Must I say that FINALLY the Sisters met precious baby Eli.

We've been busy bees around this house lately enjoying all things CHRISTmas. S and Lyla have had so much fun playing with each other outside, making cookies, playing dress ups and riding bikes. We've all been enjoying lots and lots of CHRISTmas cookies, lights,  and fun CHRISTmas songs on the radio. There is nothing like this season.

As we enter December, we're looking for ways to teach our kiddos about Jesus' birth and what a blessing it is to our faith and our salvation. It's challenging though as the media pushes Santa, Rudolph and Frosty. Its challenging to get them excited about Baby Jesus when the world tells them about a Santa who brings them lots of presents.

We're hoping to shift things to a Christ centered CHRISTmas by baking Jesus a birthday cake, and keeping CHRISTmas songs to mostly Christian CHRISTmas songs. We'll also be attending a CHRISTmas pageant at Popi and Mimi's church to tell us the story of Jesus' birth.

Anyone out there have some fun things they are doing to make this CHRISTmas all about Jesus?

No, no, no...

I'm not preggo
and
we didn't get another animal (thank goodness!)

But we Tyler built a playhouse, that started out as a stage..that's a different story! Tyler and I love to do projects... Ha, but seriously, I'm usually the one itching to paint or build or sew but he came up with this one all on his own. I couldn't be more proud of him too. He worked hard on this baby and he spent many, many afternoons building, rebuilding, ripping apart and putting together this little house. 

And not to get all "Of the Earth Ashley" on you (as Tyler teases me about) but most all of the playhouse was built with recycled wood from Tyler's parents new house being built. Pretty cool, huh?

Was it worth it?

Well let's just say it is the only thing the girls want to do in our backyard now. We've had 
Tea parties
Sleepy times
And visits from the space monster (that's me)-- such a loving nickname, right?

Hello blog... It looks as if I've abandoned you for quite some time. You've just been a little lower on my list of priorities lately. We have had so much change in our lives since I last posted.

New city.
New house.
New friends.
New church.
New rotations.
New baby cousin (coming soon!)
Enjoying old family for the first time in a loooong time.

We are so thankful for the blessings that God has so richly poured upon our little lives. To catch you up to speed would take much longer than what I'm sure you want to read, but these past months will surely be talked about in future posts.

Now I've just made you curious ;)

So let's act as if I've been here all along, shall we?

Halloween.

Did not think we would ever be celebrating this holiday until we heard of the Fall Fest at Trinity Bible (our new church- love). It ended up being such a blast for the kiddos, and this Mama was scrambling
last
minute
for some sort of costume to stick these little angels in...

Introducing,

Ballerina Princess Lyla and Ladybug Adah