Michigan the first week

Lydia and Isaac with their sock monkey Uma made. Lydias monkeys name is Princess Long Tail, and Isaac names his Jimmy Jon Jones.....

Lydia got Prince Eric to go with Ariel....

The boys putting together a little lego set

"Who's the pretty little girl in the mirror?"

Marble LOVES it when we visit because he knows he will get alittle extras yummies to eat!

New hair cuts!!!!

The kids getting their hair cut from the best person I know to cut their hair, Barb does the best job on the kids hair!!!

Uma and Papas beautiful Christmas tree, it was so pretty, and the picture doesn't do it justice, you need to see it in person!!!

BreeAnn trying to put an old train set together, but she couldn't figure it out so Uma just bought the kids the racecar set, and they had a blast with it!!!!

The kids and I went to MI for the holidays. When we got there, they had lots and lots of snow!! It always makes it great to have a white christmas....the kids also were able to go with Nathans Uncle Norm to the Fleming Shack in the UP, and I don't have photos, but they had a blast spending time with Uncle Norm, Chase, Rosa, and her friends. They were able to snowmobile, and play out in the snow.....

Misc Pictures through the month

Today was Lydia's Christmas Party at school, and she wanted to be a princess, and I said why don't you wear this sweater, and she told me that princess' do not wear sweaters, they wear princess dresses, and so how could i not say yes, and she also wore her crown to school....oh goodness!!!!!

This is a picture of us in Mexico eating with another couple, Nathan works his the guy, and they just happen to book their vacation at the same time, and the same place, sort of CRAZY!!! Then when Nathan was home he was home durning Veterans Day, and so he went to each of the boys classrooms and spoke to their class for awhile, it was really awesome, and the boys thought it was special!!!!

Nathan with Day and Lydia at our "free" painful dinner at Olive Garden, and yes Nathans forehead is bleeding, but its a long story!!!!

Nathan "trying" to copy me and Lynnies pose

This is "our" Christmas morning, we just put our little tree up since we were still moving in

These are pictures I loved that didn't make it to the blog yet, or pictures I couldn't find a spot for and just thought I would add them now...Its super hard because I love to take pictures, and I got an awesome new camera from Nathan for Christmas so I am taking more then "normal"

Our last weekend with Nathan......

Nathan and the kids before we took him to the airport

When daddy is home Lydia gets extra attention with her toes, Nathan makes sure they are always done up, and the boys and Nathan worked on LEGOS while home and they are showing off their hard work

The kids and their Legos they got for Christmas from Daddy, and Isaac and his vest he really really wanted!!!!

New House

We really did buy the house in the back of our "old" house, that is the back of our other house......

As alot of you may know, Nathan and I do things that are a little crazy at times, and while he was home we bought a new house. It is the house that was in our backyard, it was a great opporunity, and we just couldn't pass it up. The house is about 1000 sq ft larger, and it has an AWESOME patio. It is so nice having the extra space, I don't know what we did before. It was a very busy week moving before Nathan left, and everything is moved it, just not organzied or all put together, but I figure I have 3 to 4 months to do that before Nathan gets home. We are praying our "other" house sells quickly, and I will say I will miss our "old" house very much, we, especially Nathan, put alot of time, and work into that house to make it really nice for us, and special.

Choir Concert

Trey, Hannah, and Elijah as "angels"

Elijah has been choir at church and they had their choir concert last weekend, and it was so good!!! Uma and Papa came down to watch him, and Isaac also sang 2 songs before the bigger kids performed. It was worth all the practices, its always such a joy to see the young kids praising and singing to Jesus!!!!