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Busy November

Greetings and Salutations!

It has been quite a busy November for us!

Here are a couple of shots from Logan's Baptism. We had it on November 20th because my folks were in town to visit my brother's new daughter and see his new house!

At first we were a bit overwhelmed and disappointed at being one of four baptisms that day - especially since there were two other huge families! But we quickly realized that baptism is a celebration of welcoming Logan into our faith community so in the end it was a joyous yet chaotic celebration!!

Logan and Dad

Parents, Godparents, well behaved older brother

Our family with our Deacon

Another funny part of the day was that the cake I ordered came back saying "Happy Birthday Logan Joseph". It ended up being appropriate after a fashion. :-) So we just laughed it off!

Later that week we enjoyed a quiet Thanksgiving/Anniversary with Grandma and Grandpa C. What a feast! As it turns out all four of us were sick that week so it was nice not to be fretting over a huge family meal, as I am prone to do. It was a great celebration of our four years together!!

Grandma's Pumpkin Pi *giggle*

The Great Thanksgiving Air Gun Fight!

As we turn towards Christmas everyone is getting excited. Jack loves to turn on all the musical decorations at once (of course). This weekend we even made a gingerbread village - a first for all of us!! Turned out okay and was lots of fun.

I have been having some trouble getting the camera to upload photos correctly so I don't have any of our gingerbread village, or anything after Thanksgiving. I hope to have it resolved soon, so there will be a huge Flickr upload when I have all my photos safely on a computer...I can only hope.

Comments

  1. HappyGrama(Mary)12/12/11, 11:55 AM

    What beautiful children and parents!! You are richly blessed! Blessings to Logan as he joins the faith family!

    Love the Pumpkin Pi!! I love Pat's sense of humor!!!

    I'm looking forward to the rest of your photos, especially the Christmas ones!

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  2. Dena Christensen12/12/11, 3:54 PM

    Thank you we do feel blessed every day!

    I hope to solve the photo importing issue soon. My camera tries to upload but the computer saves only empty or corrupted files. :-(. May have to use Scott's computer.

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  3. Happy Grama (Mary)12/13/11, 11:53 AM

    http://www.crazydomestic.com/2010/12/melted-snowman-cookies.html

    Dena, look at these cookies!

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