Just Us

This past weekend, we made the trip to Columbia to spend time with Nate, Leah, Faithers and peanut. Peanut will soon become little brother or little sister! We cannot wait to find out. :) This is a picture of Faithers at Sam's. We cannot get over how grown-up she is! She is talking, laughing and playing like a toddler......which is super fun for Uncle Bubba and Aunt DD. Some of our favorite Faith sayings..."OH YEAH!" "DEEEE-licious!" These little sayings have found there place at our house and make us think of her often! A sweet family picture we snapped before church on Sunday. Pretty sure this was an Aunt DD mistake.......camera still set on CLOSE-UP! However, turned out to be one of my favorites of the weekend. This is the cheesy little smile we have come to love SO much! Faith hanging out in her NEW van! She loves it! We also were very blessed to make a short trip to see Deid, Todd and Quincy in Osage Beach Saturday night. We took a mini road tri...

Once again, let's get up to date! :) To ring in the NEW YEAR, we went and stayed with Jon and Jill in Omaha and Callie was able to join us as well. We had a lot of fun just being silly and laughing.....pretty much inevitable when we all get together. Here are a few pictures from that goofy night! Thanks to Momma Dunn we had some sweet hats....don't worry we didn't wear them out in public! Dan and Jon wouldn't let us! However, we think they secretly loved them........as you can see. We don't think that Belle really enjoyed our hats and noise makers. The rest of the pictures are from the wonderful weekend we spent in Okoboji celebrating Jon's birthday. Lots of fun and food....and more party hats of course! :) We surprised Jon by decorating the condo when the boys sat at the pool....and then went out for yummy pizza and played a hilarious game! My hunny ......so happy to be spending time away from work and school! :) More pictures to come of our wonderful w...

Sorry this is soooooo late.....you would think with all the snow days we have been having....I would have had this up sooner! :) Better late than never. For Christmas, we braved the nasty roads and made it to Osage Beach to Deid and Todd's. What a wonderful blessing to spend time with the fam , especially sweet little Quincy! We are pretty convinced that being an uncle and an aunt is pretty much the best thing ever! Isn't he soooooo sweet?!?!? We sure think so! Here is our little Santa..... We are so thankful for another wonderful year and thank God for all His wonderful blessings. As we celebrated our 2 nd Anniversary in December, we were reminded of all the ways He has taken care of us and given us exactly what we needed at just the right time. He is so faithful and has given us each other. :) We look forward to this new year and all the blessings it will bring. In fact, we will get to welcome our third little niece or nephew in August! :) Seriously.....we are...

It has to be the first time I have ever experienced the craziness of shopping at midnight in Branson the day after Thanksgiving. Allison, Leah and I braved the winding roads into Branson in hopes of finding some Christmas gift DEALS! Little did we know the adventure it would be! Here is a picture of the girls pre-shopping.....note the smiling faces....Leah-Starbucks in hand....we were ready to shop....tired but excited! :) We arrived at the outlet mall to discover a parking lot packed with tired, crabby shoppers looking for a parking place. After a long wait and some flashing lights, we finally found a spot to park and the shopping could begin. We had lots of laughs even in the midst of long lines and our own exhaustion. The last picture would be a result of a late night....I mean morning of shopping together. So much fun.....would do it all over again....as long as we were together! :)

Family........little niece......little nephew.......laughter......joy........time together......most importantly, the gift we have in Jesus. The forgiveness and love we receive each day that continues to shape us into who we were made to be.....people that love and forgive without condition and without restraint. That is our prayer and will continue to be our prayer into this new year. Thanksgiving was yet another reminder of how wonderful it is to spend time with family. Al and Debbie rented a cozy cabin outside of Branson and we all met there.Uncle Dick and Aunt Pam made the trip as well! :) It was a weekend FULL of lots of laughter and LOTS of wonderful food by Debbie and Aunt Pam! In Allison's words, "YUM-O." Faith LOVED all the leaves outside and was always willing to give us her best "cheezzzzzz." I don't know who had more fun....Faith playing or all of us being entertained by her! We can't believe how much she has grown up already! It seems...

Have you ever felt like you were moving so fast and dong so much.....that when things finally slow down...you aren't sure how to relax?!?! This has definitely been my day today. Dan and I have had such a busy couple of weeks and are SO glad to be relaxing a little this weekend together. Last weekend, I headed to Des Moines with the cheerleaders for their first state competition. They did wonderful and placed 11th in our division. A 10 point deduction for a hairband kept them from an 8th placing. So placing in the top half for their first time...is pretty amazing! :) We were very proud of them. Parent-teacher conferences were this past week as well. And I survived. It makes for a really long week, but it is good to connect with parents. Month without TV update: Dan has one more day to go!!!! Tomorrow he has class and then we plan to go out to a movie...or to a couple! Hahaha. It is pretty amazing how much more time we have for other things when we aren't watching tv. ...

On Thursday night, Mel came over for our annual FALL FUN NIGHT! :) We were really brave this year and did some tricky carving. These are our finished products after hours of carving and sipping cider. We took these pumpkins over to Grandma Daisy's for the trick-or-treaters on Saturday. Grandma was pretty excited. I handed out candy, while Dan sat in a ground blind out on the farm....waiting for the BIG one. The BIG one did not make an appearance this weekend.....but I have sure been learning a lot about all that goes into the GREAT hunt. Did you know that this man wears deer pee on his shoes just to attract deer?!?!? Wow....I think I will stick to jewelry..... :) Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!