Adalli's 2 Year pics

Here are a few of Adalli's 2 year old pictures that Becky took for us.


Adalli is becoming such a big girl! She really likes pretty things like necklaces, dresses, earrings and glitter. She is almost always happy and sweet. She loves being a big sister to Natalie and feels so grown up when she can hang out with big sister Rachel.

Next to her daddy Adalli's true love is books of any kind! If you can't find her, you just need to look in the corner by the book shelf and there she is. It doesn't matter if there are pictures or not, she just makes up her own little language and tells the whole story.

Natalie and Allison Baptism

These pictures Becky took for our family. They turned out wonderful! Thank you very much Becky!

These are the pictures from my camera. Everything went very well, we did not have any major breakdowns or huge scenes in front of church :)We are truly blessed to be surrounded by five beautiful, amazing children from God!
Grandpa and little Natalie

Natalie is almost 4 months and Allison is 6 weeks old. It is so amazing how quickly they grow.

Paintballing

I just had to blog these pics. I think they are so cute! Uncle Ben, Dad, and Grandpa took the kids paint balling. They had so much fun and thanks to the life jackets didn't get to many bruises. They were all tough and we decided it needs to be an annual battle.

Finished Siding

It is official! Our siding is finished. Yay. Jeremiah and BJ worked very hard and took full advantage of the 50 degree temps and finished all the siding on the addition part of the house. It looks so much better than Tyvek and I am still glad I went with red. I will get pics of the south side just as soon as I can.

Buffalo Bill Museum

Buffalo Bill museum

We took a fun trip to Colorado two weeks ago and ended up in the hospital with RSV because the altitude was hard on poor Natalie so I did not get near the pictures I wanted. Everyone except me and the little girls were able to make it to The Stock Show and the rodeo. Before we headed home we stopped at Buffalo Bill's grave and museum. It was pretty interesting and the kids had a wonderful time in the kid area dressing up as cowboys and roping calves. We also learned that Buffalo Bill was born in Iowa but wanted to be buried on Look out Mountain north of Denver. I do have a few more pics so hopefully I will be able to get those on here soon.

My wonderful husband took me computer shopping in Des Moines on Saturday and we came home with a wonderful Mac computer and a faster internet connection. As of right now it is doing awesome. We are going to pray it stays that way!

It was a frustrating day yesterday! Johnathon, Natalie and I headed to Des Moines to have Best Buy hook my computer to a Verizon hot spot so that I could see if that was a better internet connection. Well after an hour and a half they told me that they (the Geek Squad) could not get my computer to pick up the hot spot and it would not accept my Kindle either. I asked them why it wouldn't and they told me that is was the Windows Vista program. So for a warning no matter how cheap a computer is NEVER get it with Vista on it.
Then my current internet provider came out to see if they could get it to at least let me upload pictures. They did their tests and all that they could do and found out that they have no way of helping me either.
So until I get a new computer I am afraid I am going to have to stop blogging because it just will not let me do much at all. We will be saving up and hopefully by the summer we will be able to find a different computer and get back to blogging, e-mails and such! I feel so sad that I am going to be one of those blogs in your favorites that has not been updated in a really long time! I have lived without internet before so we will do it again and use our time for something else:)

Our family hopes you all have a wonderful Christmas and blessed New Year! We will be sending out a letter updating you on our past year hopefully in January after a family picture is taken.

God Bless you all!

I was hoping if I tried earlier in the morning I would be able to get a better connection. No such luck and my internet "timed out" twice with no pictures. I will try again another day.

Natalie Mae Boender

Yay, my internet finally let me post one picture of Natalie. Of course this picture is a month and a half old now but that is okay. She is a very good baby and happy most of the time. She is a little fussy in the evenings but that is pretty normal for our little babies. She is growing every day and her cheeks are getting pretty round. We are truly blessed to have another healthy, precious baby in our family!


I will try to post some more tomorrow, because my internet seems to only allow one picture at a time and it usually takes over ten minutes to get one picture uploaded so we will see. Thank you for your patience. I am sorry it has taken so long!