Gingers dog Duke is not at all afraid of the water. He'll get right in anytime.
Olivia just loves Ginger. She goes through withdrawals if she doesn't see her for a few days.
This is Sandy and Ty Kharazi. They lived next door to Ginger for years and she watched their kids and became a Grandma to them also. Their kids still come by often and Ginger will open the gate so they can come play with my girls. We miss the Kharizi's. They're in my brother Tony's ward now.
This is just a picture I took of Liv this morning. She is so cute to me. She is the only of my girls that loves having her hair done. She looks in the mirror after and thinks she's so pretty. Many mornings she comes into my bathroom as I'm putting on makeup and asks me to put some on her. She is for sure a prissy girly girl. I love her!!!
Here the girls are at the beginning of the year. Haley finished 4th and
Here they are at the end of the year. My nephew Logan was over all day today. I refer to him as my 4th child because he I get to have him over a lot. It's crazy how fast children can grow and change! I think my girls get prettier every year!!
They always have to do a silly face picture. Too funny!!
This morning, Chris and I put our girls (and Logan) to work around the house. After all, "Saturday is a special day.....it's the day we get ready for Sunday..." Anyway, the kids worked hard and got lots done, So Chris rewarded the kids with a movie. I dropped them off and hit the mall for an hour. ;) This picture is funny because apparently the sun was in their eyes, so they were all squinting or closing their eyes. Oh well, not every picture can be perfect. We had a fun day working as a family. It's nice that the girls are getting older and are capable of doing more.
I figured that as long as I was at it, I would do a couple more gifts. One of my favorite babysitters is getting married, so the Reynders one is for her bridal shower, and our neighbor is turning 73 this weekend.
These are two of my favorites. I made the Lead me months ago, and my sister Jen made the BE one for me.
Haley is the only of my 3 girlies to get my beautiful browns. Morgan and Olivia got Chris's awesome blue eyes. I love this picture of us because it shows our eyes. Though, you can see from the absence of Haley's smile, that she didn't want to take a picture. Sorry hon, my camera goes everywhere with me.
Chris and I are so proud of Haley. We challenged her to get straight A's. It's not that we would be upset if she didn't, but we just knew that she was so capable. She just needed to put in that extra push to achieve it, and we wanted her to feel the satisfaction of working toward something and achieving it. Haley has always scored advanced in the state tests, and after talking to her teachers, we realized that she wasn't getting a B here and there because the work was terribly challenging. She was moving through the work too fast so she could finish and pull out a book. Haley looooves to read. I have pictures of her at barely a year old, sitting and just flipping the pages in a book. We're very grateful that she likes to read so much, but she needed to slow down and take the time to check her work a little more. Now she gets to see the reward of her extra effort. Thank you Haley for working hard and being a good example to your younger sisters!
Dad and Nedra
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