Moving on to a new website

Wow!  It's been almost a month and a half since I posted.  Yikes!

Our Christmas was rough in some ways (i.e. Micah ending up in ER Christmas Eve) and fun in many others (all the family time together). 

But now it's time to move forward and move on...to a new website.  Bryan bought me a website for Christmas and I am SO EXCITED and maybe a little addicted.  ;)  It's still got some work to be done on it, but I'll be starting my posts up there again soon. 

So head on over to Korthuis.net to continue following this Korthuis family.

Blessings in 2014

I didn't miss this last year...

This fall has made me realize what an incredible blessing we had last fall when the boys were hardly sick at all.  We are on round three of horrible colds already.

Friday I was suspicious Brandon had a cold, but wasn't sure if it was allergies or not either.  Yesterday I knew both he and Micah had colds and the asthma had started kicking in and becoming an issue.

Last night as we were getting ready for bed Bryan asked what I was thinking so hard about and I realized I had been creating a list in my head of things to grab "in case" we had to run to the ER.  Thankfully we never got to that point, but I was up with Brandon who needed asthma relief of some sort every two hours last night and by 4:30 Micah had joined the party.  Brandon is quite a bit better this morning, but we kept him home from school so I could keep a close eye on him.  Micah, however, is really struggling to breathe today.

Where I'm thankful for medicine and the knowledge to help my kiddos ease their tighten chests, I sure didn't miss this routine last fall.

Please pray for healing for the boys and protection from this cold for the rest of us.

Thanks

Where Did November Go?

Here's what has been happening in this small corner of the world...

 At the beginning of November my parents came for a couple days to visit.

Jetlag finally caught up with him.

Brandon had a chance to show Grandpa and Grandma around his classroom.  He was very proud!

Bryan had an overnight lay-over in Seattle so we went down and spent the day with him.

One of the things he wanted to see was Pikes Place Market so we walked around there for a little while.  Somehow it came about that Micah should kiss the pig.  The first time he did it I didn't get it on camera so I asked him to do it again. However, by that point, Brandon had already climbed up on the snout.  And I present to you a future wedding picture...

Little Miss Lisa has been changing quickly.  She is now rolling from front to back and back to front and getting herself into trouble.  Yesterday she rolled herself into the mantle twice and got a couple scrapes on her head.  She didn't think that was such a fun game.  Today I heard, "Mom, come quick.  Lisa is so cute--she's playing with my duplo."  Somehow I don't think it will be so "cute" in a couple days when she starts taking said duplo and Thomas tracks apart.  And a couple times now she has flipped her jungle gym over on herself and played with it this way...

 

 

And she turned 5 MONTHS old.  Where did that time go?

 



The other day Brandon was at school and the house was REALLY quiet so I went on a hunt to find Micah.  I found him on the floor coloring away, perfectly content.  He had taken everything off the table and made himself comfortable in a way that Brandon had never thought to do.  It was fun to see him take charge of his own play.

Blessings

Honored

One of the elements of the World Wide Photo Walk is to submit your favorite photo of the day.  One photo from each group gets chosen to go on to be submitted for the larger competition.  I just about didn't bother submitting one this year.  With three kiddos around I was having a hard enough time getting my photos edited.  But one night, two days before the link closed, I had enough time to edit them and I made Bryan choose which one to submit.  This afternoon I randomly went on the website to see the other photos that were submitted and low and behold mine was chosen as the best of our group!  I was astonished, excited, and very honored.

There were only five photos submitted from our group, but to have mine chosen was pretty fun!

Blessings