Family of FIVE!!!

Gramma and Grumpa stayed a whole week to help mommy with all the kids! What a HUGE help! Thanks!!!!!!!

Brooke is so sweet when she sleeps, well she is actually sweet no matter what she does!!!!!

Finally Brooke and mommy got to leave the hospital and go home!!!

Big brother Chance is SO happy Brooke is home!

So is big sister Avery!!!

Mommy is SO MEAN! She gave Brooke a bath! She did not like it at all!!!!!

After the bath she was all comfy in her towel!

Finally all dressed and looking a little wormlike! Look how big my eyes are!!!

Visitors!!!!

Aunt Bethie had a ton of little visitors!!!!!!! I had Chance, Carmen, Avery, Kellen, Jeremy, Nolan, and Jillian all over for a visit!!! (Plus Aunt Leah, Uncle Jon, Aunt Rachel, Nana, Papa, Gramma, and Grumpa!)
Here I am with all my visitors!! You can't really see Nolan, but her was there too!

Our first family of five photo!!!

Aunt Joleen and Uncle Brad came out to check out our new bundle!!! Aunt Jo will be having a baby girl in April, so I'm sure these two girls will be best buddies, just like Carmen and Avery are!

Chance holding his new baby sister!!!!

Now it is Avery's turn!!!

And finally, Daddy's turn!!!

Baby #3

Here are the two big kids waiting for the arrival of their new baby sister!!!!!!!!!

The first glimps of our princess, Brooke Alyssa!!!!!!

Mommy finally gets to meet her little girl!!!!

Here is the classic first photos of baby with the goopy eyes, swelled face, and double chin! Even with all that, we think she is beautiful!!!!

Daddy spreading the good news, and big brother Chance checking out his new baby sister!!!

Theses two are photosof Joleen and I at Christmas. We are roughly 9 weeks apart.

These two are us at Thanksgiving!!

Photos from our ice storm. It took out a few good chuncks of a few of our trees, as you will see in the next photos.

COOKIES!!!!!!!! These are our X-mas cookies. My grandma Hanck's recipe. YUMMY.

I frosted and Adam and the kids decorated. We let the kids be creative. Lets just say the cookies were loaded with tons of sugar and candies!!!

They took their jobs very seriously!!!!

I know I look hot! No need to comment on that!!!

Here are the kids helping to mail out the Christmas cards. For those of you who took our address off of the return lable, I'm sorry but that was my work address and not our home address. We did not move. I got the lables free and they were very pretty, so we used them. It wasn't until we were almost done with the cards that Adam looked at them and showed me that they had the wrong address on them. If you need my correct address, let me know and I will e-mail it to you.