Welcome Lucy!

We welcomed a new little niece into our lives this week. Lucy Elizabeth was born on November 28 at 12:02 AM. She is healthy and beautiful. We inspected her ourselves as her first visitors in the hospital! The best part about Lucy is that when she cries, it is more like a squeak.



Her sisters, Anna and Elanor were very curious. Anna was super excited to see Lucy, but Elanor was not quite sure what to do with this new little person. Mike and Emily are also doing well. We visited them just ten hours after Lucy was born, and Emily was cracking jokes and the life of the party as usual!

Thanksgiving

Zane's family visited us this year for Thanksgiving. I had to work Thanksgiving weekend, and the Harts were gracious enough to make their way out west so that we would not have to celebrate Thanksgiving alone. Mahala made the main staples of the meal: the turkey, dressing, gravy, green beans, corn pudding. I made the mashed potatoes and desserts. Zane, as you can see, carved the turkey...and I must say that he is the best turkey-carver I have ever see.



Rodrigo, Keira's boyfriend came too! We had so much fun with them here.



On Friday, we went to Faust Park for a walk. Keira treated us to a ride on the carousel. Mahala showed us her sweet dance moves while riding on the horses.

Visitors!

We had friends in town this past weekend from Friday through Sunday (11/16-18). Russell and Eliza Joy visited us from Kansas City.



Zane and Russell were roommates in college and they were also groomsmen in each others' weddings. It was a really great time for Zane and Russell to hang out and for Eliza Joy and me to get to know each other better. They are so much fun. We played games and laughed all weekend. Russell and Eliza Joy taught us a new card game that has a weird German name that I can't remember, but it is really fun. They also brought Apples to Apples. We had heard about the game, but had never played it. Zane's family is coming this weekend for Thanksgiving, and we loved Apples to Apples so much that we are going to get it to play with his family.




We also went to Historic St. Charles, a small town about twenty minutes west of our house. It was an absolutely beautiful day, and we had a great time taking pictures and playing in the park by the river. We were very sad to see our guests go, but this spring, we plan on visiting them in KC!

Library Hours

Zane and I have two big papers due this week, and we have been in the library all day today working on them. We are definitely not faking the furrowed eye brows (ok, for the picture we did fake it, but when we are actually working on our papers, our faces do look like that).



The papers are for our Proverbs class and our Pastoral and General Epistles class. Working on them has been quite a process. Both of our brains are pretty tired right now. We have gone from moments of great focus to almost falling asleep to rolling over in laughter to relieve stress and then the cycle begins again. Mike, my brother, has been studying with us today too. Between the three of us throughout the day, we polished off the last of our Halloween candy. Plus, the local Chick-fil-A gives free chicken sandwiches out on Mondays to people with their church bulletins - just to add a little grease to our sugar high. Isn't being a student great?