Crazy Faith: January 2012

First Foods

Bryson started eating rice cereal when he was 4 1/2 months old. He LOVED it! He has also had a bit of sweet potatoes since then, but we've had to cut back on all solids due to him fighting a stomach bug for the past couple of weeks. I can't wait to help him explore new tastes once he's feeling better!

Bday Party

At the beginning of December we held a birthday party for the boys on campus. It was a wonderful time of celebration with our campus friends!

Dancing to the Happy Birthday song

In the gym playing

The kiddos from the party. (Swenson kiddos, Tichnor kids, Fusion kids, daniel glenn and william carter)

William and his mom, Rachel

I couldn't resist getting a picture of Bryson and Zoe together. Zoe is 6 days younger than Bryson!

It was a wonderful time of fellowship and celebration! I am so grateful for Zachary and Nicholas! Happy Birthday boys!

Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving on campus this year. We had family and friends over and I had the privilege of hosting another Thanksgiving in our home! I absolutely loved it!

Grandma (my mom) resting with Nicholas

Check out these place mats that I made for the Thanksgiving table!! I got the idea from Hobby Lobby's inspirational page! Thank you Hobby Lobby! All it took to make them was felt, hot glue, stickers, ribbon and artificial leaves. The pocket you see to the right is for your silverware. I had so much fun making these! I made them one night while Dan was out of town preaching. I made several different color arrangements for the place mats, but I won't post all of them!

Bryson and Landon.

Landon's mom, Tiffany, and I were 2 out of the 3 women that were pregnant together during the summer. The three of us were all due within a week or so together. Landon was born 3 days after Bryson!

We had to borrow Landon's bib for a picture of Bryson's 1st Thanksgiving! Thanks Landon for sharing!

Tiffany, Kyle and Landon. It was an honor being able to open our home up to them when they were unable to go home to FL for Thanksgiving. They were such a joy to have around! Love them dearly! I really enjoyed Tiffany and I picking each other's brains about Babywise.

After eating, Dan and I thought we may brave the Middlesboro Wal-Mart for the Pre-Black Friday sales on Thursday night. To really appreciate this, first understand that this is the only Wal-Mart within a 30 - 45 minute radius. The Middlesboro Wal-Mart gets hit with KY shoppers, TN shoppers and Virginia shoppers! Dan and I entered Wal-Mart at around 9:30pm and it is packed. Imagine taking half of Mall St Matthews' crowd and jamming them all in a small, narrow-aisled Wal-Mart. We debated for about 15 minutes whether we should stay and fight the crowds or to leave. We left. Went home and went to bed! Later I heard that the average time waiting in line that night was about 2 1/2 hours! Just in line! Craziness. Glad we left!

Friday we decorated for Christmas!

It was another great Thanksgiving. I am so thankful for so much. For family and friends. For a healthy family. For church family and campus family. Ones that we hold so near and dear to our hearts.

Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; For His lovingkindness is everlasting. ~Psalm 118:1

You are my God, and I give thanks to You; You are my God, I extol You. ~Psalm 118:28

Halloween

Still working on catching up the blog. With that, here are the boys from Halloween!

Our little monkey! I love the split bananna peel on the head!

Captain America & the Green Lantern!

Camping in October

So here we are in January, and I am just now beginning to catch up on blogging. Wheww! Life has been busy. I do apologize for the delays in posting (for anyone out there who still reads this thing!) But I have uploaded several pictures from the past several months and in any spare time, I will attempt to finalize my postings with captions to get them on the blog!

Here were some pictures that I found on the laptop from our camping trip that we took in October, (my last week on maternity leave, and the week that I had mastitis.) Bryson was about 2 months old in these pictures.

Hanging out in the tent, all bundled up. It was a bit cooler in the nights than what we had anticipated on.

Some time at the playground. I particularly thoroughly enjoyed this time watching the boys run from one activity to another, while Dan and I relaxed in some chairs holding Bryson and just hanging out together.

While we were camping, the campgrounds were pretty much empty around the tent sites, so the boys had plenty of open field space to run and play! It was great!

Bryson loved being outside and examining everything that was around him.
First arriving on the site, setting up the tent.