Gingerbread.Announcement

A few days before Christmas we had some fun making gingerbread cookies. 

T. and K. loved helping us.

K. is such a ham right now!

T. preferred to help more than he wanted to look at the camera. 

T. absolutely loves to help us. 

K.loved clapping her hands, and dancing to the Christmas music we had playing.

Helping Daddy.

Cutting out the cookies.

K. eating some dough.

The finished cookies. 

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We are going to have a baby joining this family in Aug. 

Lord willing.

We are all so excited!

We had the funnest time announcing to our families that we were going to have a baby.

I just took the cookies along a sat them on the table at our family Christmas's and let people figure it out themselves. For some it wasn't hard to figure out and for others, well, it took them a little while. ;) 

The BEST 

Question that we got was:

What are the question marks for? 

Titus wanted to be able to listen to the heartbeat this time

and we thought it would be neat to be able to listen to it ourselves, so Titus did a lot of research and we decided to get a good but inexpensive fetal doppler.

It took me a few times of trying ( It never worried me that I couldn't find the heartbeat because the baby is so small, and I am not a pro), but at ten weeks we heard it.

Chug, chug, chug!

It sounds like a little train chugging along so fast.

Oh, I just love that sound!

It makes it so real to me when I finally get to hear it. 

I have the best husband, he spoils me sometimes.

Camp Michigan.

This year we got to go to Camp Michigan.

Sept. 6,7,8

Camp Michigan is planned and organized by and for our church youth group, they invite lots of other youth groups and have a lot of fun getting to know new people, playing games, making skits, having contests and focusing on Jesus.

Titus helped out with editing the skit videos this year, and I spent a lot of time chatting with people. I had lots of fun, but didn't get too involved with any of the games... When you have a baby that likes to eat everything that she can get in her mouth, you kinda have to watch her all the time. I think the most fun was watching T. and K. and actually being able to focus all my attention on them for such a long time. It seems like at home I am always have something that I have to do, so I don't ever spend two whole days just watching them and playing with them. 

These pictures are mostly of T. and K. I didn't take many of the youth group because, well there was lots of pictures being taken of them, and I don't like ending up with pictures that look the same as everyone else. Plus I don't like sharing pictures online if I don't have their permission.

K. being held by a friend.

K. decided that she would help herself to my friend's sandwich 

Aunt L. is the best! 

T. loved playing in the water.

T. also liked his little friend. She spent most of her time playing with him and making sure that he didn't get into anything he wasn't supposed to. 

It was all fun till he got water in his eyes. (This was about 3 o'clock and he hadn't had a nap.)

Time to come in.

We walked down the beach where a group was building sand castles etc.

A beautiful weekend with friends...

Fun in June/July

 Back at the end of June and beginning of July we went to the U.P. 

We got to camp, go to the St Ignace car show, and visit Tahquamenon Falls
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Mom V.
T. and R.
T. and three of his friends
L. and a friend 
and the four of us went. We had a great time.

After we went through the car show we stopped to eat our lunch beside a splash park. 

T. had fun, although it was very cold water. 

We were right beside the lake, so we got to see boats sailing by. 

I am sure this sea gull posed for me.

L. and B. with a car. (I think this is the only picture of a car in the care show that I have. ;)

We were headed back to our vehicles at the end of the day when I got this one.

Uncle T. is a pretty funny guy.  

We went to the lake one evening to eat supper. 

It was beautiful.

T. loved it,

 there were rocks and sticks everywhere.

K. loved the sand or anything else she could get into her mouth.

She liked to pull up.

Having fun with Aunt L. after a big day.

An old fishery.

Having fun with Uncle T. and Aunt R.

K decided that she wanted to learn how to drive.

(The only place I could think of putting her to keep her from eating sand while we packed up from camping)

Tahquamenon Falls.

Awesome Daddy!

K thought this Uncle T. was funny too. 

One tired little boy and one great daddy.

Having more fun!

A tired little girl.

Mama and Miss K.

      

Pictures by the bridge before we headed home.

We made one more last stop before we came home, 

It was at an ice cream shop.

Can you tell that this little guy was pretty excited? 

As I am posting these in Jan, I just can't help but notice the sunburns that we all had.

I wouldn't mind having one of those right now.