Look what John can do... dance, climb, and give kisses!!!

Did you say 'Banana' ?

Here is John playing with his new barnyard animals... he is learning how to play pretend... it is so fun to watch him learn... Thanks Grandpa and Grandma Holsman!!

Two Sundays ago we had John dedicated at church. This simply means that we publicly proclaimed that we are raising our son for the Lord!!

Val, Todd with John and Pastor Greever


Cute overalls Johnny Boy!!!! thanks Isaac :)

Iowa Christmas!

Big family picture


Cousin bath time

go hawkeyes!!


Happy Birthday to John!!! he turned one while we were in Iowa. He had a "tow-mater" birthday cake and loved eating it!


Isaac !!! what a fun boy!!!

This is actually in Iowa :)

So sorry Holsman Family and all the great friends we saw up in Hill City!!!!
We left our camera in the cities at a friends house so we have no pictures to show of all the fun things we did in Hill City. We went to the Junkers for pizza, had a wedding shower for my good friend Maggie, went sledding down the "big" hill, went snow shoeing, went ice fishing, went snowmobiling, visited great grandma maryanne, and had crapeye and venison for dinner. We had a super time! Thanks family we love you!!!

So this picture is taken in Iowa when we met up with Lindsey and Zach for lunch the day we went home. Zach was visiting Linds' family in Cedar Falls which is near Cedar Rapids.

We also stayed with the Owens

John and Elijah sticking their tongues out for the camera!


Terry and Elijah!


Elijah walking all over the place... he even can roar like a lion!! :)

What we did in Minnesota!!

Played and had dinner with Uncle Mike, Aunt Connie, and Leslie and Luke. Thanks so much!! We had a blast hanging out with you all!


We had lunch with the Wicklunds and the Carlsons; however we missed out on pictures of the Wicklunds :( but had a super time catching up! Thanks friends we love you all!!


Posing for the camera all dressed up for Christmas!


Thanks Jess and Ricky for the cute outfit!!