Today

James had his surgery today. All went very well. He seems to be in good spirits about everything. In some pain but not too much. Hopefully tomorrow won't bring more pain! He will be off from work for a couple of weeks. And once he returns he'll be on restricted duty for awhile. Thanks for all the prayers already and please continue to pray for his recovery.

Surgery

Surgery has been scheduled for Thursday, Feb 5 at 11:30am. Please pray that all goes well. James will be off from work for a couple of weeks. Hopefully he will have a speedy recovery!!!!

Keeping You All On Your Toes

Well, as many of you already know, James and I have been going thru a really tough time in our marriage. We are both committed to working things out and becoming a better couple and family. And of course to do this, we are needing God's help and prayers from our friends and family. So please pray that God's will be done and that we will have open hearts and listen to Him.
Next thing that has gone wrong/bad, Faith and I spent 2 hours in the urgent care this past Saturday as our cat Frankie bit her. Faith was trying to be nice and feed Frankie her breakfast...except Frankie got all excited about food and just bit down and bit hard! She screamed and her finger was bleeding, swelled up and was all red. So, off we went. She's ok. She's on an anti-biotic and Frankie has to be in quaratine for 10 days. I'm not worried, Frankie is up to date on shots and he'll be ok. As will Faith.
Next Up is James. He has a hernia. He got injured at work a few weeks ago and at first it was diagnosed as a pulled muscle. Well....he's been in a lot of pain lately so back to the doctor he went yesterday and said that yup, there's definitely something not right. So he's seeing a specialist tomorrow afternoon. Which means...surgery will probably be approaching soon. So please keep him in your prayers during this time!
On a good note, Faith and I started Spanish lessons today! It's a 8 week course at Calvin Elementary. Today went really well. Looking forward to next week!

Pony!!

Faith's hair is long enough to fit into a pony! I'm super excited! She looks soooo grown up with it in! Here are a few pics of her with her hair up.

Pattern.....

So lately Faith has been taking off her shirt and/or lifting it up in public. So we've been telling her "no" and putting her clothes back on. The first two pictures are of her taking off her sweater the other day. I left the room for like a second and she managed to get it off!






The following pictures are what James and I found when we went in Faith's room this morning....









Yup, that's right! Our darling little daughter has figured out how to take off her jammies AND her diaper!!! No wonder she was laughing so hard in her crib this morning. She was having a party! LOL

Our Christmas

We had a good Christmas this year. It started on Tuesday evening when we went to my parents house to celebrate it there with my parents and my brother. Faith sure had a bunch of goodies to open! And of course...I didn't have my camera with me! Wednesday we had Russ, Marilyn and Gma Bosma over for dinner and then gifts. Faith again had some fun things to open. On Christmas day we went to church and then went to my parents house again to celebrate it with my mom's side of the family. So good to see everyone and be together. Faith had fun playing with her cousins their (my cousins kids actually...)and had fun with the bows from all the gifts. She just loved every minute. Here are some pictures of our gatherings.

Faith and the bows


Faith enjoying her new puzzle set


Having fun trying to open a gift


Opening a gift on Christmas Eve

Snow Snow and More Snow!!!

We got TONS of snow today. Started in the middle of the night and continued until about 1pm today. Sure was crazy! The snow plows couldn't keep up. Feel so bad for those drivers. They are probably working a really long day/night! We are supposed to get even more snow on Sunday. They are predicting another 8 inches! We probably have close to a foot of snow already from today.

Here is a pic of all the snow from today.


The next two pics are hard to see and I apologize for that...but it's James's truck stuck on our street!

Little Helper

Faith and I have been at my parents house the past couple of days helping my mom. Faith thinks it's fun to play with my mom's walker. I have a couple of videos of her with that on the post below.
Yesterday when we were there, Faith decided to help her grampie with paperwork while he was home on his lunch break. She kept stealing all his pencils and pens and my dad was just a laughing. It was so funny. My dad would ask to have a pen back and Faith would shake her head "no" and keep moving them away from him. She is a grampie's girl. On Monday she shared his lunch with him. LOL Here are a couple of pics of her helping grampie.

Video of how smart Faith is! :)

Check-Up

Faith had her 18 month check-up today. All went very well. She is 31 1/4" long and weighs in at a whopping 19.8 pounds! We were thinking she was at least 20 pounds, but...not quite yet. She is still our little peanut!

