We have been enjoying having Tia home with us and adjusting to life with a newborn!

The day Tia came home to us X & O were exactly 13 months old.

Tia is only 1 year, 2 weeks and 1 day younger thanX & O.

Papa came by after work yesterday to meet Tia.

D'Angelo is thrilled to have a new little sister.

Auntie Jennifer, Rob & Emma sent us these pretty flowers.

Thanks!

Adeline likes giving Tia kisses too

BIG NEWS!
We have a new addition to our family.

She is the biological sister of our big boys.
Tia came home last night and the kids are very excited!
She was born on Good Friday March 21, 2008.
Weight: 6# 7 oz.
Length: 20"

Spring is still not here; we got more snow today! So, we headed over to the mall to play today. Here are my guys with their two friends.

Sadly this mall is closing down in June. I am gonna miss this place!

The kids are going to miss their horsey rides.

Hey Auggie, can you get any candy?
Let's all take a side
Mommy, I need money to make this thing work!

Here is a link to see

Xavier & Oliver 1 year portraits

Happy Easter

We had a wonderful day celebrating. I usually plan to get to church for the 9:30 service so we can actually make it to the 11:00 because my 5 monkeys don't always make it easy to get out the door looking presentable & on time. Well, today we attended the 9:30 service! After church we came home and gave the kids their much anticipated baskets of goodies. Poor D'Angelo had been asking for jelly beans from the moment we picked him up from his Sunday school class. My Dad, Deb & Josh came over soon after for our indoor egg hunt & dinner. Last week I was actually starting to believe that with the warmer weather we would be able to have an outdoor egg hunt! Foolish me. My sarcastic brother called me from sunny California this morning to ask me if we were going to hunt for plain white eggs in our snow filled yard today. Not so funny Eric.

Here are a few pictures from today.

one tired out little guy

first time letting me put pig tails in her hair-not even, but they're actually still in her hair!

Well we have had another great day here. It was 56 degrees. I took D'Angelo, Adeline & Auggie to see Seussical the Musical this morning with a few of our friends. Afterwards we went to Red Robin for lunch. We had a nice time especially since it is kid friendly & I never feel like we are bothering any other patrons...our party consisted of 5 adults and eight children. D & Addie went to Gaga and Papa's this afternoon. Auggie was upset that he was being left behind until I reminded him that we would be going to Josh's pancake breakfast tomorrow morning.

On another note, we went to the Flower & Garden show last Sunday so I wanted to post a few pictures:

We thought we had a great weather day yesterday at 41 but today it is 50 here! Sunny, beautiful and 50 degrees. Yesterday morning Grandma Debbie came over and we all took a nice walk over to the playground where the kids had fun running around and enjoyed the slides.

X & O Turn One!

Xavier and Oliver turned 1 on Saturday March 8th.

I can't believe how fast the year has gone. They are both anxious to get walking. Xavier is taking 4-5 steps at a time while Oliver gets himself across the room. They are enjoying climbing everything possible. They just laugh out loud when I catch them climbing from the couch onto the windowsill where they bang on the glass. They are not babies anymore....they are on the fast track to toddler hood. I guess I can blame that on them having 3 active siblings. They eat dinner with us and drink regular milk like everyone else. They still have their bottles but are drinking from sippy cups here and there. Amazing how it changes from 1st child to 4th & 5th...D'Angelo never had a bottle after his first birthday; Adeline just gave up her bottle 4 months ago and Auggie will still take one if you give him the opportunity.

We didn't have a big party but we did have cake, balloons and gifts. The big guys had been so excited to have the twins birthday party. The kids all went to play with friends Saturday morning for a few hours, then we came home and decorated the house together. Decorating with the help of three little guys is interesting. After dinner we had cake and presents. D, Ade & Aug love singing happy birthday over and over so that I will re-light the candles again and again so that they can help the babies blow them out.