Merry Christmas!

Had a mini Christmas celebration on Monday with my Mom & Dad and Zach & Ness and their kids, Abi and Zeke. We did it first thing in the morning before Zach & Ness and the kids headed out to Monte Vista. I think it may have been a little too early from the looks of it, but we had a great time!

Nursing Baby

Travis, I love the new photos on your blog. Here is a pic I took with my phone. The settings were on minimal quality but I mostly wanted to capture the image...hoping to use for reference later.

Nursing Shawl

T and M this is for you inparticular. It's a pic of the nursing shawl from the store and the one I made for M; with buttons. I hope you like it and that it works well. The one I made is slightly shorter I think, but it is also a little wider. It's mailed and should arrive on Saturday or Monday according to lady. Sorry took me forever. S-

Psalm 146 NIV

Mommy needed this one today:

Praise the LORD.

Praise the LORD, O my soul.
I will praise the LORD all my life;
I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.

Do not put your trust in princes,
in mortal men, who cannot save.
When their spirit departs, they return to the ground;
on that very day their plans come to nothing.

Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
whose hope is in the LORD his God,
the Maker of heaven and earth,
the sea, and everything in them—
the LORD, who remains faithful forever.
He upholds the cause of the oppressed
and gives food to the hungry.
The LORD sets prisoners free,
the LORD gives sight to the blind,
the LORD lifts up those who are bowed down,
the LORD loves the righteous.
The LORD watches over the alien
and sustains the fatherless and the widow,
but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.

The LORD reigns forever,
your God, O Zion, for all generations.

Praise the LORD.

Fall Festival

We went to the Fall Festival this year at church. At the last minute the girls announced that Naomi was going as a cat and Eliya was gonna be a princess. Mom of course started to object, as we were supposed to be leaving, not beginning costumes! %-/ But Naomi was quite confident there wasn't any problem...she knew what clothes she could wear and all I needed to do was "make a mask". How can you argue with that? Of course,it needed to be done (and dried) in about an hour. The princess was easy - Eliya's a natural! By the time Naomi was dressed and had her tail on, I found some old face paints and voilà. Wish we could have had her tail in the pic. She's getting pretty creative! She used a feather band from an old cowboy had; it was perfect. At the festival, they had face painting so Eliya had a butterfly done on her face...so I guess she ended up as a butterfly princess. Elijah went as Marvy Snuffleson. :D An inside joke for you RazzleFlabben Islanders.

Lobster Exo-skeleton - Elijah

I thought Bob, my lobster, had multiplied yesterday. Then we realized that one of them was just the exo-skeleton. This is it.

Bob now only has one large front pincher (the right) instead of two. It looks like he ripped off the other one when he was coming out of his old exo-skeleton. I think the black part (circled) on the joint is part of the old one. He's a lot bigger though. I hope the exo-skeleton dries well enough to save it. "Cool!"

Here he is molting, then he started freaking out...trying to right himself (2nd video), we guess.

"Fire in the Sky" captured by Naomi

When I first saw the clouds I was amazed by God's artwork. After I took the picture I wished that the whole world could see it.