Welcome, Winter!

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How I wish it looked outside my window

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Or even this

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This would do as well

Reality

Happy 1st day of Winter, everyone! 

Hope yours is whiter than ours is! :)

Autumn Medley ~ Part V

This finishes off our conglomerated post from Autumn. And a good thing too since tomorrow is the first of Winter!! :)

Wordsearch with Johanna and Junebug

Johanna loves to help find words!

Chili making with the girl with the funky bangs

Tickle time with Margarete and Johanna ;)

Finding a good babysitter is usually quite a task; but not around here with three wonderful Grandmas!

Morning word searches with Lorry and Junebug

Hard at work!

Domino nights

Bella likes to walk all over the pieces and knock them over :(

Enjoyed an afternoon with Tommy

Junebug's "big, bad, little brother" :)

Vanessa in action: one of the joys of being the home-manager - phone calls

Awoke to orange-tinted sunrises

Had a lovely Thanksgiving day fellowship and dinner

Had lots of good homeschooling days

Reading and writing with Mom

Another sweet visit from Raquelle

We all so enjoyed getting to see you again!

We welcomed another handsome little chap as doulas

We spent an afternoon at the arboretum (post in process)

Behind the scenes of our family photoshoot

Attended another precious little boy's birth

And got to take this beautiful family's pictures the same day

And of course we had lots of fun times just hanging out at home.

We hope everyone is having a blessed December and keeping warm!

Thanksgiving Day, 2012

We had another wonderful Thanksgiving day with the Grandmas and their fun families! We are so thankful for all of your friendship and treasure each and everyone of you so dearly.

Waiting for our guests to arrive

Grandma Lorry's wonderful son and daughter-in-love, Chris and Christine

They were so kind to let Johanna have full control of their camera! She had a hay-day :)

Johanna and lovely Kyla; we so enjoyed talking, laughing and getting to know you better!

Grandma Junebug awaiting her family {Bella Bean was waiting too, but she didn't get any visitors :)}

Actually Bella was keeping a cautious distance from the new face in town :)

Camera troubles

Thank you so much, Chris, Christine and Kyla for driving such a long way to be with your mom/grandma! It meant the world to her and we all just loved visiting with you. 

The table is set

The hot cranberry tea is ready

The grandkids are here! Taylor with his Nana

And lovely Lindsay with Nana

Grandma Margarete welcomed everyone in her own fashion :)

(Actually she was tired of us taking pictures and decided to pose for us :)

We were all cracking up!

Like really :)

In the kitchen, Mr. Geoff and Mr. Taylor were visiting with Johanna and...

...the turkey cutter!

Grandma June and beautiful Mrs. Paige

And Lindsay too!

The lovely J. family and Nana

I just love this picture; it speaks what words cannot express

Margarete's ready to eat

As is Lorry

And of course June!

All together now...

Part of the scrumptious dinner

Table talk

Margarete and her wonderful daughter Patty and son-in-law Charlie

Junebug and her wonderful daughter Linda and son-in-law Vic

DESSERT! The beautiful white cake Mrs. Linda made was for the birthday boy, Mr. Vic

Matching loverlies

After dinner the J. family did some pretty cool magic tricks; here Lindsay is showing Johanna a new technique :)

And here I thought: Oh, they're talking let me snap a photo. And then they thought: You've got to be joking. And then, well, that's when I left :)

Mr. Charlie and Dad talking carpentry

Mrs. Paige was one of our sweet kitchen helpers

And Taylor here gives us a grand finale piece called: Two-finger waltz :)

That's it folks!