Family Pictures 2016

Yes, we finally took family pictures. For real. My friend Heather did a great job and I love that we were able to get some real fall pictures before leaving Michigan.

I love this one so much. It's so fun.

Look at that. All smiling. It's a miracle

The girls. Yes, we know we are cute.

And my handsome guys.

Even though it's silly, I love that in this picture you can see that her hand is in her favorite little "pocket".

And even though these boys were so done with pictures at this point, they kept on smiling.

It's Our Birthday!

It's that day again! It's our birthday! This is the first one that we get to really celebrate together and I really hope that it's always this much fun sharing a birthday with this cutie pants. The day fell on a Sunday this year and I love having birthdays on a Sunday because they're so laid back.

We got all colorful for the big day and, if I do say so, we looked pretty cute.

I got some pretty fun presents including some new shoes.

We were both pretty excited for the big day.

Presents are so exciting.

This face was just perfect. As is typical, she looks upset, but she's really just very excited. Basically "It's So Fluffy!!"

Funny story: Our oven decided to completely stop working right as I was getting the cake and cupcakes ready to go in. Not super cool. Luckily, our friends live close by and we were able to borrow theirs. It made our laid back Sunday Birthday a little bit crazier than I was hoping for, but it all worked out in the end. The cake was not only pretty, but it tasted really good for a mix.

Happy 1st Birthday to this beautiful girl! We are so glad that she is part of our family. Everyone loves her and she has such a fun, smiley personality. She still doesn't have much hair, she's only kind of walking, and she only uses a few words that all start with d. Which isn't surprising considering all of her favorite people have that sound. She loves her siblings and they love her. Her brothers are starting to ease up on being super careful with her and now trying to help her climb up on things and play around like a big kid.

School Halloween Party

The kids school had a Halloween Costume contest and this was the kids big chance to dress up how they wanted to. Addie was super excited to dress up as Hermione. She got the robe and the wand for Christmas last year and she put the rest of the costume together (mostly with her brother's clothes). Dexter chose Captain America, and Andres finally earned the Spiderman costume that he's been working on since August. We looked through all the dress-ups and Halloween costumes and the only one we could find to fit Eliana was the Snow White costume. She did look pretty cute.

And this picture seriously makes me feel super short. I don't think it's going to be very long before I am not the tallest of this bunch.

Random Sunday Pictures

One Sunday we decided to take some pictures of everyone all dressed up for church. These really are the cutest kids (sorry for the bias)! And sorry that there are so many, but everyone wanted a turn to hold the baby and everyone wanted a turn to take a picture. There of course had to be some silly faces and some posing as well.