The Twelve Days of Chrismas: Day 5

Since I have quite a few days left, I don't want to put out too much at once, so today I'll just put up some pictures for you to enjoy! :) You can see for yourself how much Renae enjoyed Santa! Ha ha




Merry Christmas!!

Twelve Days of Christmas: Day 4

Happy Birthday JOSHUA!!!

What a perfect opportunity to celebrate Josh! Though it doesn't seem like nearly as long, we've been together for over 6 years, married for 4 1/2, have a beautiful daughter together, and about to have another baby (!!), we've lived together in 2 states, but 4 locations (Ft. Leavenworth, KS, Ft. Leonard Wood, MO, Ft. Gordon, GA, Ft. Gillem, GA), moved every year since 2008 (2007 for Josh, cause Iraq counts), made new friends again and again together, travelled together, watched A LOT of football together, experienced a lot of very unique things together: a 15 month deployment, open heart surgery, the Army...that's just the big stuff. Together we can make the stress involved in nearly all of these things and make it fun (the one exception would be the deployment, that was not ever fun...and when the Huskers lose, there's not much fun in that either).

He's my best friend, a wonderful husband, and a fabulous father. He's a gift! If I could put into a gift something to return the joy he gives me everyday I'm not sure what it would be. Probably Madden for PS3 or new running shoes. Ha Ha.

We love you Josh! Happy Birthday!

Twelve Days of Christmas: Day 3

My Christmas Jammies :) I wear them alot!



This is my new morning trick...I do this probably 3-4 times a week.

Twelve Days of Christmas: Day 2

We recently had our Growing Kids God's Way small group Christmas party. Josh and I are really loving this group, we are learning so much! We've been having a great time learning together how to raise Godly Kids.



And, speaking of growing kids...Josh and I are growing another one! :) We are 15 1/2 weeks pregnant with baby number 2. The due date is around June 13th, but if this baby is delivered at 37 weeks like Renae we're looking at the end of May. We are so excited!!

The Twelve Days of Christmas: Day 1

This week, there is NOTHING on the calendar. No doctors appointments (for me or Renae), no Christmas parties, small group gatherings, no office obligations, no PWOC, no board meetings, nothing! Well....except 2 important birthdays. :)

That being said, I'll start of my Twelve Days of Christmas blogging-spree with a recap of Renae's 1st birthday.

Renae and Sydneys' birthday party in Nebraska was a lot of fun. We all know how Grandma Deb can throw a party!











There was only one snag. Turns out. Renae does not like cake. ha ha. Here's proof:

We tried it again on her actual birthday with the same result. HA!





I wish I had a video to show you how fun the parties were. The tears were very brief, and there was a lot of fun to be had by all!

December!

Ahhhhh this time of year is so busy!! :) I'm going slightly insane, but at the same time, I love it! We just got back from Thanksgiving 5 days ago and have already prepared for and put on a Christmas party on base, celebrated my birthday, decked our halls, got really sad watching the Huskers in the Big 12 Championship game, unpacked, and are getting prepared to host dinner tomorrow, and then pick up Cale and Megan at the airport and repack to go on vacation with them! :)





So exciting! Merry Christmas!! :)

Halloween!

This year was a new experience for us at Halloween! Our church hosts an event called Trunk N Treat...basically a safe place for trick or treating! The small groups in our church sponsored a Trunk (car-SUV trunk, truck bed, trailer..etc), decorated it, and then dressed in theme to hand out candy to kids that would come. WE HAD THOUSANDS...yes thousands of kids. There was a 45 minute-wait line from 5 until 8 pm. WOW! Our small group, is not small. :) There are A LOT of us. So we decided to do something equally 'small'. Most of us have small children so we decided we'd pick something they would really love, which ended up being Toy Story 3. A very talented guy in our small group paints murals on the side, and is a phenomenal artist! He painted gigantic Toy Story characters, the aliens, Rex, Mr. Potato Head, the Piggy....and we set up his flatbed trailer to look like a large cardboard box packed for Sunnyside. And we all dressed up as Toy Story characters. Josh was Malibu Ken, I was Mrs. Potato Head, and Renae was an alien. Other costumes included Slinky Dog, army men, Barbie, Buzz, Woody, Jessie, some Lego People, AND...Scooby Doo, Shaggy, Thelma, and Daffney joined us! :) We had a great great great time. Unfortunatly, we didn't take any pictures all together, or of the whole scene, or as a family. Sorry, we'll try harder next year! :) Here's some pictures!








AND- we won best trunk! :)