Sunday, December 30, 2012

2013 holiday letter



Happy Holidays Everyone,
December 30, 2012
This year just came and went. It was crazy at our house between doctor’s
appointments, school, scouts, and achievement day girl. Here are some
highlights that happened with our family.
#1 received his arrow of light in cub scouts on the 25th of August. He finished cubs with his Bobcat, Wolf with 1 gold and 9 silver arrows, Bear with 1 gold and 10 silver arrows, Webelos with all 20 activity pins. He started scouts in November and has had fun getting 5 merit badges before Christmas.

#2 learned to sew (she is wearing her apron she made while helping me bake), and
practicing her crochet. She has been on the honor roll in school and continues
to have a love of learning.

#3 started kindergarten and loving every minute he spends learning. He also was able to sit down and learn to sew with his class room friend Barney.
 
#4 has loved his time at home alone with mommy and has had a lot of visits to see doctors. He loves to show off in front of people. He spends most of the time smiling when he is feeling well. He will be going in for his 6th upper GI scope on January 8th to see if his ee (eosinophilic esophagitis) is under control.
 
Josh has been hard at work working on completing his Wood Badge tickets. He completed and received his certificate just this month. He also stocked our freezer with a good size buck. He sure has had a grand time hunting this year.
  
Natasha has been there for the kids as well as Josh as they have been working on projects. She has enjoyed looking for new foods to make that everyone like that fall in the food restrictions of Cristian and her. She has been able to help out with the kids in school.




We hope you have a wonderful New Year with many blessings.
Love the Bokish “6”



  

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Merry Christmas

 Last night Santa delivered 7,060,919,100 gifts to all the boys and girls all through out the world. With a crazy night like that I know that he took time to remember the birth of the Christ child. Last night as I was reading to my kids our Christmas stories Brie chose one that talked about the Christ child. The story was taken from the Shepard's view and how they were poor and had nothing to give to the king of all the world. We learned that the greatest gift at Christmas is the gift of love and service. I think that I am going to have to start a new tradition next year with the kids. I will let you know later what I come up with. 


So on to the fun of our Christmas. The kids all received all sports safety helmets. They should be ready to take on the scooter, skateboards, roller blades, and bikes in the spring. Josh and I got a food grinder for meat. Boy do I see work in my future. I picked up a new hobby I started to knit. Just started to day. We had friends over for Christmas lunch and then went to their house to watch the movie Brave. I made brown pudding for the fist time and the kids loved it and want it every year.

I hope you enjoy some of our pictures today. 



Christmas Eve fun





Christmas Day





Breakfast (cinnamon rolls-muffins-hot chocolate-wassail) 







Me eating a major NO (I was sick all day after that cinnamon roll)


Making brown pudding


Sunday, October 7, 2012

C'mans Children Museum trip


Waiting to ride the carousel


Hot Wheels for real










Bumble Bee




science fair


We were able to enjoy a really fun free day and learned how to extract DNA from strawberries, made lava lamps, got to see the tires for the space shuttle, pet a millipede, made air cannons, and  more.
NASA bus


Brie getting ready to make her mars rover

George and Cman waiting to make their mars rovers

Cman finished rover

Georges's rover

Brie's rover

George, Cman, and Brie making worms

Kubby with his teacher and some of his class mates