October Birthdays

We celebrated 3 birthdays in October. Carla turned 15 on the 8th. One more year of people being safe on the roads and sidewalks! ;)

David turned 26 on the 19th. Not sure what we did for that...maybe sent something in the mail, send a text saying Happy Birthday. No pictures of this one. :)

Mom turned 48 on the 30th. Mom and Dad went out to dinner that night, so Carla and I went to the grocery store and bought an ice cream cake and a balloon. We also bought this cute birthday hat for her to wear. :)

We used these leftover pieces of crepe paper from another birthday and taped them to the light over the table.

I found a kid's Happy Birthday song on a cd we have, so we put that on repeat and really loud. When Mom walked in, Carla and I sang along with song. Very loudly and just a little off tune :)

As another little surprise for Mom, I got David on Skype so she/we could talk to him.

He even got to help us sing!

Carla's Birthday

Tuesday, October 8th was Carla's 14th birthday. Our grandparents and uncle & aunt were still here on Monday from the weekend. My aunt had us over for dinner with other family so we celebrated her birthday on Monday

Carla sitting between her two grandpa's :)

Tuesday, her real birthday :)

Mothers Day and Carla's Chorus Concert

Since David and I were in IL for Mother's Day, we decided to order flowers to be delivered for Mom. The price of delivery for flowers is outrageous! Especially on Mothers Day! We had them delivered on Saturday instead of Sunday.

It wasn't exactly what the picture showed on the website, but it still looked nice

Evan is taking a floral design class in school and came home with this on Friday

Carla's chorus concert was May 21st

Vocal Ensemble

8th grader playing the song that won the piano competition

The whole chorus

The chorus group

Happy 21st Birthday!

To Sarah!

Today Sarah and I are heading down to New York City and are spending the night with our friend Christy! Tomorrow we are going to go on a full island cruise and get some awesome pictures of the city! Stay tuned for pictures (they will probably come in a month or so :)

Here's some pictures and videos from Carla's chorus concert in January

A short clip of one of the songs

The song Hallelujah! I thought they did pretty good singing this one! The lady directing this song was the student teacher. She was already done student teaching but came back to conduct the song.

The piano player (she was my piano teacher when I took lessons)

Carla's 13th Birthday

It's been quite a while since I posted last! I do have lots of pictures to post, but I also have a lot of homework to do. Which is why nothing has gone up lately. :)

So, to start catching up, I will start with Carla's birthday. Which was October 8th (almost a month ago :)

Opening presents

Singing away....

Apparently Dad doesn't know anything about keeping a tempo

More to come soon! (hopefully;)

Video

Here's a new link to the video that I had posted of Carla's concert. I'm not sure exactly what happened, but I know that I did not remove it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1avwuyifk5M&feature=youtu.be

Hopefully it works this time! :)

Randomness

Since its been a while since I posted, I have a bunch of random pictures. So here you go!

Evan's 17th birthday. May 16th

He wanted an apple pie instead of a cake

Carla had Immigration Day at school. They had to dress up like they were an immigrant. Jennie stayed overnight the night before

The suitcase in the picture belonged to my Grandma Phyllis. It has her initials on it.

At school they got a foam hat thing that looks like the statue of liberty.

David really liked it!

And last but not least...my first gift from my secret sister

This is what it looked like less than a day later

The chocolate covered strawberries were the best! I ate 5 in one day :)

Carla's Chorus Concert

On May 9th we went to Carla's chorus concert. Before hand was an open house like thing for the 5th and 6th grades. 

A picture of Carla and her home room teachers

Carla & Mr. Murphy her social studies teacher. He asked me to email him the picture. So after I had uploaded it, I emailed it to him. When Carla got home from school the next day she said that she was sitting in class and some of the kids told her to look at the smart board. And what do ya know?! The picture of Carla and Mr. Murphy was being displayed for the whole class to see! :) :)

The concert

Isabella

Click here to see a video.

Lisa

Julia, Carla, and Rebekah

Christmas is here already??

Christmas sure has snuck up pretty fast!

Tonight is the Gerber Christmas at our house. So we are cleaning and cooking the day away!! :) 

A week ago or so, we went to Carla's Christmas chorus concert (betcha can't say that 5 times fast ;)) It was 4-6 grade. Fourth grade sang first and then the fifth and sixth grades sang together.

Here's some pics and a video. 

Bella K

Sorry, this picture is a little blurry, my camera doesn't have that great of a zoom. I need to get another lens.

This is Colin G

This is just the 5th and 6th grade chorus.

This is everyone, they sang a song together.

For the video you have to go here because blogger wasn't uploading it.

Carla's Birthday

is today!

We celebrated her birthday yesterday since she is in VT right now with Mom, Dad, and Evan. Here's some pictures and videos from her birthday.

Her beautifully wrapped presents :)

Carla acting normal (or maybe she's taking after her brother(s)...)

Her new outfit!

Evan was very excited to watch her open her presents (and even more excited to sing to her:)

Her new book, a Ripley's Believe It Or Not.

This is what I was talking about when I said Evan was really excited to sing to Carla. Just listen to how in tune he is! ;)

This one is probably a little better

After we sang, Carla took the candles out and licked the frosting off

Happy 12th Birthday Carla!

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend! I'm headed to VT myself tomorrow.

Let me know if the videos don't work...

Adios!