My Faith and Joy… and Boys!

Jimmy greatly enjoyed his visit to Arizona as well.  In fact, I think he was just as delighted as his big sisters to be around so many wonderful people.  See for yourself!

(Jimmy was more interested in the Black Friday flyers than I was)

(On Thanksgiving day, Jimmy was thankful for pieces of a banana.  They made him very happy.  And messy.)  

In case you were wondering how much fun the girls had with their little cousins in Arizona, here’s a video of the kids happily playing “Ring Around the Rosie” – or more accurately, “All Fall Down”! 

I’m so thankful.  Thankful for my salvation, for my family, for my friends.   And this Thanksgiving, I’m so thankful that my children love each other.  By next year, Jimmy will probably be driving his sisters crazy, but right now…well, I’ll let these pictures speak for themselves.  I think they’re pretty fond of each other!

A few weeks ago, we tried to go to a local park, but it was cordoned off for construction.  So we found a place to lay out a blanket and I told the girls to go play.  And play they did!  They found some fruit that had fallen off a tree and pretended they were “eggs.”  They hid the “eggs” in the crook of a tree, along with a necklace Becky had stowed away.  It was quite the treasure trove they created, and it entertained them for far longer than the park play structure ever did.  I’m not a very spontaneous person, but I’m learning that sometimes improvisation leads to the most fun!

I haven’t taken many fall pictures this year (I kinda dropped the ball on all fall-related activities this year – no apple picking, no fall decorations, no trick-or-treating, a trip to the grocery store in lieu of the pumpkin patch…good thing the kids are too young to notice!), but I finally snapped a few photos of the kids playing in a leaf pile that Jim created for them.  You’ll notice the last picture is of Jim and Jimmy in the tractor.  Jim used the tractor to push the leaves into the woods (any excuse to use that thing!), and Jimmy was much happier on his daddy’s lap than in the leaf pile.  Boys and their tractors!