Merry Christmas!

Since we didn't get our Christmas Card out to everyone, we wanted to share it with you here!
A HUGE thank you to Gina Root who designed and made the cards for us! As you can see, she does wonderful work and is very talented. I would highly recommend her should you ever need anything like this. You can find her at crazyrootsethiopia.blogspot.com.
Hopefully over the next couple of weeks I will be able to share our first family Christmas with you all. In the meantime we wish you and your family a blessed Christmas!!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Like Father Like Son...

(well... he may have had a LITTLE help on this one!)

Blessed Thanksgiving!

I think I can honestly say that I now REALLY understand the meaning of Thanksgiving. Thinking back to just one year ago, we had just failed our 3rd court date, and I wanted absolutley nothing to do with a holiday about giving thanks. This year was a TOTALLY different story.

Obviously, we are so thankful for Yedidiya. While we are now more tired than we have ever been, he brings us so much joy everyday and it was wonderful to have him in our arms and say to him, "I am thankful for you."

He also got to experience some Thanksgiving traditions for the first time with us.

Cutting down the Thayer Christmas tree.

Finding the perfect tree.

His first Thanksgiving meal, and of course... Pumpkin Pie!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!!!

Happy (1st) Halloween!

What has a dimple, a huge smile, and goes rawrrrr? Give up? Yiah the friendly lion for our church's Harvest party. I think the pictures say enough...

Yiah and "Super-Mom"

Out "Trunk-or-Treating"

Playing in the ball pit.

Yiah Goes Hunting!

So, how well does a 16-month old tolerate a 9 hour car ride to South Dakota? Well, when it is to go pheasant hunting, really well! Besides throwing up and opening a rotten packaged meal in the first hour, everything else went suprisingly good. When it comes to traveling, this kid is the champ! And his reward was his first true hunting experience. All though he didn't actually make it into the field, he did get to touch some birds and make his first trip to Cabela's. The first picture was actually taken upon arrival, after the 9 hour car ride. Look and that little trooper!

On one of his favorites... tractor!!!

Last Days of Summer

Due to some unseasonably warm weather here, we got little Y outside yesterday for a day of summer fun. Since we (I) have been so bad at posting lately, we thought some pics of our big guy might be appreciated by some.