Christmas Day Madness

We spent Christmas blissfully at home. I love simple Christmas' at home as a family. It was a day spent in PJ's eating candy and romping with new toys. It was a perfect Christmas. Everyone was happy and everything went smoothly. We needed a year like this after last year of spending Christmas at Primary Children's Hospital!

Christmas Eve

We spent Christmas Eve at my parents home. The highlight was the Christmas pagent put on by the kids. Spectacular performance! We really try to focus on the true meaning of Christmas. What an amazing gift Heavenly Father gave us by sending us beloved Son!

Got to love Daddy!

When you have 7 kiddos, Daddy's lap is no longer sufficient. We have moved on to Daddy's body. I am so grateful I married Kevin. He is an awsome, incredible husband and father. I am very, very blessed.

Cute Pictures!

Look at what a cute boy I came home with! Teddy is doing awsome. It is like he has always been here. We are having typical two year old, push your button moments, but we are always having many, many sweet wonderful two year old moments that make it all worth it.

My little athlete

Here is a cute picture of Maya in her rollerblades. If you want to find Maya on any given day she is out front in her rollerblades, playing basketball, on her ripstick or on her skateboard. She is my natural athlete.

Naomi's Field Trip

Same place, different kiddo! This was definitely a hit for everyone.

Field Trip Fun!

I went on the Kindergarteners and the Preschoolers field trips in October. Funny thing is that they all went to the same pumpkin patch. But it was such a fun place I didn't mind going over and over. These are pictures from Allison and Emmanuel's Field Trip.

Halloween Catch-Up!

Can you tell I just downloaded my pictures from the last few months :)? Here are some cute photos from Halloween. We had a busy Halloween with lots of fun things to do. We carved pumpkins (ok I cheated this year and we used the Mr. Potatoe head type stick ins), we went to the school carnival, we went to a Halloween party at a friends and then Trick or Treating. Candy galore!

I love the fall. The best weather, beautiful leaves, great food and the chocolate I steal from the kids.

Playing Catch Up!

I am waaaaaay behind. Sorry! Catch up time.

Here are pictures from Clarissa's 4th birthday. We had a family party with cousins, siblings and grandparents. Everyone had a great time. I think they loved dancing the best. I cannot believe that she is now 4. How time flies.

What can you buy for $1200 these days?

What can you buy for $1200 these days? Well I found out today!

4 root canals
5 caps
4 pulled teeth
tons and tons of sutures

Poor Teddy! We did his oral surgery today and this is what he had done. Our portion of the bill was $1200. The poor kid lost his 4 front top teeth and had tons of work done on the other teeth. The orphanage props bottles to get babies to sleep and it destroyed his teeth. He is only 2 so it will be YEARS until they grow back in.

Kelly

Pictures Added and Adjustments Going Great

The pictures have been added from our trip to Ethiopia. Sorry they are a bit confusing. The blog will only let me put 5 pictures per post and I cannot figure out how to change the order of my posts, so you have to jump around to see them all. I posted as much as I could to the original post then added new posts to fit the rest I wanted to show. If anyone knows how to change the order of posts, let me know and I will clean up the mess!

Teddy and the family are doing awsome!! I definitely get lots of kisses from him now. The children are still totally absorbed by him but he is now getting more space. Kevin and I are in love. It is so fun to have a two year old running around again. We have been blessed by another amazing child. I do not know how I get all the best ones, but I do!

Kelly

More Teddy at the Ritmo Pictures

Here are pictures I could not fit in the post below. They feature Teddy and the Ritmo Guest House.

The tub is full of water because we ran out of water and we were storing it there. Teddy loved flipping the light switch!

Market in Lalibela

These pictures are of the incredible market in Lalibela.

Kelly

More Hiking in Lalibela

The city you see in the far distance is where we started from. It looks fairly flat but believe me, it is very, very steep. The other pictures are of our guide's home.

Kelly