Grace's Field trip at Lowe's

Ms. Roger's made sure that there were spots available for some of the K-4's siblings. Eric had fun being there with his sister. Guess what they're making...

Turkey recipe holders!!!

Putting Up the tree!!

We decided to put our Christmas Tree up the Sunday after Thanksgiving. I invited a friend over who's husband is also deployed. We had fun!! Eric found the "boots" ...LOL!!!
They are SO happy to put the Christmas tree up!!

Gavin's not sure what's going on... "Why are we putting up this tree?"

Putting the lights on the tree

We FINISHED!!!

Lookin' CUTE before bed!!

My FIRST quilt!!! :-D

Eric enjoying his NEW blanket from mommy!! The others can't wait for theirs. I can't even think of HOW i had time to work on something like this but i made it happen. Just so you all know how BIG it is, it fits a twin size bed!! I'm so excited about it and the next one I'll be working on.

AWE!!

The BEST, MOST awesome, peaceful breaks for me while my hubby's gone. Although this was bedtime, I have to sleep w/ them during nap time inorder for Eric and Grace to get any sleep. (when Grace is off from school that is.)

Our kids- Just 4 U daddy!!

Grace's HAIR just before curling it....lots of hairspray!!! All the curls fell out by the time it was time to go out for trick-or-treating anyway. We had fun fixing her hair!


The kids after the trick-or-treating and the harvest festival we went to.
Eric really KNOWS how to shoot the candle out, LOL. We were at the Harvest festival. He had so much fun shooting the flames.

Grace was outside enjoying the snow! On another day Eric is enjoying helping Gavin ride the tricycle in our basement. That's where they ride their bikes 9 months out of the year. The pic below they are havings snack after a nap time. (All these pics were taken w/in the last 30 days.)

Our Vacation And More

Here are just a few pictures that have been posted to show some of the things that we did on vacation. As you can see, Grace really enjoyed herself at the Tea House with all the girls. And of course no Boys were allowed.


Here is the great Train Station that we visited while in TN. As you can see all our kids enjoyed this event very much.






This is just one of those precious Moments of one cousin to the other. Eric is just getting in the Habbit as he should.




And here is our Precious Family of SIX. OOPS, did I say SIX. Well, Mom it is ironic that when you joke about something and it ends of to be true all I can see is Thank You Lord for Kid number Four. We found out just days before I departed the family. That's right family this picture contains the Quality of TWO loving Parents with their FOUR children. We are happy and blessed and will be expecting around the End of March 2008.

Our Bike Ride

After a short ride we made a well needed play
Stop for the Kids to display their enthusiasm and
courage as they overcame obstacles such as Gravity.
The Gravitational pull from earth is known as "Daddy".
Subsequently no animals were harmed in the
Filmography of this Exploration.



Here we are able to take a picture of a world trained athlete.
Eric Ray Shirley (AKA: The Beast) has stopped momentarily
to pose with Daddy.