Our first Thanksgiving with little mister Cole... it was pretty good! We're always the last ones to leave mom and dad's no matter what occasion, and true to form, we stayed from about noon until 7pm :) Hopefully they don't mind our constant intrusion!
It was a good Thanksgiving. So much has been going on in both of our lives that it was nice to have a day to just sit back and do nothing in particular - besides changing diapers and feeding kids at least. I'm feeling so tired today that I'm sure I'm not portraying what a blessed time it was. Overall, the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving have been nothing but going from one even to the next, taking care of one task and running to the store for something... I feel like since we moved in I haven't had an hour to just sit!! I'm either exhausted and trying to recoup my energy or taking care of mailing something or cleaning more bottles. I would like to say that things might slow down but that's never true this time of year. At least we both love Christmas so hopefully the busyness will be fun!
I've got a few church events coming up, which means planning and arranging details this Sunday, Wednesday, Friday and then of course the Wreath making on Saturday. Mark is playing at the Calvary Chapel Coffee Shop tomorrow, then leading worship next week which means his evenings are full and he'll be gone Thursday evening. Then, cookie exchange, Armstrong Family get-together and other yet-to-be-planned activities... I sure hope I have some down time in January! But, I will probably be doing a photo shoot with a few models and makeup artists then so I'll be busy planning that. I'd love to be able to buy the studio equipment to do it here but so far, I'm about $1000 short... yeah, I've got a bit more to save. But, I also have some photo shoot ideas with some interested people and I might be able to make it happen by mid-January so I'll be attempting to arrange getting that taken care of which also involves clearing out the garage and finally unpacking everything... I'm tired just writing all this! But I'm grateful to be busy (most days) and hope that this whole mother-of-two things gets a bit less hectic... Cole isn't quite the scheduled eater and sleeper that Asher was... but he smiles a TON so it mostly makes up for it!
Well, enough about busyness, here are a couple cute photos... I love the one of all the boys... Mark watching Asher watching Cole watching his hand! I don't know why they always look kinda grainy when I upload them... ugh, another day's work! Stay tuned for more updates... hopefully within a couple weeks at least :-)
November 29, 2009 at 8:05 PM
Oh your new family portrait is really cute; and Jo, you look beautiful!
Happy Holiday time! (And good luck with all the fun busyness... sending up some prayers for you guys)