Merry Christmas - little early

Congrats Matt on the air force!! Very exciting! By the way - if you two get a package from LL Bean it is your Christmas present from us. There was no place to put a note that is was a gift (well that I could find anyway). Hope you enjoy!

On another note - for those of you that haven't talked to Bowen in a while - he is always hoarse and the doctor was concerned about something wrong with his vocal cords or tonsils. So we visited an ENT last week who scoped down to take a look at his vocal cords - he does have a small nodule (cyst) on his right vocal cord. It is nothing to be concerned about and it will go away with time. They said he will probably be hoarse thru adolescence. Bowen did not enjoy the 'flashlight being stuck down his nose' as he puts it, but he was just fine when they gave him 2 suckers for being soooo good.

My Air Force Man!!

Ok just so everyone one knows...Matt has decided to join the air force! We are both very excited for what the future holds for us and are the new journey that lies ahead! I will fill you in on details on friday after he swears in! Then its off to basic training in Texas. I wont get to talk to him for 2 months but we are encouraged to write lots and lots of letters! We will fill you in on more info when he goes and when he graduates. So if anyone wants to go to texas to watch him graduate just let me know and when we know what dates it will be i can fill everyone in and start searching for hotel rooms on or off base. Also thear are some fun things that we can do in texas like sea world and many other places for very very cheep! So just let us know if your intreasted so i can start doing some reaserch now! Well we are off to bed lots of love-matt and melissa bird

Merry Christmas. Lily had just stuffed her mouth full of candy cane and it was bulging her cheeks so much she couldn't smile. Maren thought it was fun to pull his hair.

I realized Maren is almost 8 months old and I don't have any nice framed pictures of her since her blessing. So with my wonderful new camera, that I'm still learning how to use and my poor photo skills I got a few cute posed shot. If you eant me to print one for you let me know. Hopefully we will have a nice family picture soon too.

blogger workshop

It seems that Amy and I are the only ones posting lately.  Bring your laptop when we get together next week and I'll go over any questions with you.  Way excited to see lots of you soon!!  Love to all,  Katie

art pic

I'm having a great time taking pictures of something other than my kidos.  Then my teacher says great landscapes, why don't you try to integrate your kids into them now.  So I'm taking pictures of the kids again.  They are pretty good at going out on cold foggy mornings and standing in weird places, for a long time, holding mostly still for me. I'll upload some of those a bit later.

Sibling's Christmas Exchange

We're trying something new!  The theme for this year is camping. Vanna White drew the names out of a hat.  Isaac isn't on the list but I encourage everyone to send him a letter and maybe a package ASAP.  We love you Elder Bird!!!!!!  There are quite a few miles between us these days so, please make sure to have the gifts delivered before Christmas.

______ gives to_______

Mike-Matt                             Katie-Mike

Jackson-Amy                         Matt-Jackson

Johnny-Katie                         Amy-Johnny