Thanksgiving Holiday

The BIG beach house!

The four siblings!
Could she be any cuter??

All of us trying to get a good group picture....do you have any idea how hard it is to get everyone to look at the camera and smile and not have their eyes closed??? Let me tell you it is pretty near impossible!
My sister and her beautiful family!!

Josh and I (I so wish Maddux could have been there

and then we would have had our Christmas picture!)
Ma loves nothing more than to combine things. Things like chips, cereal, etc. pretty much anything. Well she decided she would mix the dishwashing detergent with the little bit of Joy that was left and the result was bubbles POURING out of the dishwasher. It was really funny!
Ok, I am going to post some better pictures, but this one makes me laugh everytime. It is my cousins Mario and Madison. Sydney is in the middle and in this picture I really think she looks like Fiona from Shrek. I love her!!
My PAPA!! I love you!
The girl cousins....butts get progressively bigger!!

Hello all! So no I did not have time to blog on my vacation to Florida. Ryan, Samuel and I left Tuesday after I got off work and headed down to Valparaiso. Traffic wasn't to bad once we got out of the city and we got to Ma and Papa's around 11:30. And that night was the best night of sleep I got all week. Don't get me wrong, I had a great time in the BIG house......but 12 kids under the age of 12 in one house that get up at 5:45 AM and start running up and down the stairs and yelling is not conducive for good sleep. Oh well, who wants to sleep on vacation anyway. I enjoyed hanging out with all my cousins/aunt/uncle/grandparents and the beach was absolutely beautiful. It was perfect weather! It got pretty cold towards the end of the week, but on Wednesday/Thursday morning I was wishing that I had brought some shorts. I took about 300 pictures so I am not going to post all of them, but I will put some of my favorites up. Thanks to Mom, Auntie, and Ma and Papa for all the work yall put into it. Yall will have to take a vacation after the vacation to get rested up.

Please keep Papa in your prayers. He is down in his back again and I HATE to see him in pain and not up whipping us in Rook. Hopefully he will get better soon!!