Giving Thanks

We have a lot to be grateful for.  This year has been full of blessings for us, and we know those blessings come from our Heavenly Father.

We have finally found the house that we want to buy in Pocatello, so we're hoping that the buying process can go quickly and smoothly and that we might be moved before Christmas.  Please keep us in your prayers!

Rebecca is 7 months old tomorrow!  She is getting so big!  She loves eating baby food, and scarfs down everything we feed her (except peaches and plain rice cereal…those are the only foods that she isn't a fan of so far).  She is so close to crawling, but manages to get around pretty well even without being able to crawl.  ;)  And she is head-over-heels in love with her big sister! :)  Cole makes Becca laugh every day.  :)  :)  :)  <3 p="">
Ryan is still loving his job.  He has to work both Thanksgiving and Christmas this year, but one of his co-workers offered to work Christmas Eve for him so that he can have some time with us.  :)  The hospital he works for is getting a new CT machine, which Ryan is excited about.  It's a way nice one, but he'll have to go in for extra training before they'll let him run it.  ;)

Nicole continues to do great in school.  She is looking forward to moving, except she wishes that she could take her best friends with her.  She's such a sweetheart!  Hopefully this move will be the last one we make for a long while.  Nicole is also really wanting to start a cross-stitch sampler.  She is really into the American Girl books, and a few of the American Girls work on cross-stitch samplers, which is why Cole wants to give it a try, too.  Once she finds the sampler she wants, I'll post pics of her progress. :)

Here are some pics from the last month or so.  I love my family! :) :) :)

 I was trying to get the pellet stove started on this afternoon, and Rebecca was not liking being left to play in her exer-saucer, so Nicole (without being asked) came down and started reading to her.  Rebecca was fascinated and so happy! :)  I was only able to sneak one picture though, before Cole made me put my camera away.  ;)

I got to make applesauce with my mommy a couple weeks ago!  :)  It was fun (and yummy!).

 Rebecca has now graduated to Master Mess-Maker!  :)

 Rebecca was a bunny for Halloween (same costume Cole wore for her first Halloween), and Nicole was a white tiger (HUGE thanks to my mother-in-law for helping me throw together that costume last-minute).

Big girl!!!  :)