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What a day!

I spent the morning taking Joseph and Joshua to Wal-mart, while Matt and John went to a property to do some work. On our way home we saw a plane landing at the airport. Joseph is always wanting to go see them land.....so we drove over to the airport.


Joseph really enjoyed watching a plane land and take off. Since we were so far up the airport road, we decided to go the back way home.

We were driving and enjoying the beauty.....cows, horses, red tail hawk flew right in front of the van, and then at the top of a hill I saw this..................I can't believe I had my camera. I'm sure paw paw will like this one.

Best Rio Mall Find EVER!!

John found a Mummy Sleeping Bag that looks like it has never been used, that would retail for about $120.00 to $160.00.

Rio Price - $2.00

Early Spring Hike

Filling Daddy's Shoes

Can anyone ever really fill daddy's shoes? He does so much for us. He is always there to help when we need it. If it be a call at work for some help with disciple or the dishes, he is always the first to say I will help you. We couldn't do much around here without the help of our daddy. He is the best in the world. I am so thankful for him. I love him more than he will ever know!!!
Happy Valentine's Day My Love!!!

God's Beauty

Leap Frog worked for Joseph

For the past week, I have let Joseph watch the Leap Frog - Letter Factory while I was getting ready for the day. I was really impressed today when I was reviewing his letter sounds with him. He knew almost all of them (it wasn't too long ago that he only knew about 5 or 6)

This evening Matt started writing C A T on the board and showing him how it works to put the sounds together..... in about 10 minutes this is what Joseph was doing...........

Joshua is feeling better

New Year

The new year is here. Hoping for a healthy one. Someone in our house has been sick since Dec 20. I'm really tired. Long nights, doctor visits, ER run, coughing, runny noses, crying, whining, you name it and we have had it.
Matt is the last of us to get sick and yesterday he starting feeling bad. John is back to somewhat normal. Joseph is still taking long naps and coughing. Joshua is feeling better today.....no fever but still coughing and runny nose now. I think the croup has went to a cold.
Through all this, I have been thinking you know some people have children who are terminally ill and some people live where there are no doctors. Our family is so blessed with health, doctors who can help us and friends who are willing to serve us. Matt came home yesterday with lunch that someone at church had given us and another friend called to bring us supper tonight. How blessed we are!!!

Annual Christmas Lights Trip

We went for our annual trip to Welton Park last night.
The lights were as always very pretty. It was extra cold this year.

(If you look really close at Joshua's hands, you can see a new trend..........a sock on one hand and a glove on the other. One glove got lost on the way there, be we found it in the driveway when we returned.)

Christmas Play

Saturday night and Sunday morning, we had our Christmas play at church. It was wonderful once again. Everyone did a really good job.....as for our family......Matt was awesome on the drums and John did a wonderful job on his solo. There were a couple of technical problems but it worked out just fine.
Here is a photo of all the kids singing at the beginning of the play. Joseph is on the first row on the left(third person) and John is on the third row on the right side(fifth person from the right).


Here is a picture of John in the small singing group. They sang Tell Me the Story. Doesn't he look so handsome and grown up in his shirt and tie?

Christmas Cookies

The boys had fun decorating cookies today. They turned out really good.
Joseph really likes to put on the gum drops...........I mean he REALLY likes to put them on. His one cookie had 6 gum drops on it's face. You can see it in the bottom left corner.


Mommy had fun too........

The Monroe Dance Team - Merry Christmas!

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Family Photo

It's always a challenge for us to get a good family photo. There is always someone who is not looking at the camera or in my case making a really crazy face. This year was not different. Here are a couple of takes.


SURPRISE!!



Joshua getting away.



Matt after several takes.



The finished product.

Christmas Time is Here

Christmas is going to be here before you know it. The boys decorated the tree last night....well at least John and Joseph...........Joshua was the undecorator....you can see him reaching for the snowman.

We were enjoying the new CD Matt's mom got us, while we were decorating.........

John's favorite

Christmas Give Aways

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2008 Hunting Camp

Hunting camp was very fun this year! We got to hunt in real snow, and to top it off, Dad and I both got bucks. He got his Tuesday morning, then I went and set in his spot Wednesday morning and killed mine about 50 feet from where his was standing.



Like I said, there was some snow...............about 10 inches on the picnic table when we arrived on Sunday, and we got about 4 more inches while we were there. Tuesday evening and night, the wind gusts were between 40 and 50 mph. By Wednesday, there were some serious drifts.

Jonathan's big buck

John's 9th Birthday

John was really scared that his friends were not going to come over, because this is what we woke up too. But it worked out.........all the snow was gone by the time they came.



We can't believe our baby has grown so much. He's quite the little man.

John (2 months)


He had a great birthday. His highlight was spending time with his friends. It was really nice. I am thankful for the great friends God has given to him.

Joshua's "New Groove"

Joshua was born with a groove in his step. He loves music and loves to dance.