Preparing For Christmas

We had a good Thanksgiving with Greg's parents and sister. The kids played well together and we ate a lot of good food. The day after Thanksgiving I got up at 4:30am to go shopping. I got to Walmart at 4:45am and the parking lot was full and there were no shopping carts left. I shopped until I couldn't hold any more and then got in line to check out. I was in line by 5:07am and didn't get home until 6:30am. I ask myself why I do this, but then I see the good deals that I got and think I will do it again next year. After nap time we got the Christmas tree up and decorated. I thought it was going to be very difficult to do with the kids, but they were very good and helpful.

Privse for Boys

We had some friends over for dinner one night and Josiah and Jack decided that they didn't want the girls to play with them. Josiah made a sign in order to keep the girls out of his room. Here it is.

The Kids

We had some really nice days in November and the kids were able to play outside without jackets on. They had so much fun playing in the leaves and running around like crazy things

Catch Up

It's been a long time since I have posted. October and November were very busy months and I just didn't take the time to update. our friends Chris and Terry were her for Halloween and our kids and theirs went trick or treating together. This is the first time Josiah and Naomi have been trick or treating and they thought it was so much fun.

It's Official

I am officially crazy. This week I signed up to do a half marathon in April. I have been training for it for 3 weeks now and it has been hard work already. My training program is 24 weeks long, but the race is 26 weeks away. I have allowed myself plenty of time to increase my training runs slowly to try to minimize injury. We shall have to wait and see how well that plan works out. This week my longest run was 4 miles so as you can see I have a long way to work my way up to 13.1 miles. I will keep you posted on how the training is going.

A Fun Halloween Week So Far

We have ahad a fun week so far. When Josiah was at the pumpkin patch with his kindergarten class a couple weeks ago, he picked a little pumpkin that didn't make it. He chose one that was already half decayed, so I got him a new one since he was very sad about it. He convinced Greg to help him carve it. I don't know how he convinced him since Greg doesn't like jack o lanterns. I guess a he really is a softie. Anyway, Josiah got to stay up late one night this week and they had a fun time carving and playing in the goo. Naomi has a had a fun week too. One of the workers in the toddler room at the YMCA threw the little kids a party today. I wasn't planning on working out today and when I told Ms. Pam that we wouldn't be at the party she was very sad. She told me to please bring Naomi because she really wanted her to be there. So, this morning we went to the Y. Naomi was dressed up as Tinkerbell and got many compliments on how cute she looked. Of course she was not cooperating on having her picture taken this morning so I only have one really bad one. While Naomi enjoyed her party I sat in the lobby doing some budget balancing and Bible study. I felt guilty that I wasn't working out, but got some needed work done. When Naomi's party was done I picked her up. She had so much fun. She even got a goodie bag to bring home. We love Ms. Pam.

Tomorrow some of our friends from WI will be in town. They will be coming over for dinner and then we will head out the door to go trick or treating. Josiah is so excited to be doing this for the first time ever. Can't wait to see Chris and Terri. Will post pictures of trick or treating later.

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