Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our friends and family! Hope you have a wonderful day! We are thankful for you and we miss you all!

Thanks to Uncle Scott and Auntie Cami for the cute turkey outfit! 

Busy, busy, busy

     Life has been just a bit hectic lately. School is keeping us rather busy with homework assignments every night. And with it being American Thanksgiving tomorrow we have a school potluck and then on Saturday we are having several Canadian friends over for an American Thanksgiving feast at our house. I have been busy getting everything prepped and ready for that!
     And in the midst of all of this, Jeff has been doing a lot of speaking/teaching lately which has meant a lot of study time for him. This has left me running a busy little household with my three little guys. I am also organizing a thank you event for all of the women who volunteer to watch our children everyday in childcare here. Several student moms came to my house last night for a planning meeting and then we just hung out and played games.
     On top of all of this, Rylan is still getting over a bout of strep throat. We took him in last Friday and he got put on an antibiotic. I think today is the first day he has started to seem like his normal self again. Whew! If you aren't tired from reading all of that, I am tired from writing it!! But honestly life is going really great for us right now. We are really enjoying our Sunday group and the friends we have made through that. We have also made some new friends on campus who are first year students. Life may be extremely busy and sometimes even overwhelming, but at the end of each day I am so thankful for all that I have!
     Here are some pictures of the boys from when we still had snow. It is long gone now and I am not complaining because I know it will be back soon enough and then it will stay for way too long!!

Carsten with rosy cheeks after being in the cold!

Logan's first snow experience...not a big fan!

Jeff and Rylan built this snowman and Jeff kept changing the snowman to get different expressions. Then he would tell Rylan to mimic that expression. Here are a few of those photos:

Happy snowman!

Angry snowman!

Trying to cheer the angry snowman up with a hug!

Worried snowman as he is about to be eaten!!

First snow

We got our first snow last night. It snowed a lot more than was predicted! The boys were so excited to wear their snow boots today! Here is a picture outside the back end of our house:

And some of the boys playing during class:

Carsten with his teacher Miss Laurel

Fun moments

As a parent of three young children, I don't have to look too hard to find funny things happening all around me. Each of the boys has their own unique personality and it is fun to watch them develop and grow in their own time and way. Each day I am faced with both joys and challenges. On those days that seem to be more challenging than joyful I still find myself smiling at the end of the day when I think back on the fun moments that did occur! I am so thankful to be not only a mom, but a mom to three beautiful little boys!

Logan chewing on his toy bar

He sure was enjoying it, must have tasted good!

Not sure how he even got himself over there!

Carsten has figured out how to take off his clothes!

Rylan always wants to be right by me in the kitchen

And his tower had to come with him so brother didn't break it

Looks comfortable, eh?

New bed, decorated room

Today we finally got around to moving the crib into Logan's room and setting Carsten up in his toddler bed. We were so thankful that there happened to be a toddler bed available for use on our campus and our friends had a crib mattress that they did not need any more. We also got Logan's room all decorated with the cribbing set my grandma made for him! We love how it turned out.

Costumes

The boys had a lot of fun last night going around and collecting candy. We went to a fall festival on our campus first and Carsten grabbed an apple that was supposed to be for decoration and started eating it. He did not want the candy, just the apple! He was devastated when the apple fell and got dirt all over it. Funny kid. After the fall festival we went around the neighborhood for just a little while. We stopped at a local school where there was a fire truck with firemen handing out glow-necklaces! The boys loved those! Overall it was a really fun night and not actually too cold...a minor miracle for this area! Oh and Logan stayed home with daddy that is why there are no pictures of him!

Happy Pumpkin Day!

For Halloween today I put a pumpkin on each of the boys shirts! They came off the cards that my gram sent in the mail this past week. We got a few good pictures of the boys. Tonight we will go to a fall festival on campus and then around the neighborhood a bit. We are having pizza at a friend's house first which should be fun. I will post pictures tomorrow of the boys in their costumes.