Christmas Parade and other Phone Pics

Our town's Christmas parade was warm this year! We forgot our real camera, but got some phone pictures. We met up with our church friends to watch and then went out to eat together afterward.

Fireworks!

Wesley is doing a great job at sounding out words by himself, and

he tells us almost every day now that he wants to be an artist when he grows up. 

He left this message on Curtis' chalkboard after Curtis demolished
the little city of blocks that Wesley had made.
(I will build Wesley's blocks)

We sent this picture by Wesley to our
Compassion child, Moubarack, in Africa
(Moubarack I pray for you)
In the middle is a picture of Moubarack taped up on Wesley's wall.

Out getting fro yo

John Mark and I just went to our first movie
alone since we have had kids, The Hobbit in 3-D!

Thanksgiving

We spent Thanksgiving with John Mark's family this year. We were happy that Kevin, Sara and Sadie made it down for a few days. Sadie, Wesley and Curtis had some great cousin time (Legos, reading, wagon time, etc) that we weren't sure was going to happen since the due date for Sadie's brother is soon!  Also Paul and Christi got to stop by for lunch on Saturday before everyone departed. Our family stayed through Sunday which allowed some time to catch up with JM's best friend from high school, Hassan (and his wife Kathy), who were visiting from Canada.

Curtis got to open some birthday presents.
He got his own cowboy hat like his brother's.

Curtis pulled Sadie around in
the wagon for a good while

He started making some hilarious faces when
he started getting worn out, but he wouldn't
stop until he had her back to the porch

Curtis Turns 3!

Curtis celebrated turning 3 in November with a Thomas party. We had a very small celebration with a few friends that was low-stress (except for some cake mishaps).

The kids mostly played quietly in the boys' rooms, while the adults visited. The attendees got a Thomas tattoo and a party horn to take home. No gifts (except from family). Simple and fun!

Pumpkin Painting

In October, the boys got to pick out their own little pie pumpkin to decorate, but by the time we had gotten around to painting them (mid-November), one had already rotted. They didn't mind sharing one, though. 

Wesley's side (with a little Curtis interference)

Curtis' side