Merry Christmas from the Burts!

Merry Christmas to all our friends and Family!

Sorry we didn't send out cards this year. But as you can read from previous posts, we are busy with our sweet Emily who's 8, Abby who is 6, and Ryan who is 16 months. Greg is still job searching and we know God will be faithful to provide like he's done in the past. Stephanie still homeschools while keeping Ryan out of trouble! We are so happy to visit Stephanie's family (15 in all!) in northern CA for Christmas. But we get a double blessing because Greg's parents will drive up to visit us as well. We will also see Greg's grandmother and uncle and family too. It'll be a busy but fun trip!

May you have a very blessed and merry Christmas as we celebrate the Savior's birth!

Walking and Crafting!

Snowflakes! An easy craft made from arranging q-tips in a snowflake pattern.Next, drop huge globs of glue at the intersections- making sure the q-tips touch. And sprinkle glitter all over the glue. Watch out for the glitter. It makes a mess but the result is very cool, pretty, and worth it! This is a very easy craft that the girls really enjoyed!

The first real snow of the season! The girls enjoyed playing and Ryan can't wait for the day when he can run around and play in it too!

Well, here's my boy! He finally started walking. But God forbid he take his thumb out of his mouth so that he can balance better!! He's climbing on the fireplace (and oh, so proud!) and keeping me busy!

TAG! You're it!

I've been tagged by Nancy Mandl... Now you are it: Jen Troyer, Judy Lyman, Wendy Callaway, Alicia Dennis, and Rebekah Zeerip. Now you open your picture file, open the 5th file, open and post the 5th picture. Tag 5 of your friends. Here's my picture. This is my mother-in-law holding Ryan days after his birth.

By the way, Ryan just started walking this past week. Today was like a milestone for him because he walked all the way from the living room into the kitchen! His farthest walk yet!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

These are the Pilgrim cookies we made this week. The bottom is a striped shortbread cookie. It's topped with a chocolate dipped marshmallow. We used icing to draw on the buckle. Very easy, very fun, and very tasty! See the chocolate mouth!

Ryan's either yelling "Touch Down" or "Ta Da"!

Kenzie and Katie were great with Ryan.

We enjoyed a fun and family-filled day at my cousin Julie's house in Loveland. The kids have such a great time together. I am so happy to have relatives nearby with whom to celebrate the day! We ate all the usual thanksgiving dishes and the girls especially loved tasting some of the 6 pies we had! Chocolate cream was a hit!

Can you see the chocolate around their mouths??

Cheese!!

I know this is dark but here's Ryan rocking out to Bill's Garage Band. He really enjoyed the music!

We've Elved ourselves! Merry Christmas... a bit early, but hey, why not?

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Ryan's First...

Ryan really really needed a haircut. Yesterday, I took him to SportClips (because that's where the boys go!), sat him on my lap and he did really well getting his first haircut. Only at the end did he get a bit squirmy and I needed to pull out the sucker to distract him. I think it turned out pretty well.

Also this week, he's been taking a few first steps. They've been so random that I haven't been able to get the camera in time to record the momentous occasion. But I did get him on tape pushing his rocket car around and trying to keep up with it as he pushed it out ahead of him. It's pretty cute! Very soon, he'll be running around keeping up with his sisters!!