Green belt!!

Despite still feeling under the weather, Matthew felt well enough to go to his green belt testing. Samuel, Shiloh and Matthew did a great job. We are so proud of you, Matthew, for persevering. We know that karate is not your favorite thing, but you stuck to it and have been rewarded with a promotion! We love you!

7th year birthday party!

Matthew had a little birthday party at our house! We had such a good time and are so thankful for all of Matthew's friends!! He had a blast - from playing video games, spraying silly string, making pizza, eating an ice cream pizza, and, of course, opening presents!

Wii U

Some one was VERY excited for Christmas to come early!

napping

International Thanksgiving

The university hosted an international Thanksgiving - so, of course, I brought Swedish meatballs with lingonberry jam and almond tarts!

First snow of the season

Matthew is a happy boy!!! Mark is not! I didn't think I would have to remember where all of the winter accessories were in mid November - thankfully, all were found!

Science night on campus

Saturday night - the night after Halloween - the university had science experiments and candy. Matthew's buddy, Gabe came along, too. We even found a big Mario, too!

Halloween 2014

Halloween has come and gone! The only night that it was wet and cold was that week Halloween night - but, we braved the cold with friends and got some good treats at the Trunk or Treat at the YMCA and some more in our neighborhood.

Buddies

Raking fools

We are raking fools this time of the year! With 40+ bags of leaves already raked up and many more to go - needless to say, raking isn't as much fun as it was the first time out - but we make it work! If you look at the third picture up close - you can see that Matthew hasn't lost his sense of humor, yet!

Picture day - Fall 2014

I took our handsome guy's pictures today! How to choose when we have such a photogenic guy? I love them all - they show his personality! Oops - I think I got one in there twice - sorry about that.