Thanksgiving and Progressive Dinner

Daddys work Christmas party

At the Progressive Dinner Our house

visiting in the kitchen as usual!

Cindy Lance and Isibella at Aunt K and Uncle Steves house

Mrs Gordon, Uncle Steve Aunt K, and Faithe

Nana and her four girls

I love this photo of Isibella. Uncle Lance is in the bacground. It is his hat that you see around her head!

Katie's comminsioning

Katie and Dave

Thanksgiving weekend

Jon's birthday

Nana and Isibella

Games Thanksgiving weekend

Aunt Gwyna Uncle Wes and family

Aunt Gwyn and Isibella


It was so good talking to you on the phone. We Love you so much and we are so proud of all you are doing.

You ae in our prayers daily and

November 2008

Shawna took these pictures of the red maples in our front yard. THis is the most beautiful they have been since we planted them.

We went camping to Great Planes State Park a few weekends ago. It was a beautiful weekend. Cold but beautiful. This is Dad, Uncle Wes and Aunt Gwyn near the stream.

And this is looking at the stream from where they were. It was so pretty.

In our campsight trying to keep warm!

Shawna and Ryan took a bike ride!

November picts with Isibella. Nana and Isiabella

Suzet and Isibella

Isabella and her mommy!

Another shot with Nana. Isabella has stayed at the house a few afternoons this week. It has been fun having her. I am getting stronger. I walked to the corner and back! I can still not sit longer than 20 to 30 minutes at a time but I can tell I am moving faster and doing better!

Love you and thinking of you as I see the trees turn and put on their fall colors!

Mom

Fall is here

Jonathan came by on Tuesday to go and vote with us. Isibella really liked him! It was his first chance to hold her. He said usually when she was around there were too many others waiting to hold her. I think he enjoyed holding her!

Don't you love this one! What big eyes you have Isibella!!!

We put a sheet on the floor and let her roll around. She kept trying to get closer to Jonathan.

Jonathan and Isibella

A trip to the zoo. It was a beautiful day. We enjoyed all the fall colors as much as the animals. This is me with Shawna, Nicholas, Dylan and Isabella (in the stroller)

We had to take another picture with Aunt Cindy in it!

And no trip to the zoo would be complete without a picture here!

Last weekend we went to the farm. On our way home we stopped by a field of cotton to take this picture.

This is a farm near Grandpa's . The heads of these sunflowers were pretty big!

Grandma and Grandpa

Sunday after church in Breckenridge. Krystal and Shawna

On Saturday evening we went out to the lake. Daddy and Shawna fished, I just took pictures.

Shawna even caught one!

This is Shawna walking across the dam

And here is daddy fishing! He didn't catch any but he got a couple bites. It was a beautiful evening. Just before sunset the birds came in to roost. They were so loud! They made enough noise to scare all the fish! Then in just a moment it was quiet. It was so cool!

This weekend we are going to go camping. It will be our first camping trip this fall. Gwyn and Wes and the Girls will come on Saturday. The Perkins can't come, But Nana and Ryan are going to come. Amanda has to work so she can't come. We will be thinking of you! Just think in less than 9 months we will be camping with you probably!!!! It is still hard to believe that you have been in Africa almost 2 years now.

We love you,

Mom

Oh and Keah can you let me know in an e-mail just what kiva bags you meant!

more photos

For Shawnas birthday we took a group to a corn maze! It was a beautiful evening and I think they all had fun.
Above is Jonathan and Nicholas and below is Christie, Jonathan W., Whitney and Shawna.

Nathan , Nicholas, Jonathan, and Dylan above and Ryan below. Ryan walked with me and we could hear the boys when we were close to them. It made us laugh!

This picture is just so you know that Shawna is being well taken care of!

We had a fall fun night at church. Shawna was the stars, Hannah the moon, and Dylan the Sun

two of pastors grand kids Presley and her little brother

I just had to send you this one His name is James and his family started comming after you moved. Isn't he sweet!

and this is a Caterpiller! This is Carter, Joanna's little one!

Here is the family picture I promised! This was taken the day after my birthday.

Hanna and Natalie drove up for the weekend so they went to dinner with us!

Miss Shawna!

Amanda Dad and Shawna at the robotics competition.

Ryan Amand and I

Ryan at The robotics competition, it went good. They were 4th out of 18 in the first part. That enabled them to go to the semi finals. There they placed 8 of 8. They had made an adjustment to the robot and it made it handle differently. They had fun though!

We are watching Isabella today, sop if there are typos we will blame her! IT is hard to type with a little one in your lap! We are showing her pictures of you buys so she will know you when you come home next summer.

We love you and pray you have a wonderful trip next week. ( I think that is when you were going to be visiting a national park)

Love you,

Mom, Dad, and Shawna