Happy birthday Abigail!

Seven years ago we started our family when Abigail Irene was born.  Happy birthday Abbey!

She received generous cash gifts from her grandparents and from several other friends, so on the 21st I took her to Toys R Us (it only occurred to me after I'd already promised that Toys R Us on the Sunday before Christmas was a bad idea!).  She chose two dolls and a hobby horse---and we advised a nice set of grandparents on Disney princesses for their granddaughter.

Christmas Time

Christmas is our traditional family-photo time.  We never did update our family photo from last year...

Fall 2014 Ballet Recital

Abbey has been working very hard all fall on her ballet practice.  Today she and her friends put on a show for their parents.  I was really impressed: they all did a great job!

 

Spring 2014 Ballet Recital

Abbey does ballet once a week with some other homeschooling girls, with a recital for parents at the end of the semester.  I love how hard she is concentrating!

Happy Halloween!

We let the children dress up this year for Halloween, for a community event.  Abbey was a fairy princess, Ethan a knight, and Isaac a lion (complete with realistic roar!).

Abbey was very proud of her fairy wings.

Summer fun!

Abbey and her friend being silly.  That's a firetruck, not a wagon.  And a robe tie, not a rope.  And it was 80 degrees, but Abbey is wearing a stocking cap and scarf!

Winter is coming, so everyone got new pajamas!

They were doing an experiment, if I remember correctly.

Indian summer

We've had some gorgeous fall weather this year, including one day of Indian summer.