The Living Nativity 2009

Two years ago, John had just left for Iraq. I took the three kids, I had at the time, with my parents to this Nativity. I remember Chloe was acting awefull that night, Joel was just barley 2 yrs old. Kids needed bathroom breaks, were so squirly and loud, I had to take them out during the performance ect, ect... What a difference 2 yrs makes!
The kids LOVED the nativity last night. Luke was amazed by the huge angel, the boys both that the Roman centurians were awesome, Chloe was a wonderful helper, Joel was still a little squirly, but pretty good for Joel, and another great thing, was that John was there. We had a great time as a family. Such a magical performance!

Ugly Sweater Christmas Party! 2009

Ugly Sweater Christmas Party with the home groupies!

John's sweater is pretty horrible!

Good dudes...in really bad sweaters!

Kiddos eating the goodies.

Frist Haircut and the Case of the Uncooperative Shepard!

Zachy's first haircut! He actually seemed like he liked most of it. Our lovely beautician....Auntie! Oh I love my new doo! I feel like a new person!

Here is Joel, or the night this picture was taken....a shepard. His preschool class performed a nativity scene and sang some song. The teachers had told us that Joel was being pretty uncooperative during rehersal and Joel would tell us that he didn't want to do the performance, but we encouraged him to do it anyway.

When he went on stage, he layed facedown at first, then put his sheep over his head or face, made funny faces and at the end turned to the angels in back of him and repeatedly yelled, "shepards do not take care of sheep!". Oh that child! What to do with that child?!

One example of how the performance went.

Our "new" annual Cabel Bridge Run

The city of Pasco hosts an annual run over that we participated in this year. John signed me up for the 10K, which I was not thrilled about. It had been a cold and icy month, and I had honestly ran about 2 times in Dec! Anyways, I did make it, and it really wasn't that bad. The worst thing I had to do was listen to John gripe about how slow we were going! I am well aware that we wouldn't have passed the Army PT test! On a bright note, we had some fun friends who ran it too. Katy, Kelli and Gene, here's to a new annual tradition! The Cabel Bridge Run! (Wish I had a picture!)

Woohoo...sledding!

Pre-sledding picture. Hopefully we'll get more snow this winter. We got a little the other day, enough to have a 2 hr delay. The kids got to go sledding and the next day it was a sheet of ice...school was cancled, and we leanred that when "ice sledding", Luke needs to wear a helmet! Go, Luke, go!

Chloe girl :)

Ready, set, sled!

Joel man!

It's Christmas time '09!

Movie night....Fellowship of the Rings. Joel, decorating the tree.

Chloe, on watch, for Christmas ornaments.

Luke, hard at work, putting the tree together!

Movie night again, Fellowship of the Rings cont....

The Wedding

Katy and Cameron got married! and Chloe, Luke and Joel were in the wedding. The wedding turned out absolutely beautiful! But Joel was extreemly uncooroperative! So much so that I almost had to exclude him from the wedding! However, by the grace of God, he made it down the isle, stood there for 10 minutes, without twirrling, or making silly faces, and then made it back to where we were sitting, and then was immediatly escorted out of the wedding by his dad! Fewf!
I realize with all the hoop-la, I didn't get many good pictures. Oh well, I'm sure you'll get the idea. The wedding/wedding party/ and my kids looked adorable!

The lovely ladies!

The family :)

I tried to take about 20 pre-wedding pics of the kids, this was by far the best. Oh, I love my boys! Zach's other mom, Denise, stealin' a kiss!The food crew! This pictures shows just how cooperative Joel was to work with that day! Errrrr.