Noelle and her friend Emily made the best pumpkin pies to share with their families for Thanksgiving last week!

Anna Kate’s favorite fall activity this year!!!

We love Mrs. Paula’s assistant, Mrs. Julie!

So thankful for Mrs. Paula, her beautiful pictures, and the wonderful memories she’s making with Anna Kate in preschool!

We are so blessed by all of our sweet cousins!  On Mike’s side of the family, precious Noemi has joined the group of Pond girls!  I love Mike and Stephen’s reflections together in the window adoring their beautiful little girls!

Mike was doing something silly to make the little girls laugh, but Noelle was just doing her thing!

After lunch, we took a family walk down the most beautiful canal… it was a very special time together!

So thankful for our Pond side of the family and Susana’s parents who are visiting from Spain!

Stephen and Susana treated the family to brunch at the most beautiful restaurant near the church! 

Noemi knew today was all about her!

I asked the girls to make silly faces, and Noemi and Noelle were cracking me up, while Anna Kate was determined to get the babies to hold hands!  I love this picture!

Noemi and Rose had so much fun sitting beside each other!  They kept each other busy, and for that, we were so grateful!

Rose was ready for nap time, and Noemi was sharing her toy in this picture, while the big girls were all about smiling after the best brunch ever!  These girls love fruit and ate more than you can imagine today!

We had such a special day with our niece, Noemi and her sweet parents Stephen (Mike’s brother) and Susana, as she was baptized into the Catholic church on Saturday.  She has the sweetest little disposition, as you can tell!

The girls asked me whose “trophy” this was, and I said, “I think it’s Jesus’s!?!”  They were like, “No fair!”  It was cute.

Here’s Noemi with all of her grandparents!

“Bella” (Anna Kate) and her assistant “Ella” (Noelle) gave us the most lovely (and hilarious) tea party in the history of serving tea!  I’ve never seen Mike laugh so hard!  You girls are the best!

As I was about to write captions for this post, I kept scrolling down and just enjoying the pictures… they truly speak for themselves!  We had a blast the afternoon of Thanksgiving playing in Poppa and Rara’s back yard.  In the last picture on the left, this is the face Anna Kate makes when she gets an idea… in the next picture, she is pretending to make cotton candy!  Love how her little mind works!

This child connects with her maker when swinging on this swing at her grandparent’s house. She is one with the wind and feels His spirit through and through. Her enjoyment is contagious!

Our dear friend, Curt Ziemke, passed away last night (11/23/12) at 9:00PM.  This was my favorite picture from my trip to visit the Ziemke family two weeks ago.  We are sad and our hearts are heavy.  Please keep Cindy and their children, Clarissa, Cayden, and Corbin in your closest prayers!!!  I have a good feeling Curt is having a total blast being free from his body right now.  For that, I rejoice!