Illinois. It is so beautiful and yet so dangerous

I got out into the yard today and took a couple quick pictures of the pine trees and evergreens

The Ice is so thick, it is weighing everything down

Yep...it is winter!

One BIG happy family. Alley, Gunner, Grace and Addison

Christmas from Around the World. Here is Grace and friend as little "China" girls.

Gunner was able to dress up and play Joseph this year!

Alley was a student, with a lot of lines to speak in the play this year. The girls were decorating a tree and mentioning how people celebrate the birth of Christ all over the world.

And the final curtain :) Gunner, Grace & Alley

Alley was in the car getting ready for Trick - or - Treating....Doesn't she look thrilled??

Here we all are again...Gunner took his mask off so Grandma would know it was him :)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Addison was a skunk this halloween but the outfoot was so hot we had to take it off...isn't the hat cute though?

Here are my little gouls...Alley was a baby riding on the back of an old lady, Grace was a kitty and Gunner was a great bed-sheet ghost. I must admit that I do love making their costumes every year.

This year Addison, Alley & Gunner won the costume contest in their age groups.

At the Apple Orchard, it was a crisp windy day and we enjoyed the autumn harvest of fresh apples and pumkins. We have an awesome God that creates days like these!