Halloween 2008

Pictures from Halloween

Yay! It looks like our blog is finally working! I am going to try to post some pictures from Halloween that have not been showing up. I'll cross my fingers...

Missing Justin

This picture is in the airport, when Justin came home on leave in September. Christmas time has been a lot harder than I thought it would be. Getting ready to play Santa all by myself has made me really miss Justin. He will be home in only 8 weeks, but I still feels like a long time to me. I seem to be about 15 minutes behind in life lately. I'm feeling tired physically and emotionally from doing this all by myself so long. My kids are late to school every day because they miss the bus, and Chance's grades were bad last quarter because he's not doing his homework. Hopefully the Christmas break will give us time to restart the new year better. You just don't appreciate how much your husband makes a difference till he's gone this long. I was sitting in church on Sunday feeling sorry for myself, and I remembered that Christmas is not about me, it's about Christ. He chose to leave his loved ones on earth at age 33, so he could save all of us. Justin will be home in 2 months, and we can be together forever because of Him. Those thoughts helped me get a true perspective back. The truth is, I know that we have been blessed and strengthened this year.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Halloween

The kids had so much fun at the Halloween Carnival. As is typical, Alyssa and Emma had their costumes drawn out on paper from different angles, made, and tried on a dozen times while it was still September. Chance decided right before Halloween to throw on a cape and get a Jedi light saber (he insists he in Anakin, not Luke). Kyra was a witch again because she has decided that is just her "thing to be" on Halloween. We dressed Abby up as Abby Cadabby form Sesame Street. She danced around with her wings and wand all night, and has been wearing the wings ever since. We missed having Daddy in on the fun, but we sent him lots of pictures.

Starting Kindergarten

Here is a picture of Kyra getting on the bus- and someone else's 1st day of Kindergarten in 1979 (OK, it's not that hard to guess who it is).

Our new Blog

Hey everyone, this is our new blog! I'll actually be updating this one- at least every week is the plan. School just started. Chance is in 8th grade, Alyssa in 6th, Emma is in 3rd grade, and Kyra started Kindergarten- YAY! Abby cries when Kyra gets on the bus because she wants to go too. I'm sure she'll be off with them before we know it. They get big so fast.