Christmas Pictures

Mid-Day at Christmas

Why is the paper always more fun!?

"This is the life..."

The kids are playing so well with their new toys, I actually got a few minutes to get some newer pictures onto the computer. Although, I realized that Brady has sweet potato on his face in all but two of them!! Nice mom I am, I let Elli feed him dinner and never checked to make sure his face was clean. The saddest part is that my mom is sending them out in cards and Brady is going to look like he has some skin disorder! LOL!
We have had a very nice Christmas this far and will not be done celebrating until later tonight. We are going over to Nathan's parents for steak dinner (yum!). The kids are going to be so spoiled by the end of these two days I don't know what I am going to do. :} I keep reminding Faith that the whole reason for Christmas is to celebrate Christ's birth... She says, "I know mom, but I still like the gifts." Gotta love her honesty.
Blessings (again!) to all!!!

Happy Birthday!!!

We have two wonderful birthdays to celebrate today! Happy Birthday to Jesus (well, at least this is when we celebrate, right? :) )! And, I can't forget a Happy Birthday to my wonderful husband... Besides, I finally can say we are the same age and he can stop rubbing it in that he is younger than me.

Have a blessed Christmas and may 2008 be your best year ever!!!!

I'm OFF!!!

Oh happy day! Today is my first day of Christmas break. I know it is going to fly by. Today alone was a blur between a birthday party, last minute shopping, and just keeping up with my two little rascals. :)
I am hoping to remember to get my camera from my dad tomorrow so I can upload some new photos.
Have a great rest of the weekend!

Almost a Merry Christmas

Well, if you are looking at this, there is a very good chance you got our Christmas card. We decided to share this page so we don't have to worry about sending pictures all the time. We'll see... If I have your email, you will probably still get my Kodak updates.
We are busy getting ready for the holidays. I can't believe it, but I think that all of my shopping is almost done! WOOO HOOO!!!
We are on the road to recovery and everyone is in very good health, except for the normal "this-time-of-the-year" runny nose.
I am on Christmas break from my classroom for 11 days after class tomorrow! I can't wait and neither can Faith. We don't have any special plans. Not that all the family members we will be seeing aren't special. :)
Faith's dance "recital" (I use that term loosely) is tonight, so hopefully I will have some pictures to post.
Brady is currently pounding on the patio door looking outside longingly... I should probably go bundle up the kids and get outside...it is a balmy 32 degrees! :)

Hopefully I will have time to post before Christmas. If not, have a blessed Christmas!!

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Holiday Spirit...ummm, not quite yet

Well, it has been quite a couple of weeks! We started out with Thanksgiving Day at our house and I had the stomach flu. Whooo hoo...fun. ;) Then just as I was getting better (thank God I was feeling better), Brady got it. Faith was doing great, so I breathed a sigh of relief and then...she got it. YIKES!! Just when we thought Nate had escaped the "grips" of illness (ha, ha...) he was diagnosed with pneumonia today! Whew, when it rains it pours sometimes. :{
But, none of this is life threatening, so we say, "Thank you God for your grace to get us through these minor things."

So, the pictures are of Faith and Brady (Brady's first time playing in the snow), a deer in our front yard, Brady doing his favorite thing this week: mopping, and Brady's first Thanksgiving.

Brady went from army crawling about three weeks ago to being completely on the go and able to pull himself to standing. Exactly as I expected. I bought a pair of boots for him thinking that he will probably be walking before the snow is gone around here...in June. He,he.

Faith is in dance class. I will have to post some pictures later. We had a great weekend of playing outside (not the picture...I'll post those later), baking cookies, and other fun stuff!

Well, hopefully I will be able to post again soon! Blessings to all!!!!!!