Abigail Price

Shutterfly...making Christmas cards stress free.

Shutterfly is an amazing picture site where you can get lots of great products from cards, stationary, photo books and lots of great photo gift ideas.

They make Christmas cards so easy for us with four kids. Do you know how hard it is to get a picture of four kids looking and smiling all at the same time? Super hard. Well, Shutterfly has many multi photo card options where I can include an individual of each child, using their best shot and don't have to stress about getting a good pic with all four smiling and looking at the same time.

http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-photo-cards

Every Christmas as part of David's gift we make him a calendar for his desk at work. I typically will hear from David at work the day he flips his calendar to a new month, as he sees the newest picture.
http://www.shutterfly.com/calendars/desk-calendars

One thing I have not used before is their thank you cards. I will definitely be using these in the future. What a great way to use your favorite picture from an event and turn it into your thank you note. With all three girls birthdays coming up this will be a great way to say thanks for all their great birthday gifts.
http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/thank-you-cards

I think my absolute favorite thing about Shutterfly is for just simply writing this post about Shutterfly and passing their information on to you I can get 50 FREE HOLIDAY CARDS!!!! That is so amazing!!! I love Shutterfly!!! By doing this and with the great selection of products, they are helping make a part of the holiday season stress free for me.

How About ..Duck Duck Goose

I love the mind of a three year old. I have been trying to really cherish this time with Lauren we have about an hour every morning when John is napping and the girls are at school. We work on "schoolwork" (letters, numbers, and shapes). She is quit the talker and has quit the imagination, which anybody who spends about 5 minutes with her picks up on.
Tonight was her last soccer game of this fall season.
As I was getting her dressed before her game I asked her if she wanted to play soccer again in the spring or if she wanted to try something else. Without skipping a beat she says, "How about... Duck, Duck, Goose!"
Crack me up!! LOVE it!! David and I have gotten a big laugh out of it all evening.

Kindergarten

I can't believe the time has really come, but our baby girls have started kindergarten. We are just over a month into school and they are still completely in love with school. They are little reading machines and have learned so much in the first month I can only imagine what kind of amazing progress they will make over the year. The teacher Mrs. Combs is AMAZING!!! She pushes them to learn, but still lets them be 5 and enjoy themselves.
The night before school started there were a lot of nerves in our house, a little from them, but A LOT from mommy. I didn't realize how hard it would be to send them off to school. I have been at home with them since they were 2 1/2!! They are my babies and I really miss them while they are at school. It is giving me a lot more one on one time with John and Lauren. Then in the afternoon, there is nothing better than seeing those two smiling faces run to us, "MOMMY!!" Laying in bed snuggling with them the night before school started we talked about how they were feeling and if there was anything they were worried about. I told them I would pick them up in the afternoon, "But mommy, we have all day school. You don't pick us up until bedtime!" How cute?!?! There was a lot of concern about music and that they wouldn't know how to play all the instruments, like the flute! I had to explain to them that most likely they wouldn't be playing the flute for music class. The other big concern of course was the playground. When would recess be and would they get to play on the big playground with the big kids.
Anna has joined the dance team for K-2nd grade. This should be interesting, as it is the first big thing the girls have done apart from each other.
David and I were a little worried about how school would go and if they would be pushed to their full potential. It appears that there is nothing to worry about, as they are making good progress!!!

I know I have said this before...

but I can absolutely not believe that it has been all summer since I have posted. So much has happened in the last few months.
We have FINALLY moved in the new house, Anna and Sarah have started kindergarten, John is walking. They are all growing and changing so fast and I don't want to continue to let time go past without posting. I often wait to make a post until there is a picture to attach. And often those pictures remain sitting on my camera for WAY too long.
So, my plan is to for the next few nights type at least one post to get us caught up on the craziness around here we call life.

Our Baby Boy is ONE today!!

Picnic with his sisters.
He LOVES to swing!

and eat!

I can't believe he is already one! Where has this year gone!

Life is so busy right now, but we took a little time out today for our little man and had a picnic and play time at the park.

It has been such a great year with John. He hasn't been sick, yet! (knock on wood) The only visits we have made to the pediatrician were for well visits and his little incident with almost biting through his tongue.

He is such a momma's boy, which is totally ok with me. The first thing he said this morning when I went to get him out of bed was, "awww, mama" and gave me a big hug! Just melts my heart.

We have been doing sign language with him as we did with the girls, although he doesn't show as much interest as they did. He can sign: more, eat, milk, thank you.

He is a talker though. He can say: mama, dada, nana (for Anna, hers is definitely the easiest to say), girls, go, bye bye, thank you, boom, night night, Kate. Of course is not all completely clear, but we know what he is saying.

He absolutely loves his sisters and when they aren't close by, you will hear him start calling, "girls!"

He loves watching the play soccer and sits with mommy and yells right along with me, "go, go, go!"

He isn't completely walking yet, but will take some steps here and there. I think he has decided that his speedy crawling is faster to keep up with the girls and in a house of 4 kids everything he wants is pretty much on the floor, so who needs to stand! :) And it is fine with me, with the others I was always so anxious for them to walk, but with the fourth I will try to keep him little for as long as possible.

He is completely off formula and only taking one bottle at night time. The girls I had them off bottles pretty quickly, but again he is my fourth and I like him being a baby. I enjoy our snuggle time before bed. It will go soon though because I am tired of cleaning bottles.

Happy Birthday John!! We love you so much and have really enjoyed your first year with you and look forward to watching you grow and learn!!

Soccer Begins

Our big girls started soccer this past week. They just look so cute in the gear!! They were both very nervous before practice, but excited. I think they just weren't to sure what to expect. They left practice jumping for joy and completly in love. Ever since then they have been kicking the ball up and down the hallway and playing all the time. I think soccer may last a while in this house. Lauren will start practice this next week.