Spring 2016

Here's our spring wrap up in photos...

Tea party for Downton Abbey finale

Denver enjoying his shower

Easter Egg Hunt with Brynn at her school

Girl's day tea party and Cinderella on stage 

Easter 

OSU Baseball game

Planting the flowerbeds

Remember the 10 run

These are just snapshots of what we did through March & early April and the fun we had.  Life, like always, was busy but Philip had transitioned into a job where he now had a tax season in the spring months instead of being busy with audit at the first of the year & then with the pregnancy it made spring seem like a flash in the pan when I look back.

That's life though & I am so very grateful for the activity & happiness & good people that God has surrounded us with that makes this short time we have here on Earth a pleasant experience.

Winter 2016

Winter 2016...our status was tax season for Philip, I was pregnant and working full time, and the kids were active and healthy so basically winter just got away from us in one big blur.  

Therefore regarding this post the attention to detail will once again be left to the pictures because, well, 5-6 months later is where we are now... but you can rest assured we had some good times...

Hair cut for Denver ....

as long as he has a sucker he does fine....

End result - pure cuteness

We visited Sayre...it was a little chilly but the kids still got to "help" some

There was a shoot out while we were there too...

February also brings Dancing with Daddy which is really a highlight moment each year for Annie

Valentine's involved treats for everyone

We then headed into March

where we had some fun evenings on our patio because it was such a mild winter...

The kids and I took at day during spring break and went to the science museum

And before we knew it we had turned around and winter was saying farewell and spring was March-ing in.

 

December fun

Since it is 6 months later & I am just getting to posting this there will be little detail - I'll just let the pictures do the talking but I think they will show we enjoyed our winter & holiday season...

Lighting up campus

Denver obviously was not a fan of OSU Santa

Ice skating - contrary to what the teenager behind the counter said if you can walk you can't necessarily ice skate....

Annie did well this year

Polar Express

Then the big day....

It was a fun Christmas with family & friends & the kids were great ages.

New Year's Eve we ate sushi & were in bed as the new year came in.  

2015 was a wild year, we bought a house, Philip changed jobs, and we found out God had bigger plans than we had for ourselves as we learned we'd be adding to our family.  It was stressful & exciting but a great year overall.

Suprise

There has been a lack of posting around here and this is the main reason:

In June we will welcome another Norwood into our home.  

The associated symptoms of pregnancy and it being a busy time of year for work have taken my free time away so hopefully at some point in the future I will get to posting Christmas and a little bit about winter 2016.

For now we press on and plan for the arrival of our Lily.

Annie is 6

Annie turned 6 in November and as is the norm I'm behind, but that makes it nonetheless important.

So here is the better late than never documentation of that event.

We took donuts to her school to celebrate and then listened as her teacher read through her birthday book of cards/pictures her friends made her.

That evening we had a sparkle party at our house where a friend of ours came and fancied up the guest's hair

Then girls made sparkle nail polish, sparkle lip gloss, adorned themselves with gaudy glitter temporary tattoos, and made blingy headbands. After that they broke a huge piñata and had more candy then they would every need that close to Halloween.  Due to the number of little girls and the amount of adult assistance these activities required I got very few pictures.

Brynny was there though!

We ate cake

and had pizza. Then girls ran around the house having fun until their parents arrived. 

The next morning we ate donuts (can you guess one of Annie's favorite foods) and Annie opened her family gifts.

Denver directed her in doing so

It was the year of the Shopkin which are these little plastic/rubber figures Annie likes to collect.

Later that day we went up to the campus where we all enjoyed the game day festivities and visited with friends.

At age 6 Annie has become more independent and continues to delight us every day with something she says or a sweet gesture she does.  She has matured and grown so much being in Kindergarten that we regularly get a bittersweet reminder of how fast time is flying by. 

She continues to be Denver's biggest fan, and has a caring little soul that will forever make her our sweet Annie even if at times we have to reign in the sassy.

I am so very grateful that God has blessed me with a front row seat to watch what he molds this little girl into.  Happy Birthday sweet Annie!