Mongolia

Hey, we found out that our Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes got shipped to Mongolia

Very cool!!!!!

Karaoke Anyone???

Christmas with Koinonia

Celebrating the holidays with Koinonia families

Driving Home

Heading home after a full weekend of fun at Casa Christmas

A big THANKS to Dad & Randy for tiring out these boys!!!

Christmas at the Casa 2011

Family crafts before Casa time!

Tiny Tim #1

Tiny Tim #2

The Fort

The boys continue to improve their fort!

Let the Gluttony Begin!!

Thanksgiving 2011 was spent at Grandma Charlotte's

Always fun to be with loved ones

One Year with Dustin & Ayden

Nov 22 marked one year of having Dustin and Ayden with us! They have added many fun times and memories and we celebrated with a dinner out at City Slickers!

Upload

Ok - I finally figured out a new (at least to me) way to upload or link my YouTube videos to my blog...


Here's one I made for Derek earlier in the year for our 5 year wedding anniversary -- let's see if I can get this to work:


http://youtu.be/zFKNJjQF-24

11 in 2011

To celebrate Joseph's 11th birthday, Derek & I decided to "tough it out" by taking the boys to Chuck E. Cheese's -- it was fun, but oh the bells and whistles!!

Joseph's aunt and uncle (Peter & Araceli) came too and it was wonderful to see them - they are such wonderful people and have given Joseph so much love!

Here are the boys playing their various games!!!

...mmmmm cake time

...and to top off the afternoon, a Monster drink - a special birthday treat -- thank heavens, we were on our way to Joseph's football game where he got to run off all of the caffeine!!!