Christmas Morning

The night before Christmas all the kids slept in the big room downstairs (Martin was with them as well :)

The boys loved their matching Super Mario PJ's

 Merry Christmas Morning!

 Quiche and Cinnamon Rolls - YUM!

 Sweet Hannah Bear checking out her stocking

One final gift

 Christmas Tea Party with the girls

Sledding in Idaho

We found us a great sledding hill while spending the weekend up in Blanchard, Idaho.  (Kelli got more pictures - and way better pictures than I did...but here are a few).  I left the hill when I tried to take Hannah down the sled with me and we crashed early on.  Hannah was not a fan of the sled hill... :-)

Memories made with the Campbells

Hard to choose what photos to share out of the 300+ that were taken.  So these are just a few of the memories made while the Campbell family was here with us for the week of Christmas. More to come

So long November 2013

We find ourselves saying goodbye to November 2013 and are quite thankful for the memories made and the abundant blessing in our lives.  Grandpa and Nana got to be with us for Thanksgiving - what a treat! the kids absolutely love the attention they get when they are here.  We had a beautiful Thanksgiving day with friends and family.

Baby Hannah (1yr.)  with baby Rachel (3 months)

These two are quite the pair and becoming fast friends

The kids' table!

Six Novembers

In the early morning hours of November 10th, 2008 we welcomed our 8lb 4 oz baby boy, Josiah David, into the world. We were ready to spend every November 10th  from here on out celebrating the day he joined our family.  However, I didn't realize the years would go by so quickly.  His baby book is officially finished as all the baby information  and statistics have been filled out and pictures glued in.  His baby years have come and gone and we continue to watch him grow taller and smarter and look back on when he was a baby doing the things his now one year old sister is doing.

I love being Josiah's mother! What a true blessing and gift from the Lord he is to Brian and I and his sisters.  

Our first November 10th with Josiah was full of cuddling and learning all about parenting a newborn.

Our second November he is walking around like crazy and loving life!

 Our third November we celebrate two year old Josiah who loved eating his Thomas the Train cake

 Our fourth November Josiah gets a big party with lots of friends and he's talking so much at this point and loving the fact that it is his birthday and he is three!

 The fifth November he is four and gets a big fun party at the Bouncy House and he is very into Spider-Man so the party is complete with Spiderman masks and Spiderman cupcakes

And our sixth November he has been longing to be five for months now.  He gets what he's wanted, a double light-saber and unlimited breakfast pancakes.  He gets to go to Red Robin and order whatever he wants for lunch and he's really good at building lego sets now. 

I love November 10th and what that day means to Brian and I as parents and getting to watch this little boy grow up.  We pray for Josiah that "God would fill him with the knowledge of His will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding that he may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way; bearing fruit and growing in the knowledge of God..."

It was a snowy day

Boy were we excited for the first substantial amount of snow today that meant you could actually make a snow angel and throw snowballs at each other. We played hard in the snow this morning.

 

However, after we woke up from afternoon naps we realized it was getting dark and much too cold to play outside. It was then I remembered again what winter can be like in this northern state of Washington.  So today we began what will be months of playing indoors with legos, and pushing each other around the house in laundry baskets and making as many messes as I can possibly stand before we have mandatory clean up time...hello snow, hello winter, hello darker shorter days...