Carissa is 13

Happy Birthday! So grateful to have Carissa in our family.  She is so much fun to be with and says such funny things. I am amazed at how many friends she has at school.  She had a big birthday party with pizza and some games and then they watched "The Fugitive".  She has taken to the viola like a champ and this was a performance she did for parents. 

Thanksgiving

We hosted Thanksgiving at our house for the Andersons.  I didn't take one picture as I was busy cooking but it was a lot of fun.  We set up a table for the adults in the living room and put the teenagers in the library and the kids in the kitchen. We had Macia and Dan, Mark and Elizabeth with their kids and James and Andrea with their kids.  It was such a fun day.  I have no pictures from it but here are some funny pictures Carissa and Sophie took of themselves if they were 150 pounds heavier.  So even if Thanksgiving is yummy... don't eat too much:)

Some of their cousins were able to sleep over which was fun to go shopping on Black Friday as the girls had never been.  We stood in line at target as it wound up and down the parking lot.  We need to take more pictures. 

Lily watches too many shows on the computer

I let her watch some Sesame street videos on the computer and came down to find her like this.  So sweet.  She was sound asleep but didn't go to the trouble to move off the chair.