4th of July 2009

We went up to MI this year for the fourth. I also had my 10 year class reunion! I can't believe I have been graduated from high school that long!
We had a fun time! We went to the parade, which the girls loved, and they got a ton of candy!! Also, the first people to come down the parade route were the, "give every kid a flag" people. Hannah and Lillian thought it was pretty cool that they got there own little flag to wave!



We also did the Ishpeming fireworks at night, which were really nice. My dad took Hannah to ride on a pony, which see enjoyed! And, she also loved riding on the 4 wheeler too!
Here is a picture of us while we were waiting for the parade to start....

Matching Easter dresses!

We had a nice Easter this year! Pretty laid back and restful! The girls were really excited to wear their dresses this year! They picked out matching ones, so that was pretty cool!

Easter Candy!

So, when it comes to holiday's, and the candy associated with them, Easter is by far my most favorite Holiday candy. There's just something about chocolate in the shape of an egg! And all those pastel colors just scream "eat me, eat me!" My favorite would probably have to be the reece's peanut butter cup eggs....Yum! I like the milk chocolate solid eggs, the mini cadbury eggs, lipstick eggs(malted milk robbin's eggs), and the milk chocolate eggs with the shell. Now, there are some Easter candies that I don't perfer! Like jelly beans are just not my thing. Also, Peeps! I just don't understand them! They are really cute to look at for sure, but sticking one in your mouth is just not good! Especially if they have been sitting out!! I don't understand how that makes them better! All and all though, it's just a yummy time of year!
I hope you all have a very Blessed Easter!!
He is Risen, He is Risen indeed!

More Christmas

Bill's parent's were here from Florida when we got back from MI. We also had a fun time with them! We got to go to the annual Buca get together, and play the annual Christmas present dice game. We got to go to Grand Slam and play laser tag, ride on the bumper cars, and play skee ball. We opened presents with them. Had a game night with his siblings. Had Savoy's pizza, which I know it's hard to believe, but I like the sauage and sour kraut pizza! And we had people over to play our wii. It was a busy holiday season for sure! But we had a great time with family!

Christmas in Michigan

We traveled over some very snowy rivers and through some very snowy woods to get to Grandma's house this year! We left the Saturday that there was that big snow storm, and the snow pretty much followed us the whole way! We had a fun time though! Bill and Hannah got to snow mobile, and one time my dad put a sled on the back of the snow mobile, put Hannah and Lillian in the sled, and then drove the snow mobile to pull them! We got to see family. Do church on Christmas eve, and then a get together with my mom's side of the family. Then Christmas morning was just my family, and then we went to my other Grandma's after that. I got to visit with a friend from high school too, and go shopping at Shopko! It snowed almost everyday we were there. It was a good Christmas!


Hannah's Christmas dress
Lillian's Christmas dress
Bill and Cara on Christmas eve.

The family on Christmas eve.


My parents Christmas tree Christmas morning.

Our own Little Family Christmas

We do our own family Christmas gift opening every year. It's always a lot of fun to see them open their gifts! This year they seemed like everything we gave them! And they were very thankful, which is always nice!

Hannah and her princess tea set.

Lillian and her giant carebear!
Tearing into the presents

The girls in front of the tree after it was all over!

Bill got me a panini sandwich maker, which I was really excited to get, and which we already tried out! Yum!
And Bill really enjoyed the Bobby Flay cookbook I got him, "Boy Meets Grill". Hopefully he can put that to good use this summer:)

Happy New Year!

I thought I would try and get one more post in before the year 2008 is over! It has been a busy, and fun holiday season! And when things settle down, I will have some fun pictures to post! I hope everyone has a blessed New Year!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you are all having a blessed day!
"For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord." Luke 2:11

O Christmas Tree!

So, after debating about real or artificial, and then rearranging to make room, we finally put everything in it's place and got the tree decorated the other day! The girls really enjoyed this! I had to rearrange Lillian's a little bit because she loved to put like 4 ornaments on the same branch! We have this pickle ornament that we got one year, and Hannah was really into finding out where I hid it on the tree!



Decorating with dad!
The finished product!

Happy Thanksgiving!

The girls made these cute hats the other day at the Y. Pilgrim Hannah and Pilgrim Lillian just wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving to all!!

Halloween 2008!

We had a fun Halloween this year!
We had two princesses! Hannah was Cinderella and Lillian was Snow White.

Lillian was a pretty determined little trick or treater! She carried her bag longer than her big sister carried hers!

The both did pretty well though!
I just wore my pumpkin hat, and Bill dressed up as Obi -Wan Kenobi. His trustee light saber led the way:)

The Fourth of July

We had a fun fourth. We went to a party at a friends house, and then walked to see the fireworks in Woodbury. We thought the fireworks were great! The even had smiley faces! And, the girls had a ton of fun! It was a late night for sure, but worth it. This is the girls waiting in the wagon to go walk to the park to see the fireworks.
Yeah for sparklers!

Chocolate Intuition?

Hannah found her basket pretty fast, even though I thought I hid it pretty well. She must have her mom's intuition about chocolate.

Easter

We had a nice Easter this year. This is Lillian's "I like to wear my sunglasses upside down" picture. And if you look very closely, you can see the egg sticker in her armpit. Classic.