Fall Pictures

I know...fall's been over and done with since November, but I still haven't posted these. So sorry.

 Lucas raked up a humungo pile of leaves for the kids to play in. Unfortunately we had a lot of rain that week so the leaves were not dry enough to play in for a while, but when they were dry, the kids were having a blast!

Here's a good picture of how big the pile was! A good size for even me or Luke. Minte wasn't too sure about it.

Uhh.. Min wasn't too ethusiastic about being thrown in the leaves. He stayed covered long enough for me to worry about drowning in leaves. I fished him out. 

 The kids love climbing trees. They do need a boost, but they are pretty content up there. They like it best when Luke's farther up there throwing bark on their head. Well...maybe not that part especially, but they do like him climbing trees with them!

And something completely random and strange. Minte was embarrased that he didn't have pants on so he was walking around with his shirt pulled to his ankles. Actually it was more like hopping.

I hope you had a WONDERFUL Christmas!!!!

A Video of Minte's Reaction to Snow

Sorry about the quality of the video. Not the best. :-(
But anyways, since the video is pretty self-explanatory, I will go on to my Christmas tidings..

Merry Christmas to you all! And to all a good... err...day! Or night, depending on when you read this!

And the angel said to them, "Fear not, for behold I bring you good news of great joy that will be for ALL the people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior who is Christ the Lord. And this will be a sign for you: you will find the baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger."

"Glory to God in the Highest, and on earth peace among those with whom He is pleased!"

He's the Cutest Thing Ever!!!

 I dressed Minte in my bball uniform! It was so big and SOOOO cute!

Don't Mess With Him

One guess who took this picture AND posed him! :-)

Why oh why, Anie?

(Anie's my nickname for Ana. Just in case you were confused.) :-)

I would like to know WHY Ana is SO serious during our "serious" conversations and yet ends up getting our entire family to laugh hysterically.

Just now Ana comes up to me with a picture she colored and I remark about her lady's purple skin. She replies with, (and totally serious), "She drank too much grape juice."

Last night when we were putting up ornaments we put up a special ornament with a story so we all sat down to listen to the story. The story talked some about how Jesus was born to die and Ana speaks up and says, " I hate dying! I like dying in bed rather than like.. dying some other way." At this point all of us have lost it as she talks like she has died several times and she's comparing them. Mom could not stop laughing. I am serious. But since Ana was so serious about it all, she became very upset that Mom was laughing at her, (Earlier that day she had mentioned that she was never marrying a man that laughed at her.), so she started getting upset. Mom really could not get herself together and all of the rest of us were having a difficult time not laughing ourselves at Mom and still Ana's comments. Once Mom had controlled herself partly, she covered her face to hide from Ana and Ana continued with, "Because like, a sword goes through your belly and it really hurts, and like guns go in your nostrils and that really hurts...".


So yeah we had an interesting night last night. Ana's too cute and curious. She thinks so deeply and funny sometimes!

Minte's Reaction to Snow!

Today, December 1st, we have had our first real snow! It's cold outside. Actually it's freezing outside. And the snow is actually sticking!

When we had some snow falling a few days ago, Minte went out to play in it with the kids. It was very cute as he didn't like it when the snow hit his face and made it cold! He kept saying he was having fun though!

Today when we woke up there was actually snow on the ground so everyone wanted to show Min right away. Mom told Minte it was snow as he looked out the window at all the snow but his reaction was, "No! Ergh! MESS!" When asked later about who would clean up the mess he pointed to himself and said, "Me!". It was adorable!

About an hour ago Ana opened the door so that Min could pick up some snow. His reaction to the snow on his hand- lots of shaking and wiping!

In a little bit Minte is going to go OUT in the snow! It should be interesting to see if he plays, screams, runs inside, OR cleans it up!

Thanksgiving Post

So..what are you doing for Thanksgiving? Visiting family? Having family over? Doing your own Thanksgiving? Creating a Thanksgiving dinner for others?

So, although I can't say that it's starting  to smell like Thanksgiving, (partly because it's not even Thursday yet and partly because we won't be making the Turkey at our house), it does have the Thanksgiving air around the house. Right now I'm typing on Mom's laptop, (that makes cool clicking noises when you type fast!!) about Thanksgiving, Luke's finishing homework in anticipation of a hunting weekend with Papa, Dad and Mom are trying to relax before the rush to get things together to go in the morning, the kids are giggling excitedly in their room, and my apple pie's juice is burning on the bottom of the oven.  The night before Thanksgiving!

Today Mom and I went to the store and saw people with their lists grabbing turkeys, pie filling, and stuffing mixes! Then in the evening I went to the store and it was PACKED with shoppers. All doing last minute Thanksgiving shopping.

Thanks...giving... Thanking God for what he's given us... and giving? Being thankful for the giving? Giving good attention to the food? Giving? What's that part in there for? Hmmm...

Happy Thanksgiving!!!