Letter To Santa

Karoline is at such a fun age... she wants to write and draw ALL the time! On Thanksgiving Day she spent a lot of time writing her letter to Santa. She had such a fun time making her list and I think Santa will be able to deliver :)

(picture is Santa putting gifts around the tree)

Dear Santa,
I would like
1) Barbie Doll,
2) Bitty Baby,
3)Piano,
4) Leap Frog (game),
5) Repunzel Doll
Love, Karoline

Thanksgiving...

(not a real cupcake... just cute)

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving... pretty low key. TJ's dad spent Thanksgiving with Sarah, Jared and the girls so we just drove to the other side of the neighborhood and spent Thanksgiving with my parents. But, before we woke up and watched the Macy's parade on TV. Karoline loved and watched the whole thing... TJ and Anderson took an hour "jam session" break (see video below)... You will also see Karoline & Anderson's favorite characters they saw in the parade.

Seeing the princess castle made her think that she needed to be a Thanksgiving princess... some things are not worth fighting about so her cute smocked Thanksgiving dress stayed in the closet at home... Maybe next year :)

TJ was in charge of making his mom's WONDERFUL sweet potato souffle... YUMMY!

Buster REALLY was hoping TJ would drop something...

Prissy and Buster wondering when we would let them back in...

Karoline was in charge of decorating and setting the table...

She requested to use these... YES, my WEDDING napkins! Needless to say we ordered
a few extra 8 years ago and Karoline has LOVED using them over at my parents,
but I must report after this meal they were all gone.

Karoline with my parents right before dad got sick and had to go to bed :(

Funny Buddy

Finally... dinner time!

I will say it has been a VERY hard year, too much hurt that I don't even want to remember yet God has been so faithful and true to our family and I am so Thankful! I am VERY blessed to have an unbelievable husband who works so hard and is so loving and forgiving and crazy beautiful children so are AMAZING! Thank you God! I'm so thankful for my mom especially because she gives up so much of her time to play with my kids so I can work and be very hands on in our ministry at Wellspring! Speaking of Wellspring, I am thankful for all that God has done this year... the lives changed and the families that are committing to our purpose... To see those far from God become PASSIONATE followers of Jesus Christ! I'm thankful for Premier for allowing me to provide some for our family financially but with little time taken away from them & that they are such a godly company! I am thankful for wonderful friends, here in Myrtle Beach and all over our country! Truly blessed!! Happy Thanksgiving!

The BEST Field Trip!

This might have been Karoline's FAVORITE field trip to date... We got to go to WMBF News, TJ's "paying job" haha... It was great to see the behind the scenes to creating the news. I find it all fascinating really... I have always enjoyed the "Drama" of the local news. I'm a dork, I know! Karoline knows several of the newscast because they have been to our home or go to our church so it was fun for her to show them her school friends and of course to see daddy at work!

Can I just take time right now to say that GOD IS SO GOOD & we are so THANKFUL that God brought WMBF into our lives. We have really seen GOD CHANGE the lives of a few people TJ works with through Wellspring! It has been AMAZING!! One of them is "Mr. Rob" as Karoline calls him. Rob is our Chief Meteorologist ("Chief" always makes me laugh) and has been on our hearts for a while. He and his wife Kelly started coming to Wellspring a few weeks ago and his wife BECAME A CHRIST FOLLOWER! This is just one of the stories of lives being changed at WMBF!

Well, enjoy the pictures of the field trip!

Silly Mr. Rob showing how the green screen works...

Mr. Rob teaching Karoline how to be a meteorologist.

Control Room...

Halloween!

I will say this year Halloween was so fun! Anderson is finally at an age to really enjoy it and he had a BLAST! We had dinner at our friends Alice, Eric, Sam, & Rose's house then went Trick-or_Treating. The kids did great. Anderson even kept his helmet on the whole time! Karoline was a little timid but she was pretty brave... you know she's not one for anything SCARY! Haha...

Carnival

The Friday before Halloween we enjoyed our school's Halloween Carnival! It was lots of fun and the kids REALLY enjoyed it! Karoline's favorite activity was the cake walk :) Anderson just wanted to get tattoo's :)

Set, HIKE...

Game Day Face...

Anderson & Sammy

Karoline and Rose

Karoline & Alli

Me and Amy