Happy 7th Birthday Greta!

Happy 7th birthday to our beautiful Greta! Greta brings joy to everyone she meets with her enthusiasm for life! She is quick to make friends and she is always ready to give everyone big hugs. Greta loves to dance ballet, she is a gifted artist, she likes to read, and she likes to play anything outside with her brothers. We love you Greta! We are so thankful that God blessed us with you for our daughter.

Asa would like you to know that Greta is wearing boots with heels and that he is taller than her.

Brian wanted to get some up close pictures of the boys too. 

We celebrated Greta's 7th birthday with extended family and Greta had a fabulous time! Her cake theme was puppies and teacups, since she loves puppies and tea parties! She is extra excited because we are going to get a puppy this spring/summer. 

Special birthday breakfast!

 Greta and I continued our annual tradition of going to The Mad Hatter Restaurant and Teahouse to celebrate our birthdays. We love that we both have birthdays in the month of November. 

Greta got another special birthday breakfast! One on her birthday party day with family and one on her actual birthday! Happy birthday to our sweet Greta girl!

Autumn Happenings

 Yesterday my sisters celebrated my birthday with a lovely afternoon tea! I love my sisters.

Last week we served with our co-op at Feed My Starving Children. We packed enough meals, along with other groups there to feed 62 kids for a year!

Eli practicing guitar.

Greta and Asa playing maples. 

I couple of weeks ago I went on a retreat with moms from my co-op. It was great to make earrings, make a wood working project, eat good food, go for a hike, get a massage, and play games together. 

Brian took the kids to a harvest party while I was at a co-op moms retreat for the day.

I helped plan a fun field trip to the Science Museum with our co-op a few weeks ago. I was glad that Brian could join us! We enjoyed the human body exhibits as that we are studying the human body in science class this year. The Omni Theater was amazing and we loved the show Backyard Nature. 

Oh Greta and Nels. They are neighbors and best friends. They accidentally ran into each other in gym class at co-op and Greta got that purple bruise on her chin. Nels rubbed his forehead on his new carpet at home because it felt so soft and he gave himself a bad rug burn. My neighbor Angela had to get a picture of them! Thankfully they are both healed up now. 

The other night I went over to my small group leader's house for dinner. I am really enjoying my house group from church.

Last week we took the kids to The Great Wolf Lodge Waterpark to celebrate Eli's birthday as a family. We had a blast! We went on the family tube slide together 11 times for Eli turning 11 years old!

Asa snuggling Papa.

Brian giving Greta an airplane ride.

Greta is so good with Theo.

We finished Eli's birthday puzzle!

Some recent artwork from the kids!

Greta made herself some bunny ears!

Eli loves wood working class at co-op! He finished his first project!

Eli and his classmates working hard in science class at co-op. 

They have been learning about the five senses.

Eli reading a poem to the class for Speech For Fun.

Eli in gym class at co-op.

Eli and Asa dressed up as Vikings players this year and Greta dressed up as a leopard. It was so warm!

Greta got to dress up as a leopard for dance class too!

Greta is doing a great job with her reading.

Hanging out with cousin Theo!

We were on a hike and Greta pretended the leafs were elephant ears.

Fun at the park!

Brian and I got out to go Swing Dancing at the Caves again!

We have been listening to The Lord Of The Rings on audio and then we watched all of the videos. Papa came over to watch some of them with us too. The kids can see why they are our favorite movies.

Papa giving the kids a geology map lesson.

Greta and the boys enjoyed a hike with Papa the other day.