A Day To Celebrate

Happy Birthday to one Crazy Niece!!!! (the crazy faced girl)

We hope you have a wonderful birthday Hannah!

White Christmas

It's a Christmas Miracle!

We are not complaining down here of our 'White Christmas' It is amazing to have all this snow. We have had two significant snowfalls this month, once on the 5th, which melted after a few days and then the last one this past weekend kept us busy digging out of 16 inches of snow. We have loved how beautiful it has made everything and the kids have enjoyed playing, digging and going for sled rides!

It has taken Ethan awhile to 'enjoy' the snow but he is coming around

Kaden can't get enough of it!

We have been having a lot of fun and hope that as this snow melts we will be able to make a snowman

Brian looked down the hill and saw Kaden riding his bike. He was going to check out where daddy had plowed! He told us that he wants a plow on the front of his bike.

Merry Christmas to all of you!!

"For to us a child is born,

to us a son is given,

and the government will be on his shoulders.

And he will be called

Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,

Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."

Isaiah 9:6

Trusting that each of you find Christ near to your hearts as you celebrate His birth

and what impact that had for generations to come

Double Birthday

It is a very important day in this neck of the woods.....

Birthday wishes are going out to Brian's sister Melanie today! She sure loves hotdogs!!!! Happy Birthday Melanie!!!

Also, little did she know that for many of her birthdays (I will leave that number unmentioned) she was also celebrating mine. I guess that was one of Brian's prerequisites for his wife!

So yes, today I will also celebrate my special day with the fam and a little time to myself. Happy Birthday to me!

Birthday Boy

Today our precious Kaden turns 4, hard to believe!!! Happy Birthday Kbud!

You may ask, Where have you been? Well, we've been here, just a little disconnected from the world since our computer crashed. I think now we are on the road to recovery.

November was a great month, and we had a good Thanksgiving with lots of fantastic food and fellowship. As soon as thanksgiving ended we hit Christmas preperation with a running stride.

We headed to our local tree farm and cut down the perfect tree for our house. Last year it was pouring rain, this year a beautiful day....the only thing that would have made it seem a little more like Christmas would have been snow!

Here the boys are measuring a tree (actually it looks like there fighting over the measuring tape)

Kaden found this beauty?!!??

Lot's of trees to choose from

Every party has a pooper......

Finally, there she is, our 2009 tree

Tree Slayer

Final Update #3

And for the final update.....
Being Halloween coming and all, we have been busy decorating our house and of course carving pumpkins and doing a little facepainting...Kaden is a tiger and Ethan is a cat.

Kaden was really into cleaning out the inside of the pumpkin this year.....Ethan hated it!

The final product.

Then on Saturday we headed up to small Town to celebrate cousin Katie's 13th birthday party. As always we had great food and a good time visting as well!
Here is Katie's cake made of course by the cake expert in the family Grama Bonnie!


Make a Wish!We hope you have a wonderful day later this week as celebrate Katie!

Update # 2

A week ago we headed down to North Carolina to visit some friends and attend a wedding.
The boys had a great time playing at Malachi and Mathias' house....and we of course had a great time vising with friends Hannah and Rodney. Thanks to them for being so hospitable.

No trip to NC would be complete without a stop at Krispy Kreme to get a WARM donut!!YUM YUM!!

Watching the donuts being made.

And most importantly we were able to see our good friends Cherith and Marc get married. The day was a little chilly (the wedding was held outside at the camp we used to work at down there), but the wedding was beautiful and it was great to catch up with old friends. Congratulations you guys!!

Update: Part One

FINALLY, I am updating the blog!
October has been busy for us....

Kaden has found his love for inventing and building things. He is always coming up with idea's of what he wants to build. Here is one of his creations. Don't ask me what it is BUT he sure was proud...he thought of it himself.


We took a FREE tour at the UTZ chip factory....it was surprisingly great!

Unfortunately they would not let you take pictures of the production area...so here we are with all the different chip products they produce.
We have also been taking suday afternoons to go and enjoy one of the many state parks that are close by. The boys have loved the trails and adventures.

Stay tuned for update 2