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| Hope hanging up her new ornament from Aunt Sandy |
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| Aliyah hanging up her new ornament too! |
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| And Samuel! |
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| Karys would rather eat hers than hang it on the tree :) |
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| Samuel doing the honors of putting the star on top |
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| The tree decorators in front of their decorated tree :) |
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| Karys decided she was too tired to stay awake for the fun! |
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| We picked out a great tree this year and we had some great helpers to make it look beautiful! |
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| Aliyah, Grandma, Samuel, and Savannah on the wagon (tractor pulled) that brought us out to the Christmas trees. |
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| Me and my Hope :) |
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| The hunt begins! |
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| I think this one might be it! |
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| Our family picture (plus Savannah!) in front of our 2013 Christmas tree :) |
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| Sweet Aliyah! |
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| Karys hanging with her Aunt Anna |
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| The 2013 Stegink family Christmas tree! |
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| Best friends :) |
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| Watching them load the trees up onto the wagon |
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| Karys fell asleep on the wagon ride back to the vans |
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| Santa's reindeer! |
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| Santa Claus was there!! My kids would NOT sit on Santa's lap! |
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| My Aunt Sandy also buys Christmas ornaments for the kids every year. I love this! |
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| Love spending time with my cousin Andrew and his wife Trisha. They have sweet little Cambry and are expecting another little one in May! |
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| Karys opening her first Christmas present. Buddy (my Aunt and Uncle's dog) and Karys loved "playing with" each other. Karys would try and grab at him and Buddy would bark and jump around and think she was playing with him. She'd get excited because he was excited and on and on it went. It was so cute! After a bit, Karys did get scared by all of the barking and started pouting. |
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| Helping great-Grandpa open his Christmas present. My Grandpa was recently diagnosed with Alzheimers. Every moment spent with him is so precious and so bittersweet. We love him dearly and it is difficult to watch him become so forgetful and unaware of what is happening around him. |
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| All the great-granddaughters playing with their new gifts :) |
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| Thanksgiving morning. So incredibly thankful for these three precious girls!! |
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| We went to Second CRC for Church in the morning before heading up to Grand Rapids to my Grandpa and Grandma Stegink's house for the big Thanksgiving dinner. I love starting out Thanksgiving day with going to Church and praising God for His many, many blessings! |
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| Thanksgiving dinner with my Dad's side of the family. The kids ate, and ate, and ate! Samuel had so many helpings of mashed potatoes that he couldn't eat his ice cream later in the afternoon. He also didn't eat much for supper that night at my Uncle Rick and Aunt Sandy's house. He just kept saying, "I'm still so full from all those smashed potatoes!!" |
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| So thankful for the blessing of family!! |
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| Aliyah's first time writing her name. She has all the right letters . . . now to work on getting them in the right order! |
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| A note from Samuel. Written without any help! |
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| Hope loves to draw on the magna doodle! |
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| See the belly button? :) |
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| Party on Mom's and Dad's bed! |
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| Sisters!! |
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| Life with kids! I'm not even sure which one of the 4 did this! |
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| Are you ready for Thanksgiving?! |
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| This, being their Mommy, makes me SO happy! |
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| Can you find Baby Jesus? "Come and Worship, Come and Worship, Worship Christ the Newborn King!" |
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| Hope trying to get out some wiggles! |
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| "Crutches" |
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| Karys had a little bit of a blowout. I went to change her diaper and Samuel said, "Mommy, it looks like a bat!" He has a point!! :) |
