Christmas 2009

 

 

Christmas Eve

 

 

We had a wonderful Christmas. It was a little rough on mommy because she fractured her wrist two days before and felt pretty cruddy. We still had a great time being together, nothing like a child's face on Christmas morning!

Brady's Christmas Program

 

  

 

Gearing up for Christmas!

 

  

  

Brady's 8!

Wow, Brady is now an 8 year old!!!!

Where did the time go?

We had a birthday party for him at his choice of restaurant and that would be Mi Jalepeno! He really wanted to get whipped cream smashed in his face!  We had a wonderful time with friends and family and appreciate all of you coming to celebrate with us!!

 

He is a wonderful boy! He has grown so much this past year! He loves to read and is excelling way above average for 2nd grade! We are so proud of him!

Annie!

We wanted to introduce you to our new baby!!

Well, she's not that small but...


She's a bit camera shy and although we do not allow doggies on the sofa, this was one of the best pictures we have. :)

Annie is a Great Dane and is about 3 years old. We are in love with her! The kids adore her! She's a big sweetie! She greets us at the door with her stuffed doggie in tow!


Kirk built her a food dish stand. It was just too hard to have to eat so low. She seems to like this a lot better!

She is our gentle giant!!

Georgia the Bunny!

Ding Dong...

THE TRUCK IS GONE!!!




We are happy to announce that we finally sold the truck!


Bye Truck!

Halloween

Optimus Prime(Transformer), a Mermaid and a Cheerleader!!!

The kids had fun carving their pumpkins this year. They helped clean out all the goop and then both Brady and Bethany drew their own face on their pumpkins. Brady carved his out all by himself! Georgia thought the pumpkin was interesting!! :)

They were able to load up on candy in the neighborhood and see some friends and teacher s along their journey.

Daddy had to take care of a lot of the festivities. Mommy was very sick with bronchitis(she spent 4 hours in the Urgent Care to get some meds on Sunday-not fun!) :(

Mommy is feeling better now and we have one more place to wear our costumes one more time. Church is having a little kids festival tomorrow. It should be fun.

P.S. Does that cheerleader look familiar? I bet if you go back a few years you would see another one just like this cute one! ;) You should take a peak!

Little News...

I recently started as the Preschool Children's Church Director at church. I'm very excited!! I had never really ever thought about doing anything like this. I just didn't think it was my calling and it never crossed my mind. But after our previous director left, little nudges kept creeping into my mind. I had talked with my my mom and talked with Kirk and prayed a lot. I decided that Kirk and I would work a Sunday and see how I REALLY felt afterwards(I mean these kids could drive me batty, right?).
After that Sunday I felt this is truly what I wanted to do!! It is a volunteer position, basically just getting the curriculum together, taking care of the classroom, lining up teachers, etc. As I said before I'm so excited. My heart just leaps every time I think about it!!
I'm looking forward to this new adventure God is taking me on!!

9 months

Georgia is 9 mths old!!

Can I just say S T I N K E R!!!

Helllllloooooo 3rd child!!!

Wow, she is super fast. She hasn't started walking yet. But she crawls fast! She is gone before you know it. She has 3 favorite spots that she usually heads to first 1. Dog's water dish 2. Dog cage and 3. Bathroom. These seem to intrigue her the most right now. :)

She is starting to babble. She's says "mamamamama" quite well which makes Mommy happy! No dada's yet! ;) She also says "bababababa" well too. She knows where here food comes from! haha

Oh! Big news! She has 2 teeth!! The bottom two popped through a couple weeks ago. There are a couple on top that look about ready to come too.

She is loving wrestling with the kids. Bethany thinks it's so funny. One of these days she really going to be able to push them down!!!

She's doing well, staying healthy. She's a little more than 20 lbs. So she's evening out a little but not so much rapid weight gain as what was happening.

Here are some more pics:

HIS Love!

After a really hard week, struggling with lots of different things. Praying for answers. God showed himself to me so vividly! This morning we sang this song in church and it was just an affirmation of HIS love for me! AMEN!