The Grommersch Family: January 2015

Ella's 4th Birthday & Henry's Christening

We celebrated Ella's 4th birthday with a few friends from school and church and family this year at Sky Zone in Memphis yesterday (Sat. Jan. 10th). It is an indoor trampoline park so the kids had a blast and hopefully all wore themselves out for naps later on in the afternoon. I know we certainly did at our house! Below are some picts from the day.... My parents were in town all weekend so we had fun going out to eat with them at Grisanti's in the Sheffield Fri. night and celebrating both Ella's birthday and Henry's Christening. Sat. night they were nice enough to watch both kiddo's while Tim and I had a night to ourselves! We ran some errands and went to see an early movie. It was so nice to spend some time just the two of us- especially with free babysitters!!! I even came home to both babies bathed and ready for bed....HEAVEN!

Ella's friends lined up and ready to jump

And off they go!

I could hardly keep up with her!

Wrestling with "Griffie" She loves Griffin!

Aunt B was in charge of Henry during the party. Henry watching Sissy jump!

Presents

The Peppa Pig Cake! Thanks Katie Crenshaw. You never disappoint!

Peppa Pig cookies for her friends to take home. A co-worker of mine @ the bank made these- precious!

Kids hungry, thirsty and ready to eat!

Ready to sing to the birthday girl

w/ her partner in crime -Robbye the Rooster!

Thank you friends and family for my gifts!

A very happy Birthday Girl :)

Thank you Noni and Ra-Ra for my Frozen Tent!

And, Bibby & Dee for my new swimsuits!

Meanwhile, this little one below is growing and growing! We go back in 2 weeks for his second round of shots and I can't wait to see how much he weighs and has grown in length!

Henry @ 14 Weeks

This morning we had the privilege & honor of christening Henry at our church. What a wonderful, sweet service performed by Bro. Bill. So thankful to have a place of worship like GRUMC - a place that God uses continually to His glory and a place where we can SEE His work at hand on a daily basis. If you don't have a church home, come join us! You won't regret it.

w/ Bibby & Dee - about to leave the house headed to church

Our family of 4

Henry, Daddy, & Me

Posing with Noni! If you ever wondered where Ella gets her beautiful auburn looking highlights, well there ya go- from her Noni!

Infant Baptism/Christening or the baptist in me still wants to call it a "dedication!"

The only time Mommy will be able to get away with putting me in a dress!

Henry David Grommersch - 14 Weeks

Thank you Jack Anna Beanstalk for his beautiful Christening Gown!

Christmas Around Our House Part 2

And so it continues.....

The 6 Cross Grands

Cami (5), Charlie (5), Ella (3), Callie (2), Ally Grace (11 Months), & Henry (11 Wks)

Ella & AG

Noni & Ra-Ra with their wild crew!

Ella & Henry

Jumping on Bo/Daddy!

Opening gifts with Cousin Charlie

Let the Pandemonium BEGIN!

Henry got his Hugglemonster!!!! Our little huggles!

Getting ready to open their chimneys/fireplaces filled with presents!

Ella posing in her new shoes from Noni and Ra-Ra and beside her chimney full of toys.

Loving on Uncle CJ

The 3 oldest in the last Chimney to be opened-

Ella (3), Charlie (5), Cami (5)

Ella loved her talking Peppa Pig from Aunt Emmy and Uncle CJ!

The day after Christmas we get together with Tim's grandparents and extended family- cousins, aunts, uncles, etc.... at their house which just so happens to be around the corner from our house in Collierville and in the same neighborhood nonetheless. This year we managed to snap a few shots of everyone.

The Great Grands- 11 of the 12 of them. Somehow Jonah missed the picture and he was there! #13 arriving in Feb.

The Grands and Great Grands. All greats accounted for here. Only 6 of 9 Grands present.

Added in Maw Maw and Pop and the 4 kids! BIG, growing family STILL!

Christmas Around our House 2014

This holiday season was anything far from calm! Not only did we just have the usual Christmas gatherings and functions to attend through school, church, and work, but I also started back to work coming off of maternity leave the 2nd week in Dec. - right smack dab in the middle of it ALL! Geeze! All in all though, my transition back to work wasn't as hard as I thought it would be even though I came back to a busy office. It made the days and weeks go faster which meant I got home to my babies quickly each afternoon. Going to back work after having Henry, I felt like I was more emotional than with Ella, which is crazy. You'd think with #2, it would be easier. When I dropped Henry off at Mrs. Tammy's for the first morning, I teared up big time on the way to my car, BUT a tear never fell so that doesn't count as crying, right? ;) I got myself together and called Tim and went on my way that day and then I was fine! Of course, it helped that I had friends checking on me during the day as well- a good support system always helps! Tammy lives less than a mile from our house and keeps Henry everyday. She gets me through my days by sending me picts of Henry via text throughout each day. It makes all the difference in the world getting to see my sweet baby boy on my phone during the day!

For Christmas this year, we celebrated with my dad's side of the family the Sat. before the Christmas week in Oxford. Tim and I worked the Mon. & Tues. of Christmas and then headed to my parents house after work on Tues. evening where we stayed one night and celebrated with my mom's side of the family and my immediate family (my parents and sister and her family). We were then home from Christmas Eve and on for the remainder of the week- having Santa come to our home and doing Christmas with the Crosses and Tim's grandparents on the day after Christmas. All in all it was a great holiday and we were blessed to be able to celebrate it at home mostly with family and our newest blessing, Henry. :) See picts below.