22 months

Tantrum...

Yesterday was a normal, walk to the boys to the bus and home again. Abbey wanted to go back outside, and when I said no, she started sliding backwards and ended up doing hand stands. And not just one hand stand but several; can we say she's following in her mommy's foot steps! Again I see a gymnast in our future!

Eric's Baptism

Follow up to our last post...

video of Eric's Baptism... (sound isn't the best, said by Auntie Diane (recording the video!))

Welcome to the Family... Of God!!!

Our oldest son Eric this past summer accepted Jesus into his heart! (that's a whole other story in itself!) The church children's leader Marta asked when we would like Eric to baptized; Eric's response was "I would like Uncle Scott and Auntie Diane to be home, so Uncle Scott could baptize me." As the schedule unfolded we knew that Dec. 30th would be the best day for this event! You see Scott and Diane are IBM missionaries in Russia and haven't been home in 14months. Thus scheduling was key! What a great way to start a new year! Andrew and I prepared Eric, went over what he would say, how he is now the light of the world, an example to his brother and sister. So last night we prepped his clothing and the speech he would say in front of our church family. I woke up this morning early to sing on our worship team to find Eric up and fully dressed! Mind you I get up on these days at 6:15am (yes it's a very long day, but I love it!) Andrew wanted to spend the morning with just Eric, so I took Ethan and Abbey with me to practice and first service. So with almost all Andrew's family, our church family, and great friends in attendance Eric was baptized. Showing to all what had transpired in his heart! Here's are the few pictures I could take through the happy tears...

Here is the speech Eric said before he was dunked... Hi I’m Eric, I just turned 9 last week! I became a Christian this past summer after seeing a skit at Kid-venture. The skit scared me, and made me THINK I might miss out on being with Jesus, my family and friends. I am glad I’m being raised in a loving Christian home, and have a wonderful Church family to hold me accountable. I’m not perfect and I’ve got a lot of growing to do, but I know God will not give me more than I can handle.

Questions from Uncle Scott before the dunking!

I just love the look on Uncle Scott's face in this shot...

Merry Christmas...

As always we had Family over for Christmas eve, dinner and presents! Last night was different, the boys as we were putting dinner on the table were trying not to fall asleep; it was about 6:30pm. After they finished their dinner they grabbed their blankets and plopped on the couch until we were ready for presents! Finally it was present time; and it did not disappoint them! They quickly ran up and put on their new jammies, and at 7:59 Eric came into the room and said it's bed time; good night! WHAT, who's kid are you??? The one night a year they want to go to bed! My mother in law, and Andrew's Aunt offered to help us wrap the kids presents because I was due at our church for the 11pm service to run the computer. HUGE help that was! I got home from church and the dishes were done, thanks to my wonderful husband. Kids were asleep, well until we got our toes in bed that is! They started stiring and finally came and slept in our room with us! I heard them get up around 7 and wait until said time of 7:30 (so Abbey could get her sleep!) No sooner did their alarm clocks go off did I hear the little girl knock sweetly on her door! SANTA came, after the tornado of lego's, wrapping paper, candy, and instructions a family nap was in order! Andrew and the boys were putting lego sets together the majority of the day! While Abbey and I snuggled of the sofa watching the Disney parade and Cinderella!

Santa's coming to town...

Everyone has a baby crying sitting on Santa's lap right!?!