First Snow...

The first snow was falling as we drove out of Fort Wayne. When we arrived in Wisconsin, the boys were excited to get their snow gear on and dig in...

Zeke and JJ got busy on some snow angels...

Chad got out to help with the creating of the snow forts for the big snowball fight.

JJ and Samuel plotted their attack...

Beware of the littlest...

Pack Attack...

When visiting Grandma and Grandpa Breeden's during football season, there is often a Monday night Pack Attack... The local television station brings in a Green Bay Packer for a half hour show and they invite the public in to watch. This time Brandon Underwood (who recovered the onside kick in the play off game against Arizona) was the featured guest.
Another guest was former Packer Johnie Gray...

Lego Creations...

There are toys that get little rest in the Potts home and legos are one of them. The boys get creative with their building toys and we can almost always find legos underfoot! From Animals to farms the creativity is endless!

Christmas 2009 part 1

Our Christmas season started this year with another Journey to Bethlehem. This is a Christmas celebration put on by our church where the community is invited in to come and experience Bethlehem as it may have been at the time that Jesus was born. There are market place vendors selling cheese, baskets, candles and spices. In addition there is a Hebrew School. This year the boys again played the part of Hebrew children in the school learning about the coming Messiah. By the end of the school day they were able to recite a few Hebrew Words and tell the visitors to Bethlehem of the birth of the baby.
After traveling through the city visitors are invited to have a bowl of lentil soup and some bread and visit with the baby all the townspeople have been talking about. It is a wonderful event to get our hearts and minds focused on the meaning of our Christmas celebrations.

Where does the time go...

All right... I am giving up. I have this goal to get caught up and I keep getting further behind. Can you forgive me for fast forwarding through the months of October and November in an effort to post the more recent fun activities of our family.

Here is a brief look at a few pictures from the past couple of months in no particular order...

A visit to a water park over the Thanksgiving holiday. One of the perks of being a home school family is being able to visit places like this during their non-peak times and therefore saving a lot while making fun memories!
Of course this fall there were leaf piles to jump into!
A lot of our homeschooling time this fall has been spent discussing the early settlers to our nation and how they lived. We just completed a unit on the Revolutionary War and the birth of a nation. One of the many colonial day experiences we have had was making our own butter... The second picture is the kids eating it!

Several of our friends have had babies over the past few months and our boys have enjoyed holding the new little ones... Below is JJ with Hannah and Seth with Josias...


We also had the opportunity to attend a Newsboys concert in October... We met up with a couple of friends from church to enjoy the show!

And finally there were many fall festivals. Here we are spending an afternoon on the farm with our neighbor Max.
Thanks for allowing me this fast forward...

Happy Thanksgiving...

Our Thanksgiving break included a trip up north to Wisconsin. While Daddy hunted with Grandpa Breeden, Uncle Jeff and Uncle Jim; Michelle hung out with the boys at Grandma's house.

We enjoyed our time visiting and thank Aunt Jess, Carter and Ali and Aunt Amy, Samuel, Isaac and Grace for coming to visit with us as well.

There were games with Grandma...Decorating Turkey cookies in preparation for Thanksgiving Day.



Pack Attack with Ron Davis (former #60, now the Packer Player Management guy).

Bell Ringing with the Salvation Army...
And just enjoying the time with family...

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

One of the many joys of the holidays for me is all the decorations. We decided to get ours out before we left for Thanksgiving. Here are the boys setting up their tree...




And the finished product...
Pictures of the family tree to come later...