Santa

We had 1 hr. scheduled in our evening tonight to see Santa. Our plan was to visit with him between 5-6pm. Well, wouldn't you know it - Santa has a break from 5-5:45. That meant that we had 15 minutes to see Santa - luckily we were the 1st in line!!! We first had all 3 kids sit together on Santa's lap - Hayleigh couldn't figure him out and got wiggly so we let the boys visit with him. Taylor insisted on not telling us what he was going to talk to Santa about and he whispered in his ear what he wanted! Luckily, Santa's elf helped us in finding out what it was that he whispered - I think Taylor is still trying to figure out if Santa is real or not...:):) Then we had Hayleigh take a picture with Santa by herself so we could get the famous - "crying in Santa's lap" picture - Now we have one from each kid!! :):)

Then we rushed home to eat dinner before our Pastor and an Elder came over to talk about Hayleigh's Baptism on Sunday - I can't wait!!! We get to pick out a Life Verse for her too! There are sooo many - i hope we choose the right one:):)

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Pictures from our weekend

A very Thankful THANKSGIVING!

We had a great day - SO much to be thankful for!!! Hayleigh had a fun day playing with her cousins at my brother's house. We took our traditional family picture, as you can see above.

LOOK! We scored a precious daughter:)

Havin' Fun in the Tub!

Hayleigh's Certificate of Citizenship!!

Great Grandma has fallen in Love with Hayleigh:)

FRUIT PUFFS!

YIPPEE! We are celebrating tonight!!! Hayleigh has finally eaten her FIRST Gerber Fruit Puff!!! And she was chewing on a biter bisquit!!! We are so excited as this is her first "solid" food:) We have been gradually working our way up the babyfood chain and increasing textures and tonight she ate fruit puffs!! We are so proud of her progress in eating - she has really come a long way in 2 months - HEY I JUST REALIZED IT HAS BEEN 2 MONTHS THAT SHE HAS BEEN WITH US - VERY COOL:)

We are also celebrating because our friends The Black's just got their Olivia today at 5pm !!! Praise God:)

The Spokane Valley Mall...

It is truly amazing to us how God continues to touch our lives - Last weekend we were in Spokane for Taylor's hockey tournament. On Sunday, we stopped by the food court in the mall to get lunch before we headed home. After we all went to our separate food stops and were finally sitting together eating as a family, a man walked up to us and he didn't say hello or introduce himself - he simply said "Can i pray for your family right now?" We have NEVER had this happen to us before - let alone in a very busy food court! Lance and i looked at each other with shocked smiles on our faces and said "Sure!" We all bowed our heads and he said the most touching prayer for our family asking God to bless us and to bless our daughter and how thankful he was that we had brought her into our Christian family so we can raise her as a Christian and bring one more of Jesus children to him! - i don't think i have his exact wording but that was the gist of it. We said thanks to him and asked his name (Jim) and thanked him again - we really weren't sure what else to say. Then Jim and his wife left - i guess they were sitting next to us but we didn't notice them in all of our commotion in getting our food etc. We were/are so touched by this man's simple prayer and gesture - Thank you Jim (where ever you are! :)) And thank you God!

Hayleigh's 11 month Pictures from JCPenny

She's Attached!!

As you can see in these pictures, she is definately attached!! If i just walk out of the room for a split second - she cries her eyes out!! This is VERY good, but not so good when your trying to put laundry away in 3 different rooms and have to lug her around too:):) I also left her in the nursery for the first time on Tuesday at MOPS - she wasn't happy:(

SHE'S ALL OURS!

As you can see Hayleigh's brothers LOVE her to death!!! God is soo good and has definately answered our prayer with 2 loving brothers:)

Milk induced nightime sleep!

Hayleigh's friend Mia came home on Sat. - To see how their trip went click on the link "Journey to Mia"

Happy Halloween!!

This is our "Shadow the Hedgehog" (from an Xbox video game), our little Ladybug and Neo (from the Matrix, which he hasn't even watched - not sure how this idea came about:))