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| Caleb shooting a free throw |
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| Fun in the school gym |
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| Reuben and Tessa's family |
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| Cousins (minus Stephen- he went to church early with Nate) |
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| MSU basketball game with the Gabrielse |
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| Julia's market day assistant |
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| The big 4-0 |
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| One of my birthday gifts |
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| Cadets playing with some robots |
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| Market Day |
-For New Year's Eve we went to the Gabrielse house with other families. We let the older 3 stay up til midnight. And our friends gave us a hard time for being the only couple with young kids that we had to put to bed and then wake up at midnight when it was time to go home. We would like to think the younger 2 kids keep us youthful..
-Nate took the older boys to a MSU basketball game along with Carl Gabrielse and his boys.
-Caleb and Isaac played on Holland Rec basketball teams for about 6 weeks. Nate coached Isaac's 5th grade team. The kids improved and had fun and Nate enjoyed the experience too. Caleb played with other 8th graders from his school and he thrived. His coach encouraged him to try new things and we could see Caleb's confidence increase. Caleb scored consistently every game and he enjoyed being on a team that was winning games. It was fun to watch both of the boys.
-Julia had Market Day this month (oh Market Day, we meet again.) She wanted to make bath bombs to sell, but the bath bombs crumbled. So plan B was making chocolate dipped marshmallows on a stick. And they were a success! Julia came home with some Market Day profit.
-We had no snow over Christmas break and then the polar vortex hit in January. So cold and so much snow. I do not even know how many snow days the kids had- 9 or 10? I pulled out any snow day activity I could think of- tea party, take a bath, paint nails, fine just watch more screens.
-I turned 40 this month. Nate invited some friends over to celebrate and he and the kids made me feel loved. My 30's were spent raising babies and feeling exhausted. My 40's will be spent attending numerous kid activities-ha! Cheers to a new decade.
-Reuben's family visited us for a weekend and it was fun to host them. Granted, cooking for 17 people for the weekend was tiring, but we all had a very nice time. We ran around in the school gym, played games together and enjoyed catching up. One of our kids said, I wished they lived here. We said, we wish they lived closer but not necessarily here in our house.. We are grateful for family!
