Your Opinions Please

We need everyones opinion please. Audrey would like to grow out her bangs. They are grown out to the point where we can put them all back now. I am not sure what I think yet. What do you all think???

Our Thanksgiving Weekend

Here are some pics of our Thanksgiving weekend. We had a really relaxing time and so ejoyed just being together as a family. The weekend has just went by too fast though. Friday we were part of black Friday and were up and out of the house before the sun to hit the great deals. We almost made it home before the sun came up. We came home and took a long nap and spent the evening decorating for Christmas. Christmas is the families favorite holiday. The kids really enjoyed decorating the tree. Eric really got into the decorating. He really wanted to the house lit up and wanted color lights and not white. I so enjoyed him giving his input. I didn't realize he had an opinion about it all yet. We got an artificial tree this year since the real trees up here are so exspensive and hard to keep alive. It is just too dry here. We had trouble finding one that looked full. In the end we got a really good deal and ended up loving it. Tomorrow is back to the regular schedule unfortunately. We are looking forward to Robert's parents coming up for Christmas. The whole family is counting the days til they arrive. We are used to having Thanksgiving with them so we dearly missed them this past weekend. Anyway, we hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving yourself. Take care!

Fishy Day

Today the boys had someone come into the school and do a fish disection with them. They knew ahead of time about it and were really looking forward to the fish excitement.
Eric jumped in the car and said, "Oh the fish were discusting! It was kings!" Then I heard about it all the way home from both the boys. Come to find out Eric's fish was the only female one. She had plenty of eggs I hear. Gregory told me he saw the fish brains. Eric explained that each fish had a heart and each was a different size. He seems amazed how small it's heart was. Apparently they pulled the gills out with their hands. When they are done with the disection they take the fish to the sled dogs and feed them to them. I think it was very educational for me as well. The really seemed to learn alot.
I suggested that now they are ready to help their Uncle Tim clean the fish in the summer. Eric piped in and said, "Yeah, only I will wear gloves."
We are very busy tonight getting prepared for tomorrow's Thanksgiving feast! The boys are excited about sleeping in and having lots of homecooked food. Daddy is looking forward to all the yummy food too!
Happy Thanksgiving to you all! May the Lord bless you on this wonderful holiday.

Lots of snow this weekend

Boy did we get dumped with snow this weekend! The kids have just had a blast with the snow. They would stay out in it all day. They even play out there when it is dark. We just turn on the back porch light and they play to their hearts content. I have some pics from Saturday night that I will post later. We had a bon fire. Will post more about it later. Bye for now and take care.

Bible Characters

Our church had the kids dress up as a Bible Characters as an alternative to Halloween. Here are some pics of the kids in their costumes. Can you guess who they are? I will tell you at the end of this post.
There is a picture of Audrey's friend Lydia. She is a very special handicap little 3yr old girl. What really melts my heart is to see Audrey's patience and compassion toward Lydia. Lydia will touch and bother Audrey and Audrey will just put her arm around her and love her. Lydia responds to her well. In fact, Audrey let Lydia where her headband from her costume. Lydia had to go tap everyone and show off the headband. Lydia was just grinning from ear to ear. I thank the Lord for the softness of Audrey's heart. The 2 girls just love each other.

Well now for the characters:

Eric- Noah(so he says, I think it could have been almost any male character)

Gregory- David (when king Saul was putting his armor him to go fight Goliath)We made sure he understood that is not what David went to battle in though.

Audrey- The obvious angel (our neighbor said, "she didn't need to dress up, she's already an angel!")

Anyway, the last pic is of a new baby in our church, Emma. Audrey adores her and wants to hold her all the time. We went to her house one day to sit and fellowship with her mommy.
That is all for now. Will post again soon.

Ladies and....

Audrey was playing today and said, "Ladies and Jugglemen! Listen up!" I couldn't help but laugh. The things kids say! I am really enjoying my time with her while her brothers are in school. I treasure every moment with each of my children. I am richly blessed.

The Joy has left me!

Here I was getting so excited because all the snow had finally melted away yesterday. I was beginning to think that I would have a brief moment of no snow before it started to fall again. Boy, was I ever wrong. I woke this morning to find a dusting of snow covering the yard. But it hadn't stopped snowing yet. It has been snowing all day! The joy I had was but for a brief moment. I do enjoy the beauty of it but what makes me not want it is that I know it will be here for quite some time. It won't all be gone til the end of April or so. So for now I am trying to settle myself in for the long winter. When everyone in the lower 48 has colder weather it won't be so difficult.
Yesterday was tough for our son Eric. He had to go back to the dentist and have a root canal and crown done. It was a tooth that the dentist tried to fix in Oregon but he gave up b/c Eric was so upset. He was only 4 at the time. Due to it being left alone it got really bad. The weird thing is that he said it never hurt him. He did really well considering what he had done. Daddy took the time off to take him. Mommy was too stressed after Gregory's last appt at the dentist. Daddy is so great for doing this. In fact, I think he rather enjoyed it. He finally had some time off. He has been working 6 days a week for about a month and a half now. Too bad he had to go back to work today as well as tomorrow.
I will post again soon.