December 17th - Visitors from GERMANY!!!

On Thursday Amanda and Brenna came to visit us! They are home from Germany for Christmas and stopped by to say Hello. Scarlett came over to play with Brenna. They are both 3 years old and they played great together. Our first project was to build a castle out of Frosting, M&M's, Marshmallows, Chocolate Chips and tooth picks. They both put on aprons and enjoyed eating just as much as they did decorating.

Brenna & Scarlett (hard at work)

Amanda was playing blocks with Kora Lily while

the girls were building the frosting castle

(Kora loves her blocks)

Brenna & Kora Lily
OH..and Brenna's favorite when we set the self timer
and RUN into the picture.... Kora was not to sure why
Brenna was sitting on my lap...lol
We were excited to see our German friends and can't wait
till they move back home next year for good!!!

December 23rd - Quilts from Nana Gardner

Kora's Nana (Grandma Gardner) made quilts for all of my nieces and nephews. Sam and I had them over for a lunch, played a few games and opened presents.

Here are all the kids (in our little Kitchen) decorating cupcakes.

Kora Lily and Nana
All the kids and their quilts...

We had a great time with all the kids and the quilts turn out great!!!

Welcome Baby Elsa Jane

Elsa Jane Henico

born to Adam & Jeni (Klotzle) Henico

Sunday, December 27th at 2:50 a.m.

7 lbs 8 oz - 18 1/2 inches long

Everyone is doing fine and we can't wait to meet her!

Congrats Adam n Jeni!!!!

The Little House....

Well again a much needed update.... I have been slacking with updates.... here are the pictures of our little house...

we are done moving furniture around (we hope)...

This was our bedroom...

but we moved all beds up stairs for room for little Kora to play...

other view of new family room.

with little Kora on the floor... if you can find her...lol

This was our family room..

now our bedroom....(notice we got a new bed)

thanks uncle curt for switching us beds...:o)

yes we turned our bed this way so that we can both get out of bed

without hitting our heads...

Kora gets the other half of the upstairs....

you might have to back a couple of postings to find the before pictures..

we love the move and we have a lot more room to move around ....

Kora Lily - 9 months....

Little Kora has been sick for about the past 2-weeks... today was the first day of hope... she is playing with everything and climbing all over the place. Her nose and cough are clearing up. We forgot how much she moves since she would just sit and play... when she was not feeling good....and wanted to be held all the time. Today... she is her own GIRL!!! We love to see the life and energy back in Kora...

(Thanks to VICK'S PLUG IN!!! ...NO water NO mess

... but little Kora is feeling better after one day of use!!!)

Scarlett & Willow....

Scarlett and Willow came to visit ....

We think that Willow will have some teeth before little Kora...

Kora and Scarlett...

Kora and Scarlett...

Scarlett feeding Kora Lily her treats...

Kora helping me apply some Uppercase Living....

Thanksgiving & Columbus....

Where does time go... I am slacking on our blog and I hope things will settle so that I can get back to posting picture and event on our Family blog. We were thankful that we were able to see another THANKSGIVING... where we were able to look back at the year and all the things God has blessed us with. Even though life may send us in all different directions, God has still provided and we are SOOO Thankful!

Picture of Trace(who is walking all over the place), Kora (who is crawling all over the place) and Lizzie (who was trying to round them up for a picture). The two little active bugs in the family... I am sure Willow will be joining them in no time.

Grandma's Family Room....

(Notice Joanna in the pink shirt... she was all dressed ready to go shopping on Thanksgiving night... MORE pictures and news on the Black Friday shopping to come)
On Saturday we went down to Columbus to visit the Columbus AC Church.
We packed our bags for one last road trip ... of the year!!!! (we hope)
Kora on the luggage cart.

Tagen n Scarlett's Birthday Party

Tuesday night we were invited to a Camo n Dora birthday party for Tagen & Scarlett. Kora and Joy dressed in pink & orange and Sam found some old army stuff to wear. We had taco's, taco salad and yummy Mexican dip and Yummy Dora Cupcakes and Camo Cake with Ice-cream! The kids played pin the watch on Dora and had fun hitting the Dora pinata.

Grandpa & Kora Lily

Scarlett getting ready to pin the watch on Dora
Everyone watching the kids open gifts.

Tagen opening his gifts.

Ingold Christmas

This past weekend we had our Ingold Christmas in Columbus. Amy, Joanna, Jill & I went to Columbus on Friday early afternoon to go shopping at some second stores with some of the kids. Then we meet up with everyone at our hotel late afternoon. The kids all went swimming. My Uncle John rented a conference room at the hotel and made dinner for us. The food was GREAT and we had a really good time getting to spend time with the family at the hotel the whole night!

Sam & Kora Lily swimming

Reese in her floater
Another picture of Daddy n Kora Lily

Ryder, Pa-Pa & Scarlett

Kids in the Hot Tub!

17 Kids under the age of 11

Tori, Megan, Scarlett, Reese, Molly & Maddie

Cooper & Eli

Austin & Tagen

Kim, Cindy (sleeping Kora Lily) & Stacey

Picture of Grandpa & Grandma and gifts from Uncle John

At each Table setting they had a Nutcracker for everyone.

Eli loved them and collected all the extra ones

and carried them around all night.

All the kids opening up the gifts.

Tori, Molly & Megan up late!

Uncle Dale, Stacey, Cindy, Aunt Marilyn, Angie, Joy & Amy

Staying up late...

Tyler carrying sleeping Sierra to her room.

What have we been up too.....

I know it has been a long time since the last post.... We have been a little busy with all kinds of fun projects. After our computer blew up.... Sam bought computer pieces from NEWEGG and built a new computer all on his own. So that was his project. Kora has been crawling and climbing up onto everything! I was in a card club and had to make 100 of the exact same cards. Then we got together and exchanged our cards! I am still trying to figure out why I picked such a hard card....and was to stubborn to switch cards once I knew how long one card would take.

Here is a close up of the cards

My new family room quickly got converted into a card room.
Then I had a Uppercase Living Craft Show... So I was busy making crafts!
Kora couldn't miss a beat... she was under my feet the whole time!

Some of the Ohio State Glass blocks... 1/2 done

Kora Playing Under my feet!

Kora laughing..

Kora doing the splits...

We hope that things will slow down a bite since we are finally all settled into our little house and have things all tucked away.... New family room pictures to come!