Lucy is 9 months and crawling!

Well, we have reached one of those big milestones! Lucy is now a crawling baby. She has been up on her hands and knees rocking back and forth for about a month and has been army "crawling" for maybe a week but she has definitely crossed over to full on crawling. It was a big day (Saturday, Dec. 12th). Here is some video of the event. Now it is time for baby gates and watching the Christmas tree/Lucia very carefully!

Lucy's First Christmas Tree Hunt

Pat, Lucia and I headed out to Hubert's Christmas Tree Farm last Friday in search of the perfect tree. We had a quick visit with my Grandma in Port Orchard and picked up Kaitlyn for the adventure. We met up with Terry, Kathy, Jai, Sten, and Solveig and headed out to the farm. It was a perfectly beautiful day, which is a blessing in the NW for late November. We had a great time with the family and enjoyed the hot cider and the view from the little hut in the middle of the farm.

Lucia's First Thanksgiving

There are so many things to be thankful for this year. We have our lovely little lady Lucia who brings us much joy and laughter every day, we have an amazing family, friends, our health, and more than our daily needs provided for. I know that the Lord is the giver of all of these good gifts and I am immensely grateful for his grace.

Thanksgiving was at our house this year and we had the Jai, Sten, Solveig, Kathy, Terry, my Grandma Shirley, and Kaitlyn over for dinner. The day started off well with Pat beating the snot out of the yet to be cooked turkey in order to make it fit in the roaster. Pat won and the turkey was tasty. Here are some pictures from the big day.

The spread...
Kaitlyn and Pat being...Kaitlyn and Pat
Nana and the little lady
Two cute little people
Papa and Lu
SISTERS!!!!!
The hosts
Sassy hosts
Playing airplane with Papa

Kathy and Pat eating cheese pre-turkey
Playing Taboo post turkey dinner
About the cutest little face ever + some whipped cream!