There are over 400 pictures here. Consider yourself warned.
Olivia at school:
Gretchen at school:
Kaitlyn at school:
Pictures at Grandma and Grandpa's:
A project done at the neighbor's house:
With Rudy and August:
Our basement work in progress:
Kids playing on the clubhouse:
Discovering a
dinosaur unicorn bone:
Theodore:
A chilly bright week hike:
And a chilly bright week softball game:
Matching masks from Oma!
Gretchen made this dress. It's held together primarily with scotch tape, so durability might be an issue:
Gretchen at a friend's bowling birthday party:
This is not a current picture. Jillian, James, Johannah, fall 2005?
Olivia's piano recital. And with her friend, Elaine. May 2021.
At Bryan's cousin's wedding. June 2021.
Some friends spotted Kaitlyn and Bryan at the store:
The Smiths Visit:
The boys use the rug as a blanket:
New haircuts for the boys! Carrie cut the hair and took the pictures.
Theodore at grandma's house. Probably roaring.
Matthias's birthday:
Pool party at grandma's:
More pictures from grandma and grandpa's:
Dinner at the Met. Not pictured: Bryan. Or dinner.
I can't remember what this picture was supposed to prove.
Matthias's dream vacation with grandma and grandpa:
Baking for the cookie walk:
Kaitlyn and Matthias hold Samuel:
Gretchen reads to her brothers:
I told Bryan not to touch the dough before baking it. He has regrets.
Fancy dresses:
Someone thought our calendar would be better if all the magnets were flipped over.
And oil change:
Planting a forest of maple tresse:
Snow, two days after we planted the trees:
Migraine Johannah looks like a strung out celebrity:
He thinks he fits. He's wrong:
At least Theodore put on boots:
Gretchen's unicorn birthday cake, more pictures of the dinosaur unicorn bone discovery, and other birthday happenings:
A new lego table:
Miscellaneous family pictures:
This is how we discovered that Theodore could open jar lids.
Playing with buckets:
The Weys visit:
Everyone stores their colored pencils in a slice of bread:
Gymnastics awards:
Matthias is very proud of this dragon he got me:
Me: Take this Styrofoam directly to the trash can. Do not shred it all over the floor.
Girls:
Such helpful boys:
Pictures for grandma:
A new project -- extend the patio:
Grandma wanted more options:
Bryan spends a lot of time buried under toys:
Making faces:
Snug as a bug:
We made a dinner cake:
Theodore uses a fancy glass:
Gretchen's summer baseball experience:
Take 9 women to Ikea... Yes, all those carts are ours.
Preparing for a pillow fight:
Adding detail to reverse coloring pages:
More Keshia and Tyler's house pictures:
And more bucket pictures:
Someone got into the pantry:
Zoo pictures:
Twin dinosaurs:
Poor sick baby:
Matthias: Mom, I spy... A ball!
Gretchen's fashion statement:
Matthias got a punching dinosaur for his birthday:
A dinosaur cake:
Kaitlyn's inventinve spelling:
Theodore likes to pick one thing each shopping trip to be his favorite:
4 out of 5 down for the count:
This is life as the fifth:
Relaxing:
Packed to the brim for a week long series of trips:
A failed selfie of 9 people:
Me:
Art projects:
Counting cans:
Olivia is 10:
Kaitlyn and Kevin:
Walter is taller:
The finished patio. We did eventually get rid of the cage.
Picking up uniforms for Kaitlyn:
Theodore found a slug:
Playing in the sprinkler:
Watching a movie:
First (or maybe third?) day of school:
All pictures are growl worthy:
Baking a cake:
Theodore's birthday:
So much regret:
Gretchen took an art class:
Hiding from the video game police:
The gateway color. September 2021.
Mom and Theo:
Curious boys:
Theodore thought he'd improve the calendar:
Pockets!
Matthias shut Theodore in the cage so he could eat his lunch in peace:
I lost Matthias. When I followed the snores, he was rolled up in the rug.
Gretchen got a chance to play goalie:
School pictures:
Reading together:
The girls found dress up clothes from my childhood:
Making applesauce:
A new haircut:
She didn't buy these glasses, but they made her laugh:
Bryan's least favorite place to find children: In the doorway.
Us:
And me:
We rearranged to watch moveis:
Visiting the Bossards:
When Theo's seat faces the front he deals with the sun like this:
Out of batteries:
Organizing Qwirkle:
Playing with the boys:
Samuel at his baptism. Feb 6, 2021.
Olivia at school. May 2021. We need to work on that Aufdemberge slouch:
I fixed our clock to show Matthias's most import ant times of day. Purple is when his sisters come home. Green is when we have screen time. Pink is bedtime.
Enjoying the trampoline on a mild December day:
A roller skating dance party:
Our Christmas picture:
Presents at Grandma and Grandpa's:
Decorating sugar cookies:
Matthias thinks he looks like Uncle Tyler:
Video games:
Ticket to Ride:
A nap in the kitchen:
Full of Christmas spirit:
Thanksgiving with the cousins.
Theodore, Annemarie, and Joseph find a television:
They have their own beds...
Olivia at her November recital. And Matthias's shoes, because he was the photographer.
Theodore and mom:
A marble run:
Dinosaur life:
Joseph and Theodore play cars and piano:
Bryan didn't match the lightbulbs. Now we have a weird spotlight.
A trip to the zoo:
This is how Olivia's fourth grade teacher announces parent teacher conferences:
The boys liked this giant chair. Matthias liked the giant tires:
Gretch:
Cousins:
Christmas pajamas and pictures:
This is not who we expected to catch playing the wii:
Why are we making this face?
The boys leave their beds for a book-filled sleepover on the floor several times a month:
More cookie walk:
Kaitlyn was a sheep in the Christmas concert:
Slippers. Matthias, Kaitlyn, Theodore:
Ugly sweater day:
Someone found his Christmas gift early:
"We're a three headed monster!"
A potholder dinosaur and a backpack full of dinosaurs.
Hair dye adventures:
His mom bought him this shirt and he loves it. No one knows why on either count:
Applying hair chalk:
A cousin picture with hair chalk:
Kaitlyn visits Rudy:
Post bleach, pre pink dye:
Making fudge and reading a book:
Trying to get a Christmas cousin lineup:
