Our newest addition

Meet LaRue, Solomon's Hamster (also known as Hammy). She sleeps all day and runs miles and miles each night on her squeaky wheel! The kids love her and I actually even touched her once.

Our new niece

Lila Delight

Papa and Nana's Farm

The boys love to run with Little Ann.

Gingerbread House Fun

The Simonsens, Shaws, Papa and Nana came over to decorate gingerbread houses.

Thanks to Costco, the assembly was painless.

Thanks to the Simonsens, the adults enjoyed espresso drinks.

Thanks to the Shaws and Papa and Nana there were extra hands and it was more festive.

Thanks to Ellie (the Shaws' lab) there was no candy to sweep up afterward.

Bowling

We went bowling in Oregon last month with Jer's family. Gotta love those bumpers! Evie and Zach's favorite part of bowling was watching the ball shoot back at them from the retrieval machine. Evie didn't care that her ball weighed 12 pounds, she HAD to have a pink one. And she was quite disappointed about giving back the cool shoes.

It's Christmas Time!!!!

Crazy September

Happy birthday Solomon, Jed and Evie!

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Working hard at school.

You can go ahead and faint, Candace, because I am finally adding to this blog you started for us! September was crazy for many reasons: vacation in Arizona, starting school, celebrating Solomon and Jed's 9th birthday and Evie's 5th! Now it's already October and I'm ready to slow down.

(Candace, once you peel yourself off the floor, maybe you can give me some technical advice on how to arrange pictures?)

Zach works hard, too.