Hannah Sings!

These are videos of Hannah singing! We read (aka, sing the words) her Old MacDonald book every night before bed. Lately she has been singing once I stop! I love it...turn up the volume!

Please Pray for Henry Hermon

Jon's cousin, Dana, just delivered her baby, Henry, last week (6th) and they found that he has a lot of health problems. For one he has holes in his heart. From what I can tell that is not the critical problem. It has something to do with the valves in his heart being attached wrong. They will do exploratory surgery on him this Tuesday and then if they find that surgery is going to work then they will do it on Thursday. He had a feeding tube in, but I believe that has been removed now, so that must mean that he is doing a little better. I may have a few of the details wrong, but I would ask you to please be praying for him. His condition is critical right now, although I believe that the doctors have more hope now, so that's good. Please pray that the family would find incredible comfort and peace. And pray that the Lord would give the doctors wisdom as to how to help this little boy most effectively. I will keep you posted on his situation as I hear more. Jon's mom is headed up there tomorrow so I am sure we will get more details soon. Thanks so much for your prayers friends!

"Whoa-la & Ga-pa"

Jon's parents recently moved from Wyoming to Texas. Jon's dad, Mike, was coming through town with the last of their stuff from their house, so he spent the weekend with us in The Springs. He and Jon played some golf, we all watched the Broncos, ate some good food, played with the dogs, and even went to a hockey game.

Here is Hannah playing with the dogs. She wasn't even all that crazy about Whoa-la (aka. Lola) but she couldn't say Bently very well. So, dogs in general are now Whoa-la. Up until very recently Hannah has been very scared of dogs. She has been known to scream as loudly and dramatically as possible and definitely does not want to be licked by them.
As you can see, she really LIKES dogs now! She loved having the dogs around, which made Jon and I kind of wish that we had one around for her. They spent a couple of days with us and when they left, I think Hannah was a little sad. For several days after they left, as soon as she would wake up in the morning she would start looking around on the floor a saying, "Whoa-la, whoa-la!!" Now, if we say, "Hannah where's Lola?" She starts running around looking at the floor. If she keeps this up we may have to do something about our no-dog-situation!

One thing that I really liked about the dogs is that they wore her out! She must have been so tired here that she couldn't even be bothered with putting her butt down! Man, she looks so long here...like a little girl!

Dressed and ready for the hockey game...isn't that a sweet vest that she has on?

Waiting for the restaurant to open up! She was a huge fan of the area because there were big "benches" for people to sit on...aka, for Hannah to run around on...and lots of stairs.

"Mom, I have stuff places to go and stairs to climb!! No time for pictures!"

At the hockey game. Hannah loves watching hockey. I don't know what it is, but she seems to actually watch it! This time she even cheered when the people around her cheered...she was really into it!

Watching the game with "Ga-pa." She doesn't say the "G" very well, but it's just enough to know it's there. Now we are working on Grandma and ho-ho-ho for the holidays.

Still watching the game...except now she is in her very own chair! While she really enjoyed the hockey game, I am not sure whether she enjoyed the hockey game more or the ice cream cones that we got mid-way!

And, saving the best for last...she was "sliding" down the rails on the way out. I LOVE her face in this one!

She's a Funny Girl

This kid is hilarious! She found my scarf in the hall closet and was dragging it all over the house and was trying to wrap it around her neck, so I helped her.
She was walking around proud and feeling stylish, despite the fact that it was something like 80 degrees outside! I think we were headed out to dinner or something and she insisted on wearing it the whole way. Silly girl!

This is one of her favorite things to do right now...she rocks her self in the rocking chair, sometimes while reading a book and others just because!

That's a pretty sweet milk goatee isn't it???

What a face! Our friends from Laramie sent us a book of UW gear, including this awesome UW bow for the Nan. Now she can really support her team!