Playing Catch Up

I know, I am way behind on keeping up with the blog (although i am not sure really how much it gets visited anymore but anyway... ).  I won't try and update on everything since Max was born but just thought I would add a few pictures :)

Max is 2 months old now and is a growing happy, healthy boy!  We are all so in love with him.  His sisters think he is pretty cool and will often hurry to get ready in the mornings so they can hold him before they leave for school.  He is starting to give us some sweet smiles and some "jabbering" now.  

 Max taking a snooze on his boppy.  I just love to watch him sleep, so peaceful!

 Max was baptized last Sunday.  It was a wonderful day and so thankful lots of family could join us to celebrate.

 A recent family picture from Max's baptism.

The girls and Max.  What you don't see is that we had to take a picture with each one of the girls getting a chance to hold him because they all had to have a turn :)

We are so blessed by this new addition to our family and are continually amazed by God's goodness to us!

Welcome Baby Max

We welcomed Max Alan VanHorn on Monday December 12th at 8:20 am!

He weighed 6lb 10oz and was 18.5 inches long!

He is such a cutie and we are enjoying him so very much!  God has truly blessed us this Christmas season with an extra special gift!

 I love this picture because you can see how huge Barry's smile is!  

 Here he is!  So happy to meet our little boy!

 Three other people who were anxiously waiting to meet this little guy... his big sisters!  

 A pretty great Christmas present!

 Snoozin'.  He is really good at that right now!

Welcome to the family Max!

Making Room for Baby

One of things we needed to do before our precious gift arrived was to make room for him!  Molly and Baby Max are sharing a room.  I took a picture of the 'before' and a few of the 'after.  We have never had a newborn in with a "big" kid, so hopefully it will work out okay!  

 Molly's room getting ready for a new paint job!

After:

 A fresh coat of paint called 'cabbage green'.  We had to pull out some good colors for both a boy and girl out of Molly's pink teapot bedding.  I used blues and lime greens for Max's bedding to tie it all together :)

I am still adding some things to the walls so they look a  little bare right now.

 Max's side of the room :)

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!!

I hope you all had a wonderful day of thanks.  Here are the girls with their cute turkey shirts that Aunt Julie and Aunt Carmen made for them.  We got to spend a wonderful Thanksgiving Day with the Tweed Families. This family holds a special place in our hearts and it was so great to spend a whole day visiting and watching all the kids play together!

 Our girls and all the David and Melissa Tweed kiddos.

Molly, Iley, Abby, Sydney, Ian, Liam and Gracie.  

David and Melissa came up to see us last Monday and we enjoyed such a wonderful day with them and the kids just played hard all day!  

 Barry and Dave.  Friends since they were 11... enough said.

 

 Thanks for coming to visit us!  What  a great day we had!

Barry and I and... one of the very few pregnant pics you will see of me!  

We had a great Thanksgiving week, celebrating friends and family.  God has truly blessed us!

I hope your heart is happy and full of God's many blessings too!

Gracie and Julie

Gracie saved up all her birthday money so she could go pick out her own American Girl doll.  She chose the doll Julie from the 1970's era.  I think mostly she just loves that she has long blonde hair :)

 All of us girls outside the American Girl store after Gracie got her doll!

 We love this store!!  

Gracie turns 6!!

Gracie turned 6 on Oct 17th!  She took Krispy Kreme doughnuts to school for her snack!  She was really excited about that :)

 Showing off some of her gifts, new hat and gloves and a new purple soccer ball from Daddy!

 Gracie at her family birthday party... she always thinks she needs a princess crown!  

 Celebrating her birthday with a friend!

 Gracie's horse birthday cake made by Grammy!

Happy 6th Birthday Gracie!  Love you!

Soccer!!!!

Sydney and Gracie have both played soccer this fall.  This is Gracie's first year and she is loving it!  I thought I would post a few pictures of the girls playing!

Enjoy!

Gracie at one of her games!  She loves soccer!

Gracie taking a break.

Gracie and her first trophy!  She is so proud of that :)

Gracie's soccer team, The Green Ninjas!

I have no idea why Sydney's picture ended up at the end... but a good action shot nonetheless!