Flat Nathan visits Austin, TX

One of Nathan's school projects this year was to color a "Flat Nathan" and send it to someone he knew "far away", who would then send a postcard to him at school and then send Flat Nathan on to someone they knew. The objective of this project was to track different places around the world. What a great geography lesson. One of the people it went to was my dear friend and college roomate, Melissa. Now Melissa is very creative and somehow not only comes up with great ideas but finds the time to carry them out (there's a novel idea)! She and her almost 2 year old daughter capture Flat Nathan's adventure on her blog---check it out---it's pretty cool!

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Visiting our nephews, Riley and Alex

So Dan and I absolutley love our nephews, but we hardly get to see them. It's one of the downers of not living an hour away from them anymore. So this Christmas, that was top priority for us, especially since we haven't seen our youngest nephew in 8 months and he's 18 months old. I had so much fun tracking Alex's love for all of us! He made his rounds to each one of us while Riley settled right in with Nathan and Joel like they are always around each other. What fun it is to be an auntie and uncle. Our children are so blessed to have all their uncles and aunties love them and now it's our turn to bless our nephews and get to know them and their unique characteristics!

The boys got matching PJs and pillowcases from grandma and Ellie's PJs match her baby's PJs. Ellie didn't quite know what to do with Alex as he was so intrigued by this girl at Grandma's housethat he followed her every move and wanted to share her pillow. You see she's used to being the baby and following the boys around, not having someone follow her around!

Notice that Alex has made his way over to Nathan--check out what's next!

Alex is playing the Nintendo DS!

After Alex spent time sitting on Dan's lap with Joel, he started up the game (that Dan would only do with Alex and Riley) of climbing on Dan's shoulders and walking over to the Christmas tree.

When Riley picked up on this, he had to join the game as well! As soon as Riley would get on Dan's back, Alex would shout, "No Riley!". Those were the only words we could understand.

He also ran back and forth between Grandma and I and got his kisses! What a fun evening with our nephews!