Trimming the tree

This year we are decorating early due to Ben's upcoming patrol. Hudson is loving the lights on the tree. He and Winchester both are difficult to keep away from grabbing the ornaments!

Adventures in tree hunting!

The boys enjoyed romping around the X-mas tree lot finding not only all sorts of trees but lots of mud too! Noah must have picked out 8 different trees that he thought would make the most perfect X-mas tree.

A very Happy Thanksgiving

Great food, wonderful friends, and most importantly... a great God who has blessed us in so many ways. We are truly thankful!

Kenny and Mollie Howe visit (a.k.a. uncle KK and Mo Mo)

It was such a treat for Uncle Kenny and cousin Mollie to visit us for our second Thanksgiving together from California. We had so much fun exploring around, making a giant ginger bread house, watching movies, playing Mexican Train, and eating lots of great comfort food!

A Halloween weekend

Noah was the friendly fireman and Hudson the adorable Dalmatian. We had Ben's cousin and wife over (Tim and Elizabeth Wycoff) for the weekend and enjoyed seeing Jane and Hudson play together.

Fun with Fall

One thing is for sure about living in Washington, there are tons of leaves to rake. We enjoyed a morning of jumping in the piles and learning how to use the rake.

Cousins!

This past week we had Ben's sister and brother-in-law here with us. We spent the week playing and laughing, exploring and being adventurous, and making great memories. Zachary, Noah, and Emma Grace were especially busy having fun and expending lots of energy!

Fall is in the air

We are having beautiful fall days here. Not as much rain as usual so we can actually collect dry leaves this year. It has been such a fun season so far to observe God's creation with Noah- outside we see the leaves changing colors, we smell the pine trees and smoke from wood burning stoves, we see the corn and pumpkins growing at our favorite farms, we taste the pears and apples from the trees in our yard, and we finally get to use our rain boots for stomping in puddles! La bella vita!

Noah turns 4!!!

It is hard to believe that we now have a four year old. Some highlights of Noah's birthday weekend- enjoying a little party Friday night, a Saturday morning out hunting with papa, eating birthday cereal, and playing with his new cap gun. We had so much fun watching him take delight in the joys of having a birthday. Little ones are a joy!

End of Summer with the Selph Family

We enjoyed a two week stay with Ben's family in Atlanta and Greenville, SC in early September. It was full of cousin play time, Grandma's great cooking, and staying up late.

Grandpa and Grandma Howe visit

Grandpa and Grandma Howe visit

Over the Labor Day weekend Grandpa and Grandma Howe were able to come. We had a great time being together.