November Happenings

November has been a crazy month.  We found out we are expecting our 3rd little one at the end of October, and the first trimester exhaustion hit hard.  And just when I had finished all the canning and was looking forward to winter craft projects.  I'm getting my energy back now, so that's nice.  We had a little scare around 6 weeks when I thought I lost the baby.  But a doctor's apt and ultrasound confirmed the TINY little one with a strong heartbeat.  There was a blood clot between the placenta and uterus that was releasing when I nursed Olue.  So Olue was weaned immediately and Josh spent the rest of the week at home with me and the kids.  (I was supposed to take it easy.)  Josh had been gone to Wiliston for work the day that the whole scare went down, so it was nice to have him at home with us for a while.

I wasn't able to go hunting for my big buck at Mom and Dad's because of no travel restrictions on the pregnancy for two weeks.  I was a little disappointed, but we more so just miss seeing them.  It's been a long time since we've been with them.  I got the all okay at my 8 week appointment that everything is going well with the baby and we're excited and relieved to be able to travel and go on as normal.

The new baby is due on June 29th.  We are so excited to have another little one.  We just had a baby baptized in our church on Sunday.  It's just so fun to see those new little babies!



John washing up the table with two washclothes



Lu Lu eating cheerios

Johnny in a stocking hat

Our first Snow

Josh picked up Kristina and Josiah in Fargo on Nov 12th and they stayed with us for a week and a half until Thanksgiving.  It was so much fun to have them here.  We got our first snow on Monday after they came.  We all had fun playing out in it.

Johnny tip-toeing in the snow

Johnny's snow is starting to melt

Johnny throwing a snowball at Cy

Johnny and Cy played guns a lot while he was here.  They especially liked to play this game right when Daddy was about to get home, so he could get in on the action.

Johnny showing off his gun

Playing Dead

Ready for more aciton

Josh and his first car

The week that Kristina and Cy were here, Josh sold his car and the ford truck and we bought a new Silverado 1500.  We questioned wether it was the right time to do this, but yesterday when there was a decent sized drift behind the truck we knew for sure that it had been the right time.  I'll have to get a pic of the new truck to post.  We are very excited to have a reliable winter vehicle.

Grandpa Loegering holding Addy and Lu Lu

We went to Roger and Sue's for Thanksgiving weekend.  We spent Thanksgiving Day at Grandma and Grandpa Hayes with great food and beautiful weather.  The guys worked on rocking horses that Josh and Jake are making for Christmas presents for John and Addy.  We all took a walk in the woods in the afternoon.  It was a great day!

The boys playing football

Josh & Jared in Grandpa's shop

Grandpa and Jake

Cy and John

John and Oakie

"Go get it Oakie!"

Ruth, Olue, Kristina, Vika

Katie, Sue, Addy

On Friday all the girls went black Friday shopping except me.  I enjoyed sleeping in.  It was very nice!  Ruth did pick me up a new set of sheets for our bed.  They are amazing!!  After the girls got back, we went to Grandma and Grandpa's again to make Christmas Cookies.  It's a tradition for their family and a lot of fun.  Johnny just got in on the sugar cookie decorating last year, but this year he helped with almost everything.  I was so proud of him.  He even unwrapped the candies for peanut butter blossoms without eating them!

unwrapping candies

Jared and Olue

adding sprinkles

Johnny piled a few of his cookies with tall towers of sprinkles.  I think Grandma might need to buy some new sprinkles for next year.

Mom and John having fun

Playing in the living room while the cookies bake.  Addy, Thomas, Katie, Tolya, Vika, John, Jake

Jared, Olue, Stacie, Ruth

Thomas and Addy

Josh thought it would be funny to see what the kids did if the lights got shut off.  That's why Johnny looks kinda scared.

Saturday night we let the kids stay up and play late with Grandpa Loegering

Lu Lu and Johnny getting Grandpa

What a cutie

What a face

Two top teeth coming in

Grandpa Loegering didn't make it as long as the kids did.  He zonked on the floor while the kids played around him

Addy and John were giving Uncle Jared toys

Josh's Grandma (Roger's Mom) passes away while we were home for Thanksgiving.  We weren't able to make it back for the funeral.  The drive is way to long for the kids to make it twice in a week.  We pray for her and rejoice in her ending of earthly suffering and coming into the kingdom of heaven.

We had Santa Day on Saturday and did very well selling horseradish, popcorn, soup beans, jellies, and pickles.  I was a little disappointed that I didn't sell as much jelly and pickles as I had hoped, but I've had people call me since to buy directly from me...So I no longer need to be disappointed.