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Monday, January 04, 2010

Holiday Catch-Up

No, I haven't retired this site. Just waiting for opportunity to update. Though I suppose we make time for what we deem important. This just hasn't been it. :)

We were grateful for a wonderful holiday season, Christmas program, traditions, etc. We managed to come through with no flu, major illnesses, etc. It's always enjoyable to take a break from routine and spend time with family. We've been very blessed.

An attempt was made today to return to routine. Every single step is painful... from pulling out the school books, to loading the washing machine, to fixing lunch, to correcting math, to folding towels. I'm afraid we became spoiled... and how quickly.

Was it just 2 weeks ago we did all these things on a daily basis and it was normal? :) The mere opening of a school book was producing tears today... :) Hopefully we will get over our life of luxury and it won't be so hard tomorrow.

I've missed documenting so much on here... let's see...

2009 Christmas Card
If you didn't receive one in the mail (I was lazy and sent very few actual cards this year...) If you're offended let me know... I do have a few extra sitting around. ;) Here's a link to the online version...
http://biddlebugs.blogspot.com/

Holiday Photos

Here's some photos from Thanksgiving & Christmas with the Biddle side of the family.

Visiting Brian's grandma... don't you love the kid's attitudes? :)

It was Faith's first Christmas. She was duly excited.

Are these all for me???

Cozy Christmas Eve gifts

One of my favorite parts of Christmas day. Sitting around... drinking coffee... waiting to open presents... one at a time... with 16 people exchanging, explaining, etc. it takes a long time. A little too long some times for the boys..

I think my brother, Jeremy, gets the prize for the most creative wrapping. :) Hope Zak didn't want to be surprised as to the nature of his gift.

And you can probably guess what Grace has been wearing for the greater part of the past week. :)

Hope you had a wonderful CHRISTmas. I'll try to come back before another month expires. :) No promises...

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Thursday, December 10, 2009

	Christmas Slideshow
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Monday, November 09, 2009

Keeping Up

I have a hard time getting on here... I used to post the silly stuff the kids say. Most of it these days just ends up going on my Facebook statuses. I still have a few lists here or there. Maybe one day I'll get them all together.

Going through photos on the computer and saw there were several I'd forgotten about...

Stephen's 7th Birthday

A Trip to a Local Farm

Grace was thrilled to find Snow White... Stephen's just crazy.

Trying to be one of the seven dwarfs

Annual Leaf Pile

You can see Faith was not thrilled with her first leaf pile experience.

Bengals Game
Months ago Andrew saw a little form to fill out for a drawing of 4 free Bengal's tickets at Wendy's. He wanted to fill it out and immediately was planning who would go. We informed him that the chances of him winning were so small that it would never happen. Nevertheless, being the good parents that we are :) we filled out the form and paid the exorbitant amount that is required to mail an envelope these days.

A few weeks later we get a phone call informing us that he'd won. We were totally shocked! He just had this wide "told you God would work it out" grin. :)

The tickets were in the 20th row... Stephen decided at the last minute that he would be bored. :) So Andrew took two Uncles along with Dad. Of course, it was extra neat that the Bengals had a great game and that it was so unseasonably warm. (considering it's November) Here's a few photos of his big day.

Finally, a few of the Sunday morning photos of our little character. :)

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Fall

...is rapidly going by! We had a fun outing today to John Bryant State Park. Hooray for Dads who work at home and are willing to work late instead... and piano students who can come another day... and for home school which will still be waiting for us tomorrow. :( :)

Life has been so full of football practices, games, cold weather, housework, school, etc. that it was nice to enjoy one of the last warm days.

Unfortunately we failed to bring a map... ended up way off track... and poor Brian had to trek back well over a mile to find our van for us... but good times! :)

Here's a few photos...

Brian beginning his long walk back to the van.

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Monday, September 21, 2009

Back to School

Many things have kept me from this... I probably shouldn't be doing it now either, but it lays upon my conscience... blogging guilt... it's a sad, nagging burden we inflict upon ourselves, isn't it?

Seems like we rushed through summer, barely had time to catch our breath and here we are into the school year already.

Here's some pictures of the kids on their first day of school... starting out with their devotions and too excited to bother to get dressed first. I will say that sadly that the same spark of energy has slightly died over time... but we still manage to have some fun times amidst the utterly miserable teeth pulling sessions. :)

It's been a bit overwhelming... we have yet to complete all the things on our school list in one day... maybe someday soon. The coveted nap/"my" time has been sucked into school time as well. Perhaps we need to start a bit earlier... or maybe once I can stop spending so much time in milk production for Faith things should SURELY improve. I could surely use that 90 min. :)

She's now rolling everywhere...

Finally put off the inevitable and started food with her this week. Plain rice cereal is rather bland, I guess.

Enjoyed an overnight Ladies Retreat with an old friend Kristine Banker Lancette speaking to us from her life message. How fun to catch up again with someone you haven't seen in over 12 years and still find them the same faithful friend, following the Lord!

Favorite quotes from the weekend...
Lord, make me willing to be willing...
Every morning I go out to my driveway and stoop down and enter my "Jet Plane of Grace."
God wants to live life with me, thru me and FOR me.
God needs us in His reality... not Him in our reality.
Don't try so hard... just cooperate!
Through our regrets we know our Redeemer.
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday and all is well. - Corrie Ten Boom

The boys started Upwards Flag Football this past Saturday. VERY, VERY exciting for them! They both scored touchdowns and are just thrilled with their coaches and the opportunity to play again. The excitement is rather contagious.

Here's Faith with her pink cheeks from cheerleading all day on the sidelines... playing in her "ADD" walker. I'm sure it must cause it... look at all the entertainment... How can a school teacher POSSIBLY keep up?

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