Season's Greetings 2009

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you loved ones and family! We have had a great but challenging year! Larry still teaches 7th grade math and loves it, most days! He now serves as president of the Young Men. Mindy is still Primary president and is helping teach James' preschool group (kind of like Joy School). James is our precious little boy! We love him so!

Here is a quick review of the year in photos! Some are repeats of earlier posts, but we hope you enjoy it anyway!

Big Snowfall of March 2009! James and Larry before a sled run!

Mindy and James at the bottom of the hill!

Mindy and James in May 2009! We love tulips!

Larry and James with the tulips, too!

James and his cousin Jolie. James attended (with us, of course) his cousin Jolie's baptism on April 11, 2009. He really loves Jolie, and was very excited after the service. He wants to be baptized just like Jolie was!

June 2009- We visited the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and one of the highlights of that trip was visiting the Bodie Island Lighthouse. James is an avid lighthouse lover, and has memorized all of the lighhouses in North Carolina's coast. Someday, we'll get to visit the rest of them.

June 2009- Nags Head, NC - on the beach! We liked it! We loved it! We want some more of it!

July 4th- waiting for our town's parade to begin.

Aunt Julie visited in July! Here she is w/ James and his two new doggies- Ceasar and Rocky!

James at his "Construction" / "Cement Truck" themed birthday party in Sept. '09.

Oct. '09 at the NC Train museum. We took James on the Disney "Christmas Carol" Train Tour. James didn't care too much for the movie previews and such, but he loved the train!!!!!!

James and Larry on a hike at a local lake. One of their favorite places to go throw rocks into the water!

James at the lake. Oct. '09

Halloween 2009- two black-eyed P's and a vampire

At the ward Halloween party, James loved the donut eating game!!!!

Nov. '09- James in his pile of leaves! Mindy was constantly raking leaves off the new grass seed she'd planted in Oct. Those crazy leaves just kept on comin' and coverin' up her baby grass shoots!!! But what a way to get into the autumn spirit, right?!!!!!

Nov. '09- James on a tractor before going on a hayride!

While on the hayride, James noticed some of the older children and youth were chewing on the hay...so he tried it out...long enough for us to get the picture!

Here's James waiting for the hayride to begin. I might add that he looks patient and so angelic, but was running around the parking lot and away from me and Larry before this picture...

Our family + one on the way!