Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope everyone had a great turkey day and lots of fun with family. Jasper and I spent the day in Strong with my mother, sisters and their bunch. Daddy was a little under the weather, but healing. The kids grow so fast! AShley's 2 are growing...Ty is as tall as me, Reeve is a good size boy, not "fat" just big, he is going to make a great football player if he chooses to play. Amber's well, Jay is still thin, getting taller, and Laura is cute as a button. Devin went to CA with Jenny and Micheal and they were on their way home, stopped in TX to spend Thanksgiving with his family. Sounds like Devin had a great time! I can't wait to hear all about it. Forgot the camera but will try to remeber it for Christmas.

pillow fight anyone?

Make a Smilebox slideshow

a few new pictures

Make a Smilebox postcard

Learning new things.....

as many of you know, Cassie is a senior this year, so that means I am having to look at colleges! Keep us in your prayers! And yes I know she should have started last year...anyway. I will be filing and finding scholarship forms and college applications and the like for the next couple of weeks, wish me luck!
Sydney made all region choir! Don't think I mentioned that, we are very proud of her. They have a concert next month, so if interested in seeing our little girl let me know! I still have to find out the details.
Jasper is growing by leaps and bounds! It is so hard to believe that he is 2 years old! Cassie was out of school Tue and came to spend the day :), he ran through the house "cassie, cassie, cassie" I think she was very pleased that he can say her name now.
OH! I know you are not going to believe this, but EVERY November our family has something happen, grandmother (Paul's mom) broke her ankle and twisted the other one Sunday night. So pray for her and of course Daune who is taking care of her!
Our mission groups filled their shoe boxes last night at church, if you are not familiar with this idea check out http://www.samaritanspurse.org/ or contact a church in your area. The kids had a great time shopping last week, and they enjoyed arranging the items in the boxes, they would take them out and rearrange so they could get as much as possible in each box. It is wonderful to see the young ones wanting to do for someone else.

opps,,,

"oh crap" is one of my bad habits I'm trying to break, just slipped up and you guessed it, Jasper said it! OH MAN! is our new phase. I know crap is not "a 4 letter word" but it is not to pleasing to the ear either. There have been words that we have had to tell the girl we don't like to hear for whatever reason, one...gaugh, just didn't like it, sounded like god when she said it, one of the new ones, jacked up, don't ask but didn't like it either. Of course they think we are being silly, it's just words, right? How do you make children understand tone, phasing and attitude? Especially when they don't live with you. That has been a constant pray, to be a good parent and do what we think is best, not what is easiest. Back to Jasper, as you can tell, he is repeating words more these days. Loves animals, we went by the zoo the other day before playgroup and saw the monkeys, bears, dogs (wolf). Will have to video him and post! He is a hoot!