Nana's New Year's Eve Punch

1 can frozen lime juice(thawed but still cold)
1 can frozen lemon, raspberry or grape juice (thawed but still cold)
1 liter of 7up or sprite
1 quart of rainbow sherbert

Mix all ingredients in a large punch bowl and serve in individual cups.

Merry Christmas!!!

Gabe hyped up on Cheerios

Gabe was full of fire this morning after breakast. He started running around screaming and then added props. He wore two different hats during his wild moments and put them both on himself. Here are some videos to enjoy.

Gabe hyped up on Cheerios 2

In this video Gabe does his wild child routine and then runs over, sits next to Kate and has a little chat. It was really cute!

Happy Birthday Ruth!

This is for our special friend Ruth who is having a birthday today!

Volunteering at Twin Oaks

Today, the girls, Mike and I went to the nursing home where Devi works twice a week. We spent just over an hour there helping the seniors prepare their Thanksgiving meal. We plated pie slices, peeled potatoes, broke up break or stuffing and cut up veggies. It was a lot of fun and rewarding for all involved. For those of you here is Albuquerque this place is always looking for volunteers for special occasions. Just let me know if you are interested.

I also want to thank London, Joe and Ambrosia for coming out today and volunteering with us. It was a pleasure having you and I hope we can do it again really soon!

Up, Up, Up...

Gabriel LOVES to be the center of attention. So last night just before bed when Rudy lifted him high into the air he reacted really cute. BUT...when his siblings came in to watch him giggle we got THIS reaction

Our Baby Chain

We do this with all special occasions in our home. We create a chain to represent the number of days to go. I know we may be getting a little bit of a headstart on this one but... 242 days until baby is due. Matthew LOVES chains. He gets to pull off one link each day.

Here is a link to our last baby chain when Gabriel was on his way.

I'm making a quilt

Nana has inspired me and so I'm making this quilt. Thank you Devi for being my beautiful model.

Announcement

Virtual Bubbles

I am a virtual assistant so it should be no surprise that we make virtual bubbles for all to enjoy!

How Time Flies

Here are some pictures of Katy growing up...

Katlyn's 12th Birthday

Katlyn is turning 12 tomorrow and she is having her sleepover tonight. She had a movie themed birthday party. Here are some photos.

Happy Anniversary Matt and Amber!

A week with Nana and Papa

Our Nana and Papa came to visit this week. They went trick or treating with us. We spent all day Tuesday making new aprons for the kids from this pattern Nana had found. Here is a picture of all the kids in their aprons. We used fabric instead of towels but they still turned out really cute.

Halloween Costumes

Happy...really happy....baby

This is what Gabriel does when he's really excited about something. As you can see in this video, his dad has agreed to open a rice krispie treat for him.

Get Well Mary and Ruth

I just found out that our good friends Mary and Ruth are sick. These are get well flowers for them!

Get well soon girls!

Homeschool Halloween Bash

Today we had our homeschool group's Halloween Bash! It was a lot of fun. Here are some photos I took of my kids in their costumes. I did not ask Devi to sit on the hay in her suit. More photos in my next post.

Jack-O-Lantern

The witches fly
Across the sky,
The owls go, "Who? Who? Who?"
The black cats yowl
And green ghosts howl,
"Scary Halloween to you!"

-Nina Wills Walter

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Gabe Plays with Our New Pumpkin

At the moment our new pumpkin is sitting on the floor in my office. Last night Gabe came in and decided to roll on it. Not until after he tried to pick it up of course!

Pumpkin Patch 2009

Here is our crew! Mike went with us and I think they all had a really nice time.

Little Gymnasts

This is a video of the kids at Gymnastics today. Lori is working on a round off cartwheel. Matthew is hanging like a monkey on the rings. Oh yeah and Matthew got a haircut.

Gabriel's big boo boo

Gabe actually fell on his head two or three times in a matter of days. I was waiting for the concussion. Thankfully he is fine. Here are some photos.

The first photo was taken just after he fell. He has this new habit of climbing over the back of the couch onto a chair that usually sits there. This time, there was no chair.

The second photo was from the same fall but a day later after the swelling went down!

Lori's Dive Roll

Here is Lolo!

This is called a dive roll

I managed to catch both of them in their dive roll. This is Matthew, Lori will be in the next post.

Matthew Gymnastics

Here are some photos of Matthew tonight in his first official gymnastics class. Oh and a cute one I took of Gabe while we were there. Video to follow.

Our Kitties and Doggies

Look what Matthew can do.

Matthew learned something new this week. He's a big boy now!

Playing with his truck

Today Gabe was chasing his siblings around the living room with the lego truck his Nana got him for his 1st b-day. Too cute. Watch your toes!

Lori got a hair cut!

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