Christmas Blessings

We Wish You A Merry Christmas

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Fun Festive Photos

We've been keeping busy with all the Christmas preparations, parties and present shopping! Here are a few fun photos to share. A quick post before getting back to all our festive-ness. Hope you are having fun too!

In case you were wondering, Joshua was a Who from Whooville for the school concert. Jacob only had to wear his holiday best :)

All I Want For Christmas...

...is my two front teeth!!!



Thanksgiving Prayer

Heavenly Father, on Thanksgiving Day
We bow our hearts to You and pray.
We give You thanks for all You've done
Especially for the gift of Jesus, Your Son.
For beauty in nature, Your glory we see
For joy and health, friends and family,
For daily provision, Your mercy and care
These are the blessings You graciously share.
So today we offer this response of praise
With a promise to follow You all of our days.
--Mary Fairchild

Bodies in Locomotion

The weather is cooling off in AZ. That means one thing... time to get outdoors and hit the parks! We got ourselves over to the Railroad Park this past Sunday. The weather was SO beautiful. Sunny with a chill in the air. We took Grandma with us on our traditional train ride and enjoyed some playgrounds and soccer. Love, love, loving these memories!!!

Oregon Boys at Heart - Chuga Chuga Choo Choo!

Riding On the Train!

 The Caboose...

Here We Go 

Way Up High on the Western Town Playground

 Those Pines Remind Us of Oregon!

 Kickin' It With Dad

 Soccer Studs

Rickey Soccer In Action

Posing With Those Soccer Studs

 On Trip # 2 on the Train, The Boys Rode In This Boxcar... Augh!

 Peeking Through the Slats...

 Jacob's Art Project This Week: Eric Carle's Train (Irony!)



Can't wait to see what the future Fall weekends hold for our family. We're going to make the most of them!

Halloween 2011

Last Friday, the boys got to wear "superhero" costumes with their friends at school as The Flash and TRON. Last night, they got to escort Little Red Riding Hood as The Big Bad Wolf and The Woodsman. So much fun! I wonder if two costumes per Halloween is setting a bad trend... oh well!

Kiddo Room Redos

Recently, we completed a pretty major overhaul of the boys bedrooms. It was officially time to get rid of the toddler beds and get the kids adult-sized furniture that would hopefully last them through their teens. The project went like this:

- Time to get rid of Joshie's crib bedding that's still up in his 4-year-old room
- May as well update Jacob's bed too since his feet are sticking off the edge
- I guess we'll have to get dressers/nightstands to match new twin beds for the boys
- We need all new bedding for both kids
- Now we need to go through all their clothes and clean out the closets to transfer to the drawers
- We'll have to purge all the toys/books to make room for the new furniture

So, it blew up into a project that took months of research, painting, purging and decorating. It's finally done! The kids (and parents) are really pleased with the results. Here are a few photos for fun:

The "themes" were decided:

Josh = Sports Goofy *
*nostalgic note: this sport goofy used to belong to Jon as a little boy!

Jacob = Superheroes

Out with the old, and in with the new!

Josh's before/after

Jacob's before/after

The rooms are almost unrecognizable, in a good way. PHEW! We'll see how long these "themes" last, but at least we won't be swapping out furniture anytime soon. A great accomplishment before we head into the busy holidays!

Switchfoot Concert

We took the boys to their first Christian rock concert! Switchfoot was in town and the was the perfect band to break in the kids to the experience.

Now that Grandma works at Grand Canyon University, we've been getting some awesome seats at the new GCU Arena (thanks, Grandma!!) Here's a few photos from the boys experience (unfortunately, they didn't quite stay awake for the whole thing!)

Switchfoot ROCKED and we loved having the boys come along!