Clemens Family: January 2016

Jaylee's 5th birthday.

This cutie is now 5 - can you believe it! and both Grandparents joined in through skype to sing happy birhtday. Fun times. Love you boogs! :)

This Christmas we surprised everyone by going to Grandpa and Grandma's house. the girls did not know where we were going until we were in the car. We get there at 2:00 am and send Jaylee upstairs to wake up Grandma and Grandpa - so she walks in and yells 'Boo!' all we could do is pray no one had a heart attack. :) But it was all good - And somehow still managed to get way more then was needed for Christmas. It was a great Christmas and we all had a lot of fun.

The girls are all dressed up ready for church.- in front of all those presents...

Us at church. Kirsten and June. Grandpa and Grandma with all the girls.

When we got home, we had too much fun opening presents. with their matching PJ's the girls get ready for bed - it was the last straw for Jaylee - overtired. but they were super cute.

Christmas morning stockings. Nice and full but this year Santa scaled way back to just right....

Shows

Kate and Anna go to bible club after school on Tuesdays. they built the whole tabernacle - was very cool to see.

Jaylee had a Thanksgiving show, was super cute as always!

Anna had her Christmas show - she really did well

We had a Christmas show at Church, even Jaylee got a line.
It was called the night shift before Christmas. I also know all the songs too. :)

Kate had her Christmas show too. Kate had a whole line. She also did really well.

Thanksgiving and some.

A tree I made for work, our Thanksgiving tree.
Supper proud of Jaylee - how far she has come with her writing in just a few short weeks.
We also got a stroopwafle machine and have been making these - hopefully I can get up and running to sell at the market or something like that.
Also at work, the kids having a blast playing in the leaves.

We went back to Maryland for Thanksgiving.
We went for a walk and enjoyed the great weather. The kiddos had fun playing on the rocks.

Thanksgiving dinner.

We have a new member in the family - Boots. He was a stray kitten outside that adopted us right when the weather got cold - there was no saying no. But that is fine with us. It took a while for Herb to accept him. Going away for a few days had us worried but we came back and they were pals.

Boots has actually trained Herb to be more of a lap cat - bonus!

Kate's 8th birthday

Dress shopping for the big event...

Papa and Kate made the cake together, was many layers of goodness.

Mary Poppins!!!!!!!!!
For Kate's 8th birthday we went and saw Mary Poppins. She had a truly enjoyed herself and it will be a night she will never forget.