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!

What FUN!

We have been busy all week rearranging our house. While Kora & I were in Florida our shipment from Germany came in. When we came back from Florida we had a big mess all over again in our little house!!! We started our big move on Saturday by moving our beds upstairs.... now we are working on finding a home for everything and being settled into our house. Here are some BEFORE pictures... and hopefully I can post the after picture by this weekend...

Our Bedroom... (Before the move)

Yup! Kora's bed was squeezed into the corner in our room.
Our up stairs family room.

Kora loved playing behind all of the furniture while we were moving things around. This week she officially started to CRAWL. She has been scooting all over the place...but she finally decided it was time to move a little faster and up she went on Monday...and now she is all over the place.