Family Times

                              We have had some very fun family times exploring our new community this fall. We are really falling in love with Sussex,and enjoy living here. 

                                     Ryan snuggling with 3 of the girls on our deck.

Our very fun tire swing on one of the lovely maples  in our front yard.".Lovely" in the spring, summer and the first part of fall....

                                                This is what our front yard looks like now-days!!

                                                             But oh the fun the girls are having "raking" the leaves and  jumping in their huge piles,scattering the leaves once again!!

We have a gorgeous covered bridge 2 houses down the road from us,that we went on a family adventure to see one evening after supper. The girls were squealing with excitement as they ran through the gloomy length of the ancient bridge to the light on the other side.

  Elle,is a ray of sunshine in our family. Her gap toothed grin is always showing, and she is turning into a force to be reckoned with when she sets her little mind to something. She can clean the house just as fast as I can it seems and is very thorough at sweeping the floors, tidying , trying to help cook, whatever I need( or don't need!) her for she is anxious to do! She is the only one of the 3 oldest who doesn't have a  new best friend at our new church, but that doesn't really matter to her. She is always begging to sit with the teen girls or some other family at our church. She hardly notices that she is without a "bosom buddy" her age.

 Emmy ,this little lady is never without her fashion accessories these days..hats, earrings ,rings,it is so funny to see her run up to her little room and get all"gussied" up to go out now. Oh to be 9 years old again!!

                                        Our sweet Eva Has been going through a shy phase since we moved, but is slowly coming out of it and loves going to "Cubbies" all by herself .She loves playing with her big sisters and sometimes Elin..(when Elin is being nice). Eva still crawls into mine or Ryan's laps with her special snuggle blankie and we both love getting time with our Eva.

                                              This little turkey........ Elin is trying to be all grown up these days . She thinks she can do everything her big sisters can. She is a climber , a scrapper ,a mommy snuggler, at times a terror on 2 legs,and always mischief waiting to happen.   At 23 months her baby days are quickly fading into the past.She is in love with baby dolls, and will quietly sit wrapping them in a blankie, and unwrapping them again. She is into a "CHEESE" face whenever we take a picture, and my intelligent camera blinks up on the screen with every photo......"squinted eyes detected"...Yup very squinted!!

                                              Eva and Elle are becoming best friends these days and it is so fun to see.

                                           Me and my bestie!!!

                                       Doing some exploring with Daddy

                               Our 4 blue eyed,freckle faced (even Elin has a few!) ,blond haired little blessings who are growing up so fast. They fill our days with sunshine and we can't imagine how dull our lives would be without them!!

                               Elle and one of her fabulous bouquets she periodically picks for me. I was hoping there was no poison ivy in this particular one!!!