Catchin' up

These past few days have been going better. We have been vomit-free for 3 days now so that is a step in the right direction. Nothing like feeling deathly ill to make you appreciate how great you feel when you are healthy!!
My precious little guys turned one this week and poor thing hardly got any celebration. We were all too sick to eat cake so we are going to wait until Christmas day to do that. I can not believe how fast this year has gone with Aaron. He has been such a sweet little thing, we just adore him.
We spent the majority of today at church. This morning we attended Crossway, our home church in Lancaster and then tonight we went to the Christmas musical they performed there. It has been so amazing for us to have a church that we love going to, love the people, and feel God changing us in the midst of it all. The musical tonight was so great, a testimony to all the creative hard work that goes into everything at our small church.
We are looking forward to this week. This past week Steve has been working with his brother to earn a few extra bucks and tomorrow is his last day of that so we are looking for some REAL vacation.
Still no pictures. I do not have the cord needed to download picts on my parents computer. I'll catch up soon.

Sick Days

We were so happy to be given 2 weeks off for Christmas vacation. We have been back home staying with my parents. Let's just say that this first week has not gone as we had planned. We have spend the whole week taking turns with a stomach virus. Everyone has gotten sick except my mom and Aaron. I think poor Claudia had it the worst. She threw up for almost 24 hours. Today is the first day since Monday that no one has throw up and let's just hope that it stays that way!!

Hopefully I will catch up with some pictures later.

Gym Day

Each Thursday all of the families in the Pastor's College are invited to
hang out in the gym at the church. It is always a great time of catching
up with the ladies and the kids have a blast running around.


Aaron and his buddy Ronan


Conehead


All the older kids lined up for a race around the gym (Claudia
won today! YEAH Claudia!)


Aaron was not particularly fond of his first experience with his winter
coat in his car seat.

The Guy

Here are a few shots of my little guy

A nice 'do after cleaning up from supper (guess we missed
the sweet potato stuck in the nose)


The girls decorated Aaron with some stickers

Snow Days

Last week we had a day where it snowed all day, it was so beautiful.
We were out in it with the 2 families that we did the Thanksgiving
Unit with. We had planned the last day of our T-giving celebration to
be a journey from England to America that we had mapped out on the
trail system around our houses here. Well, that day it was pouring
down rain. We re-scheduled and that day Morgan had a double ear
infection, so we rescheduled again and it was the big snow day. We
were quite the sight, 3 moms, 2 strollers, 11 children all trecking
through the snow. My friend Gina said that she is going to start a
new aerobic video about bundling 4 children to go out to the snow.
I think everyone but my little Aaron had a really fun time. He was not
too fond of the snow flakes falling on his face.

Aaron all bundled up to go out to the snow


The group of older kids on "The Journey"


Gina and Hannah trecking


Aaron and I...sideways. My computer will not let me flip a photo


My girlies

Tea Party

Last Tuesday, the girls and I hosted a little Christmas tea party
for their new friends. It was fun to see all the girls get so excited
about it. We did a craft, had lunch, played a game to exchange gifts
and then had tea and dessert. A great time was had by all.

Our first activity was having the girls decorate a bulb for the Christmas tree



Claudia and Hannah deep in discussion


A bird's eye view of dessert


Adele, Emma, Claudia and Morgan saying good-bye

The Dark Ages

We have spent the last week with no phone and no internet. Apparently, all of our phone calls have been redirected to another lady's house. So, if you tried to call us and got cursed out by an elderly lady, blame Verizon!
It is amazing how dependent I am on these conveniences. We had a technician out this morning to fix everything and about 1/2 hour after he left everything stopped working again! I'd be putting it lightly to say there were some unhappy moments in my heart this afternoon! Somehow tonight it all started working again, so here I am, I will try to do a little bit of catching up.

Gingerbread Fun

Tonight we are all feeling festive as we pulled out the pre-made Gingerbread Kits. This was the first time that I bought one but knew that the girls would have a blast. Here are some pictures of their time...

I roped Steve into the "construction phase" of the house.


Claudia concentrating hard


Morgan taking a lick of the iciing


Claudia's finished product


Morgan's finished product