MJ's News and Notes

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Excitement for Christmas and 5th birthday

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Santa - 2013

Ben & Maddie visited Santa today at the Mothers of Multiples family party. Ben asked for "Buzz Lightyear" and Maddie asked for "Palace Pets"

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

It was a busy afternoon for the Websters. The kids' preschool had its annual Christmas pageant -- a play/musical about the birth of Jesus. Just like last year, Ben was a wise man and Maddie was an angel. Both had a couple lines to say -- and they did great. Then after that was done, we had to head to Maddie's first dance recital. It was a pretty basic affair. No costumes and only 3 routines (plus we had to sit through 3 routines for an older group of girls). Needless to say we're pretty tired tonight! Here are preschool Christmas show pictures:

And here are dance recital pictures:

Monday, November 11, 2013

We're going to be 5 yrs old pretty soon!

The countdown has begun...

Preschool pictures

We got the preschool pictures today. As usual, they are fantastic. It's amazing what a professional photographer can do!

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Random summer pics

Duluth

Ben and Maddie made their first trip to Duluth last week, although it was very short, foggy and under sad circumstances. We were there to say goodbye to Jamey's grandfather just before he died. I took a few pics of the kids checking out the big Lake.

Our way-too-fun day!

Yesterday was a banner day in the fun department for the Webster family. We had two extremely tired kiddos when we got home at 9:30 p.m. last night and all day today! In the morning we went to my aunt and uncle's house in Stillwater for a pool party with our cousins. There were 8 kids there, all under age 8. Ben & Maddie were the youngest, but boy did they love following their older cousins around and learning from them.

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I especially love this cute picture of Emily and Maddie:

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Then in the afternoon we drove to the southern part of Dakota County for a wedding reception for Shelby. The whole Beissel clan was there and we had a great time catching up with them. Since my Dad died, we haven't seen them much, unfortunately. That family sure knows how to party! My friend Dani and her family came up from La Crosse and my brother, David, came from Rochester. The kids had tons of fun playing on the trampoline, dancing and playing with glow sticks and anything else they could find. We tried to get a little "family" photo with our friends, but didn't seem to manage to get everybody to look at the camera at the same time!

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Love this photo of Lois and Dani!

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And this one of Maddie and her uncle David

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And, of course, Lindsey always looks way better than everybody else...

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And there was also a short birthday party for Marge, who will be turning 80 this coming week (although you'd never know it looking at her)

From 2013-07-13_Beissel

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Belated Mother's Day

I realized that I'm way behind in publishing things here. Thought I would share this photo from a Mother's Day "breakfast" at the kids' daycare last month:

From MOMsDay2013

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Awesome fun weekend!

We had a great time this past weekend with my good friend, Dani, and her family. Her son, Ezra, is the same age as Ben & Maddie (in fact we celebrated his 4th birthday this weekend) and her daughter, Eden, is six. The four kids think the world of each other. It probably is most due to the fact that when we get together it's always extra fun. This time they came to our house. We spent most of Sunday at the Mall of America, riding the rides.