Merry Christmas Auntie JuJu!!!!

Merry Christmas from all of us!

Brotherly Love

With the season of Christmas upon us, I thought it would be appropriate to share some photos of the brotherly love that is blossoming in our house. How fun for us parents when we get to see our children truly embracing one another as friends! Christmas is in 2 days... stand by for more pictures soon!

Blessings,
Joanie

Happy 8th Anniversary to us!

Wedding Day - December 9, 2000

Summer Vacation at Apple Canyon Lake, July 2008

Celebrating Joanie's birthday in February 2008

Happy Anniversary, dear Chad! I love you very much and have had a wonderful 8 years being married to you! I love our family, our home and our life together very much. God has blessed me beyond what I could imagine! I look forward to our special lunch date tomorrow!

Love you! Here's to many, many more years!!

Happy Birthday to Sara and Jessi!!!

Here is a video to Jessi from the kids... we got to sing Happy Birthday to Sara last night!

Have a great day, you two!

Guitar Heroes and Daddy's Helper

Playing Guitar Hero with Daddy!

Eric Rocks!

OK, this is not Guitar Hero, but Caleb was very helpful to Daddy yesterday.

He didn't even know he didn't have paint on his roller!

Now here's the best part... the family band!

The Haircut

Anna looks a bit more mature these days... her new shoulder length hairdo is to blame. I am glad it looks nice, though I was sad to see her long locks fall to the floor. Eric took his scissors to the back of her hair Monday, so Tuesday she was off to the salon. Thankfully it is much easier to wash and brush, and it will grow back. She has been going around touching the back of her hair, and saying, "Mommy, it is already growing back, I can feel it!". Yes, it is dear. Just a lot more slowly than you think! She must have had about 7 inches cut off.

Caleb was not about to be excluded from the photo shoot, so he climbed up onto the ledge and held onto that pumpkin too! You can't really tell it, thankfully, but for his last haircut about 10 days ago, he screamed and threw such a fit that the girl had a very hard time getting him cut. I am still finding little stray bits of longer hair everywhere on him!

A crazy month

It has a been a crazy month here... so much going on this fall! Here are a few shots of some things we've been up to!

Eric's class took a field trip to Soergel's Orchards

Eric and his best friend Grant listen to the lecture about the parts of an apple.

Eric and Grant pretend to drive the huge wooden jeep

Some of Eric's classmates gathered on the "train"

We attended a Fall Festival last Friday at a local church.
Caleb wasn't quite sure what to do with his balloon sword!

So we had a pumpkin, a princess, and Spiderman. Eric's friend Grant was "The Thing".

Eric's last soccer game of the fall season was last Saturday. Here he is goofing around before the coin toss.

The much anticipated TROPHY! He was very worried that he had to score a goal to get one. I told him every player gets one, if they simply show good sportsmanship.

Thank you for our new outfits, Gramma Debbie! Photo of Caleb in the cute Cookie Monster outfit coming soon!