Christmas 2007

The biggest event of the day! Javan lost his first tooth.

Kirk, Keri, Drew, and Truitt joined us for Christmas via Skype!

Dad and mom spent some time answering questions from their children.

Dad cutting the filet mignon! Yum! Sorry you couldn't taste it via skype, Kirk and Keri!

Jonas enjoyed the Jumperoo we borrowed from Mark and Andrea.
Jubilee trying out the new sled Nathan and Ben got for Christmas.

Children helping Grandpa open his gift.

The children always look forward to a trip to the Amazone with Grandma Riley.

We left Ohio shortly after 5 AM on Friday and spent the day at the Indianapolis Children's Museum. We left around 430 PM and returned home around 7 PM our time.

The carousel is a favorite.

They had a section for robots that interested the boys.

Jubilee was a very tired girl!

They had a playhouse and everything in it was child-size .

Jolene waitressing in the Ice cream shop.
It was a great trip and the children can't wait to do it again. I am not quite as excited as I still haven't gotten back in order from this one. It seems to take a week on either end to prepare and get back in order.

Thank you to everyone for the gifts! Andrea, I bought a frame, now I just have to get the page in it and hung!

Lord willing our next visit to Ohio we will get to meet our new niece (nephew).

Happy New Year everyone!!!

A young boy's message about God

My good friend e-mailed this to me, I think you might enjoy it.

www.ksbj.org/eblogs/morningShow/?p=113

Enjoy!

Trucks!

This evening we went sledding with our good friends John Sauder and children. We were told to follow the truck tracks until we get stuck and walk the rest of the way, John will pull us out later. Wanting to be a good example to our children, we obeyed. :)

After our sledding the children and I were standing out of the way watching John and Chad work on getting the van unstuck. Jolene said to Arrow - "I wish my dad had a big red truck" (like John's). Jared said "my dad has a black truck" then Jolene said "we call it our hiccup truck" :)

We made it safely home with a smile to end our evening. Good night!

Saturday Evening at the Plattners

Chad and the boys were getting a popcorn snack ready to share.

Leave it to Jared to make a face!

Have you gotten our Christmas card yet?

Does this look like a girl caught in action? She just closed the laptop while I was away taking pictures for my blog.

Jonas and Mommy :) Jonas cut two teeth this week.

O.K. What in the world are these children doing?

They are talking to Grandma Plattner through Skype or video connection over the internet. This high speed stuff is great!

O.K. Andrea this doesn't quite one up ya, but it reminded me of your blog. Thursday night Chad was at Farm and Fleet with the children. They were in the rest room and Chad heard Jared announce "hey dad I don't need to wash my hands, do you want to know why? Why Jared? I'm wearing my gloves!

I didn't read your blog out loud to Chad as I do sometimes, I didn't want to give my children any ideas.

We have enjoyed sledding at our house lately and Chad said we have 5 inches of snow and it is still falling. Maybe we will have a good sledding winter. I hope the weather cooperates for our trip to Ohio, we are really looking forward to coming home. I made a batch of raisin bread for you today mom and dad, I hope I don't forget it. ;)

It's time for bed! Have a blessed Sunday!