Been Awhile

Sorry that I haven't been updating as frequent as in the past. Life has just gotten really busy and I forget about updating! Or when I think of updating, I just don't have time. So I thought I would take a few minutes this morning and update you on things.
My mom had partial knee replacement surgery yesterday. All went well. She was in a lot of pain last night when we visited her so hopefully that will get under control for her. She already had physical therapy this morning and will have it again this afternoon. Going to be painful for her for awhile but praying that she will have a speedy recovery! She is anticipating coming home on Sunday.
James's job is going really well. He has been working in Greenville for quite some time now. He is so glad he made the switch with employers. He likes the guys he's working for and is enjoying his work once again.
I, too am enjoying my job! I am so thankful that God placed this job in my lap. It was hard at first to be away from Faith but it has gotten easier. Still hard at times. But once I'm at work, I just focus on what I have to do there and it's great. Faith enjoys her grandma Overbeek watching her on Thursdays and loves daycare on Fridays. She gets to play with other children and just has fun. On Saturday's she's with her dada. Whom she just adores!
Faith is getting so big! Tomorrow she will be 18 months! Sure is hard to believe! We are just so amazed with everything that she knows. She is one smart cookie! We are thinking of starting to potty train her shortly. She has shown signs of being ready without us even teaching her. So I'm gonna get some potty training books from the library and read up on it before we attempt! So we'll see how it goes!
We are looking forward to spending Christmas with our family. Christmas Eve we are having Russ, Marilyn and Grandma Bosma over for supper and open gifts after that. And on Christmas Day we will be with my family at my parents house. Still hard to believe that Christmas is less than 2 weeks away! Sure did come quickly this year!!

Croup

Please pray for Faith as she has croup right now. She has a mild case of it and we're praying that it doesn't develop into anything more. Thanks.

Happy Thanksgiving

We hope that everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Ours was very good. We started the day off by going to church and then we came home and got ready to go to Thanksgiving dinner with my family! Faith enjoyed her meal very much and loved all the attention she got from everyone. She is such a little ham! She didn't want to take a nap so she got a little crabby towards the end. But she's in bed now and will hopefully sleep all night!

Here is a pic of Faith and her Uncle Kevin relaxing.


Here she is helping grampie play cards.


Here she is with James after church wearing her pretty dress.

Couple of Pics

Some pics of Faith and her cheesy grin.

Video of Faith and Uncle Don

Fun Times

Last night we were able to have dinner with Don and Jodi and their 3 girls, Gma Bosma and Russ and Marilyn. Here are just a few pictures from the evening. The girls got along really well. Faith and Eve were giving each other hugs and kisses. It was adorable!

Here is the newest addition to Don and Jodi's Family-Sarah Ruth and I. Ain't she cute?!?!


Don and Eve and just as I snapped the picture Faith popped her head in the picture. Silly girl!


Uncle Don and Faith doing "swing swing"


Reading books to Eve and Anna


Smile pretty Anna!!

So Far....So Good

Well, I have two days of work under my belt. Both of which went well. Yesterday kinda dragged and I also got a really bad headache about half way thru the day. But today went really fast and it was good. Everyone there is super nice and has made me feel welcomed. I am so blessed to find such a great job with great people. I actually look forward to going into work. I was worried that I wouldn't. Granted, it is hard leaving Faith. But I know that she's in good hands. I'm hoping it will get easier to leave instead of harder. Tonight she's spending the night at my mom's as tomorrow James and I both are working. So I kinda feel like today I've hardly spent any time with her. I did have all morning with her but after work I had about an hour before my parents picked her up. And tomorrow I'll see her for a few hours in the afternoon as at night we are going to a Euchre Tournament. I'm looking forward to Sunday to spend all day with her and James. Will be a good day!

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I don't really have a title for this post. Just kinda a quick update on things. Faith got her sutures removed yesterday. She did really well for that. She sat very still and just looked at me with her big blue eyes. I was really worried that she would cry and fuss. But nope, she didn't! We went to dinner with my parents last night to celebrate how well she did!
James has been working a lot lately. He worked this past Sat and on Monday he put in 14 hours. Came home and slept for about 6 hours and out the door he was again for work. Poor guy! He might have to work this Saturday too but we're not sure yet. Just have to wait and see how things go.
I start my new job tomorrow. I'm very excited. I am kinda nervous though too. Just a bunch of mixed emotions. I'm sure all will go well.
Next week we are hoping to get together with James's brother Don and his wife and their 3 girls. We are excited to meet their newest member, Sarah.
Well...that's about it in a nutshell. Nothing too exciting going on. Hope that you are all doing well.

Pumpkin Carving 101

At Post Family Farms, I bought a pumpkin and Andrew and Sarah helped us carve it lat night. We are all new to this so it was quite exciting! Here are just a few pictures of the evening.

James carving the top.


The yummy pumpkin seeds that we baked. Oh so tasty!


The pumpkin.


Andrew drawing the face on it.


James, Andrew, and Sarah being silly for a picture. It was fun carving the pumpkin. We put a candle in it and have it sitting on our front porch. Pretty nifty!!