Saturday, January 3, 2009

Feliz Ano Nuevo!

Happy New 2009! A new year filled with mystery and only God knows what it will hold for each and everyone of us! We have many plans and hopes for the future as I am sure you all do too. We will take one day at a time as God gives us grace and strength. I am so thankful that we have His promises to carry us thru!

Our New Years Eve was a lot of fun! We went to my parents and they had My Uncle Gary and Aunt Becky and my cousin, Leah and her husband, Mike and their daughter, Mary over for the evening. My mom made a delicious Cheeseburger soup and ham-n-cheese sandwiches. I made some yummy cream puffs and there was all kinds of other yummy dessert and snackies as well. My mom also got out her fondu pots and melted chocolate in them. She had marshmallows,pineappleand oranges cut up for dipping and the kids loved it! We played many games and brought in the New Year with much whooping and hollering! I have lots of pics of it and other recent stuff. Enjoy!

Matt had a helper for the Chicken tracks game!
Caleb kept trying to grab them!


My cousin Leah getting cozy with Caleb. This was
at our annual Hirschy Christmas Party.

Ben and his good friend, Elec cheesing for the camera.
We had a church carry-in and they enjoyed sitting together.

Caleb was playing Peek-a-boo with his buddy
blankie and mommy. He sleeps with it, chews on it
and loves on it all the time!

Caleb really enjoys sweet potatoes baby food;o)

He knows to smile for the camera now!
Landon Summers came for a visit with his
mommy, brother and sister and we had to take pics!
Are'nt they cute? Landon is 3 weeks older than Caleb.

The boys were so cute to watch! Seems only yesterday
that we were both pregnant with them, right,Lana?!

Becca's new look! Modeling some candy from G-ma.
Thank goodness that it is only candy!
Playing with his new toys and grinning for mommy!


Ben playing with his new Hot Wheels Race Track.


Becca checking out her new toy that makes beaded
pieces to play with. She loves it!


Love this pic of daddy and Caleb!

New Years Eve:

Abby and Mary enjoying their food at the bar area.

Aunt Becky arrived ready to party in her jammies! ;o)

Time to dip Fondu! Yummy!

G-pa Hirschy and Caleb enjoying each other!

Mary wanted to hold Caleb and Abby jumped in the pic
before I could clean the chocolate off her face! LOL!

Ben and Caleb as we were waiting for the clock to strike midnight..

The girls getting ready to party with their
sparkling grapejuice! They made it to midnight!


Tired and very excited kids!

This is how we welcomed in 2009! What fun!

A few more cute pics of the growing baby boy..6 months in 4 days!

Modeling his new outfit from Uncle Mark and

Aunt Rachel..thank-you!

Ben plopped him in the basket and we had to get his pic..aww!


Enjoying sweet potatoes again! The bib he is wearing

was also made by our same friend who made our Christmas

stockings! She gave me a stack of bibs and they are very useful!

Thanks, Jane!

Caleb kept putting his toes in his mouth and everytime

I got out the camera, he put them down..figures! LOL!

Until next post....Liz

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Merry CHRISTmas!

Merry CHRISTmas to everyone! He truly is the REASON for the SEASON! I can not stand it when someone tells me "Happy Holidays"! I make sure to reply back "Merry Christmas"! If we as christians do not stand up for what we believe then "they" will get their way and it will turn into "Happy Holidays" and "Winter Break" and any other words that have nothing to do with Christmas! So...let your words ring out loud and clear...MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Our Christmas has indeed been merry! We have enjoyed time together with family and friends and eaten WAY more sweets than we needed to! Christmas only comes once a year and there are just certain sweets that only taste good during Christmas time! Right?! ;o) If I posted all the pics I have taken in the last few days it would take me literally hours! So, I will pick my favs and highlight our Christmas for you. Our Christmas Eve was spent at my parents making homemade pizza, opening presents and playing games. Christmas morning we spent at home. We finished our Advent story with our main character ending up at the manger to witness Christ's birth. And then with much anticipation, our kids opened their gifts! We 'played' with new toys all day long and then went back out to my parents for sloppy joes and spent time with some more friends that they invited over. We played Chicken Tracks, ate laughed, ate and had a fun time! My dad recieved the game Imagine if.. and boy, is it fun! We had some good laughs playing it! Our family was given a Nintendo Gamecube for Christmas as a family present and we have been enjoying playing it together as a family.
An update on our move: We found out that the couple interested were not able to get financed. We did have another lady call who is interested so we will see... please keep us in your prayers that God will send Danny a job or move us soon!


Our little elf....Caleb James 1st Christmas!

Ben, Abby, Caleb and Becca ready for Christmas!
A family pic taken Christmas Eve

A sweet pic of Caleb and Presley!

Matt and Ben ready to tear into presents!
Mark and Rachel were told to "look cute'!
Abby was thrilled with her Princess Art Set!

Ben was excited with his Magic Show Kit....and
yes, he has been putting on shows for us!

The new Barbie movie surprised Becca!
This year our gifts to our family were homemade personality snowmen ornaments! We all worked together in stitching,designing and decorating them. We had fun making them and they were a big hit! ;o)


Matt and Presley holding up theirs.

A close-up view

Mark and Rachel's. Mark loves Elvis and works
out all the time and Rachel loves green and wears
her hair in cute styles...we designed their snowmen
accordingly.

A close-up of their personality snowmen.

G-pa and G-ma with theirs.

Mom's has a bun hairdo and dad has his crossword
puzzle book. And they are both modeling wire glasses.

Caleb got a phone and a BIG bottle!

A greedy game of Disney Monopoly!

Christmas Morning:


Presents waiting to be torn into!

Bright-eyed Christmas Baby! Aww!
Ben digging the loot out of his stocking!


Caleb working on his new laptop!

Ben's Hotwheels Stunt Racetrack was one of
his favorite gifts!


Abby opened up a new baby that she has named
Hannah.

Becca recieved a sewing machine!

Ben modeling his new cowboy boots and toy gun.

Becca opened up a pair of pink cowgirl boots.
and so did Abby! We got a good deal on them!
There are many more pics but I am tired and you probably are too! I will post pics of them playing with their new stuff later. Enjoy HIS season!