roommates for five

[I added the link for the apple peeler at the bottom of my last post... should have just done it that way the first time around :)]

It's been five years since I created this silly little celebration we call Roommate Anniversary.  What can I say? It's a keeper.  Fun, easy, simple celebrating for the whole family.  Isaac is 100% sold out on getting his own Roommate Anniversary and moving in with little bro John Paul.  Hopefully that move is on the horizon... in the meantime he's still in with the big sisters and participated in the festivities alongside them.

November 3, 2007 baby Lydia (just a few months old) moved in with her big sister Julianna.  The following year I decided we'd make it a little celebration, these girls are roommates til separated by college, so I hope to use this day to celebrate their growing friendship.  And November 3rd has become a much anticipated day in our household. 

We started the day with pics by the R-O-O-M-M-A-T-E-S banner I whipped up the night before (thank you card stock and ten hurried minutes with a marker and yarn!)

{Matt took this pic standing in our bedroom doorway.  The girls and Isaac share the room behind them.  Bathroom door beside Lydia.  John Paul's little room beside Julianna.  Living room off to the left and Luke sleeps in a closet/alcove in our bedroom.}

I made name tags for glass mugs.  And we always eat muffins (and who doesn't like an excuse to turn off the lamps, light a candle and blow it out!) 

And a little photographic tour around the breakfast table....

Later in the day I took pictures of each of them on their beds, and the group shot too.  The girls have outgrown these short beds and next year they'll be passed to Isaac and John Paul.  Thinking about moving the girls to lofts, or maybe just a bunk? 

For Bible time this morning Matt read out of Ecclesiastes, chapter 4.  "Two are better than one .... for if they fall one will lift up his fellow.... if two lie together they keep warm.... and though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him.  A threefold cord is not quickly broken."

He had them raising arms (and legs) every time they heard the words "one" "two" or "three" so it got a little aerobic, and very very silly.  But we do hope and pray that these siblings live these truths together.  For surely they will fall....