ALL the Christmas Pictures

As the kids finished their Thank You notes I realized that some of you may want to see the picture of them opening your gifts.....so I uploaded the pics of them opening EVERYTHING for Christmas......hope you enjoy!

SOOOO MANY PRESENTS.....HOW DO WE GET THEM HOME?

Welcome 2011!

Well I have lots to catch up on here.....it seems i just never have time for blog posting and most of my updates are on Facebook in real time!

I will take a few moments to connect our facebook photo albums here for thos of you who would like to "catch up."  Most of our 2010 update was in the Christmas card and letter so I will try to post that as well for those who may be interested but weren't on the snail mail list.  Thanks for checking in and I will attempt to do better and keeping this somewhat up to date.

These photo albums are starting with most recent and going back a few months.

Christmas if FL with Daddy!

Coutdown to Christmas with Daddy....Thanksgiving up to Flight!

Halloween 2010!

Colin Turns the BIG 1 0

Fall New England Trip

Ash Turns 6!

1st Day of School....4th and 1st????

HOW can it be that my kiddos are in the 4th and 1st grades?  It just doesn't seem like they should be that old! 

They really like their schools though....here are the first day pics!

Wow! I'm behind :)

Ok...I am SO behind with postings for this site!  Sorry Dad!  I put pictures on facebook but forget to update this!

Here are a few photo albums with some brief comments on our summer craziness!

We did a TON of things in the last week before school started....Pictures here!

Swim Team Pics!

DISNEY!

Mike always gives the family gifts for his promotion, and this time he decided that we all needed to get away for a magical vacation.....what could be more magical then Disney?

The kids had the BEST time and were absolute angels the whole week.  We are glad to be back home now, but certainly had a REALLY good time and can't wait to have Beth back again for another special vacation!

Mike only took about 1400 pictures so we will never be able to post all of the pics,

but you can check out THIS and THIS album to see the highlights

(still a work in progress so it will take a few days to share the whole week!)

Lt. Col Michael E. Phillips

WOW!  We just can't believe OUR Mike is a Lt. Col now....just doesn't seem possible that he's been in the AF that long, but he has worked SO hard to get here and we are SO proud!  We were lucky enough to have a ton of our family and friends here with us to celebrate and it was a crazy few days of activity and fun!

Click HERE for more pics!

Winding up another year

HOW can we be at the end of another school year?  Where had this year gone?  It seems like we were settling into our house and getting ready for the school year just last week!


School and "extra" stuff has been gradually coming to an end over the last month, just in time to gear up for daddy's BIG promotion/Vacation, a summer full of swim team AND mommy's new job!  Yes, Mommy is now working part time for a local Lutheran Church as the Director, Communications!  We are VERY excited about all the new adventures the next couple of months will bring to our family ..... while also being a little overwhelmed at the schedule :)


I'm gradually creating and entire album of "school ends" pictures on facebook so keep checking the link over the next few days for all the details, and next week we will have promotion pics, and then begin the kids' "surprise" tirp to Disney pics!

Winding down 2010 School Year

Hope all is well with the rest of you!