Dorothy Ann

Here's a few pictures of Dorothy Ann. She was born Sunday, 11/27/11 at 11:13 AM, weighing 9 lbs 1 oz, 21" long. AS you can see, she's getitng lots of love.

Philip Sings and Plays Guitar with Andrew

Philip loves to play guitar "with" Andrew and sing along.

Christmas Gifts

In lieu of the gift exchange, I tried to come up with something we could share with one another to express both our love and appreciation for/of one another, and to celebrate the Nativity and Christmas season this year. I'll admit, my ideas are in their infancy as well, but perhaps as a family we can develop them into something fun and meaningful.

I started thinking of letter writing, and got the idea to write "love letter" to each family unit within the larger family. In the letter, I thought we could specifically address the members of that family, perhaps asking after each one, or sharing fond memories that we have had. An example of this is as follows:

"Dear Tristan and Elizabeth

Body/

...I was thinking recently about how much time we spent playing video games in the summers of 2007, 2008, and 2011, and how nice it was to spend that time with you, I hope there will be video games in heaven...

/Body

Closing"

As I thought about it more, it occurred to me that it might be too much to write 7 long letters. So perhaps we could all write a Advent/Christmas letter and post it to the blog. In the letter, we could still ask after one another, share fond memories from the past year, and maybe express our meditations, excitements, experiences in prayer etc. leading up to Christmas. We could share some of our New Year's resolutions (perhaps we could do this at the beginning of the Liturgical New Year), what we hope that be convicted of/reminded of this Christmas, share our prayer requests and intentions, etc.

That is all I have for now. Please feel free to edit, add to, or subtract from this idea, and soon enough I am sure we will have a great project.

Love,
Dan and Regina

Soccer Tournament

Wow! Dominic's soccer team won their tournament this weekend. It was a great season for Dominic. He had a great coach and the team was a really nice group of boys. Overall he learned a lot. Some of the boys on the team were really good! They won every game they played during the season, although there weren't that many games since a lot of them got rained out, but that usually happens every season. One of the dads took pictures during each game and made a CD for each family - he did a great job! Dominic was usually afraid to get too close to the ball, but the dad who took the pictures made sure that he got shots of each kid near the ball. These pictures are all from tournament day.

Game 1 on tournament day:


Game 3 on tournament day:


Dominic shaking his coach's hand before receiving his trophy:


Dominic checking out his tournament trophy:


The whole team:

Philip in the Rain