Christmas Tree & Baby Food

I finished our last post about Thanksgiving.  But Carl is glued to the tv watching a U2 concert a friend gave him (not my favorite group.) SO I will blog again.  And try to catch up.  I’m sure all of my English teachers from school would be very upset know I just started the last three sentences with “but”, “so” and “and”.  Oh well.  I’m a “seasoned writer” now and can break the rules, right?  RIGHT?  Yes, I’m bored and should go to bed.

I’ve decided that after next week, we should get back to blogging pretty regularly.  This weekend is our “Christmas Worship Experience”.  It is a worship service with singing, instrumentals, dancing, and even sign language.  I’m so excited for it!  Most of my life lately has been nothing but planning for this.  I haven’t been home much.  So, I will be very ready for a Christmas vacation!

We put up our tree last Friday.  It was fun to watch Gibson around the lights.

It’s crazy how much Gisbon has changed.  He sleeps in his own crib now.  His hair is still way long on top, but he’s lost a lot around the sides so it looks kind of like a bad ’90s hair ‘do.  And he’s eating solids now!  I think he likes them.  Mainly the green beans and carrots (weird kid), but he can’t eat bananas.  Bad stuff happens when he eats them.  I guess he is now 5 months old, since it is after midnight here.  I will leave with a picture of him and, maybe (cross fingers), blog again tomorrow.  Carl fell asleep and I’m ready to join him!

Normally NOT this messy, but it made a better picture to let him get this way!

Thanksgiving

I haven’t blogged about our Thanksgiving yet, so before I put anything else up here I better share about our holiday!  We were invited to spend the day with our Pastor and his family.  Gibson wasn’t feeling well the day before so we weren’t sure if we were going to go, but we did!  I made green bean casserole and pumpkin pie to take to the dinner!  We started out at Pastor Brian’s parents house and shot guns, bows and arrows…we even threw a tomahawk! Then we went to Brian and Kasha’s for dinner and the playing of the Wii.  The next day we got to go to another dinner too!  We were so blessed!  Thank you to everyone who made us part of their family that week!

Christian, shooting a 9mm Glock for her first time! Never again.

Carl shooting

Ladies in the kitchen.

Gibson, with his "adopted grandma", Susan

Two of the Pastor's Kids, Jordyn and Josiah (I think Gabe was playing Wii)

Special Visitors

Here lately, we’ve really enjoyed using Skype.  It’s free and we get to stay connected thru video with family.  My sisters have the program so every once in a while I’ll give them a ring just to see how their day is.  Last night, my parents and Brooke talked with us and got to see Gibson and tonight we welcomed Carl’s parents into the Skype world!  I’m so glad that people get a chance to see the new things our son is doing even though they are hours and hundreds (or thousands) of miles away!  The rest of our family should jump on board.  Cousins can have play dates, Aunts and Uncles can hang out with nieces and nephews, friends can have a coffee and great-grandparents can love on great-grandchildren!  Our screen name is: christianmichellefauth (only because I was the only one using it at first!)

More Special Moments

Gibson plays with new “friend” in the mirror!

 

The Gerber baby dropped off some Rice Cereal at our house. We like Oat Cereal better though!

Daddy brought home some headphones from the church to play with!

We got the hair to stay down! (For about 5 minutes!) Thanks for the toy cousin Jackie!

(No matter how many times I rotate, the picture always ends up the original way)

 

A World of Pure Imagination

Last week we were in Cleveland for a worship conference. Everyone else decided to start home, but we wanted to visit what was advertised as the “America’s Biggest Candy Store“.  So we typed in the address on our GPS and found it about one exit down the road! Our friend, Amanda, joined us on our little adventure.  We were quite pleased.

The most Laffy Taffy I've ever seen!

Amanda with the Mega Bruiser, jaw breaker

Not candy

"Fatty Ratty"? No thanks!

For Becca

Sugar Coma

Chocolate Covered Insect and Larvae. We each ate one!

Pez!

Yummy Lindt!

Wax Lips & 'Stache. Not as good as when we were kids!

Annnnd, we’re back.

As I sit down to finally write a blog, I’m catching my breath from a grueling month.  (YIKES!)  Here’s a quick run down.

1) We got off the plane from Montana Sept 30.  Our friends, Michael and Jamie picked us up and we immediately began preparing for our first Life Group meeting that was to be held that night.  We got home around 6 and were at their house for Life Group around 6:45.

2) I’ve been working on the Christmas play turned “worship experience”.  But I’m about a month behind on that BECAUSE…

3) We just did a month-long series at our church featuring The Wizard of Oz.  Some friends of ours, Carl and I wrote a script for a skit that we did the final week.  Much of the month involved practicing, helping the costume lady,  watching the movie, and painting a yellow brick road.

4) I was gone a week.  Carl was gone a week.  My parents were here the same weekend Carl was gone.

I could go on, but I’m sure you are tired of our excuses.  I’ve decided to skip the whole Montana trip montage and just focus on the here and now.  And now, my computer is acting up and what a surprise…it’s a Mac (just fueling the feud between the Fauth Gentlemen), and I can’t upload any more pictures.   I will try tomorrow!

 

new pics of the boy

we have been running crazy this last month but we thought we should put some new pics up of Gibson.

Grandma Nancy’s Rattle

Hey Guys,

Sorry September has been crazy!!! We will write more when we have time. We have gotten to visit a lot of family and friends during this time. Christian’s grandparents and sister Brooke drove up for a weekend then my sister Susan came to see us and meet Gibson. Susan left on a Thursday and then some friends of ours came on Friday, the following Monday we left for Montana. We had some great times (like I said earlier we will write more later).

Here is a video of our little guy………

Gibson video

Too Far Behind to Try and Catch Up!

Wow, so we haven’t updated in a while.  I wanted to put some videos up here, but our computer is being funky.  So I will just add the pictures for now.

Gibson is changing so much!  Instead of the pacifier he prefers his fist.  He is getting so good at holding up his head.  And his laugh is adorable!  When he eats, he always has one hand playing with his hair.  I can’t wait to share him with everyone!  September will be full of excitement with my grandparents and Brooke visiting first, then Sue, then my best friend Nicki, her husband Brandon and their two girls, and ending with a bang flying to Montana to see Grandpa Jim, Grandma Nancy, Sam, Mir, Noah, Craig, Rachael, Jaeger, Jadyn and Aaron!  And less than two months til my family comes up to visit again.  Wow, it’s going to get busy soon!

The Little Rebel

I just started taking some photography classes and Carl decided it was time to get me a “big girl” camera.  Our Kodak is great, but it doesn’t have the manual settings I need to learn for the course.  We found a great deal on Craig’s List and bought it on Wednesday!  It’s a Canon EOS Rebel xs

 

For my homework I had the best little subject!

My favorite!

 

 

 

Gibson and his little friend, Sam Iam!

 Here is a link to the rest of them. My Boy