Too cute to resist

Just try to resist this guy...he's too cute for words!

Snow, a doll and a goodbye

We got snow! Last week was an interesting and exciting week. First, we got snow, a LOT of it. Liz stayed home from school, then there was no school on Friday due to the flooding caused by the snow melting.

Mom and dad left for the MTC a few days ago, they are heading to Moscow,
Russia for their mission.

Liz and I went to American Girl this weekend to celebrate her birthday.

A ninja in the Nativity

Sam insisted, there were ninjas at the nativity. So, here he is at our family Christmas party, a ninja. (yes, he is holding a buffalo)

James was the donkey, but all we had was a doggie hat. Here he is panting, because he thought he was a doggie.
Lizzy was Mary, here we are pregnant together.
AND, here's Phil on his first day of full-time student teaching. Thanks mom for the math tie, he loves it!
AND, thanks to Traci for her camera! I'm so excited I can take pics of the fam again!

Dear Santa...

I have my two front teeth already. What I really want for Christmas is a camera. Our poor camera never really works. It's pretty sad. So, we've given up on taking pictures which is even more sad. It miraculously worked at Halloween, so we have a few photos from then.

We are good here, but seriously busy. Seriously. Phil just finished his first student teaching job, it was teaching Math at a Middle School. The kids loved him and didn't want him to go and the cooperating teacher said he won't have any problems finding a job (we hope that's true.) So, he was leaving at 7 a.m. to get to student teaching then from there he went to work then he either came home at 6 p.m. to do homework through the night or he went on to school and got home at 10:30 only to do homework through the night. While he was doing that I've been running a day care out of my home. Including my own kids, I have 7 children at the day care, 6 of which are UNDER 5 years old. He starts his full-time student teaching at the high school around the corner of us in January. He won't be working then since, well, there won't be any time in the day or evening to do that. Anyway, that's why I haven't blogged or checked blogs. I wish I could say something witty but there's not really room for that in my brain right now.

Things about the kids:
James: talking A LOT! Loves to give hugs, and hit. Kinda funny, but not really. Loves to sing. His nick name is JJ Moo Moo.

Sam: Loves preschool and is learning his letters and sounds. He told Santa that he wanted everything for Christmas. He's not a greedy boy, he just got nervous and forgot what he was going to tell him. But everything is a cuter response. He wants to know why police men don't carry swords. I try to explain that guns are much more efficient, his response to that, "but swords are cooler!"

Lizzy: Reading a LOT, is in an acting club that some teenagers from our church have. She is asked frequently to sing solos or duets or in children's choirs for our church.

That's it with us. Oh, and baby #4 is due in March. Good times.

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