The Grooters Family

My recent pics of kids.

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They are helping out PETUNIAS : )

Christmas 2011

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Sierra's Christmas Program and Hudsonville Christian Preschool

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Christmas with Aunt EB

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Alexander's Broken Leg

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Aunt EB comes to town

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Great-Grandma Grooters' 96th Birthday

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Simon's 6th Birthday

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Alexander's Dedication

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My Woodland Cuties!

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Jack-o-lanterns

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My littlest X is ONE!

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She is always being funny like this

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having fun entertaining everyone in grandpa grooters' glasses

Alexander's First Birthday Party

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Sierra and Alison

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Sierra's first day of Preschool at Hudsonville Christian

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Simon's First Day of K at Hudsonville Christian

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2 more random pics from this fall

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Random pics

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Aunt EB visits in August

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Swimming lessons this summer

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Grauntie Kris made some cute clothes for the kids

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New Bunk Beds for the girls and X gets the crib

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Alison's 2nd Birthday Party

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Alison is 2

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Fourth of July 2011

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Little X - 5 months old

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Alexander 3 months photo

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Lazy Sunday

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Can PETUNIAS count on YOU?

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Hello, FOX TAILS by PETUNIAS, my newly designed fabric collection for baby boys, made it to the top 10 in the Project Selvage contest. http://www.projectselvage.com/ I would be honored if you would take a moment of your time to vote for my designs here: ...http://blog.spoonflower.com/2011/04/are-you-ready-to-choose-the-winning-collection-for-project-selvage-voting-opens.html The winner gets a licensing contract to print their collection with Michael Miller Fabrics. THANK YOU SO MUCH! If you have another moment please pass this along to anyone else who would be interested in supporting Kelly and PETUNIAS and/or post this on your facebook page. : ) Kelly http://www.petunias.etsy.com/

Helping Mama Work

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Alexander - 4 months young

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Sisters

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Photo Session with Glerum Photography

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Alexander - 3 months old

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Litte X - 3 months old

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Simon lost his FIRST Tooth

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Tuesday night Simon lost his first tooth (makes me feel kind of old). He was SO excited about it. So excited, in fact, he wanted to keep it for a day just to look at. He didn't want to put it under his pillow. He also knows the toothfairy isn't real so we had a VERY hard time convincing him to put it under his pillow. Imagine his surprise to find money under his pillow this morning. He now is all confused and thinks the toothfairy is 'alive' one minute and not real the next.

His prayer at lunch today was "thank you for my lost tooth and the toothfairy, even though I think she is a lie" : )

Merry Christmas

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Introducing Alexander Alan Grooters

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Sierra is FOUR years old!

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She LOVED every second of her birthday party and is very, very excited to be 4 years old!

Sierra is taking Cheer/Gymnastics Classes

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Alexander Alan - 10 weeks

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Great Dr. Appt. Little X weighed in at 13 pounds (yes, he is getting CHUNKY) and was 23 inches long. Wow he is growing WAY too fast!

Baby X - 2 months old

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Wonderful Christmas Break

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Simon's Christmas Program

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Family Pictures

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ALEXANDER - 4 WEEK APPT.

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Alexander weighed in at 9 pounds 2 ounces yesterday. Which was the 20th percentile. He measured 20 3/4" which was the 40th percentile. He over all is doing well!!

Simon is 5

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At his Dr.'s appt. everything looked great, he is a healthy kid and is growing and learning at an appropriate level. He weighed 44.4 pounds and was 45 inches tall!

Great-Grandma Grooters' 95th Birthday Party

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Alexander's first walk with DADDY!

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A Good Big Sister...

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Never misses a chance to cuddle up to the her new little brother.

Enjoying their little brother

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James' planting new trees in our yard

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Little X

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Alison got 5 stitches

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IN HER NOSE : (

Playing in the leaves

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Uncle Steve and Cousin Camden

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came to visit for a long weekend to visit little X and celebrate Simon's birthday.

Simon's 5th Birthday

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Loving little X

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My little Pumpkins

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ALEXANDER

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Little X on his first day home and after his first bath.

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ALEXANDER ALAN GROOTERS arrived 10-25-10 at 8:47am. He weighed 7 pounds 13 ounces and was 20 inches long!

Grandma DeVries

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Geneva Ruth DeVries October 21, 1924 - October 3, 2010 Remembering our Grandma and Great-Grandma!

