Merry Christmas!

We had a great Christmas, both on our own yesterday morning and with family yesterday afternoon and today. Lots of fun, presents, and great pictures - so check out our Picasa account! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Wow, the time does fly!

It has been over a month since my last update, and I apologize! We've been busy with the kids and my work, plus Rose has started going to Bible Study Fellowship and is leading up the crafts team at her MOPS group. We had a great time last week with Thanksgiving at my parent's house, and earlier that week it snowed a bunch. That is rare for Seattle at any time, but was especially odd so early in the year; it isn't even winter yet!

I love both our kiddos dearly, but they give us a hard time at night. Gus will put himself to sleep eventually, but gets up a few times first to turn his light on and start playing with toys around his room. Ruby on the other hand will simply *not* put herself to sleep at night. She does fine at nap time during the day, but somehow she seems to sense when it is time to sleep overnight and she refuses to do so. We've pretty much only been able to put her down by feeding her or patting her till she drops off... and then sometime in the night she'll wake up and need the same treatment again.

Our church is doing the Advent Conspiracy this year, which is a really neat program that encourages us to take the focus of Christmas off consumerism and buying bunches of presents, and instead to focus on spending less but giving more important, relational gifts as well as reaching out and loving everyone around us. For that reason, along with trying to get our finances in order, we have drastically cut back on presents this year - and it takes a ton of pressure off, which is a nice break given the other hectic activities we have going on.

I'll try to post some more pictures soon, but Rose keeps up better on that over at her Facebook page. Check it out if you have not done so! (free Facebook membership required)

Merry Christmas... oh, I'm a few days late :/

Well, it has been a long time since I've posted anything. Life has been busy, but that is no excuse. I started - and stopped - playing World of Warcraft again, which makes this like every other year so far ;)

Anyways, Gus is a little over four months old now. He started rolling over a week or two ago - front to back first, and then within a day or two back to front. Now he refuses to go from his front to his back, but if you set him on his back he will flip over within about thirty seconds... and then proceed to flip out because he is stuck on his front. I'm not sure why he won't just roll back when he gets frustrated, but maybe he has inherited my laziness.

We keep adding pictures to our Picasa account each chance we get, though we are taking less and less these days. If you haven't looked recently, check out our family pictures from earlier this month. They were taken by David Sonsteng, who does an amazing job. If you are in the Seattle area and need pictures taken for just about any occasion let me know and I'll get you in touch with him.

Anyways, Merry Christmas everybody - and have a Happy New Year!