Nov. 22nd - Dec. 8th, 2013

Hi Everyone!

Hope you all had a good Thanksgiving. We had a good time with the family!

 Not the Easter Bunny...The Christmas Bunny :)

 Blake and Seth helped me get ready for Thanksgiving. 

 Too tired before the party even starts 

 Third-born boys spending some bonding time 

 More bonding time...

 Jonathan was able to leave base for Thanksgiving. Somehow after reading a book to the boys about the first Thanksgiving, they got the impression that pilgrims and indians were to be joining us for the meal. Jonathan played along for us and arrived with this face painted with mud and shirtless. It had been several months since the boys had seen Jonathan anyway, so their little eyes got pretty big with he appeared at the door that day. It only took them a second to recognize him though, then they were fine. :)

 As you can see, I was hopelessly out-numbered! 

It feels like Thanksgiving came and went in a flash this year. Without skipping a beat we are on to Christmas! 

 Picking out our tree 

It was really cold out!

 Very excited! You know Seth is excited about something when he agrees to sing some Christmas songs with the rest of us. :)

Little "Owey" has taken his first step! Yup, he's only 9 months old. I guess he feels he must keep up with his brothers. He very close to full-blown walking now. At the moment he is only able to take one step before plopping down. 

I was excited to put up (well, that Micah put up) Christmas lights outside for the first time. Our house looks something akin to a gingerbread house at night, but the boys love to go out when it gets dark and turn on the lights together. 

A few funnies....

     Blake and Seth are anxiously awaiting the time with our large Pin Oak tree behind our house finishing losing all it's leaves because that means they can get their golf set out again and not worry about it getting lost in the mounds of leaves. The other morning there was an especially heavy sprinkling of leaves all over the deck and Blake goes outside and exclaims, "Good job wind! You got a lot of leaves off!!"

     "Why is it Santa Claus, like sharp things?" Blake on the reason behind Santa "Claw's" odd last name. :) 

     Seth-"I don't want to get married" Me-"You don't? Why not?" Seth-"Because I don't think that white thing will fit me"Me- "The white thing?" Seth-"Yeah, the white thing you wear when you get married" Me-"You mean the white dress that the girls wears?" Seth-"Yes". ....sigh, where these things come from, I will never know. Unfortunately, explaining to Seth that he would not have to wear "a white thing" and that he would have a nice tuxedo when he gets married did not change his mind about the matter. :) 


We are looking forward to having Kate, Noah and Roger join us for Christmas this year. They will be staying with us for about a week and a half. We are all really excited! This is always a very busy and fun month for our family and I'm looking forward to what's the Lord has in store. 

Hope you all are doing well!

Love, 

Kari, Micah, Blake, Seth and Owen