We're still here...

I know you all were probably wondering if we were still around since I haven't posted in soooooo long, but let me tell you that we have been BUSY!  We recently moved to a new house, so that has been taking up a good bit of our time.  I've never moved with children, and it is a lot more work.  More stuff, more adjusting, and much more organizing.  We've got a long ways to go in getting completely settled in our new house, but it's coming along.  This was an emotional move for me.  We were quickly outgrowing our other little house, but it was an awesome house to raise children in.  And we brought 3 of our babies home to it, and they learned to walk, run and speak their first words there.  A lot of memories, but I can only imagine how many more we are going to make at our new home!  And I cannot wait to bring home baby #4 to it very soon!  Speaking of baby #4, everything is ticking right along.  I'm almost 34 weeks and I feel every ounce of it.  Here's a picture just to give you an idea.

In March, our little Bennett turned 3.  I still can't believe how big he's getting.  Bennett is obsessed with Batman!  I don't really know how it all started, but it has been going on for quite a while.  So needless to say, a Batman party was what we had to have.  Here are a few pics from the great event, and be sure to notice the special guest that visited- Batman, himself!

Gran Gran brought this awesome picture to put on the wall.  Bennett kept saying it was him when he was a little boy Batman!

Showing off his muscles.

The first meeting- Bennett was speechless-at first.  He tried to introduce Batman to everyone, but he couldn't even remember everyone's names.  After that he couldn't stop talking.  He told Batman everything he could think of.

Somebody partied too much!

I might as well make this a really long post to catch up, so here are a couple of more pictures that were taken over the past couple of weeks.

Look at these sweet boys. 

My little kitchen helper.  She was having fun dancing and singing to some music.

Say CHEESE!

I guess that's all for now.  I'll try not to wait so long before the next update!!

Christmas Time

We hope that everyone had a very Merry Christmas!  I can't believe that the Christmas season is over.  Sorry I haven't shared any of our fun times with you so I'll try to play catch up in this post.  A couple of weeks ago, Santa paid us a visit.  He came by to check and see if everyone was behaving! 

Reagan was not very excited about seeing Santa- can you tell?

 Bennett and Brady were happy to see him.  Bennett talked his ears off the whole time.  It was too cute!

Here is our little Princess before the Christmas banquet at church.

 The whole family at the banquet- no, Bennett is not being tortured.  He's just all sugared up on chocolate (fed to him by some of his fans at church).

 Christmas Eve

 Ho Ho Ho!

 Hooo hooo hooo.

 Christmas morning- Reagan liked her baby doll and stroller.

Happy Birthday Jesus!!

 Just when you thought the day couldn't get any more fun...



In case you didn't know...

If you can't tell what that fuzzy picture is- it is baby #4!!  I have been meaning to post this for a couple of weeks but have been caught up in all the holiday fun.  I am officially 15 weeks now so the baby has grown a little bit since this ultrasound picture.  Everyone in the Phillips' house is super excited.  I think Brady has a new name for the baby every week.  We are not finding out the gender of this baby so we can have a fun surprise on delivery day!  Please keep us all in your prayers as we expand our family a little bit more.

Love me some Shutterfly!

I am not sure how many of you already use Shutterfly, but I am a regular customer.  I order our Christmas cards every year from them, so when I heard that they were offering a blog promotion for 50 free holiday cards just for blogging about their products- I was totally in!  I have been looking at all the options this year for our Christmas card and I've been so excited about all the new choices they have.  Check out all the Christmas photo cards at this link http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-photo-cards or all the Holiday cards at this link http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/holiday-cards.    Some of you may remember this precious card we sent out last year.  The quality of the picture I uploaded of the card isn't that great but you get a general idea of how cute it was.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Another one of their products, I always order at Christmas time are their calendars. They are always high quality and the grandparents are always super excited to get them as a Christmas gift. Use this link to access their wall calendars http://www.shutterfly.com/calendars/wall-calendars . I've got to get to work on these for this year, but another great thing about Shutterfly is their processing and shipping time. I've always received my items before I expected.
Their blog promotion is still going, so if you would like to receive 50 free cards learn how here http://bit.ly/sfly2010
 
Can't wait to finish up our cards for this year and I can't wait for you all to see them!!

Caramel Apples

 Grandpa and Grandma made us some yummy caramel apples.  Bennett and Reagan thoroughly enjoyed them!  Brady is so funny- it was "too messy" for him.  He tried and tried.  He wanted it so bad, but the stickiness just couldn't be overcome.  Thanks Grandpa and Grandma for such a great treat!

Pumpkin Patch (a couple of weeks ago)

This is pretty late, but I wanted to make sure I shared some of our Pumpkin Patch pics from this year.  The kids had a great time and were so proud of their pumpkins.

The first couple of pics are of Brady and Bennett jumping from the hay tower.  As you can see, Bennett jumped in full force!

Face Painting- Brady got a spider and Bennett got a bat.

Bennett thought he could get as many pumpkins as he wanted.  He just started making a pile for himself.

Reagan LOVED the pumpkins!  She did not want to let go of hers.

Eric's big pumpkin.

Look at that sweet smile!

The pumpkin patch had a little petting zoo.  This is how Bennett felt about the turkey.  He was scared to death.  As the turkey neared the fence he started screaming.  Our little dare devil sure doesn't like big birds! 

                                           A picture of the culprit.

All was good again once he got on the inflatables.