I finally took Madalyn to get her 7 year old pictures taken, with four kids it's a lot harder to keep up on all the pictures. Madalyn turned 7 the end of September.
I was happy with the way they turned out. She is growing up so fast. She has become a great kid.
We are back to school now but we enjoyed a wonderful 2 week break. We stayed home this year and didn't go anywhere. The girls were lucky to get a surprise visit from Grandma Jenks and Monty. They came for a few short days after Christmas. We just stayed home and enjoyed our family.
Santa found our house, here are a few pictures of Christmas Morning around the Jenks Home.
Morgan enjoyed: bedspread, Nintendo DS, hello kitty projector, jell pens and craft supplies, clothes and shoes, crayon maker, activity center, movie and dance dress. Her favorite gift: four wheeler, DS and Hello kitty projector.
Natalie got: Bedspread (her and Morgan share), V reader with books, clothes and shoes, makeup and stick on earrings, the movie "Tangled" coloring light up paint, moon dough, legos, pillow pet, and a baby penguin. Her favorite gives: Makeup, penguin, twinkle toe shoes
Brooklyn: Baby food, hair bows, doll, musical toy. (Really what do you get a baby that has four other sisters)
Garrett and I had a great Christmas also, we love seeing our kids excitement. Christmas is so much fun for me. Garrett got: hunting socks and pants, tools to hang the deer up, shoes, down rigger for the boat, clothes, and a handy little tool that helps out with home projects ( i don't know what it's called I just bought it). Jilayne received: clothes, coat, running shoes, kitchen plates, necklace and earrings, a gift card to a day spa for a Relax and Renew package it's 3 hours of whatever I want (What a surprise)
Christmas Morning the girls woke up at 6:30am. I guess you could say Madalyn woke up and then she went into the little girls room and decided that it was time to go see what Santa had brought them.
Natalie opening her V reader, she is going to love this. It will get well used. Madalyn and Morgan got Nintendo DSi with a few games.
I love this time of year. I love Christmas morning to see the big smiles on their faces when they open the gifts and see what they got. Sometimes they got things that they hoped for and other times they got great gifts they had not even though about asking for. My kids are the perfect age for this time of year. These are the special moments when I wish they would never grow up.
Morgan opening her Crayon Maker, you put all you used broken crayons in to this and I melts it down and makes new wild colors and designs. The girls have enjoyed doing this. They love to see what kinds of different colors they can make.
Brooklyn enjoying her first Christmas, eating wrapping paper.
Natalie dumping out her stocking. In search for the candy she asked for. She had her pack of gum gone with 3 days.
All the girls got skechers Twinkle toes, they light up when you walk.
Natalie finally got makeup like the her older sisters. She also got stick on earrings.
Garrett and I had them open this gift last. I think that Garrett was so excited for the girls to open this one. Back in October he found a Yamaha 80 Grizzly four wheeler on Craig's list that he bought. He had been looking for about a year now for a good one. He got it all washed up and it looks like new.
When they first opened the boxes with the helmets in them they didn't know what to think. They thought that they were to ride their bikes. We asked that what would you use such a big helmet for? They did know. Garrett told them to look on the Christmas tree for something, they then found the key to the four wheeler. They were so excited and we have had a hard time keeping them off it. Madalyn and Morgan can drive it all by themselves, Natalie can drive but needs Garrett behind her.
It was exciting for Brooklyn's first Christmas, she loved the wrapping paper. We could not get her to give it up. She just cried when the paper got to wet and we had to get her new paper to play with.
These pictures are from the McGary Christmas party which was on Christmas Eve day, we had a very busy and eventful day. The McGary Party was in the morning and then the Jenks party was in the afternoon. After that we came home and the girls had drawn names with each other and they got to open the presents from each other that night. They were so excited to give each other their gifts.
Having fun with cousins. We ate lunch and then played Minute to win it games.
Brooklyn turned 6 months over the Christmas break, she also got her first tooth. This is early for us, much of the girls didn't get them until 9 months.
Natalie enjoying some daddy time. We were very lucky this year, Garrett was able to get some time off work and didn't have to work close to Christmas. It's nice having him be higher up on the latter.
Madalyn playing some games.
Brooklyn is so much fun, the girls love to dress her up in Princess clothes already. She came out of the kids room the other day with this on.
We have snow again!!!! Around Thanksgiving time we got our first snow fall, it stayed for about 3 weeks and then melted. We all thought that we would have no snow for Christmas then Saturday morning we woke up to 3 inches and then last night we got another 4 inches. What fun for the kids. They went outside and played and made snowmen with Garrett.
