Cookies!

Last Wednesday Meg, Kelsey, Kim, Mom and I got together to bake cookies for the Lloyd Company's annual Open House. We ended up with 6 kids in the house and we were still able to get about 30 dozen cookies made! Pretty impressive, huh?!

Oliver was happy. Jonas was too, except not in this picture!

Walker's pretty cute...even when he's getting in trouble, which happens quite often.
Adeline and Elliott always have fun together. Especially when they're sliding down the stairs or doing other things that probably shouldn't be allowed.

Malachi was in school for half the day so he didn't get a picture. He was a good taste-tester when he came home though!

Aunt Meg

These kiddos love their Aunt Meggie!

We're missing Kelsey's kids but I don't think Meg could have handled three more on her lap anyways! We were so lucky to have Megan in Bainbridge almost the entire week. She was a big help with baking and decorating for Thanksgiving, and watching and entertaining kids all week...oh, we also got to have lots of fun together in the meantime!

Thanksgiving

We have a lot to be thankful for and here are our top 3:

Are We Crazy?

Erik knew exactly how I'd like to celebrate my birthday, so he surprised me by inviting some of our friends over for pizza and cake tonight. All along I thought we were going to my parents' for dinner, but at six o'clock there was a knock at the door and people just started piling in! After the first few seconds of mentally checking the condition of my house (floor swept?, toilets scrubbed?, counters cleared off?, etc.) I relaxed and realized having so many people I love together at my house is one of my absolute favorite things. We are so blessed with such wonderful people in our lives!

Here's a picture of all the kiddos that were here tonight:
Wow, that's 16 kids in case you lost track! Thank goodness for the basement!

Erik, good job. You're the best and I love you. Thank you to everyone who helped me (and Anna who also had a birthday today!) celebrate!

My Silly Daredevil

Doesn't Elliott look like a sweet big brother?
Well, he is. Most of the time. But then the rest of the time he's more like this:

He's a force to be reckoned with! It's pretty much my full time job to keep him safe. Or rather to keep Jonas safe from him!

Jammies and Legos

Saturday was just one of those days. We didn't have plans so the boys got to do exactly what they wanted: stay in jammies all day and play legos! It was so fun to see them playing together so well...until Elliott messed up Malachi's creation!

And just in case you wondered what the other little guy was up to while all the lego construction was going on, here he is!

September Babies!

My Grandma Litter has 9 children (mom's number 6), 15 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren and 1 great-great-grandchild. Out of that many people and including everyone who has married into the family, there were NO birthdays in September...until this year! And now we have two - Audrey Alice was born on September 10th and Jonas joined her on the 22nd. Grammy Litter looks pretty happy about these additions, don't you think?