Christmas

Hi Everybody!

Hope you all had a very Merry Christmas! We had a lot of fun and were exhausted when all the festivities were over! Here is a video of Chloe in her new car (her favorite Christmas gift from Grandma and Grandpa!) and a few pictures.

Our Christmas Blogogram to the Punts

Is Blogogram a word? Probably not, but we wanted to let you guys know that we miss you and wish we could be gathering with all of you tonight! The intent of this video was for Chloe to say a few words but after multiple "takes" (as you can tell by my glazed over expression!!) we decided to give up on that and just say Merry Christmas!!

Our past week

I wanted to post an update and let all of you know
that we are doing well! Here is a pic from the
hospital when we finally got Chloe to sit still
long enough for a picture:)


Here is Caleb giving a little smile:)



Isn't he handsome?!?

Here we are taking the little guy home from

the hospital.

Chloe has very much appreciated

all of the new toys she has received

during the past week! Thanks to

Evan and Jana for sending this

doctor set. She has been examining

all of us quite frequently!!!

Thanks again to all of you for all

of your prayers and support! We

hope that all of you have a very

Merry Christmas!!

Caleb says hello!!

Welcome Caleb Jay!

We welcomed Caleb Jay into the world on
12/15/08!!! Here are the 3 of us in the OR!


He weighed 8 pounds 5 oz!!

Here is Chloe kissing her new baby brother!!

Thanks for all your prayers and support! Can't

wait for all of you to meet him!!

A Fun Saturday

This past Saturday we ventured to the Christmas
tree farm (an annual tradition). It was really
cold and there was a lot of snow so Chloe and I
stayed in the heated machine shed while Kyle
braved the elements and found and cut down our
tree. He did a great job of finding us a tree even
though it's probably a little bigger than I would
have let him choose had I been along:) We set it
up on Saturday and Chloe is loving all the
decorations.


Later that night we celebrated Chloe's friend
Mason's 1st birthday. Here Rochelle, Beth (Mason's
Mommy), and I took time away from the
festivities to pose for a picture (without the kiddos!).


Chloe had a blast at the birthday party and cried
when we had to leave. Mason's new sled was a
HIT for the older kids (who gave free rides)
and the younger kids. Here are some pics of Chloe
getting pulled around. Who knew a sled could
provide so much fun inside?!?!

Thoughts for the Season

Hi All!

On this snowy December 3rd I just wanted to send out some Advent greetings for all of you! I was given the gift of time with Chloe today as my mom (my sitter) is sick with a cold and I was able to stay home from work. As I've been reflecting on the craziness of the season (and we decided to add a baby on top of it!!) one of the mentor moms in my Mom to Mom group forwarded this video to me and I thought it perfect to share with all of you. I hope you enjoy and I pray that all of you too can find little gifts of time throughout this month:)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVqqj1v-ZBU

And just for fun...

Chloe trying to give cousin Corrina a "not so welcomed" gift of a hug and kiss!!