Maddy's Christmas program

Last Sunday the Pre-K/Kindergarten classes at our church sang a few songs during the service. Maddy actually had a part and sang Away in a Manger with 3 other girls. I did get a video, but not of the whole song, since my main objective was to take the pictures. Aaron did get a full video of the program so we'll have that. I asked my mom if I should even bother posting a video of part of the song, and she said I should. . . so here you go!

O Christmas Tree

Friday we went and bought our first real Christmas tree and put it up! We finished decorating the inside of the house and then Saturday we decorated the tree!

Sunday we took our Christmas card pictures.

Thanksgiving and Bonus Material!

I feel like I could post 3 separate things, it's been awhile since I have felt I had something "bloggable" and now it's flooded the Hunter house!

Thanksgiving was super! We were able to spend it with our great friends Chris and Lesley and their family. Lesley's brother and his wife (also good friends of ours) live here and Lesley's parents were here. Aaron's good friend, Matt, from Rocky Mountain College was able to come (he is living in the panhandle of Texas right now). It was great to reminisce with him and I know Aaron had fun doing guy stuff and talking about guy things with him.

Friday Aaron, Matt and Chris put up our Christmas lights and then put up Chris' lights. I think they look good, even Matt said they look professional. We have some small Christmas trees to add in front of the pillars, but I still have plants there! The trees are getting so big they block it now, but the whole front of the house has a string of lights on it.

Friday evening Jacob and I came back from an errand and he slammed his thumb in the car door! It had latched and as a reaction he yanked it out! He screamed, "I'm bleeding, I'm bleeding!" and we finally got him inside and over the kitchen sink and I took one look at it and said "We need to go to the ER" I can't say how thankful I am that Matt was still here!! He stayed at our house with Maddy and Aaron, Jake and I went to the ER. Well, Jake slammed his thumb at 9pm, we walked into the ER at 9:20, saw the nurse at 10:30, had an X-ray at 11:30, 2:00 I sent Aaron home to get some rest and be there in case Maddy woke up and started panicking (we think she would have just panicked and not awaken Matt) Jake and I saw the doctor at 3:30, Jacob was stitched up at 4:30 and we were discharged at 5am! During the hours and hours that we waited Jacob was in high spirits, he was showing everyone his thumb when they asked what happened, and telling everyone he was like Luke Skywalker (when he gets his hand cut off). This trip to the ER validated why I never like going to the ER! I must say that the care we received was super! The doctor was more patient than I was, and was very contentious! Praise God it was just 3 stitches! We are still praying that it will heal right, it's still not pretty to look at.

Aaron and Matt went hunting Saturday morning at 6:30am, yes just 90 minutes after Jake was discharged! Chris and Rick (Lesley's brother) picked Aaron and Matt up and they went quail hunting until about 2pm. Then Matt had to leave.

it's a bird, it's a plane. . . no it's WONDER BREAD with added IRON!

I promised this . . . and we are putting it up in the attic today so Aaron put it on again for me. He wore it on Halloween, but somehow we didn't get 1 picture!

Weekend Warriors

Our church has gotten a flag-football team together and today was their first game. As expected they lost 28-12. I don't mean to be down on them, they are playing against teams that have been practicing 3-4 times a week and have been together for 2+ years. This is the first time these guys have played together and they have had 3 practices. None of them have played flag-football either which is mentally different than tackle football so much of today was learning the rules. They are doing well though and I will keep you updated on their success!

Weekend in the Texas mountains

We spent Friday and Saturday at a cabin outside of Ft. Davis Texas. Our good friends had some friends from Wyoming in town last week and invited us to go to a cabin with them. Their daughter Skyler was 4 on Friday, you'll notice her shirt. On Saturday morning some of us went for a hike. My friend Lesley stayed back with her 2 kids and Maddy. Jacob actually went with the rest of us on pretty tough hike, and didn't complain one time!

Trick or Treat!

Well our Halloween events were different than we planned. We were planning to walk with our family around our neighborhood. Some of our neighbors had a party complete with a hay ride. Which we used to do, but the neighbors that started it have moved so we didn't think there was going to be one this year. Well our other neighbors picked it up. There was no way there could be 2 trailers with hay and our kids not ride! We tried to talk them out of it, but the common courtesy rule "we weren't invited" doesn't work very well when your kids know half of the kids on the trailer! We asked and of course the neighbors said they could ride, I apologized later for "crashing" their hay ride. The neighbor was sweet and said we totally would have been invited if she would have had our email. Here are our pictures, Jacob was Commander Rex from Star Wars the Clone Wars. Maddy was a mermaid, she said she wanted to be one of Ariel's sisters and so of course we had to straighten her hair. My friend Lesley made her "tail" and loaned me material for the "shells" and I sewed the shells on!

I just realized as I was uploading these that there are NO pictures of Aaron as Wonder bread! I will have to sweet talk him into putting it back on at least for a picture. Because let me tell you THAT is BLOGGABLE!