Our newest member of the family...

Bailey and me

He is 5 months old, and I just fell in love with him. So Merry Christmas to me! Jack is doing well already thanks to Brent and Heidi's little Maddie.

October

Just got back from a ladies retreat which was nice, but nicer to be back! I like my life and my home and my boys! I'd rather be with them than doing anything else. So now this week we have an apple orchard activity with church and just day to day busyness. The holidays are coming! Christmas shopping has semi-started. Matt is working almost every night overnight and so is sleeping through the days. We are concerned about his job situation, but so far he does still have one, so that's a blessing!

Jack is getting close to being 3, so we are past a lot of the 2 year old stuff....we hope anyway! Very fun! I wish I could remember everything he says. One tip: When you pick your child up from the nursery and he says, "I obey", it makes you wonder what went down during the last hour! He is now able to go to Awana's pre-cubbies which is called Puggles. And now also is in junior church practicing for a Christmas program. He's a little young, but most of the kids in our church are around his age, so nice they can do this all together.

So I'm headed back to Weight Watchers! I have missed going the last few weeks, but it just hasn't been feasible with the schedules. I had a big break from the wedding until now, so now back to the old grind!

I am glad to see some colors working their way through the greenness. With the cold snap, I wasn't sure we would get any. But there are some popping out here and there. So that's encouraging. I was hoping for more 60s than we've had, but that isn't looking like it will happen now. Oh well, bring on the holidays and winter, too, I guess!

I feel like this is a boring post, but I haven't posted in so long that I thought I should. Every time I think about quitting the blog, I find a random person who says they check it all of the time. So here's for all of you! HA

Singing

I just had to include this video of Jack singing. We have our devotions every night and we have a time of singing. There are a number of songs that Jack likes to sing. This is one of his favorites. It is the Christian ABC song.

Here are the words if you don't know them already:
A, B, C, D, E, F, G: All have sinned and that means me.
H, I, J, K, L, M, N: Jesus died for sinful men.
AMEN!
O, P, Q, R, S, T, U: I believe God's Word is true.
U, V, W: God has promised you.
X, Y, Z: A home eternally!

AAHHHH!

Finally, maybe some time to relax. I am purposely not planning anything or at least much this week. I need to just relax and be home. It feels good already! Today Jack and I had Mommy and Jack Day - I enjoyed it even if he didn't know it was that much different. Matt was golfing, and no other kids around today, so we did the park and McDonalds and a garage sale - he got a free little something or other toy - but very nice and relaxing. And then we took naps. Perfect!

Dome Days

We won't be having many of these next year with the Twins moving. That might have been the last Dome Dog I ate for a while - YUM! And there is Favre although blurry. He didn't actually play since it was the last preseason game, but still fun to see him out there. Our good friends Josh and Libby gave us some tickets. Thanks, Guys!

A new pose

The newest member of the family, Brent's and Heidi's baby Boglan Terrier, Maddie

Heidi's birthday with Jack blowing all of the candles. He's excited about his coming up in January!

Twins game with church

Kansas trip

We had a great time listening to some good preaching and singing this past week. Here are some pictures.

Me and Alicia- so nice to see her.

A wonderful couple

Looking at bugs

Two of my favorite people

Chris's family, the pastor's family, and our family that was there.

Busy, Busy, Busy

Just staying busy with church, Matt's job's crazy hours, and now this week the fair one more time and then the Vikings game on Friday! I'm very excited and Matt is glad that I can be a Vikings fan now that Brett Favre is here! HA I was threatening to become a Packers fan a couple of years ago.

And then it's off to Kansas for a conference that my brother is preaching for the weekend. Then a Twins game next week and maybe things will settle down not long after that! But things are good. Jack is saying so many things like right now, "We ha' to go outside together." So I guess I will stop and do that.