Well, check this out! I am blogging from my phone!

Sure is hard to get the fam together for a portrait nowadays!

Isaac loves having the woodstove in the basement.  He can spend an hour stacking wood, digging through bark chunks and playing in the dirt.

Lydia's first tooth!  So very exciting!


Lydia's stage debut at the Palace Christmas Show.  She actually debuted at 9 months on the Sherburne Music Theater Stage as a Who Baby in Suessical.  As you can see, she was easily distracted.  I never knew what exactly she would do while waiting for her turn.  But she always came through when it came down to her special line - once she got over the initial rehearsal fear of the director and her costars!


This is the big moment.  "Dad" says that getting kids to bed is like herding sheep.  Lyd says, "You should never hurt sheep!"  It brought a good laugh!

The one that got away.  So, I have been making our bread for over a year.  This was a new roll recipe - that I doubled!  Ooops!

I missed this moment because of the Christmas Show at the Palace, but I'm glad to see Isaac warmed up to Santa this year.

Josh created this veggie dog from an idea in the Friend magazine.  The kids know how easy it is to take pictures with a digital camera.  Before I got this shot, Josh had taken a zillion photos of this plate!

We invited the Danns for a Christmas Devotional Family Home Evening.  They got to join in the chaos!





This is Isaac attending Josh's 3rd grade Christmas program