As my title states, a LOT has been going on around here since my last post! I will start with Rebecca's very first piano recital! She is doing very well with her lessons and seems to possess a natural talent for playing the piano that she obviously gets from her grandma Hirschy. Becca played 2 songs at her recital, the first song was titled `Bells` and is a song that she composed herself! The 2nd song was `We Wish you a Merry Christmas`. She played quite well and we were very proud of her! God has blessed her with a natural graceful playing style. If we can get her to keep practicing she will be a great piano player someday!
Here she is with the other girls waiting for their
recital to start. They were all nervous!
Playing her songs.... Her teacher, Mrs. Biberstein,
is beside her. Becca had the music there but did not
need it since she had her songs memorized.
Becca and her teacher, who has done a great job
teaching her piano! Thanks, Mrs. Biberstein!
Next, was the icestorm! We recieved around an inch thick of ice over everything! Ice was everywhere and several limbs and even trees cracked under the weight of the ice. We lost our whole tree in our front yard! A big limb fell and almost blocked our front door! Danny was busy all day cutting it down with the chainsaw. Our front yard looks really different now!
A sideview of the damage.
A front view of how it almost blocked our door.
Our poor deceased tree! ;o)
Even though the ice destroyed trees, it WAS pretty!
Huge tree covered with pretty ice...
The next days mail brought Christmas cards with $ in them from Grandparents in Florida!
As you can see the kids were thrilled and already have Big plans how they will spend their money! Thank-you G-pa and G-ma Dunn and Great G-pa George and Irene! We love you all!
They are RICH now!
Caleb immediately tried to eat his! LOL!
Here he is looking sweet for Mama!
Another sweet grin looking up from playing.
We were so excited and happy to have our best friends visit from Florida! Greg joked that instead of them now being Floridians that they were Flor-idiots for coming to IN. on the coldest days of the year! Yesterday our high was around 8 degrees with a windchill of minus 25! By the evening, temps were at 0 degrees and the wind was bitter! The Quakenbushes arrived yesterday morning and spent the day and night and left after lunch today to head to relatives homes for Christmas. Danny and I knew they were coming and we kept it a secret from the kids! We came home and they had used the key we had hidden for them and had came in and were hiding in the girls room. When the kids came in the door, the whole family came out and Becca and Ben started screaming with excitement and Abby just stared at Elli letting it sink in that she was actually here! ;o) They went with us last night to watch the kids in the Church christmas play. Ben was Joseph and the girls were angels. They all had pieces to say and did very well saying them. The program was cute and all the kids did very good performing. We all enjoyed it! Then we came back here and had Papa Murphy's pizzas. They do not have a Papa Murphy's in Florida, so the Quakenbushes enjoyed the food as it is some of their favorite pizza. Today we dressed most of the kids in camouflages and grays and took pics..what fun! Here they are..
Here is everyone except Caleb who was snug in his carseat.
Tanner holding Wes, Ben,Becca,Cory,Skyler and Elli and Abby
in the front. They all looked soo nice!
Ben as Joseph..
Here are the Angels. Mary Jones(the kids 2nd cousin),Abby,
Emily Hirschy(Another 2nd cousin),Nina Schaefer and Becca.
Abby and Elli playing Strawberry Shortcake game.
Tasha cooked chilli....... (She even has a cute camo skirt!)
Wesley, who is now 11 months old and toddling
around, played with toys and whatever else he could
get his hands into! LOL!
The girls watched My Little Pony movie.
While I REFEREED a rowdy game of Monopoly!
Our 9 silly monkeys!
The two littlest guys..Wes and Caleb.
Do you know how hard it is to get 9 kids to pose?!
The 3 girls....
are majorly outnumbered by the 6 boys!
Testosterone rules in this group! No wonder it is
sooo noisy when we are all together! LOL!
And they left and we had to say goodbye again! Hope you all have a fantastic time visiting family and a SAFE trip back to Florida! And ....we HOPE to see you all again soon!
1 comment:
Nice to catch up and see how you are all doing! Great job for your little girl on piano! Sorry about the ice damage. Have a happy new year!!!
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