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Sweet Potatoes on Thanksgiving

Today we tried rice cereal...he didn't like it near as much.

Special Holiday Giveaway...COMING SOON!

I went to Walmart the other day and this is what I bought! I am going to use it all in a very special Holiday Giveaway...stay tuned on Friday after all that Thanksgiving food has settled to find out the surprise!

What's for dinner??

PIZZA!!!


This is like the mother of all pizzas. I've never made one with so much stuff on it!! Yum!

Rollie Over

I finally got videos of Kyle rolling over! He was so so quick I almost missed it. He can also do it from left to right and right to left. So cool!

Cranberry Salad

Here is my favorite Thanksgiving recipe. Cranberry Salad- Ben's family always makes if for Holiday's and I want to continue the tradition this year since we won't be going to Montana like we usually do. Enjoy!

3 C. fresh cranberries

1/2 C.-3/4 C. sugar (to taste)

1 can mandarin oranges

1 can crushed pineapple

2 C. mini marshmallows

1/2 C. chopped walnuts

2 C. Cool Whip

Grind cranberries, add sugar, oranges, pineapple, marshmallows, and walnuts.

Add Cool Whip- chill in refrigerator overnight

4 months

Wow! Kyle you are 4 months already.

So what are you up to?

You are rolling over from your stomach to back (though I have yet to get it on video). When you did it for daddy this week we were so excited we clapped and said how proud were of you that you got scared and cried...

This is him laughing! The sweetest sound ever!

He is 13.5 lbs and 24 1/2 in long- I think a big growth spurt is coming up though.

He can touch his toes and he loves doing it!

Haven't started any cereal yet. I don't think you're quite ready for that.

Adopt a "sibling" for your child this Christmas

So you know how God will bring something along your path more than once that makes you say, "Hey maybe I need to pay attention to this?" Well that's what He's done to me the past 2 days. I have been sponsoring a child (Sylvia) through Compassion for 4 years now and I just realized that I have not been a very good sponsor. I hardly write to her and don't pray for her on a regular basis. This is going to change...

One of the blogs I read Kelly's Korner is on a trip with Compassion to El Salvador right now. She has been writing about it and it's amazing. I also went to a Jeremy Camp concert last night and He always teams up with Compassion to sponsor kids at his concerts. I think it was at one of his concerts a few years ago where I got mine. Hearing the stories of people corresponding with their kids and praying for them then getting to visit them has helped me see I need to develop more of a relationship with Sylvia. I would love to visit her in Kenya, but I might not ever get to. What is more important is that she knows I'm her friend and care about her.

Compassion has their own blog, check it out and please consider sponsoring a child this Christmas. It's great way to teach your kids about giving and praying for others. Sponsor a child that is close to their age and let them be responsible for writing letters to them. It's like having a pen pal in another country, but doing something that matters in the long run.

Kyle you are getting so big!

Kyle has been developing alot this week...

He is making friends with other babies...he has a new friend at MOPS. He never payed much attention to other babies before but now he just talks away with them. It's like they have their own little conversation...so cute!

He has also figured out how to get his rattle to his mouth!

One day this week he just started playing with his toys on his exercaucer...he ususally just looked past them at me or other things in the room.

He is also laughing some...it's adorable. I'm still working on getting a good video of it.