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Christmas Decorating!

Day after Thanksgiving in our house normally means decorating the house, the tree, etc.... I went shopping at 4:30 in the morning so I wasn't quite up for decorating the whole house that day. Scott did the lights and I got out our decorations and the kids did their tree. Saturday we finished it all and I love it! My favorite is my new nativity set, the Willow Tree one. I used birthday money and got it for myself and gave Megan my old one! I will post pics later tonight because as I'm typing this, I realized I didn't take pictures of the outside of the house and Scott did such a good job, I want to show it off :) Hope you all had fun decorating your house :)

October 15th

This is a day that always is emotional for me. 10 years ago, I lost a baby two and half months into the pregnancy. Each year it hurts less, but it will always be part of me. I've struggled to realize that it's okay for me to hurt. This day is also now being recognized as Pregnancy and Infant loss rememberance day. I know I am not alone in this so I wanted to share. To learn more about this you can visit www.october15th.com . Here is a video from their site that was very touching:

1st month of homeschooling

We've survived our first full month of homeschooling. I absolutely love it and can't believe that I didn't do this sooner. All summer I felt God calling me to do this. I first had to convince Scott before I made the change though. He was on board late August and has backed me fully since then! We started a week after the other schools because I needed to research and buy the curriculum I choose. We have a variety of curriculum and I love every single one we are doing. The kids have done well and are doing well with it. There's days they want to go to school but 99% of the time, they love it. The days they want to go are few and far between and I'm glad because we are having a blast! We have done so many fun things as a family and during school=) I will post a slide show later today or tomorrow but here's what else we've been up to:

Codyism's (Cody's thoughts that crack us up) lately have been cracking us up! He said at Texas Roadhouse that he got a bogey peanut because there was only one nut in it and he knows from Wii golf that a bogey is one over par! We bought him a statistics book of sports that he's comparing to a map of football fields. The boy is all boy but still loves to snuggle with his mommy! He recently learned how to rollerblade and his first day on blades,he entered himself in a race. He didn't win but still did well! Oh, to have his confidence!

Megan's doing so well in school and having fun! She really enjoys the rollerblading at Tarry Hall Thursday afternoons! It gives her time to hang out with friends. Wednesday mornings she helps out with the babies during bible study at our church. She is so good with the little ones! Megan is my little helper it's hard to believe she's in fourth grade! When did she get to be so big? She is growing up to be such a sweet little girl, I love spending one on one time with her!

Pictures

This week we had pictures taken by a friend from church of the kids at Holland State Park. Jessica just dropped off the cd and I couldn't wait to show them off! The kids were being goofy with squinting eyes because of the sun, but I love the pictures! Here's a few of many favorites!