Julia Kate

We can't believe that Julia is already four months old! In a way it seems like she was just born but at the same time we can't remember our family without her! (Well, most of the time… life with three is quite a bit different than life with two, especially things like grocery shopping and errands when once you put your kids in the cart there isn't room for anything else!. ;)) We've been in survival mode a bit but she is just too sweet and cute not to share some of these pictures from the past few months!

She is MUCH adored by her sisters...


We have to make sure that she doesn't get too smothered or loved or bounced to death (J and G's faces in this picture just crack me up!!)

She's so used to the stimulation she gets bored with only kids her age and hates to lean back in case she misses something!

So far she's done a great job of jumping right in with her sisters… dress up, ballet, parties with friends - all of it. :)

All this stimulation and striving to keep up with her sisters leaves her quite often looking like this:
We're still getting used to bath time and whether she likes it or not varies quite a bit. 
She is such a sweet, easy going baby. We just love our little Julia Kate so much!!

Christmas 2013, II

The Saturday before Christmas we headed into Cleveland to Tower City. They always decorate for Christmas and put on a fun Christmas show complete with a giant soldier, ballerinas, a dancing fountain, music and confetti. The train giving rides around the mall area was also a big hit. This is something we used to do with my grandparents growing up so it was fun to take the girls this year!

Christmas 2013, I

Before the next major holiday (Valentine's Day of course! ;)) is here, I wanted to share some Christmas pictures! We had such a wonderful time in Ohio with aunts, uncle, cousins, great-grandparents, Nana and Grandpa! WARNING: Lots of pictures. :)
We arrived just in time for my Dad's birthday which always starts off with breakfast in be for him and everyone else. Gracie and Evelyn thought that this was a pretty great start to a morning. :)