Christmas in Delaware

Well, Christmas day was so much fun, we so enjoyed spending time with my family. We leave tomorrow to go spend some time with Chris' family and have a whole other Christmas! I just wanted to share these few pictures with you all!

Best 12 days of Christmas

This is such a fun 12 days of Christmas I saw the other day. I thought I would post it as my way of wishing a Merry Christmas!! Have a great day! (Again, don't forget to mute the slideshow before watching or you won't be able to hear it)

Clash of the choirs

Chris and I have been watching the Clash of the choirs this week and last night we were pretty impressed by this choir! Having been in choirs all my life, I enjoyed this a lot. They say that they learned 7 songs in 3 weeks! Great. PS We will be leaving for DE tomorrow so I may not get to blog very much cuz we'll be having so much fun with the fam!

Check out my Slide Show!

We got quite the snow storm on Saturday night. Snowed in all day on Sunday, in our are over 350 churches cancelled services. Crazy! Anyway, we spent most of the day hunkered down and staying warm. Since we were mostly recovering from our sick and crazy couple of days. Saturday I went up to Kalamazoo with Wyatt to see some old college friends, so fun, but on the way home it had started snowing a little harder and I, without thinking, tried another way home. Long story short, I ended up coming around a corner and fishtailing and couldn't get control. I ended up completely facing the other direction in a ditch. I was praying as I couldn't get control "Lord, please don't let us hit anything" and He didn't. I was completely stuck. As I rummaged through my stuff trying to find a number to call to get a tow truck, 2 pickup trucks pulled over and told me to stay in the car and keep warm, that they would pull me out! Praise the Lord, He was watching over us. They pulled me out and we were on our way, there are still good people out in the world! So anyway, we are recovered. Chris went out and dug us out this morning, Wyatt was dying to go out with him, so I bundled him up and out he went to help daddy. Mow the snow! Love to all! Here's a little video of Wyatt and Chris too. I apologize for me....its the first time my kid was playing in the snow.....sue me! I sound like an idiot!

Its going around

Well, Wyatt is all better. He doesn't have his full appetite back yet, but he is back to his normal self. Getting into everything!! The bad news, Chris has got it now. I don't know if he got it from Wyatt or if he got it from a student. Hopefully I don't get it, I'm supposed to go see friends from my Cornerstone days tomorrow. I haven't seen most of them since I left and I don't want to miss it!

The flu....take 2

Make that 6 times....i barely got the computer out of the way

The flu....

Well, the flu has hit our house. I got a call at work today that Wyatt was throwing up. I picked him up at 1:30 and since then he has gotten sick 5 more times. There's nothing left in his tummy but he keeps either dry heaving or bringing up snot. Appetizing I know. So it seems that instead of going to my office christmas party at the Essen Haus I will be staying home with my pukie kid.

Christmas Cookies!!!

I have been inspired lately by all my blogging friends and their pursuit of Christmas traditions. So, tonight we made Christmas cookies! All three of us, and by that I mean me :) Chris wrangled Wyatt, because he really wanted to eat all of it. He had tons of fun playing with the measuring cups and spoons! We couldn't get them iced fast enough and he wolfed it down! We iced a few and then it was bath time. There is nothing better than a kid who has a good time in the bath so I had to add those pictures! Our tradition was somewhat successful, so we'll see if we keep it.

Little Drummer Boy

Our Christmas concert went so well! I have no voice left, but at least I got through the weekend. Why do I always get sick for Christmas concerts? Anyway, we are in the middle of an ice storm! We got home from church and couldn't get up our driveway. I finally drove through the snow on the grass to get into the garage. Our driveway isn't really on a hill either. Crazy. We watched the neighbors slide past their driveway and then take a couple of attempts to get up the drive. No church tonight, which has been really nice. I needed the rest! It was a great weekend though! Here's a little video of Wyatt showing off his rhythm skills!

"Let there be Light"

Tonight is our church's Christmas concert, "Let there be light" http://fbcelkhart.org/music/index.htm Chris didn't get to be in it b/c he has a basketball game tonight, but it turned out to be a blessing because he's been able to stay home with Wyatt this week while I had rehearsals. I am excited about this, its nice to get back to singing. Pray for the hearts of the unsaved coming that they would be open to hearing the gospel that will be presented. Christmas is such a great opportunity to get people into church, so we need to take advantage of that opportunity. Pray for all the technical makings that they run smoothly and lastly please pray that the snow/ice/sleet that is expected tomorrow holds off until later in the evening. We don't want anything holding people away.

Chris has a game this evening so Wyatt will be coming with me. Hopefully he'll do great! Its been a busy week, but it is making time fly by so fast and we're anxious to see our family at Christmas!

Love to all!

Wyatt can talk

Well, I thought I would shoot a little video yesterday. He seemed in the right mood so I gave it a shot. This video will make the hearts of my family ache a little more for the next 16 days to go by a lot faster. Mom, its a nice long one, but it will probably take a little longer to load. Enjoy! (These are just the words I could think of. Some of them are really quiet so you'll have to listen carefully, turn up the volume)