76 hours of foster puppies

We had the foster puppies about three days.  It was plenty... It was really fun, and I thought I could do it a lot longer than that, but it was much more difficult than I thought.

Here are some pics!

 

Lily Anne loved the puppies sooooo much.  She loved carrying around "Lucy" as much as I would let her.  I usually had them sit with the puppies.   She loves her Lucy girl.  Now that the puppies are gone, Lily Anne has decided she IS Lucy. :)

 

Henry also really REALLY loved the puppies.  He was not very gentle with them at first and was really complicating the whole thing, but by day 3 he was being much much better. 

One of the days he figured out how to let the puppies out of their kennel---puppies everywhere!!! 

****update**** they all got adopted Saturday 2-6!

Christmas and our new Primary girl!

Christmas is such a fun time of year!  I was glad this year was so much more enjoyable.  Last year I had a 4m old baby, a 9m old puppy, and we had just moved into a new house that wasn't ready to be moved into... Whew.  This year was so fun.  We got to really enjoy the season!

I like to keep Christ in Christmas.  I do a few different things to help with that; I love Christmas stories, so we read a lot of those, and of course we have nativities and our nativity-advent calendar, and Christ centered music, I also try to talk about the reason for the season.

And This is how that goes:

Me: William, what is Christmas about?
William: Jesus being born!

Nailed it.

Later with Lily Anne.  Haha, I have to laugh already...

Me: Lily Anne, what is Christmas about?
Lily Anne: (hops about like a frog) Santa! and Presents!
Me: It is about presents, because Jesus got presents when he was born. We get presents because its Jesus Birthday, Christmas is about Jesus.  Do you like Christmastime Lily?
Lily Anne: yes!
Me: What is Christmas about Lily Anne?
Lily Anne: Presents!

haha.  Well I'm glad I tried, and she is just so darn cute!!!

And here is Henry's Merry Christmas face!

 

And Pico, now almost 2

 

We got to meet Santa, Lily anne was SO EXCITED!  And so was William, in a William way. :)  

 (in Alaska, Santa has a real beard)

 

Jesus wants me for a SUNBEAM!!!

And she is such a little sunbeam! I get to watch my kids in 

sharing time because I now teach Jr primary (ctr6)

(I didn't take an entering nursery pic, but that is Lily at 18m on the right) 

Everyone knows it, but I'll say it again.  Time. Flies.