Our little Angel Karli...

We had the opportunity to meet Karli Padfield during my Dads Stem Cell Transplant last year. She too was in the hospital getting a transplant. She is such an amazing person and has the best outlook on life. She truly is an angel in all of our lives. For Christmas she sent each one of us a glass ornament with a single white feather inside and a poem that reads:

This is an angel feather sent from God above, to serve as a reminder of his gracious love, its from your guardian angel that god assigned to you, it fell out in his struggles as he protects you, each time you almost stumble, each time you nearly fall, remember to thank God and his angels for answering your call.

Thanks Karli! Merry Christmas, we love you.

Alisa, Amber, Stef, and Tiffany.

Maui

We went to Maui this year for Thanksgiving! It was so much fun, a well needed vacation. It was the trip we were supposed to take last spring with my dad, but he went down hill so fast that we never made it. We missed him lots. In one of the pictures Morgan decided to carry on tradition by letting the same goose at our hotel eat a fruit loop out of his lips, the way dad did last time we were all there together!
The kids loved to play on the beach, and Morgan talked me into going paraceling with him. Danny and Tiff came to, but obviously I am not the photographer she is, not one of the pictures I took of them worked, and she got like 10 of us. oops! sorry sis!
It was lots of fun, but it is always nice to come home! I can't wait for next year though!

Maui

Grandma Phyllis and Papa Bob came over the other day, and luckily all of us had just got finished walking, so they got to see the kids! They loved showing grandma and grandpa how they all ride around in Ashton's little truck. Grandma was getting in some major snuggle time with Grayson! Ashton, and James were both throwing baseball's and little Ramsey was trying to roll the basketball ( all at the same time) to Papa bob, It was so cute.

Some recent pictures of the kids

Grayson loves his tummy time

( Oh and yes he is Very bald right now!)

Best Buddies!

Ashton decorating his Christmas tree

Ali's pretend Thanksgiving dinner!

Mammy and Grayson getting some snuggle time!

Ashton's new bb gun

Morgan bought Ashton his first bb gun the other day, and he loves it! When he saw my mom give morgan a gun case that was my dad's he asked "Nama can I have one of my papa buddies case's to keep my new dun in?" (that was a tear jerker)

He can shoot pretty well, even though his dad has to caulk it for him! If only Papa were here to see his little buddy trying to shoot his gun like the big boy's!

Time for food!

So we gave Grayson his first bowl of rice cereal tonight, and as you can see he really liked it, he kept trying to grab the spoon and just attacked it with his little mouth. I was trying to video and take pictures of him, so Morgan was feeding him, and he eventually ended up wearing most of the cereal right around his chubby little neck!

Trick or Treat!

So this Halloween we all met at Tiff's house to take pictures of the kids in their costumes and holy cow it was crazy! Grayson was hungry so he cried the entire time, Ashton wouldn't even look at the camera, James just wanted to eat his french fries and chicken nuggets so when we made him get pictures, he screamed that scream only James can do, and Ramsey, well he was perfect and posed at every opportunity possible. When the photo shoot was over, we all walked around Tiff and Danny's neighborhood and let the kids trick or treat. They ended up having fun, and got lots of candy!

So serious!

They look so innocent!

My sweet little skeleton

Priceless

Family Pictures

I know this is a way long post, but Tiff got so many great pictures of the kids, that I couldn't decide on just a few, I had to use them all. I love the ones she captured of Ashton, because he wasn't behaving and I never dreamed any of them would turn out. Ali is such a girl, she was totally posing it up, I never have to worry about getting a good picture of her. Grayson hated being outside in the wind, so we had to try and get some of him in Tiff's studio. I love having a photographer for a sister, Thank's Tiff.