Christmas!

On Christmas, we all slept in until 8am (gone are the days of being awake at 4:30!) and then wandered downstairs, ate breakfast, searched for the pickle (Promise found it), and opened gifts. Grammy came a few hours later and we had a quiet, relaxing Christmas. 

The next morning, mom and dad went on vacation and Grammy, Nathan, and I babysat the kids all weekend. It was a blast! :-D

Here are pictures from Christmas:

The day started with Promise loving on her hamster, Pip 

Promise and her baby

Christmas stockings

Joy Anna was excited to open presents

Evelyn was excited too

Promise was the first one to find the pickle. Here, she's smirking at the other kids still trying to find it

silly faces

Grace

She loved doing puzzles

Thanksgiving Pictures

I finally remembered to download photos off my camera and discovered photos from Thanksgiving and Christmas. Here are the best:

Grace, Promise, and Sophie

Nathan and Sam set up snack trays

Grace drawing

Pecan pie! 

the lovely Aunt Donna

Aunt Donna and Grammy

The girls learned how to curl hair

Thanksgiving dinner!

Every year, we make new name cards. This year's theme was Disney characters.

Dad carving the turkey

Sam 

Uncle Matt and Aunt Donna

Change of authors.....

As you may have noticed, I (Danielle) haven't exactly been regular at updating this blog because my life has been a tad bit busy (you know, nursing school, 2 jobs, etc.). So I have made the slightly dangerous decision to hand this blog over to Grace to update. She is a hysterical writer and has a very dry sarcastic writing style (even funnier than me, if you can imagine that...). I'm sure she will keep y'all well updated on what is going on in the Wilson family with plenty of pictures of Promise's hamster. Or she will upload pictures like these:

But here's one of Promise's super fat hamster:

See? He's a fat creature. 

So here's a flattering image of your wonderful new blog author. Good luck, Grace!!! :)

Long Time No Post!

It's been forever since I posted because nursing school started and I have been insanely busy!

I don't have time to update everyone, but here's some pictures from the last several weeks (warning: there's a lot of pictures!):

I crocheted a ladybug buddy for my camera :)

I bought the girls a hamster for their birthdays. They named him Pip.

He's a little fatty and the girls love playing with him every morning

As you can tell, his cheeks are stuffed. He would love to eat 3-4 bowls of food a day but we're limiting him to 2.

This face in the window always makes me happy to come home. Whenever he hears me walk up or drive into the driveway, he comes looking, tail wagging enthusiastically.

Fall is coming!

It was raining one day and I set my camera on a shutter speed of 1/5000 of a second and got pictures of actual rain drops!

This kid steals our hearts... :)

Some friends of ours just returned from adopting 6 kids from eastern Europe so this is Joshua greeting them at the airport.

A cute little girl at the airport

I think this is one of my favorite photos ever

Our friend and one of the kids

I went to a friend's wedding and saw my friend, Mrs. H. She and I are both standing in this picture. :)