Merry Christmas!!!!

We are busy enjoying lots of good food and good company, with a [little?!] bathroom re-model project thrown in for good measure.....  :)  That would be Christmas in the L's house!!!  Love to you all!!

Backtracking to Christmas

I know this is about a month late, but I just had to share my little Mary and Joseph (nevermind that baby Jesus has a pink checkered bonnet).

Christmas Letter 2007

I tried to get Christmas letters out to most of you, but in case you prefer the digital version, here it is!

Hello to all you dear people we don’t see nearly enough! We’ve had a relatively quiet year – we’ve managed to stay in the same place, enjoying fabulous neighbors, wonderful family, and a fun city.
Joseph fills his days with:
· His third year of Dental School (only one more to go!!)
· Serving at church (Elders’ Quorum), school (American Student Dental Association leadership), and home (taking care of everything I don’t get around to – i.e., dishes!!)
· Hunting/Survival hobbies (he brought me home a turkey and a buck this season!)
Tara fills her days with:
· Teaching piano lessons & classes
· Serving in the Primary (children’s ministry) at church.
· Working out with a friend [almost] every weekday
· Accompanying our congregational choir and a regional choir
· Taking care of children/home while coping with morning/noon/night sickness (#3 will be arriving in July! How’s that for a birth announcement? :) )
Little K stays busy with:
· Being a FIVE year old & learning to read!
· Attending preschool 4 days a week (she LOVES it!).
· Playing the piano in mom’s piano classes (I love that I get to teach her to love all the things I love! It’s like I’m creating my future best friend Pygmalion-style!!)
J-boy stays busy with:
· Wishing he were potty trained (he sure loves his Lightning McQueen underpants… maybe over Christmas break) (pathetic attempts were made, all unsuccessful)
· Playing with and [mostly] adoring his big sister
· Being mom’s 2 year old errand buddy while sister's in school.
We’re grateful for our home, for our family, for all of you – and we are especially grateful for the gospel of Jesus Christ. We hope you have peace in your home and heart this Christmas!

A visit with Santa

We got to visit Santa at our Annual Church Christmas Breakfast -- he comes every year! And since it's been a yearly event for most of Kaitlynn's life (and all of Jonathan's!), here's a little trip down memory lane (crazy how fast time flies!!!) Yes, that's a SUPERHERO (not Dracula) cape on J-boy -- it was hard enough getting him out of his car pajamas and into normal clothes. I wasn't going to fight the cape. Or the hat. And I thought girls were bad with their accessory fetish...
Pictures with the B-ladies are also a yearly tradition (as you will see).

2006:

2005 (no pic of 10 month old J-boy that year -- oops):

2004 (J-boy inutero at that point):