Katy Jo wants to tell you about her thanksgiving

"What? you didn't hear about my first Thanksgiving?"


First of all, it was my first snow! The whole Thanksgiving weekend we had beautiful white snow!


Which means my mommy has to bundle me like crazy if we go anywhere (and for some reason every school day we have to get bundled real early and take a drive to school with daddy now that he can't walk without crutches)


But, that's okay, because the drive is gorgeous, the whole village of Kandern looks amazing with a layer of snow.


On Saturday, I was so excited...


because my friends, Jackson & Owen were coming over...


for our Thanksgiving meal!


Yay! Pretty sure my meal was the best - mommy milk.


But, Kristen's turkey sure did look good!


Here I am!


And here is everyone else.


My first Thanksgiving!


A sneak peak at our family portraits.


This is my favorite picture of the weekend!

Two Minutes with Katy Jo

Twice a week I take Katy Jo to my friend Jan's house, where she watches her while I work. It's a lovely walk and I really enjoy it. (Except when it's miserably gray and gloomy out.) Last week I took a short video of the walk from our apartment down to Jan's house. I plan on doing more videos of around town and other exciting things. And I promise next time Katy Jo will not be about to fall asleep (she's so dazed!)

bad news/good news (a little bit of both)

deep breath... that's what I keep telling myself. Today was long! It started off like any other Friday, except I was pretty excited to check out a new craft store up the mountain. (I'm planning a lil' craft for my upcoming girls weekend- can't wait!) So I was just chilling around the house waiting for Katy Jo to wake up from her nap so off we could go. Hmm, instead I get a phone call from Bo in which I hear what I hate hearing from him: "I have bad news." I might add that he uses this phrase a lot so there is no telling how bad it might be. He prefaces everything negative with it. Yesterday evening we were walking home from school together and he said, "I have bad news." To which I replied, "ugh, what now?" And he answers, " I have a lot of grading tonight." Well, that's no big deal, whatever (especially on Thursdays when I look forward to watching my show and just hanging out by myself while Bo's small group is doing their thing in our living room.)

Ok, well today he calls and after using his normal phrase, he tells me, "I think I broke my foot."
Long story short, he did fracture something and is now sporting a bright blue cast up to his knee. Brilliant. I will spare you my list of reasons why this makes my life more difficult. I'm sure you can imagine. So let me just say for the next 6 weeks I will be taking deep breaths and reminding myself that the house doesn't have to be spotless and I'm not required to make a meal every night from scratch while also entertaining Katy Jo.

On a happier note, I have a fun weekend ahead.

Tomorrow morning is our church's annual Christmas Bazaar!! (YAY!!!)
And then we are helping at the dorm the whole rest of the weekend!


Oh, and I have good news. ;)




I have the most beautiful baby in the WORLD!