Addie's Nativity Set

Addie now has her own nativity set, so as we've displayed ours in the house, she has been busy playing with hers.  She has been learning who all was at the manger the night baby Jesus was born.

 After Addie tipped all of the little people over, she told me that "everyone is going nigh-night."

Addie loves our Christmas tree and amazingly enough, she has been very "gentle" with the ornaments.  But notice that there are no gifts under our tree yet.  Addie became quite a pro at opening gifts after her second birthday so.....we've kept the Christmas gifts hidden until Christmas day. :)

Snow

Can you tell it's winter in Minnesota?  It is beautiful here right now...everything is so white and clean!  Adeline loved her time playing in the snow.  Last year, she wasn't too keen about it, but this year's a different story.  She didn't even mind that it took so long to put her snow gear on!  Addie was all smiles playing and being pulled on the sled by daddy.

Our Christmas Tree

I say this every year (Patrick tells me), but I think we have the most beautiful Christmas tree ever this year!  First of all, I think it's the largest tree we have ever had, but more than it's size, it's just beautiful...the color, the branches...everything.  I wish all of you could see it in person.  Here is a recap of our adventure in getting our tree set up!

Thanksgiving Guests

My brother Joel and his wife, Hye-Young, stayed with us while they were in Minneapolis for Thanksgiving.  Addie couldn't get enough of her uncle and auntie...she had so much fun playing with them!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We hope all of you have had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  Today, we were with my extended family...dad, brothers & wives, aunts, uncles, cousins and all, and we had sweet sweet time together.  Even though we weren't able to be with Patrick's family today, we were fortunate to be able to see and spend time with his parents and a few of his siblings in the past few weeks.  

God continues to be so good, generous, and faithful to us.  As we look back on this year, we clearly see God's love and provision in our family's life. With that...we are so delighted to share with you that we are expecting baby #2 this coming May!  As you can see Adeline is quite thrilled about being a big sister (Little does she know how much her life will change!).  We thank God for this gift of life and look forward to meeting this new little one!

Grandparents

Adeline has loved seeing all of her grandparents in the past couple of weeks!  We had a great weekend with Grandma & Grandpa from Iowa when they were here, and we were able to go down to Chicago this past week as well.  Addie is so interactive now and remembers people well.  After we spent time with the grandparents, she talked about them for days that followed.  It's quite cute.

Addie giving Toby some lovin'

Happy Halloween from this little "lady"...

 

Hugging her cousin Evalyn

the girls eyeing grandpa's big bowl of candy on the counter

 Addie & Ian (our neighbor across the street)

 Trying her first bag of skittles

 Addie & Riley at a Halloween Party on Sat. night