Contrary to popular belief, we are alive! My life has been beyond crazy busy and blogging took the brunt of my slackerness. There is no way I can go back up and update since I lost blogged, so I will just give a quick summary. Mark made it home from Portugal and has started his job here. He really enjoys it and I love having a happy husband come home from work rather than the grumpy one who used to hate his job. It is fantastic! He officially graduated from Georgia Tech in December and now has his Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the 4th ranked Engineering school in the country! Not too shabby by my book (you can tell I am not proud of him at all!!!). We had a great Halloween and WAY too much candy as usual. We go to our trunk-or-treat as the bishop does need to be at the activities. Then we went through part of our neighborhood on Halloween just to be neighborly and meet new people, and then we also went to my in-laws and all the family around there. Like I said, too much junk!
Thanksgiving was a great holiday and always seems to be one of my favorites. Laura came down with her family from DC and we helped cook the feast we had at my in-laws house. We also went Black-Friday shopping at midnight at the outlets on Hilton Head. It was crazy, but fun for just the two of us to spend time together and get away from the kids for a bit.
My most amazing husband who detests chick-flicks, took me to see "New Moon" the night it opened. Friday, not the Thursday midnight junk--he does have his limits!!! Loved loved loved it so much more than "Twilight" and it followed the book so much more closely.
Christmas was fun and hectic and insanely busy! We had so much going on the months of November and December that there wasn't an open space on my calendar. Many nights we had 2-3 events going on at once. That got a bit tricky! We always have Mark's family over for our Christmas Eve dinner and it is so much fun. We ate on my China and had a big feast and sang Christmas Carols before everyone left. One of my most treasured Christmas traditions I think! The kids had a blast opening gifts Christmas morning and loved what santa brought them. It was a tough year for Santa, but the kids didn't seem to notice!
We also said goodbye to Zach as he headed to the MTC on December 30th. Not going too far though as he got called to the Provo, Utah Spanish Speaking Mission. So all you Utahns out there, keep an eye out for Elder Lowther and give him a big hug for me if you see him! We also got to watch Zach baptize his girlfriend Cassandra over Christmas break. It was a beautiful Baptism and the spirit was so strong! McKenna was brave enough to sing a duet with Zach and they did awesome! I was so proud of her for getting up in front of everyone. She is starting to come out of her shell a lot more!
We spent New Year's here at home with some friends of ours, Seth and Leigh Ann and their daughter Reilly. We put the kids to bed, except McKenna so she and Reilly could play, and we ate chocolate fondue with apples, bananas, oreos, pineapple, marshmallows and strawberries. We played Wii for a while and rung in the New Year then went to bed!
Everyone seems to be doing well around here. McKenna is really loving school this year so that is such a relief to me. Jacob loves Kindergarten and is flying right through the work they give him. He is not challenged at all, so I have been working on getting him up to 1st grade for part of the day. Kaitlyn couldn't be happier at Ms. Sheri's pre-school. Everytime I go to get her she says "ah mom, I don't want to go." Joseph stays home with me and is crazy as ever. He cracks me up and I love spending time with him. He is completely OBSESSED with Lightning McQueen. Obsessed I say! Janie and Harrison are getting so big. It's hard to believe they were these 4 pound little runts such a short time ago. They will be 10 months next week and are learning so much. They both army-crawl still and get up on all fours and just rock back and forth. They sit up now, but can't get into sitting position by themselves yet. Although, yesterday I found Harrison sitting in the middle of the floor and no one had put him there, so he has done it once! They obviously are still a bit behind in some things, but nothing to worry about as they were 2 months early. I haven't taken them for their 9 month doctor's appointment yet (I have been a month behind since Utah), but Harrison has to weigh a good 20 pounds, and Janie probably around 18. They're chunks!!!
I know that I have probably bored you, but I hope you enjoyed the pics!
3 comments:
yay! It looks like your family is having fun growing up!! I'm glad to hear that your ten month old children are chunks because my boy is huge too. love ya!
That was great! Maybe I'll have to pop down and visit sometime when you aren't too extremely busy.
Great job bringing us all up to speed....well your speed! I admire all that you do! Missed you this Holiday season. I didn't even get to see Laura when she was in Utah. We were a little busy too I guess.-Krystal
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