Happy Birthday Kate!

My little Katie turns two today! I can't believe it! She is still my little chubby-love, although she is starting to slim down. The other day I was changing her diaper and realized that she no longer had any rolls on her legs! Ah! I was so sad! I took pictures of her arms and wrists so that I could remember her cute chubbiness! Her hair is soft, brown, and curly. I love the curls and the short little ringlets on the back of her head. It is kind of at that awkward stage where it always looks disheveled. I love it though! She is loud, active, loves to run around, climb things, loves to laugh, be tickled, be chased, play hide-n-seek and duck duck goose, loves to cuddle (especially with Mommy), loves her blanket and still sucks on her finger.
She definitely doesn't hide any of her feelings, she lays it all out on the table! You never have to wonder what she is thinking or feeling! I like to say that she is passionate and committed! One of her greatest strengths as well as her weakness. I love this about her though. She is passionate about sin, passionate about play, and passionate about love! Jason and I were talking the other day about how God might use this in her life.
She is also talking a lot. For some reason, she says things in twos. "Milk, Milk" or "Abby, Abby" or "Want it, Want it" or really pretty much everything. Unless she is composing a sentence. Which she is doing more and more of. Her little memory cracks me up. I took her and Abby to see Cordurouy the other day at Barnes & Noble. Let's just say, they prefer to read about him! For days afterwards, Katie would start telling me, "Cordurouy? Want it, want it! (which means that she doesn't want it) Hug, hug. Want it, want it!"
She loves babies! Her favorite baby is Case Wassink. When they come over she loves on him, gives him oodles of kisses, dangles toys for him, wants to hold him, lets us know every time he cries, spits up, drops a toy, or any other small thing. But she also notices every other baby or stroller in her eyesight. I have to keep an eye on her or she will run over and start kissing on them! It is really sweet!
Katie, we can't imagine life without you! You are so precious to this family! Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!

Sweetheart Banquet

Every year they put on a sweetheart banquet for the PC students and their wives. This year was wonderful! I can't really share too much about it because it is supposed to be a surprise each year, but... it was memorable!

Our King of Forts

It's cold, you can't go outside, so we come to find out one of Jason's hidden talents, fort making! This is one of my favorite pictures of the girls! They are laying down inside one of these massive forts!

Janu-Hairy to Gary

I feel like every blog post begins with, "Sorry, I am a little behind." Well... maybe one day I will catch up.
One evening back in the fall, we were hanging out with the Wassinks and Walt and Kim Alexander. We were all joking around and the guys came up with this fabulous idea. All the guys in the PC would grow out their beards for the month of January. At the end of the month, they would shave their beards, leave a mustache, and dress-up like Gary Ricucci for a day! They titled this special holiday, "Janu-Hairy to Gary!" Melissa, Gary's secretary, put signs up all over the Sovereign Grace Ministries offices the night before the big day. What is also awesome, is that it landed on a Thursday, which is the day that the PC wives all come to the CLC gym with the kids. We were able to see all the guys in costume! It was so funny! And what was so encouraging was how touched Gary was by how the guys wanted to honor him!