Happy Thanksgiving!

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! We went to a friend's house for dinner tonight and had lots of good food - and we don't have leftovers or dishes :) The kids are all tucked into bed, sound asleep. Hope you all had a great day.

Ellie's geography project

Just wanted to share the salt map (made of salt dough) of North America that Ellie sculpted, painted, and labeled herself. I'm so proud of her :)

Me and Nick

Here is a picture of me and Nick from a couple of days ago. He likes to have some quiet time in the evenings with us - after his sisters have gone to bed :)

The Final Countdown

It has just hit us that we will be out of here in 6 weeks. With Christmas parties, goodbye dinners, outprocessing, finishing my college class project, homeschooling, taking care of 4 kids, and sorting through all of our stuff, those 6 weeks are going to fly by. The movers will be here the day after Christmas, so I'm not planning on pulling out the decorations this year. I think that I'm going to let Ellie and Kate decorate instead. They can do as many art projects as they want - and then I can just tear them down after Christmas and I don't have to worry about packing them back up again.
We are so ready to move. I think in part because it's a training post and being here for 4 yrs means we've already seen so many friends leave. We've just been waiting for our turn to go. Alaska is going to be exciting - if we ever get there! Andy will be going up in January and the kids and /i will be staying with my parents until he can find us a house - it will probably be a few months. By the time we get there, the daylight will be back and the snow melted :)

Sick baby

Nick is sick yet again - he and Lexie were sick and had ear infections while we were on vacation. Now he has a bad cough, goopy eyes, and lots of green snot!! The doctor put him on some medicine for the gunk in his chest and eye drops for his eyes. Hopefully he'll feel better soon. It hasn't slowed him down any though - he's still standing or crawling whenever he is set down.

Pictures from the Trip

Here are some more pics from the trip. I especially love the one of Andy with Nick on his shoulders - he's so happy to have a son :)

Nick's Baptism

Here is a picture of us after Nick's baptism last month.