Hello All

From Thanksgiving through the holidays our family has been sick, and sick and then sick some more. Yuck!!! Looks like we are all on the mend so I thought I would give you a little update.

The Holidays were alot of fun with all the cousins together. Ivy is copying everything we say. (both good and bad) :) She is very good at saying her "Peas" and Ankuu"s. She likes to walk around and talk about her family members. She lists them and makes up new names for them. Right now Kya and Aliyah have become Kaliyah. And my favorite is Nonie and "Popup". She likes to look at their pictures in her book.

Here is a picture of her taking Greg and "Uncle" Rob for a walk down the hallway and back. We have learned we really need wider hallways. :)


Here is a picture of "PA" holding Ivy and Aliyah.


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Take Care

Wow it has been a month

I can't believe it has been a month since I posted last. It has been crazy for sure. Thanksgiving was good but we all got sick from a virus afterwards. :( Greg then flew down to California and helped load the moving truck for Steve and Jess. He and Corey then helped drive them up....since they are moving back to Washington. It is great to have them home. PJ is growing so much and it is fun to see Ivy and him play. They are the same size :) They play well and every so often just give each other hugs.

Clinton threw our friend Andrea a surprise party for her birthday. We went out to Karaoke. Greg was up singing and it was so great, I was laughing and crying. He is so animated. :)





We went to Molbok's and had a friend take our Christmas card pictures on Dec. 15th. Ivy wouldn't seem to smile but you can still see how big she is getting.




I think I forgot to post Ivy's Halloween picture we had taken...


Ivy was sporting the Mars Hill shirt of our friend Kathy. I think she has some time to grow into it.


Tomorrow we are having Grandma Robin and Great Aunt Gail over with Steve, Jess and PJ Mulkey to have a little early family Christmas party. On Christmas morning we are going over to PA and Grandma Dorothy's house to celebrate with the rest of the family and have traditional Christmas morning breakfast. We will probably go home for Ivy's nap then come back to Christmas dinner.

We hope that you all are doing well and have a wonderful holiday season.

1 Peter 1:3-5
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

Ivy and dad

Here is a picture of Ivy and Greg playing video games together. Greg gave Ivy her own controller while he was playing.:)

Cuteness

I took some pictures of Ivy with her Trogdor shirt from her "Uncle Los". In the first one she is signing Please for something. :) In the 2nd one she is talking.

Halloween and Updates

I know I haven't updated in a while so I needed to get you all up to date. Halloween was great. Ivy was a Lady Bug. She went with Dorothy and Corey's family to Kya's school to go trick or treating while Greg and I took a night away at the Salish Lodge. He is now officially done with his crunch on the project Mass Effect. He has worked so vary hard that we both needed some relaxing time away...it was wonderful. Ivy and the girls had a great time at the school as well. Here are some pics of her in her costume before we took her to Dorothy.



Her hair is finally getting longer where it doesn't always stand straight up in the back but I needed to take a picture so you could see the resemblance to her ducky.



Her are her first pony tails that I made for her.