Baby Shower

Opening Gifts - between me and my twin tummy - there wasn't much room on the chair for the presents - ha!ha!

The Fabulous Hostesses - Gail & Laura

Friends

A & E for Anneka and Emmaline. Soon our family picture will be outdated! We'll need to get one of the five of us :-)

Isn't this diaper cake awesome? The branches at the top even light up - soooooo cute! Our nursery theme for the girls is birdies and the colors are pink and green and brown - the cake is completely coordinated. Thanks Jenny!

"Twin" pigs in a blanket

Opening More Gifts

Delicious Food

Double layer dip, double layer jello, twin olives on a toothpick, twin cheese cubes on a toothpick - love all the creativity, Gail!

Another shot of the fab diaper cake

Isn't this the cutest cake ever? It was a perfect match to the shower invitations. Of course, it was chocolate and also tasted delicious!

My friends threw me a wonderful baby shower last week. It was so much fun! Everything was "twin" - even the food :-) We are ready for little Anneka and Emmaline when they make their appearance in 4-6 weeks! The shower took place at my house - which was fantastic - my friends did all the work, and I just sat back and enjoyed it. Thank you everyone!

Katherine's 4th Birthday!

Ready to eat birthday dinner at Young's Dairy

Eating dinner and ice cream at Young's

Katherine checking out the goats at Young's Dairy

She really liked the cows!

Trying out the tractor

"Driving" the train

More Goats

She wanted a My Little Pony cake for her party

Playing in the back yard with her friends

Silly girls!

Opening her presents

Riding her new bike in the garage

Katherine turned 4 on July 1st. We had a fun family night on her actual birthday, and then had a party with her friends a week later.

Memorial Day Weekend

We FINALLY enjoyed some beautiful, sunny weather here in Dayton, OH! Perfect timing for the long Memorial Day weekend. Here are some pictures of Katherine enjoying time in her little pool and showing off her new swing set. She is so excited to have her own "park" right in the back yard. Wolfgang and some friends from church set it up last night. We still need to install the canopy part, but Katherine is happy to be swinging and sliding. I can already envision a couple of baby swings being added next spring / summer so that Katherine can push her little sisters while mommy and daddy relax on the back porch (an unrealistic dream perhaps, but here's hoping - ha!ha!).

Barbies

I got out my Barbies for Katherine to play with! She loved it! It was so much fun to go through my old things and remember the countless hours that I spent dressing my Barbies and doing their hair. I think I had as much fun as Katherine.

Christmas 2010

Oma wearing her new fleece jacket that I made

Tante Ursula and Elise

Arranging the presents

Daddy helping Katherine with her new marble tower

Putting together a big puzzle

Katherine helping Great Grandma with a present

Great Grandma, Katherine, and I

Mom wearing the fleece jacket I made for her

Dad and I

Wolfgang and I

You can see a little bit of Katherine's cast here - she was napping on Grandma's lap.

Out playing in the snow - the broken arm isn't slowing her down a bit :-)

Hector relaxing in the sun

This year we were able to spend fun family time with both the Krenzer and the Breisch families. We did have a bit of holiday excitement when Katherine broke her right arm on December 20th. It was a compound fracture, and she had to have surgery that night. Thankfully, the bone is healing well, and she is doing just fine using her left arm. The cast comes off on January 19th!

Summer Fun with Grandma and Grandpa

Off to see the Dayton Air Show

Swinging at the Air Show

Playing in her pool

With Gma in the pool

Here are some more pictures of Katherine having fun with Grandma and Grandpa during their visit. I think Grandpa took most of these pictures, so sadly he is missing from lots of them, but he was right there having fun, too!

Creation Museum

During my parents' last visit, we were able to go to the Creation Museum in Kentucky. Katherine had lots of fun showing Gma, Gpa, and Great Gma all the dinosaurs. The museum is really well done. It is so refreshing to go to a place that has such sound Biblical teaching and information.