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Today is a Good Day!

For the obvious reasons, today was a GOOD day. Featured above is Miss Audrey getting ready to watch the inaugural festivities. She had to bring all of her "babies" down from her bed to watch too, yes, she sleeps with all those animals. Good thing she has a double bed. I had to pump up the inauguration so she would think it was exciting and not want to watch Sesame Street instead. I think I did a good job. I managed to have the TV on ABC from 8:00-1:00.... never happened before and will never happen again. Also included in the inaugural events were a big bowl of ice cream and many goldfish crackers for snacks. At the end she asked if Barack Obama was going to come to our house like Santa.....who knows where that came from???? I guess she thinks he's a pretty cool guy because in her eyes Santa is #1.

Realization

Audrey at 3 weeks old.

Audrey on her 3rd b-day.

Audrey on her 1st b-day.

Audrey on her 2nd b-day.

Audrey today!

Being locked in the house due to the weather for almost a full week has given me too much time to think. All of this thinking has led me to a realization that is difficult to handle! It all started when Audrey went to gymnastics class with a friend. They were half an hour later getting home than I thought they would be. I was getting worried but told myself that everything was OK, which it was. After she was home I started thinking about how many more times in my life I would have to go through this. I also wondered how many times in my life had I put my parents through this same agony? I think I know the answer to that.

I've decided that I like her at age 3 1/2 where I can control her little world. What will it be like when she's 16, and driving???? All of this thinking made me do some reminiscing, thus the sequence of pictures, which are actually out of sequence because blogger sucks. Look how fast she's growing. It seems like just yesterday that she was a newborn and I was wishing she'd get older and be more fun! Don't think this means I'm having a third. Worrying about two kids is enough, for now at least. Stay tuned...

More Snow Pics

I thought these were cute. Ben turned the kids into little igloos. You can see that even Zoe loves the snow. When the snow gets deeper than her body she turns into a miniature gazelle. Think warm thoughts for us. It's going down below zero here in MI, more snow on the way too!

When Will it Stop?

With 12 in of snow on the ground and it's still snowing, this leaves us wondering, how much more can we possibly get?? Here's the kids sledding in our backyard today. Audrey calls this her "turtle sled". It's really called the turbo sled - turtle, turbo I guess it's all the same to a 3 year old. You can see as winter goes on Sawyer is getting more and more into it. He's mastered walking in all the clothes and now enjoys sledding down our small hill.

Audrey's Fish Tank

We went to the fish store today, to get our first fish for Audrey's (daddy's) fish tank. We purchased one Astrea Snail to clean, one Xenia (coral) and one 6 Line Wrasse as our first fishy. Audrey was very excited and wanted to hold her fishy. Everyone is doing fine so far.

Happy New Year

Rock Band was the New Year's Eve addiction!

Even Audrey and Tyler wanted to get in on the fun!

Happy New Year! Don't ask me why our kids never go to sleep????

Watching movies....for a few minutes at least.

Ready to party!

Where on earth did all these kids come from?

Happy 2009 everyone! These are pictures from our New Year's Eve party. As you can see, the group of children grow every year. Less than three months until Brandy adds another little boy to the group!

We hope you all have a very happy and healthy 2009!