Happy Birthday, Jesus!

It gets harder and harder to try and get our extended families together for the holidays. So this year was a little different. We got together with Jared's family the weekend before Christmas and with my family the weekend after. So that left Christmas day for just the four of us. Jared and I have never had Christmas day to ourselves....ever. We have always been at one of our parents house or traveling on the day. So I was so excited and was looking forward to making a big meal and just relaxing with my family. It was so fun. We woke up and opened gifts, Jared read the Christmas story, had breakfast, and then the girls and I started in on making Jesus' birthday cake. That was too much fun! I then started on dinner...we had ham, broccoli rice casserole, mashed potatoes, rolls, marshmallow salad, and birthday cake. It was delicious and I felt very Susie homemaker! So thankful for Jesus and for his sacrifice. It was such a blessing to celebrate Him with my family. Happy Birthday, Jesus!

 

Our birthday party for Jesus was awesome. The girls picked out what type of cake. Claire was convinced that Jesus would love chocolate cake with chocolate icing and of course, sprinkles. And she would be right!!

(no matter how hard I tried to fix it the first two pics are out of order.uggg)

                                                                                                                                                                        

 

That's my girl!!

Happy Birthday Jesus! We're so glad it's Christmas...

Singing Happy Birthday!



Family Pictures 2012

On Tuesday it was such a beautiful day and it was a warm day so as soon as Jared got home from work I told him we were off to take family pictures. I am sure he loves it when I do that but he was a very good sport. We got dressed and packed a sack dinner. Peanut butter sandwiches for lunch and dinner should not be allowed but hey it was all I had. Anyway, we went to a new park that my friend Candice introduced me to and I love it! It is beautiful and I hope to take a have a few family sessions there soon.

I brought the tripod and would run back and forth from the camera. The girls thought it is fun at first but then it started taking too long and they were done taking pictures real quick. I did get a few good ones and would like to share.

LOVE MY LIESER FAMILY!!

 

 

 



Halloween 2012

This year I asked the girls what they wanted to be for Halloween. Last year I suggested Claire be Tinker Bell and she loved the idea. Quinn has not had a choice until this year either.

 

Claire right away said she wanted to be a doctor. I was relieved because that is pretty easy. I bought a pair of scrubs online and handkerchief (for her scrub hat) and we were set. We already had a toy doctor kit that had a stethoscope and other doctor tools... that I don't know the name of and am very glad Claire hasn't asked what they are called.

 

Dr. Claire Lieser

 

The girls have been playing buyer/seller together. When my sister and I were kids we called it Wal-Mart. One of the girls would go around the house and pick out things to buy and bring it to the other and that one would ring everything up and collect the money. Quinn gets confused sometimes as to which is the seller and the buyer. When I asked her what she wanted to be for Halloween she said she wanted to be a buyer. So I asked if that meant she wanted to be a shopper and she said no she wanted to be the one that went beep at Target. So....Quinn went as a Target Employee. Another easy costume. All I did was make the name tag and we borrowed the walkie talkie. I think the walkie talkie made the outfit even cuter.

Cutest Target worker ever!

We had lots of Halloween fun this year. We went to First Baptist Jenks Fall Festival on Sunday night. The girls played games and jumped in a bounce house and of course brought home candy. Then on Halloween morning we had a MOPS play date party and everyone dressed up. It was so fun and the girls got to play games and do crafts.

Mommy was a cowgirl.

Quinn made the bat and Claire made the owl at our MOPS party.

Then Halloween night we went to a nearby neighborhood and did a little trick-or-treating. It has been fun eating the girls' candy!

CANDY!!!!

 

Lieser work day

Every year once fall begins we get together at Jared's parents house and we have a work day. This year the boys helped cut down trees and make firewood and the girls did yard work. I helped watch the kids and Aunt Flavia brought paint to paint pumpkins. The girls love their cousins and it makes work days fun watching them play together.

Grandma Riley

My grandma had her 80th birthday this October and our family got together to celebrate her.

 

Grandma with great grandkids

Grandma and my brothers and sister
Jake, Amber, Grandma, Josh, Autumn

Happy Birthday Grandma!