Thanksgiving 2009

On Tuesday night, Tristan fell in the mudroom and hit his head on the corner of the wall. It swelled up so fast and he was acting sleepy so off to the ER he went. They did an xray of his head and everything was fine.

Elizabeth on her first Thanksgiving

Such BIG eyes she has!

Sisters

Tristan, Emilia, and Elizabeth

Say cheese!

Poor Tristan! He fell and scrapped his nose when we went for a walk this afternoon before naptime.

Buzzing Prayers for David

Father, please heal David Newkirk quickly and completely…

David Newkirk has a condition called Guillain-Barre Syndrome. He is very sick in a hospital bed in Pasadena. He asked that his Christian brothers and sisters pray for him with the above prayer.

Read more at: http://www.thetippingpointsblog.com/2009/11/prayer-for-david/

Our good friend and Brother Mark McCune sent an idea that they did for a friend of DTS when he was sick. They gave him a prayer beeper.

David has a standard numeric beeper (pager) with him and what we are asking you to do is every time you pray for him, send a page. This will let David know that his brothers and sisters around the world are lifting him up to our Father and will be a witness to Him for the people around David when they hear buzzes coming in and ask “why does your beeper go off so often?”.

What a huge and wonderful thing!

The pager is numeric only, so just send your prayer location. Here are the instructions:

Every time you pray for David let him know where you are in the world, send him a page with the following numbers:

Country Code – (USA=01, UK=44, India=91, etc.)


Area/District Code – (626=Glendora/Pasadena, 909=San Dimas, etc.)

If I happen to be in San Dimas – my prayer location would be 01909 (USA, San Dimas).

Here are the pager details:

To send via telephone or cell phone:

Dial his pager number: +1 (626) 231-4107 +1 (626) 231-4107


Wait for beeps….

Enter your prayer location: (eg: 01909) then #


Wait for beeps….

Hang up.

To send via website:

Web Site Address: http://www.usamobility.com/send_a_message/index.asp

When asked for pager number, put in: 6262314107


click “continue”

Put your prayer location in the “Numeric Message”


click “send”

Introducing Elizabeth Grace...

Elizabeth Grace joined our family on November 3, 2009 at 814am. She weighed 7 pounds 6 ounces and was 20 1/4 inches long.

Marisa...all ready for the c section

Steve...dressed and ready to go into the OR

Elizabeth Grace...fresh from the belly

Elizabeth's first bath

All clean!

Halloween 2009...

For Halloween this year, Emilia was Batgirl and Tristan was Superman. Emilia was so excited to go trick or treating. She kept walking up to the doors, ringing the doorbell, saying "PEAS!," getting her candy from them, and then said "Oh, Thank you!" as she left. The most polite little trick or treater. :)

I painted a shirt so Baby Girl could go as a pumpkin.

YAY for snow!

We got our first snow for the year in Helena last night! It was not a lot but enough that the kids could go out and play in it for a bit. Emilia loved it. Tristan was not so sure...it was his first time out in the snow.

For some reason, Tristan kept taking his boot off and then tried to get his sock off too.

Photo shoot with the kids and belly shots

I got the camera out and shot some pictures of the kids before the new baby comes. Emilia has not been cooperative in the past so I just now got pictures of her holding the letters to spell out T-W-O.

I was also lucky enough to get some Halloween pictures of the kids. Emilia loves pumpkins!

And we wanted some pictures of my baby belly before she comes. Emilia likes to give her kisses already and Tristan likes to pat my belly.

Emilia's favorite movie...

...is Snow White! She watched it for the first time a few days ago and is asking to watch it now. She has a Snow White dress too and wanted to dress up and watch the movie today.

In a trance watching the movie.

We have one chair that both kids ABSOLUTELY love! It is usually a fight between them as to who gets to sit in it. Well, on this particular day, they decided (on their own!) to share the seat to watch Veggietales. Such brotherly/sisterly love! I hope they stay like this forever!

Scarecrow building...

While my dad was here over the weekend, we went to the mall for a harvest party. They had scarecrow building, crafts, and cookies. The kids had a great time!

Before we went to the harvest party, we took a walk down the street because some neighbor kids were having a lemonade stand. Emilia wanted to ride her bike down there. The kids told us it was 25 cents for one Kool-Aid. We told them that we would take two. One of the girls said "That will be a dollar." LOL! We asked them how many quarters are in a dollar and they said four. Then we asked how much two quarters was and the little boy said "fifty cents!" We then said so how much would TWO drinks be? "Oh! Fifty cents!" the little boy told us. Nothing like a Math lesson on a Saturday morning. :-)

Emilia had a great time making her scarecrow. It was just a balloon with stickers but she made it herself!

She has been playing with Mr Potato Head a lot these days so she is getting good at placement of nose, mouth, eyes, etc.

Daddy held the scarecrow while Emilia put the hair on.

Looking good!

The two finished products. (Tristan got a little help with his!)

He loved it!

Emilia's artwork

She also got a butterfly tattoo on her hand.

After we made scarecrows, made a picture, and got a tattoo we had cookies...

...they were so good!

What a fun time we all had!