Other Christmas Pictures!

Christmas Eve (getting ready to go to church, dinner and look at Christmas lights)
Kids playhouse all decorated up for Christmas

Kids all lined up at family Christmas party...listening and answering questions about Jesus' birthday! Too cute!!

Most of Grandpa & Grandma Hettinger's grandkids (1 couldn't be there and Zach wasn't interested in getting his picture taken). 12 kids total (10 in pic)

Pictures with Santa Claus

The New Dishwasher

Jon and I have been so excited for this day to come...literally we have been excited, and you know why? We are sick and tired of washing dishes by hand, which has been happening for almost 3 weeks now. We have lived without a dishwasher before. Up in Laramie we didn't have one, but there were only two people and we were either in school or at work so there really wasn't alot of dishes. But now with 6 people in our house, a dishwasher breaking down is a major catastrophe! Our hands are dry, and I must say that is takes a lot of time away from the family. But thankfully it got here this morning...and I have a pile of dishes in the sink because I told myself I was not going to do any dishes today. Now I am just waiting on Jon to put the wonderful piece of equipment in and we will be ready to go! YEAH!!!

If you really want details on it, it is white and the buttons are hidden (I finally get a dishwasher with hidden buttons after all my kids are almost to the age to leave it alone, but Nathan is still yet to come). That will be a nice feature because then I won't have a little hand switching the cycle or turning it on or opening it up without me knowing. It has "SmartWash" which says it analyzes the load and determines how much water to use. Plus a small food disposal system...so it says you really don't have to wash your plates before putting them in. We will see how that works!

Thomas School Projects

Thomas recently told us about some school projects he has done on the computer. They are pretty neat to see how 1st graders are doing some new things with the computer. I can't believe our son learned how to power point before us! LOL!! The first link has sound so make sure to turn it up and listen to Thomas talk about Plant Life!

http://staffweb.psdschools.org/aswenson/langel/page18.html


http://staffweb.psdschools.org/aswenson/langelbook1/page18.html

Enjoy!!

November - Month in Pictures

Seems like November went by like speed train. Didn't get a whole lot of time to blog...so we decided to share the months pictures!

Nathan and Zachary - they are becoming two peas in a pod!
Nathan's dedication at Timberline Church

November 18, 2008

Decorating the Christmas tree

Even got Nathan involved watching the Christmas ornaments go up...just think next year it will be a chaotic fun event to watch when all 4 hang ornaments! I can't wait!! :)


Thanksgiving - Thomas & Rebekah dancing on the back patio of The Stirman's

The kids enjoying some play time after Thanksgiving dinner at The Stirman's


Grandpa Blehm (Great-Grandpa for Zach) and Zach enjoying a game around the rocking chair!



Starting to decorate the outside for Christmas! Come check it out and see all the blow-ups!

A picture of my Scentsy display for my Open House! It was a busy November with a craft fair and our open house!

The Loudenburg Men - at Thanksgiving #3 for us!

Grandpa Loudenburg (Great -Grandpa for Nathan) enjoying some time with Ne-Ne

The Loudenburg women!