Our family: A summary

What a wonderful 2010 we have had! It's been a joy to see God work in so many ways and give the amount of grace needed for each day. These pics are a good summary of each of our kids:

Joel: into everything at 21 months; learning to use the fake smile to try to manipulate us;

a total joy!

Jordan: vivacious 3 year old; always trying to keep up with the 2 big kids, even on her bike; has an infectious laugh to brighten any day.

Isaiah: our resident 5 year old Spider man; learning to read when he can sit for a few minutes; normally climbing up a tree or whizzing past on his bike; king of the one-liners and crazy vocabulary; keeps us on our toes.

Naomi: 7 year old creative girl who loves to make any kind of craft; helps in our house with all the kids; enjoys learning at school and explaining concepts to help other students; great sarcastic sense of humor.

Danny & Laurie: humor, love, and mostly a lot of God's grace keep our marriage strong.

December

Church Christmas pageant. Such a cliche, but still really cute.

Naomi as a shepherd.

Naomi, it turns out, is an academic over-achiever. Who knew.

Mud Bricks

A little home project with Danny and the three big kids: mixing mud (in the right proportions of ingredients, of course), mixing with straw and water, and casting real mud bricks.

When they were dry, they built a little semi-circular wall to look like a castle.

Still drying out here.

Update: freakish rains for four consecutive days topped our wall. Oh, well. It was still a lot of fun to have a dirty project and understand ancient technology.