Waiting for Auntie Kari to arrive home for Christmas! December 24, 2007

David loves to play on his toys, standing up very well...
"Mozart "..here I come!

So shy when others notice!..

"My 'long' hair is neatly combed because they say Auntie Kari is coming very soon now.

She will like to read books to me. Some of these are my favorites."

Auntie Kari arrived!
She soon was looking at my books with me.

We're going to have many fun times together!

Christmas 2007-snow fall

The snow falling video is at the end of this post!

The snow is now just under the black box on the mailbox.

front of our home
across from the front door

views from the back yard
winter wonderland

David under the table

Wednesday I was in my living room. David started to play with these coasters. Soon he was crawling under this table (tent?) and crawling back and forth. He really enjoyed himself!

David @ 9 months

David loves this book. Hope he has a love for reading! We're trying to teach him they are to read and not to taste! He looked at this book on his own this day...

"David, where did you go? Peek-a-boo!"

This vest was from his paternal Aunt Linda. He looks so grown up!

Needing to comb all that hair!!

Feels good on the gums! He has his first tooth..right bottom front!

Grandpa & Grandma S. found this "tunnel" toy at IKEA! He knew to crawl through it immediately. Grandpa & Daddy were on either side. What fun he had.

Grandpa made it roll around. David loved that!

Paper...it crinkles. What does it say?!

Grandpa was putting the tunnel away but put David in it anyway! Relaxation!

A busy life in a 9 month old!! Mommie said I slept all through the night !

David "helping" Grandma in the kitchen

Grandma's step stool is about the right height to stand up (plus a good stopper

so he wouldn't get into the stove drawer and cabinets).

Kitchen toys are so much fun to play with!

The day before Thanksgiving David and I spent many hours together from 7:15am until about 5:45pm. He loved playing in the kitchen while I did some preparations for the next day. He loved that wooden spoon which I had to turn around many times so he wouldn't hurt himself. He thought it was so much fun to bang it plus he loved to make many sounds as he played.

David D's 1st Thanksgiving--11/22/2007

" Thankful for Mommy and Daddy"

Here's the turkey Grandpa is ready to carve

The family on David's first thanksgiving

Around the table...Thankful for Jesus, family, a new grandson, jobs,

food and shelter... and so much more.

Looks like the turkey hadn't even been carved yet but it had been... delicious leftovers!

After dinner we went for a brisk walk around the block...a little slippery! Our

first real snow of the season (didn't last long).

Then a phone call from Auntie Kari...

"I love you, Auntie Kari ..."

"Yeh, I want her to know I miss her..."

What a special day with family! I kept busy all day!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Another try at crawling for David D 11/17/2007

It's hard to get the action so I tried again to capture him in the act! The tummy crawl still gets him there faster...he thinks!

David crawling 11/18/2007

Not the best video but the best of his crawling so far...on his hands and knees and not the tummy crawl.

lefse making with cousin Judy last Saturday 11/17/2007

The two ladies on either side of the top photo were grandmothers to the bottom photo ladies (Ginny, Barb, & Penny). I wonder what they would think of the legacy they initiated to their future granddaughters and great granddaughters!! Those grandmothers prayed often for their future generations knowing their heavenly Father would always see them through happy and tough times. We have a very blessed heritage! I'm sure they also helped each other sharing their best receipes!

Judy, Andrea, and myself

Making sure the lefse dough "feels' right!

The never-ending rolling...

I got the photos to post finally!! 11/24/2007

I'm having trouble when posting photos on this blog site so here are some photos of our lefse making fun last Saturday afternoon. She had done the same thing with her niece, Andrea Burt, Saturday am so Judy had a long day of making lefse. We had a fun visit besides. Maybe sometime some additional photos will be posted.

Judy had been "rolling" for awhile!!

Our pile of cooled lefse ready for packaging.

We ate 2 but had 59 pieces left! Delicious and moist!

One of Judy's friends made this so she could transport her lefse making supplies to church or wherever she was making lefse. It holds the rolling surface, grill, sticks, rolling pin with their stockinette, etc. Really handy for storage too.