HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Well 2008 is finally over. It was a good year, because of the birth of my sweet love bug Ethan, but it really has been a tough year other than that. But I see brighter days on the horizon for 2009, hopefully I am right. I want to wish everyone a happy new year and hope 2009 is your best yet!

adventure's in picture taking....

My little brother bears!

my sweet Lauren!

My boys!

Oh Maddie- are you done taking pictures or what?!

you gotta love how Tristen buttoned his jacket- he said "I don't care if it is wrong", well ok then.

Thanksgiving pictures

Life...........

Well it has been quite some time since my last post and honestly I just have not been in the mood to do anything lately, sorry. Then my friend Taryn left me a message, "Where are you, how are you, why haven't you posted anything and where are the Christmas pictures?" So then I realized at some point I have to tackle this mountain I am standing in front of and go on with life. As of the last week in November, we are unemployed. Unemployed with 4 kids at Christmas is quite a life altering experience. At first when it happened, James and I knew we had to put our game faces on for the kids- this should be their funnest time of the year. But as Christmas draws closer and reality sets further into our minds- the game face is harder to continue. Life can really be a bear sometimes....
But I do want to thank our family members who have helped us out so much this month, words can not express--you all have blessed our lives immensely through your prayers, encouragement and selfless acts of giving-- I hope we can be there for you when you need it!
And despite this depressing post, which I apologize for, I do know that the Lord loves us and I have faith that this trial will be overcome and hopefully lead to better days ahead.

I have not been taking many pictures- but I will post some from when we went to look at lights, thanksgiving pictures, and our feeble attempt at getting four kids to 'pose' for family Christmas pictures (which was impossible- so I finally gave up and decided to just keep what I had taken, sometimes it is just not worth all of the fuss!)