Christmas + Winter

 The girls put this crown on Julia and made her look like a little princess :)

 Her beautiful smile!

 I couldn't get both of the girls to smile nice at the same time, but you get the idea...

 We had our first Christmas program and Esther and Anna were angels - they did a great job!

 We had Christmas morning at home and the kids enjoyed opening their stockings and gifts.

 Aaron Joseph just loved the toy tractors he got - he calls them "John Deeres".

 Anna and Esther opening their new dolls from "Grandma with the aunts" (my mom)

 After a great Christmas with my family, we headed off to celebrate with Aaron's family - Anna and Esther love playing dress-up as you will see in other pictures to come.

 Aaron Joseph and his cousin that's two weeks older than him.

 Trying out the trash can -

 Julia is growing by the day!

 Some of the cousins -

 We went to a museum with a play area while we were in TN.

 Outside the museum -

 I just love watching the children enjoy playing with each other.

 We had a baby shower at church with the theme of "Jesus loves the little children of the world" with a collection of international dolls.

 The cake was red (velvet), brown(german chocolate), yellow (lemon), black (devils food), and white  - with chocolate frosting :)

 The girls thought Julia needed some dolls to play with!

 Aaron's winter project is working on finishing the bathroom.

 Esther on a Sunday morning - wearing the flower girl dress from our wedding!

 Anna -

 Aaron Joseph didn't want to cooperate...

 Julia didn't want to smile either.

 Anna had a birthday last week and turned 4!

 We had a little tea party for her :)

 So now Aaron Joseph smiled : )

 Esther and Julia -

 Waiting for Hannah's wedding to start -

 Aaron and I were able to go to a retreat in Green Lake, WI.

 While we were gone, the aunts put curlers in Anna and Esther's hair - only Esther was sick that night, so her curls didn't really turn out!

This winter there was new carpet put in the church nursery - I don't have a picture of it, but this is what the old looked like :)

Hope you enjoy these pictures - in case it's six months until I post again! Make sure you scroll down and check out the pictures of Aaron's trip to Alaska also...