Baby Josephine is Here

I love this photo that Stacey Peterson took. She did our birth video too. She was great!

More importantly, I love this new baby. She is adorable. She is so happy and makes me smile when ever I catch her eye. I cannot be happier. I love all my babies but let's face it, some are easier than others. I've been telling everyone I have "post-partom euphoria." Baby Jo Jo is so easy going and is loved by her sisters. She sleeps 8-10 hours in a row, at night. I was very sick with her pregnancy and now I think I'm getting some pay back. I feel so very blessed!

maternity photo shoot

 

 

 

 

Mermaid Smoothies

They look weird but they taste so good!

Breakfast Mermaid Smoothies
2 bananas
2 spoon fulls of peanut butter
2cups milk
2 cups fresh spinach
1tsp vanilla
Put it all in the blender

Marian

Abbey

Amelia

The Annual Gingerbread/Grahm Cracker House Contest

Abbey's, notice the care she took in placing the licorice tape as shingles.

Notice the frosting on her cute face. Amelia really enjoyed making hers all by herself this year.

Marian didn't really help me make hers, she played wiht this at the Manwaring's instead. It is a house so, it counts

And for Ben, he made a whole town. It is in rememberance of the rooftops he hopped in Calistle as a youth.

The winner of the night can be seen in the background. Becky used a hot glue gun to make a princess castle. So we disqualified her. It was spectacular.

Fall 2012

Abbey is growing up so fast!
Our nighbors next door let the girls come play in thier yard work. Good times.

 

Amelia is having the time of her life!

So Quiet...

Daddy taught them a new very valuable skill!

Checkers!

Happy Halloween

We are very lucky to have Emily help us out a couple times a week. She was there for us on Halloween so we took a quick messy family picture to remember this crazy time. (not that things aren't about to get worse)

Abbey and Marian were puppies. They all crawl on the floor and bark 50% of the time already. Halloween just made it official. Then Amelia felt like being original, a ghost. Apparently there is some Gibbs history here. I'll write more when Grammy gets home.

And you can see my baby bump if you look closely. Well, maybe you don't have to look too closely. I was so happy to be out of the house, out of my bed for that matter.