Baby G #4

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The doctor officially moved out due date back 9 days (a bit of a bummer for me) so instead of November 10 it is now November 19th. We also have a schedules c-section on November 12, Friday at noon. We will see if I make it that long this time : )

Alison- 15 months update

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At Dr. weighed in at 25 lbs. and was 31 3/4 inches tall. She was in the 70th and 85th percentile respectively. Since learning to walk she really slimmed down a TON, so sad to see only ONE roll on her thighs. She is obviously walking, and running all over the place trying to keep up with her brother and sister. She is also talking...about 10 words or so. Mama, Dada, thank you, birdie, dog, puppy.....

Pinkalicious Cookies

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Simon's First Day of Kindergarten

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Sierra's First Day of Preschool

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Small fun day at my Grandma's nursing home

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Swimming --- The Kids' FAVORITE activity all summer long

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Aunt EB visits

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August Wedding...

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James and I had a somewhat adventurous summer with injuries. He broke his finger while playing basketball mid-summer....and HUGE bummer for him. And I cut off part of my pointer finger and then fell down the stairs and sprained my ankle and foot. Here is a pic of our injuries....we looked pretty pathetic together!

Simon and Sierra spent a few fun filled days with Grandma and Grandpa DeVries

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One of Simon's favorite activities this summer

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GROOTERS COUSINS

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4th of JULY

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Visiting Great-Grandma Grooters

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IT's A BOY!

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In case you haven't heard Baby #4 is a BOY! : ) Yea, we are so excited!

Simon and Sierra at Swimming Lessons

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Alison's First Birthday Party

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Alison's FIRST Birthday

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Simon's Graduation from PRESCHOOL

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Simon's last day of PRESCHOOL at Hudsonville Christian

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First Day Playing in the pool this spring

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SURPRISE!

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GATOR

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my mom bought the kids a new gator which they totally ADORE!

NY

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Simon and I had a great time in NY visiting Aunt EB and walking in the Parkinson's Walk. We raised over $1400 so a BIG thanks to everyone who donated!

Our Trip to MEXICO

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For our 5 year anniversary last August James surprised me with a trip to MEXICO over the spring break to come. We loved our time there and the weather was absolutely perfect!

Alison's 10 month pictures

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Sierra

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We let Simon and Sierra have a "sleep over" in Simon's room one night. They had fun for quite awhile, we finally went upstairs to see what they were up to and here is what we found. Sierra got into her entire drawer of bows and must have decided to be BEAUTIFUL!

Parkinson's Walk

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Simon and I are headed to NY next week for the Parkinson's Unity Walk. 100% of money donated goes to research for a cure. If anyone would like to donate to our walk you can do so here. I know many of you have donated in the past and we really appreciate it! THANK YOU http://www.unitywalk.org/events/team-home.php?eventID=1&teamID=356

Alison - 9 months (sorry a little late)

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Alison is doing well. She had her 9 month check up at the Dr.'s and was in the 90th percentile for weight at 21lbs. 11 oz. and the 80th percentile for height at 28.5 inches. She continues to eat well. Is very happy most of the time. She can say "dada" and "mama" and is just crawling.

Sierra - 3 yr. pics

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PETUNIAS' Open House

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MARK YOUR CALENDARS! ---PETUNIAS will be having an open house in Hudsonville, MI on Friday, March 12, 2009 from 6:30-9:00pm. A great opportunity to view all PETUNIAS' products and take advantage of special pricing for the night! If you want to know the address please send me an email at petuniasbykelly@yahoo.com

Newport Acquarium

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Simon's favorite part was petting the SHARKS

Sunday we took the kids to the acquarium and then drove the 7 hours home. We had a great time spending time together and it felt great to get away from our busy lives for a bit.

Long weekend vacation...

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We went south for a few days. The kids and I left with my parent's Friday morning in the motorhome (much easier on the kids being able to move around, play, eat, potty whenever they needed to). James left later Friday afternoon in the minivan and met up with us near Kentucky. We went to the Creation Museum for the day on Saturday. It was great and the kids did wonderful!

Simon wanted to ice skate...

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Simon got the idea in his head that he wanted to try ice skating so we were happy to accomodate. James and I took him out to eat and then ice skating. It was really fun to spend time with just him. He LOVED ice skating. The first few times around James and I held onto him or his helper but then he kept telling us "no thanks". He wanted to do it all himself. He really figured it out by the end and could build up some pretty good speed around the loop!

Sierra's 3 year appt.

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Sierra went in for her 3 year check up. She weighed 24 pounds and was 36 inches tall. Both were around the 50th percentile. She is healthy and well.