My boy is growing..

I had to post these pictures of Caleb!! He is now in youth group. This was him "dressed up" for the youth Christmas party. I feel so old because I have a pre-teen. It's been over a month since I've posted so it's catch up time.

Glory to God in the Highest

Thanks to our friend Mitchell, who blessed us with some tickets to the "Glory to God in the Highest" concert. We also got to meet & greet Chris Tomlin, Christie Nockels (Watermark) and Louie Giglio. It was such a fun night!! It was a great way to start the Christmas season!!




Our family and Chris Tomlin. The greatest song writer!! So many of the worship songs we sing are written by him.





Us and Christie Nockels (Watermark), she one of the most amazing voices. I love her music. She was a great compliment to Chris.




Louie Giglio preached a great message and read Luke 2, the story of our Savior Jesus born to save us!! The greatest gift ever!!

Cousins

CALEB




JOSH




CALEB, ELI AND JOSH.

These picture were taken by my sister Christy last month. Scott and Christy took my boys along with Eli to a Christian concert at Lowe's Speedway. They got to see Toby Mac their favorite!! Thanks Chris, love these pictures!!

Thanksgiving at Mimi's & Poppy's

The gang!! It was an awesome Thankgiving time together!! Thanks Mom and Dad for the professional picture session.



The Brown's - us!



The Tennyson's. My sister Christy, and her hubby Scott and their children Eli, Lilly and Zack.



The Gehman's. My sister Sarah, her hubby Josh and their children Will, Abby and Nate.



The most awesome grandparents in the world, Mimi & Poppy!! The kids always loving just hanging on their bed watching cartoons. Good memories!!

Casemate Museum Field trip

Fort Monore, Casemate Museum. The inside that we toured of the Museum is right behind the kids in this picture. Where the stairs are, in the right of this picture, is how you get to the top of the Fort shown in the picture on the bottom.



The inside of the Museum, where the civil war was fought. The inside of this Museum also housed families during the civil war. It was very cool to tour.




You can't see but behind the kids was one of the cannons that they used, it was huge!!





This is the view from the top of the Fort!!

Josh's 9th Birthday

Josh wanted cupcakes and I love making these in cones!!



He invited only a few friends, Aaron, Zack, Jesse and Logan. We took them bowling and then they had a sleepover.




They all decorated their own cupcake and wanted seconds.





Lauren just ate the icing, but can you blame her??



They were wiped out and I think also crashed after all the sugar intake!!


I can't believe it's been 9 years already since my second sweet boy was born. He was born a month early by emergency c-section a week before Thanksgiving. He was transferred to a neo-natal hospital the same day he was born and it was so hard to be away from my new baby. He stayed in the neo-natal hospital for a week and was released "Thanksgiving Day", greeted by his Aunt's, Christy and Sarah. Since I ended up in the ER that morning I couldn't go get him. We were so thankful to the Lord for the gift on Thanksgiving, that we were able to bring our sweet new baby home. He's been through a lot since he was born which has just made him stronger. Josh, I am so thankful that God has made you into a sweet, giving, thoughtful and helpful young boy. Josh we love you so much and praise God for giving you to us!! I pray through the years that God will continue to give you a Passion for His Name and your life will give Him Glory!! Happy Birthday!!

And it rained for 4 days and 4 nights...

Thankfully isn't wasn't anywhere near the 40 days and 40 nights it rained in Noah's day, but it sure felt like it at times. (But yet I have no idea what that really felt like)! This is our backyard during the Nor'easter at high tide. Yes, it came right up to our house, but it's only a miracle from God that it didn't get into our garage or under our foundation. It was almost up to Shaun's waist near the back fence. No damage but a whole lot of clean up, (all of our wood floating made a huge mess)!!