Me and my Peeps

Monday, December 5, 2016

School pictures

I'm not too pleased with the prices and website of the new school photographer, but their pictures turned out cute.... especially Evelyn's.

So, we did a spur of the moment bathroom and laundry room make over. Fixed the peeling paint over the shower, changed out light fixtures updated wood with metal, painted cupboards and baseboards. We were just going to do the bathroom, but ended up doing the laundry area too.... Thank goodness no more gross yellow! I love yellow, but our laundry room wasn't sure if it was yellow or green. My brother, Seth, did most of it. I'm so grateful for his work and perseverance. I made a new curtain for the laundry room, but still working on the one for the bathroom. Next up, new shelves for laundry baskets.

Leaves

One of our kids favorite activities in the Fall is jumping in Grandma and Grandpa's leaf piles. They love Jer tossing them in while the leaves are fluffy. The Hansens came and joined us for a hot dog roast after. I know it's a lot of work with that many trees in your yard, but I'm grateful for the magic too.

Ada's braces

Ada got her braces off awhile ago, I don't think I posted about it.... so here are her pictures. It was more affordable than I thought it would be for this first phase. It was $700 all told to move her teeth and let the others grow into their place. There's a possibility that we won't need to do phase 2 after all's said and done... we'll see. It was funny. They took the brackets off and out popped her loose tooth along with it. Two days later the same tooth on the other side popped out. Now she has 4 front teeth and 4 missing right next to them....

After... Plus the tooth that fell out after.

Before picture. Her teeth coming in were interfering with her healthy adult front teeth.

Robertson Thanksgiving

We were able to join our Hansen cousins, cousin Ruth and her friend Kyle, along with Great-Grandma for Thanksgiving at Grandma and Grandpa's house. Jer spent most of the evening wrestling kids. They even "dragged" him down the hall and locked him into toy room. It was really funny to see the 4 under the age of 5 pulling him by the arms.

Great-Grandma even showed off for us.... she took 5 steps without her walker.

Thanksgiving day presentations

This year, we were able to have some slideshows of a lot of things to consider. My Dad presented on his year in Ethiopia, giving service and love. My Uncle Son also brought some slides. He talked about growing up in Vietnam, the first branches of the church out there, and most especially escaping from Vietnam before it was taken over by Communists. His brother in law wrote a book about it called When Faith Endures. How do you teach that to your children without experiencing it?

Thanksgiving

This year we got to host Thanksgiving dinner at our house. Jer did most of the prep on our end, and everyone brought delicious food.

This kid fell asleep on me while my Dad was giving a presentation about Ethiopia and service... he didn't want to wake up and eat Thanksgiving dinner.

Look at this marvelous crowd. (Jer's taking the picture)

Seth, me, Moana, Roger, Beth, Son, Seth, Janelle, Evelyn, Sam and Ada.

Turkeys go on Strike

Ada's 3rd grade did a play for Thanksgiving. It was a cute play about the turkeys going on strike and not wanting to be part of it. Ada memorized all the songs in the play and asked to be one of the football players. She was thrilled. She did a great job and both us and my parents enjoyed it.