My Baby Is 6!

I can't believe my baby turned 6 last week! Sigh! She is definitely more of a baby than my other three were at this age and I DON'T CARE!

Her big gift was a new bike. Now, I know many six-year-olds are riding a two-wheeler at this age, but Carys is SHORT! A tricycle has been just fine up until now.


Greg and I also gave her the Cars 2 DVD and the newest Veggie Tales, The Princess and The Pop Star.

Chase gave her a bunch of candy, wrapped individually of course!


Landon gave her a Twilight Sparkle pony set, and Gerren gave her this Rarity pony set, both of which were big hits!

December

We had a lot of fun while Landon was home. We did school for 2 of the 4 weeks, one at the beginning and one at the end.

The children "led" in worship on Sunday, December 18. It was basically mass chaos, but they were cute.


"Go Tell It On the Mountain" had a lot of motions! :)


On Christmas Eve we went to candlelight service on the square in Ocala and then out to eat Chinese afterwards.

Christmas Day was rather disappointing this year. Let's just say that it's tough when your love language is gift giving and no one else in your family has the same love language. I put a lot of effort in to getting the exactly perfect gifts for everyone else, but it is not reciprocated. I also do NOT like being away from home on Christmas Day. However, now that we live in a different town than Greg's mom, it take too much time to go get her and bring her here for lunch (which is what we used to do) then take her back home and come home ourselves. That would be 3 hours of driving alone. So we went to Greg's brother's house. We had a good time, but I still don't like being out of my own house on Christmas Day. We did go to our usual movie that evening. We saw the Adventures of Tintin, which was awesome!

Traditional Christmas morning photo


Carys got some art supplies, a Pinkie Pie RC Car, Wikisticks, and some kid headphones (with volume control).


Landon got a couple new shirts, some new socks (he asked for all of these clothing items), and a refrigerator for his dorm room (from Craigslist!).


Gerren got some new headphones, a watch, and a new sweat jacket.


Chase got tips for her arrows (which she got last Christmas - sigh!), a new bedding set, 2 guitar hooks, and a bale of hay (to shoot her arrows into).


I LOVE this picture of Chase.


Another disappointing thing about this December was the weather. It was so warm I wanted to weep! You can see by the clothes Carys is wearing in early December exactly how warm it was!

The day after Christmas Gerren left for a little over a week for Winter Encampment. It actually got a little cooler after Christmas, thankfully.

Carys fell asleep on our bed one night.


Who knows why she pulled the covers over her face like this?



Landon voted by absentee ballot while he was home. This was his very first time to vote, so he wanted me to take a picture.


He was proud to be voting for Ron Paul!


Landon treated Chase and I to Five Guys and the new Sherlock Holmes movie one afternoon. The Lacognatas were so gracious to watch Carys for us. Sarah took this awesome picture!


That pretty much sums up December (except for my 49th birthday which I'm ignoring!). :)

Fall 2011

Well, I'm so far behind on this blog because I wanted to start with Thanksgiving. I didn't take any pictures, though, and kept waiting to get some from my friend Kim (who is always so good at taking lots of pictures). She's really busy, though, and hasn't even gotten them off her camera yet. So, I'm going to stop waiting and try to catch up.

Thanksgiving was here this year with our friends from North Carolina. That meant no long drive or expensive gas for us. Instead I spent a lot of time in the kitchen and money on food! :) It was a fabulous weekend as always, though. The kids (which really includes 4 adults now) spent a lot of time playing Settlers of Catan, a game that was new to my kids.

Landon went back to college Sunday evening for a short 2 weeks. On December 8, we went to Orlando to help with the Burnett Honors College Parents' Society Finals Fling. We serve many college students lunch that day during our noon to 3pm shift. Afterwards we did a little window shopping and had dinner at CPK. Yum!

Landon came home the next day for a 4-week Christmas break! We were all so glad to have him home for awhile. Missed that kid like crazy!