Thursday, January 03, 2008

Jonathan's great talent...

Jonathan surprised us by playing his mandolin behind his head!!!

Shopping with Aunt Karen....

While we were at the park, Aunt Karen came and picked us girls up to go shopping. We had a fun time!

Fun at the playground....

Near our grandparents place, there is a park. To give the moms a break, Uncle Jonathan and Daddy took us kids to the playground. We had a blast!



My wonderful twin cousin!!!
Daddy pushing Sarah in the swing.

Uncle Jonathan with the 2 youngest
On the way to the park
The kids having a great time spinning!
Our wonderful Uncle


The twins chasing Jonathan Jr. (can you guess who won:)

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Friday with our cousins....

We had a delightful time with our cousins ! Their were 17 people staying in one house which made for a very cramped house!! Especially with most of the population of kids!!!!!!


Elizabeth, Jonathan,Evangeline, Christopher


Matthew was the cutest thing you ever could imagine!!!!







Sarah Rose
Jonathan being a kind older brother
Evangeline trying to play the mandolin:)




Cute little Caleb

Arriving at our grandparents...........

This year was the Hostetter get together. The Kline's came up to PA and we went down to PA.










Our sweet Kaitlyn found out on the way up, that she has sugar diabetes.She was very brave when she had to get the shots!!! We all felt really bad for her, because the rest of us would be eating ice cream, and she couldn't have any! She handled the situation very well!!!
Heidi in action!
Most of us kid stayed on the 3rd floor. All of us 7 girls slept in one room! It made quite cramped conditions!!!

Some of the time our other cousin Danielle came over (the one in the green shirt).

Sarah had fallen down between two of the beds.

Daddy got his 1st deer......

This past Thursday, our family left to go down to our grandparents in PA. We were having a peaceful ride on the side of a steep incline, when all of a sudden, from the side of the cliff, a deer leaped right in front of our van! Usually you miss animals by a little bit. Not this time!! It hit smack in the front of the van. Thankfully it didn't hit the windshield, but it smashed the radiator. I was sitting up front when all of a sudden I saw this brown thing fling at us. I thought it wouldn't hit us, but then it crashed. All I could distinctly see were the hoofs flying up. We were going about 65 miles per hour. We could hear it crunch under our van. When we pulled off the road, and another car stopped and checked if we were alright. Thankfully, we were okay!!!! I thought our van was fine till I got out and saw the front smashed.. We had to wait till the tow truck came, then we had to go back to the garage to change drivers, because we were about 80 miles away from our grandparents.



The police car that came to help us.
The back of our van, with the flairs
Elizabeth, Evangeline, Me, and Mommy.
Daddy was freaking out, but I thought it was an adventure.

Our van on the truck.

Friday, December 21, 2007

Annual Christmas surprise for the Fulton Police Chief....

Each year all three of us girls go down to the Fulton Police Station and do a surprise rendition of something for the police chief who is a good friend of ours. This year the theme was "We Three Queens"..... We sang our own rendition of "We Three Kings" as seen on the video. You should have seen the look on the officers faces when they saw us coming in dressed up like that! It was one of the most embarrassing things we have ever done, but hey, what you don't do for friends! Needless to say, Chief enjoyed it!


(Photo: Elizabeth, Chief Mark Spawn, Evangeline and Emily)

It's Winter!








Elizabeth / Emily
Evangeline, Elizabeth and Emily



Evangeline

Fall photos from our trip to Letchworth State Park, NY










Reflection of the trees in my cider....