Highlights of Elijah, Ian, and Abigail at the Classical Conversations year-end recital on April 16, 2013.

Abby, Elijah, and Nichole Tanner sing "Forever Reign" as Abby accompanies.

Piano Recital, May 20, 2011

Here is a clip of Abby playing and singing "Our God" with a worship band - its not the whole song, as I had to cut it down to a smaller size for now.

Here is her other recital piece:

Here is Ian, and then Ian and Abby together.

Sledding in the Frigid North

I took Ian and Elijah to a Cub Scouts sledding party in January. It was 12 degrees. But we still had fun! This is the sledding hill- it was basically a 50-foot plunge into a ravine. Fast and furious! Ian loved it, but it was a bit much for Elijah. Both times he ended up with a face full of snow. In 12 degree weather, that's hard to stomach at age 5.
Elijah got to try cross-country skiing, which he really enjoyed. He wanted to do it several times.

Ian got to try cross-country skiing as well, and he also really enjoyed it.

Where does he come up with this stuff?

This is a video Ian made on his digital camera. We have no idea where he came up with this, but it may have something to do with him watching NASCAR races with his Dad. Surely this is how Ron Howard would have started as a young man...

We're genuinely impressed with his creativity!

Birthday Girl!!

Aleah's First Birthday and Elijah Lost a Tooth!

Aleah's birthday cake - 24 cupcakes with a "sheet" of frosting over the top!

"After a year of no sugar, you're actually going to let me eat this?"

Aleah loves the water!

Ice cream cupcakes at Cold Stone



What's left of an ice cream cupcake at Cold Stone

Elijah lost his first tooth today, August 5th, 2010.

Where's Elijah?

Aleah was looking around for Elijah, and shouting his name!

New Photos - family and house - 23 total

New table in the dining room (deck in the background)
Abby's Room (with Abby in it!)

Ian's room

Family room in the basement

"Den" with the fireplace and the piano

Guest bath

Elijah's bedroom

Aleah's room

Living room

Aleah after her second haircut (John gave the first, and she went to Cost Cutters an hour later for her second!!!)

Abby's new haircut

Aleah being cute

Abby's first day at Price Lab School - March 1

Ian's first day at Price Lab School - March 1

We sold the old house!

SOLD!

Aleah in one of Abby's old outfits

Aleah

Ian shouting orders from a tank at the Grout Veteran's Museum in Waterloo

Aleah before her first and second haircut

Kids in their Christmas pajamas

Aleah

Aleah in the "family" pajamas (there is a photo of each of our kids in front of the Christmas tree in these pajamas).

Family pictures 2009

Have a Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year!

John, Nichole, Abigail, Ian, Elijah, and Aleah

Halloween 2009

This year for Halloween we had the following: A princess, Indiana Jones, a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, and a Tootsie Roll (toot,tootsie roll). Check it out:

Now on to Thanksgiving!

Back to School

Elijah's First Soccer Game

Here is a short video montage (0:1:30 long) of Elijah playing soccer from tonight's game, his first.

Stop Motion Fun

Ian and John made this very short stop motion lego movie. We were jsut messing around, trying it out. Its our first one...

Photo Montage

Aleah's Grandpa Smith took these photos, and assembled them in a video. Nice work!

Kids Say the Darndest Things

Here are some of our favorite quotes from the kids over the past few years:

Abby got a box of Nilla Wafers as a treat from the store on the way home. She said "Mom! The box says- 'No Cholesterol-OMG!'" She was apprehensive thinking OMG meant "Oh My God," which we don't like to say. I told her that OMG was really 0mg - zero milligrams!

Ian asked Abby on the way home from church if she wanted a little advice now that she was going to share a room with the baby. She said, "Sure." He said, "Don't leave the lid open on the garbage!" He had shared a room with Elijah and had experience with dirty diapers!

Elijah was complaining that he had a sore in his mouth, and announced to us that he had a "cankersaurus." (Pretty sure he meant canker sore...!)

Nichole was playing "this little piggy" for the 100th time with Elijah and she started to get silly...
"This little piggy went to Target,
This little piggy stayed in the cart.
This little piggy ordered a mocha latte,
This little piggy had none.
This little piggy cried 'Wee wee wee' because he had to take a nap."
Abby explaimed, "Mom! That's like your life!"

Nichole and I read 1 Kings in the Bible about the Queen of Sheba coming to visit King Solomon. Ian stopped and asked, "Dad, wait a minute. How come we just read about building the Temple and now people are coming to visit? How come it skipped and didn't talk about adding some 'homey touches' or some furniture?"

Only recently has Elijah learned that the Dairy Queen treat is actually a Blizzard, not a Lizzard!

We settled on a middle name

Last night we finally decided on a middle name for Aleah: Claire.

Aleah Claire Flint.

Here she is!

In no particular order:
Aleah with Grandpa B
With Grandma Mary

In her special outfit:

Hangin'out

Resting in her first bath

Not enjoying her first bath all that much

John and all FOUR kids

With Grandma Joyce

Nichole and all FOUR kids

Ian and Aleah - He's a proud big brother!

Elijah and Aleah (he could hardly stand to not be holding her!)

Abby and Aleah- She is so excited to get to help!

Nichole with Aleah Friday afternoon

Aleah arrived at 2:45 am on July 24th. She was 6 lbs 12.2 ounces, and was 20.5 inches long.