Grant had a birthday

Grant is showing you how old he is.

He got an awesome (and extremely delicious) Lightning McQueen birthday cake.

Here's a close up that cake.

A Haines Family Christmas

Merry Christmas from the Haines family

Some Christmas fun

And we're just getting warmed up.

Merry Christmas, Granty Claus

December in Virginia

So far, not bad at all.

The Wizarding World of Halloween

We got our shed

Now she's moshing

Scott gets out his guitar and it's an instant party.

I guess Laurel will be running around with her brothers soon enough

A typical night at the Haines house

Irene

The tree on the right was hit by lightning a month ago and was not strong enough to withstand the wind. It fell in the afternoon and took half of a dead tree down with it and damaged a few slats of fence when it fell.

This tree was supposedly a healthy tree that just came crashing down around 8 pm last night while I was washing the dishes. The top of the tree is about 12 feet away from the house- the only damage is to a section of fence. It made us a little nervous- we had Clark sleep with Spencer (not in his attic room) and moved Laurel's crib away from the wall. Everyone is safe!

Good Morning!

A day in the park

Some home improvements

We needed some extra storage space, so Scott built these shelves in the garage above the garage door. All that space was just going to waste.

This is a project that Scott and Clark were able to work on together.

Yellowstone

I've got a bunch of great pictures to share from our big family vacation in Utah, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.

My mother's mother's mother

We took some family photos while we were visiting out west.
This is Laurel with her mother Jen with her mother Cathy with her mother Nettie

Grandma and Grandpa van der Horst with their family. 24 of us in all.

And this is just us 6.

Our new house in Virginia

Quad Cities Trip

We took a trip to Davenport, IA and Moline, IL.

We started off exploring at the Putnam Museum.

Next we took the Channel Cat across the Mississippi River to Illinois

We had fun playing on the heavy equipment at the John Deere Pavilion

Laurel is one year old

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