Catch Up

Here's a catch up post that is long overdue.  Excuse number one is that I did not have the time to get the hundreds of pictures off the camera.  Ryan tackled that job yesterday, so now I'm good to go.:)  Excuse number two is that there are just not enough hours in the day.  I went back to full time teaching on January 2 and anything that is not a necessity has been thrown to the side.  Sadly, this blog is one of them.  I wanted to do a quick catch up though, because I enjoy looking at my old posts and seeing what we had been up to!

 This girl turned 8 the beginning of January. 

 We celebrated Christmas day at my parent's house.  This is as good as it gets with 12 kiddos.  We also went to Orange City to celebrate there, but I can't seem to locate any pictures!

 Luke had his final pinewood derby with his Cub Scout troops.  The have now disbanded, so he is finished with Cub Scouts.  He really enjoyed it, so it's a bummer!

 Luke did a short second season of basketball.  He had fun and really improved.

 Luke turned 10 at the beginning of February.  He was gracious and shared a party with two of his cousins!

 Waddle back to November and we had fun celebrating Thanksgiving with family.

 Luke took on Oma Elle in chess.  I'm not sure who won.:)

 This was before our school Christmas program.  How did she get so grown up?

 We also had a Christmas program at church.  There was a lot of celebrating in the month of December.

Drew and Lauren also had a small Christmas program with their preschool.  Drew was a wise man and Lauren was Mary.  They both did a fabulous job and had fun.