Christmas Outfits

 Every year I like to make a new Christmassy type dress for my girls, but it seems like I'm always running late in getting things done.  We have had something like every single night for almost 2 solid weeks, but last night I didn't have anything, so I made these cute shirts and skirts for Amber and Katelynn.  I had to get up really early this morning for Evan's MRI, so I didn't get to see them with their cute outfits till we got home and Amber got home from school.  When I wanted to get pictures, Evan wanted to be in some of them too,

 This one is one of my favorites because it is genuine.  Evan is hugging Amber because he loves her!  It's just sweet to me.

 And then they wanted a posed hugging picture!

 In the middle of taking the pictures, Katelynn decided she didn't want to take any more pictures so she started to pitch a fit.  Then, 2 minutes later she wanted her picture taken.  That's just the way 2 year olds are!!  That is why her eyes are all red!!

Well, I didn't get a perfect picture of the girls together, but at least you can see how the outfits turned out!  I hope that everyone had a great Friday!  Happy Last Day of School for 2015 to us!!!  Happy Day!  Let Christmas break begin!!!!!

Decorating the Tree

 Well, I just decided that I am going to skip all the 5 million posts that need to be done and skip ahead to where we are now.  A few weeks ago we went out and got our tree.  We did it after Amber's piano lessons and then, since we had so much going on the last 2 weeks of school, we let the kids stay up later than usual and decorate!  They had a great time.

 Everyone had fun finding all of their special ornaments from Grandma and hanging them on the tree.

 Decorating the tree with the Christmas music playing is one of my favorite things about Christmas time.

 The kids were especially loving it since it was already 9 pm and they were staying up late!  :)

  Brian is getting so big!  It's hard to believe that I have 2 teenagers! 

 Oops, it looks like she looked away just as I was taking the picture.  :)  Katelynn enjoyed putting up the tree too!  She enlisted the help of her siblings with hanging up the ornaments. 

 Trying to find a good spot to hang things!

 The ornaments are now all over the tree.  We have someone to hang ornaments at all levels this year- Katelynn hangs them low, Weston and Brian hang them high, and Aaron, Amber and Evan hang them in the middle!  It's great!  

 It was Aaron's year to do the star!

And here's the group by the tree!!  This year's tree was nice and stable!  No falling down of the tree in the middle of the night this time around!!  :)

Katelynn Videos

Happy 8th Birthday Amber!!

 We celebrated Evan's birthday a day early and Amber's a few days late since we were camping!  She was so happy when it was time for her birthday festivities!!  This was a big year for her since she turned 8 and got baptized!

 She is such a sweet girl and I am so thankful that she is in our family!

 Katelynn got to go first this time.  In this picture Katelynn is giving us her famous fake, cheesy smile!!  It cracks me up every time!

 These two girls sure do love each other.  I am so glad that I could have 2 girls because having a sister is so much fun!! Katelynn got Amber bubbles.

 Aaron's turn was next.  Amber stopped and posed with each of her sibling before opening her presents.  What a cutie!

 I think that Aaron got her a jump rope, but that could have been what Brian gave her.  I can't remember any more.  It's been too long!

 Next was Evan's turn.  I can't remember what he gave her either, but she liked it!  :)  They posed together at the beginning too, but the one at the end was sweeter, I thought!

 Here they are in that sweet pose.  Blurry but sweet.  It looks like he gave her a glow ball of sorts.

 Next up was Weston.  These 2 look so much alike to me.

 Katelynn loves her big brother and wanted to sit on his lap while Amber opened his present.

 Next up was Brian.  

 He got her some cool kites.

 She was excited about this present from Grandma and Grandpa Yorke!

 And she liked her new shirt too!

 She asked for some digi birds for her birthday and got them! She loved them!

 She also got some fun shopkins from us too!

 Amber really wanted another doll that looked like her.  We had to throw her other one away after she was sick all over that doll!  :P

 So sweet!  Amber showing her doll to her "sissy"!

 Amber and her new doll that looks like her.

 Amber picked a lemon cake this year!  Yum!  My favorite!!!  :)  With pink icing!!!

Happy 8th birthday sweet girl!  I'm so thankful for your spunk and pizzaz and all the fun you bring to our family!  I am especially thankful that you wanted to get baptized this year and made such a great decision!  We love you!!!

Evan's 6th Birthday!

 Boy do I have a lot of catching up to do!!  About 6 weeks ago, on Sept 4th, Evan turned 6!  We had a great day!  We actually celebrated a day early because we were going camping as soon as the kids were out of school on his actual birthday.  As usual, the other kids picked out presents for Evan at Dollar Tree.  Aaron went first this time.  He said that Evan was supposed to punch a hole in his present to help unwrap it!  :)

 Aaron got him a pail and shovel that he could use in the sand box!  Some of these pictures came out kind of blurry.  Oh well. That is just what seems to happen as your camera gets older I guess.

 Next up was Brian.  He made him a fun card and gave him a dollar in his card.

 I can't remember what Brian got Evan, but I'm sure it was something that he liked.  Evan really was happy.  He still doesn't always have good days.  Some days he is tired and doesn't smile very much.  And some days he feels out of sorts and is very emotional.  You can tell that he wasn't quite himself this day.  But he was still happy and had fun.

 None of the pictures of Katelynn and Evan came out very well.  Either Katelynn looked bad or else Evan did.  Katelynn made a card for Evan in addition to her gift of something that I can't think of what it was (this is why I hate blogging later because I can't remember the details later on).  Katelynn making a card is so funny!  She doesn't color it at all.  She gets a paper and then cuts it all up and declares it done and then takes the pieces to whomever it was supposed to be for!  Silly girl!!  :)

 Weston reading his card to Evan.  I think that he gave Evan an Iron Man puzzle.

 Amber reading her card to Evan.

 He liked the glow sword that she gave him.  :)  She is demonstrating how he should use it I think!

 Evan with another sword of some type from one of the other siblings while he opens a card.

 Evan and his new super hero hat.  When he was in the hospital, they had a bucket full of super hero action figures.  And although Evan had never seen any kind of super hero shows, he loved playing with them.  Ever since then, he loves anything to do with them.  He liked Spider-man before, but now he thinks they are all so cool!

 He got pretty excited about the new angry bird building set too!  :)  I love that face he's making!

 So big!  And such a sweet boy!  I'm thankful for my little guy!

 Opening up his BIG present!  He was pretty excited about it!

 And here's what it was.  A cool dinosaur robot.  Barth got it, new in the box, at a garage sale for $20!!  We do love a good bargain at our house!!  :)

 The birthday cake with dinosaurs and monster candles.

Happy Birthday to you........

Make a wish and blow out the candles.  Happy birthday little guy!  What a year he has had!!  But what a trooper and such a great example he has been to me of perseverance and strength!  He still has a long road ahead of him, but I'm happy to have this much of the year behind us!!!  Here's hoping that year number 6 is a great one for you Evan!  We love you sooooo much!!