Sunday, December 27, 2009

Woah, a Bit of Catch Up!

Silas has a TV buddy...don't worry, we are keeping a close eye on those two blonde heads. Summer belongs to our friends, Josh and Shauna. She is spunky and feisty, kind of like Elise, only taller!


Total boy-watching-tv-and-nothing-else look here!

My ladies group up on Kiefer Mountain. :) Great woman and friends...

We were wrestling the two bitty ones in the living room. We have such big personalities when we have kids!


"Howdy, ma'am."

The first proper snowman of the season and the back yard:

Silas had his 4th birthday party. We were graced with my parents, Pat and Chickie, my brother, JD with his kids and Josh and Shauna and their two. It was a Curious George Birthday and a ton of fun! Here we are playing pin the nose on George and drop the candy in the jar. We tried animal charades, but the kids kept yelling out their animal before the guessers had time to do their job...


Mom pinned the nose on George, but she came in fourth!

Josh and Shauna in deep discussion.

Awesome monkey faces!

Summer decided to just bend down and place the candy right in the hole...duh! Why would the other kids even bother dropping it from so high up?

We had a serious party animal on our hands!

Friday, December 4, 2009

Thanksgiving 2009

Hello! With all of the holiday bustle, I've not posted for a while. I asked Barry to put together this post, so read ahead to enjoy his very first blog post!

Thanksgiving was great. Both sets of grandparents graced us with their presence.
We had enough food to feed four more families.

Silas loves turkey because it gives him big muscles!

There are moments in life when everything seems to come together in a special way. This year's Thanksgiving was a sweet reminder to us about how God has greatly blessed us beyond measure. We are thankful for all our loved ones and for Christ who "redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us" (Gal.4:13a).

My dad was a great help in cleaning out my shop and chopping a lot of wood.

Twin cousins. No, twin twin cousins.
Michael, Jimmy, Emmitt, and Elise