Big Things!

Oh my goodness. I think time just doesn't stop moving! The end of November blurred right into the beginning of December (as they usually do!), but there were a few big things that happened for us.

But first...some silly photos. Our dogs have been enjoying the colder weather because they get to be inside. Here they are cuddling with Dad! Can you see that there are TWO dogs in this picture?

Grandma also bought one of those silly games with the mouth pieces...we could hardly talk when we first tried. We were laughing so hard we cried!

Okay. On to the big things! We FINALLY got a new computer. Mom was waiting to find out if Apple was going to be updating their iMac which they didn't and so she finally bit the bullet and bought a new one during Black Friday. Funny enough...she didn't even get a discount because of Black Friday but somehow that just ended up being the day she bought it. We love our new computer. Our old one was limping along. It had its hard drive fail TWICE and it didn't have enough memory to do a lot so it was SLOW. This one is so great.

The really neat thing was that we were able to just migrate over all our old data. We had to hook the two computers to each other and it took a couple of hours, but it was PERFECT.

I think Mom threw this photo in because of how similar Sam and Iva look in this photo. Never mind that Sam is in a pink chair. The life of an only boy. 

The OTHER HUGE thing that happened for us was that our Grandpa had spent all of November hiking in the Himalayas. He summited the peak Baruntse. We enjoyed getting the occasional text message from him or the even more rare FaceTime. It looked incredible...but COLD. REALLY COLD. We were so happy to have him back. He brought us Nepalese hats.

It is really quite difficult to take a picture with small children.

Sam has always liked Grandpa best so we were anxious to see how he would react. (Sam was still battling an ear infection at the time, but we didn't realize it). His reaction was not to be scared, but he wasn't super loving either. He seemed a bit unsure.

Sam got this awesome Sherpa down coat!

It took another day, but then Sam was jumping for Grandpa again. Unfortunately, Grandpa tore his rotator cuff taking a fall on a glacier so we have had to be kind of gentle with him. If you want to read about his adventures this is his blog here: Gordon's Blog The pictures are AMAZING. We are still in awe!

And one more quick shout out to ME. I gave Uncle Marty a night of baby sitting for his birthday (actually I gave him a coupon book and I think I included like 30 nights of baby sitting..hahaha!). Mom helped me since there are the twins and baby Logan, but I did pretty great!