We gave Eirik his first haircut this week. I still can't bear to cut the top which is 5" long, believe it or not. We just cut off his wings. They were out of control. Yet, even the crazy wings will be missed.

This post is totally out of order, but I finally made a page about our K-Ville Farmer's Market because I loved it this year. We were part of this Vegie Co-op where we got a big bin of vegies every week and had to come up with creative ways to use them up. We got crazy things like tons of arugula and so many turnips I thought I was sprouting them. It was a bit of a love hate thing, but for the most part we had a blast. I don't think Paul will eat another dish that has sweet potato or squash for a couple of years.... enough said. :)

It's December 14th and I am getting so excited to go home to see all of our family members and friends this Christmas! In fact, I am so antsy I can barely think of anything else. It's so hard to be so far away from so many of you.
This year has been fun in so many ways. We have made so many great friends this year in K-ville. We LOVE the people here. We have grown accustomed to the small town life in a lot of ways. You really learn to love the small businesses and their owners in a town this small. You learn to appreciate that you can cash a check without a driver's lisence because you were at a party with the teller the night before. You learn where to find the things that you need and how to improvise if you can't. We can walk right down our own street to the town square, and in a place like this if you have talents or skills, they are really appreciated, even if you're not the best. Friends have become family here, and we've loved that.
It's hard to think that in just a few months we will be packing up and moving again. I'm so proud of Paul. He has worked so hard in Med School this past year and a half. He is near the top of his class and is so excited to start rotations next fall. We submitted our match requests last week. There are limited locations available so KCOM randomly matches all of the students to locations. We didn't get our top choices, so we are still not sure where we are going to move since we have a chance to appeal, but most likely we will either move to Michigan or Ohio next June. It's exciting and amazing how fast time flies.
We MISS all of our friends and family who we are away from!

We hope you all have a fabulous holiday season!!

I have been painting thes e kids name paintings lately for orders that I got at the Red Barn festival. They are a lot of fun. I would love to get more orders!

In November my parents, (David and Janine) came to visit. We had a great time and were so thankful that they took time out of their work schedueles to spend a week with us. We drove to Far West Missouri and saw Adam-ondi-ahman and read about the history and prophesies about these places. It was awesome! What an amazing experience! We also went to Nauvoo and learned about the people in our geneology that lived in Nauvoo and read about which pioneer companies they were in as they traveled west to Utah. I have really enjoyed learning about our history.

"Huh! What are YOU doing dressing like a lion! I'm the lion!"
















"He's stealing my thunder. I'm the lion, I'm the lion!!"

I hosted cooking club at my house this month. These are some of my girlfriends.

AUTUMN AT OUR HOUSE THIS YEAR!

Our first Camping trip













THE RED BARN FESTIVAL
So it finally came and went. I spent all year preparing for one day- today- Oct. 7th and we had a big art sale- our first art show with gourmet hummus and baguettes (provided by our dear Eugena) we had a great success of it all. My good friend Debbie and I used each other to stay motivated to paint all year long and today we showed all of our work and each sold the same dollar amout at the end of the day. It was fabulous. This photo is of my first customers. They bought the one painting I had almost decided not to sell and they bought it before we had even opened the booth!! I should have priced it higher.!

the irrisistable squishy face

This is how Eirik sleeps now. :)

Our little family drove to Columbia for an Arts festival and they had a poetry wall... good times

Playing in the nursery

Basil, Paul and Eirik at Millenium Park in Chicago!

This photo was taken in Chicago at Millenium Park.
There is this giant "mirror ball" for lack of a better term in the center of the park.
It's awesome!














Sometimes you just can't get enough of yourself!

















Basil and Kristen met us in Chicago for the weekend. Good times!

Gimme gimme gimme.... First bite and none too soon...

Once you try it, there's no turning back...

To my dismay, Eirik loves to sit with his dad while he plays W.O.W. on the computer and drinks Diet Coke. I just pray that this is not an image of years to come!

This is Eirik making fresh Pesto with him mom and "aunt" Eugena. Good summer fun!

This week we discovered the amazing EXERSAUCER! It is guaranteed to provide at least 71/2 minutes of uninterupted fun after which Eirik will certainly need someone to continually congratulate him on his amazing new discoveries for another 2 minutes before he will need to be speedily rescued from said amazing saucer.

So far the bounchy seat has been working as a high chair, but as of today Eirik has officially outgrown it. He can sit straight up in it and wants to all the time. Talk abouty ab strength- That's my boy!