happy holidays a month late!

Better late then never! here are some picture's from Christmas!

here are the dresses Aunt Coby had made for Jaime Lynn and Bri Ella. they looked so cute in them! We gave all the little boys pop guns!
Colton is thanking Grandpa for the wonderful Lincoln Logs he built him! Dad made all the little boys Lincoln Logs with there initials on each one. they are giant and build a great cabin with a garage. very cool gift!
on Christmas eve we all sing Christmas music and the kids play insturments. we all love it.

this is us Christmas morning at David's parents.

Clay was kickin' back in the gifts.

My parents with all there Grandkids.

here's the whole family, minus Jason he was taking the picture!

Seth is a great musician, hopefully he can teach Clay some of his talents!

My Dad made a rocking horse for each family! we all had one growing up that was excatly the same. Dad just used the pattern to make all the kids one!

We had a very special time Celebrating Christ's Birth with our family! memories that will last. Thank you Lord for Blessing us throught the Birth of your son!

Brothers at home

The boys are getting to the age where they do a lot together. I had fun looking back at the last couple months of things they enjoy together.

what page are you ON?

they are having there morning Bible reading time. I sit and read to them out of the Bible and they follow in there childrens bible's.

they love to sit up in the window seat and race trains.

it is Colton's job to unload the clean dishes. he is teaching Clay how to help with the silverware.

playing with there new T-rex's. they love to fight and hunt with them.
OK I laughed so hard when I saw this picture! talk about a serious Black Mail pictures for later in life!! Oh he is such a funny boy! he is looking out the window for daddy! he loves boots right now as you can see. he even laughed at the picture and said it was funny whne I showed him! he won't laugh at it forever!

pictures old and new

the boys all dressed up for Haloween. they had fun going around pretending to be something else! Clay is a Gorilla, it's a little hard to tell.

so I just got two rolls developed and have some fun things to remeber about this winter.

I'm back

well till the next hurricane hits! I am all moved into a rental house in Sandy. wow it's nice to be so close to civilization! the worst cold ever had finally left the building! I have finally been able to pull out of being emotional about leaving our first house. it was so nice and everything we liked about it David did himself. so I'm over it and am now ready for a new phase in our life! we have picked a lot to build on and we have our house plans in hand. we are excited and nervous about building again. I will be going in for a C=section to have the baby on Feb. 7th at 8 in the morning. we are just trying to rest up and stay healthy till then. and as soon as I'm back on my feet, David will be starting to build. our boys are adjusting to the new house just fine. they have been enjoying unpacking and putting all there stuff in the right places again. well I am going to try and lay down and rest for a couple minutes! our new phone number is 668-0194 if you don't have it yet! coem by and see us soon! later-

up and down

well now our closing dates is back on for the 15th and we are moving! we are getting the rental tonight and starting to move stuff tomorrow! all is well and the stress level has gone down. as for our colds, we are still feeling bad but no time to sit and rest. gotta pack pack pack! I may not write anything for a while I'll be moving! and getting ready for the baby. LATER!

stress

well I am feeling like just crawling into a hole. we are suppose to be closing on Tuesday on our house. the buyers are having some issues with the inspection of there cabin they are selling. because we are doing a simultaneous close we are not sure we can close the whole deal. I am suppose to start moving tomorrow and now everything is on hold. no one has answers for me as to how long the resolution to the problem will take or when I should move or any of the important things at this moment. anyway just had to put out a little of my frustrations!
Oh and we are headed to the doctor for a virus little Clay can't kick. we have been sick since September it feels like! nothing too major, just enough to wear us out! Just 4 more weeks till baby comes! NO PRESSURE!!

crazy life!

Merry Christmas and happy new year! I have been so busy! we had a great christmas with both our families. we had everyone up to our house on my side of the family for a day in the snow. all the men with the older kids went up and sledded and all the women with the babies stayed at my house. we had a great day and then headed to my sisters for the rest of the weekend. my whole family stayed at my sisters Saturday through monday. we came home to snow! it was so fun to have it snow for Christmas! it just makes it seem really like Christmas when it's white! It continued to snow for the next couple days and was a lot of fun to play in!
then for Christmas eve we went to a great candle lite service at Greater Gresham. Clay sat throught the whole service like a little sweety! we woke up Christmas morning and had a short family time with just the four of us and then headed to David's parents. Our boys are at really fun ages! It was the Best Christmas for us so far! very relaxing and great to reflect on Chirst's Birthday and what that means for all of us! we had plenty of great food and gifts and Thanking God for our friends and family.
For New years we had Preston my brother and his family out to spend the night and play cards. and my parents joined us also! we played cards into the new year and then woke up and watched our sweet little kids play together. we had subsandwiches and then everyone went home for nap time! It's great to have family you like to hang out with. we are very lucky to have all our siblings so close to us! they are our life long friends.
well after the Holidays of course we all came down with a cold and feeling tired. we are now trying to find a rental house and move here in few days. I think we found a place to rent and the packing is going slowly but surley! I am trying not to get stressed or to tired, so that makes the packing go slow. no rush we have a week! evidently we may have some delay with closing due to the buyers of our buyers house. they are having issues and hopefully that won't affect us much. we need God to help us with the timing and getting all the details worked out!
well stay in touch and we will be in sandy soon! Later gotta go clean.