NorthrupFive: 2009

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Christmas with the Northrup side...

Diede got us girls some pretty fancy wigs and a dress-up dress. Perhaps Mom will let us do our hair like this for real?!?!?

And then we got together for portraits with the whole Jalickee (Dad's side) of the family. Above are the 5 Bagshaw boys and us. We think Brady (the blondie) should be part of our crew...

... and now with Aunt Brett, Uncle Mike, Mom and Dad...

... and now with all of our cousins, aunts, uncles and, most importantly, Great Grama Jolly in the middle. We missed you Jaclyn (and Grant) and Steven!

A very Keely Christmas

Christmas morning at Grama Ann and Grandad's house was awesome. We all got some super cool toys!

Claire got to look super fancy!

Emma's new friend Rose looks just like her! Freckles, brown eyes and all!

and Cooper got some neat matchbox toys that everyone loves playing with (adults included!)

Santa made us HAPPY!

Hey, this year we were actually HAPPY to meet and talk with Santa. Last year, we thought it was terrible, but this year it was pretty fun!

So, upon travelling to MD for Christmas, we happened upon snow, snow and more snow! And we were even a week late! So our little North Carolina souls had to try out Mom's old Flexible Flyer metal saucer and Grandad's old sled... and we had fun!

Being so late to the snowfall, we had to kind of make our own runs... so Dad and Grandad shoveled snow back onto the sidewalk to make us a longer run and attached a rope to the front to give us a little more of a feel for sledding on real, new snow down a big hill... Still, SO fun!

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Dance Recital

Here I am at the big dance recital. We performed a ballet routine to Miley Cyrus's "The Climb". Mom says I was great and that the overall perfomance was interesting! My friend Grace has her arm around me...

Monday, November 30, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving!

We started our Thanksgiving by attending the Turkey Trot with the Bagshaw Boys. Cooper LOVES spending time with the boys... wonder why?

We caught the turkey, though he didn't look very appetizing at this point...

Here we are all ready to eat our first dinner at Aunt Brett's...

and here we are ready for Dinner #2 at Grama Ann and Grandad's house. Both were delicious!

Diede came to my school for Grandparent's Day and I was part of a special presentation with songs and a tour so she could know more about me and my days at school. It was great to have her there!

Then, as a special treat just for big granddaughters, my grandmothers and Mom took me to see the play Mulan at the Chilrens' theater!

We all visited with my Grama Jolly, who is 98 but can still cook a mean blintze for breakfast... YUM!

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Early Christmas...

Christmas comes early here in NC apparently, so we celebrated this weekend first with Emma's christmas concert at school...

... and then by attending the Concord tree lighting and fireworks...

... and wrapping it all up by watching Emma (our own little Trefoil) walk in the Concord Chrismas parade with her Daisy Scout troop...

Our own little cookie is pretty sweet!

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Unsick

Horray! We have recovered, and Claire has even learned how the smile pretty for the camera. We were practicing all morning with our little blue kid camera... I would back up, say, "smile" and Claire would smile and I would snap the "picture" and show it to her, and then she would do the same... so Mom thought she would truly capture the moment.

Then we were all better, but Mom was sick, so Dad took us to the park to play, launch the rocket and watch him climb super high in a tree to retrieve said rocket. Our Dad rocks! (PS. no Dads were hurt in this particular adventure)

Sick Week

The best part about sick-week at our house was just snuggling up together and reading, lounging, and watching TV... otherwise, we are SO glad to be free of the gunk!