We are ready for Christmas!

Today we hung Christmas lights, assembled our angel and said goodbye to Thanksgiving. :) It is kind of funny, sad?, that Thanksgiving has turned into a long weekend to get ready for Christmas but when the neighborhood transforms into twinkling lights, it's hard not to catch the spirit and do your part too.

But wait you say! You can't start your blog like this. Pace has had a visit from his uncle Rob, celebrated Halloween, and had HIS 1st BIRTHDAY! This is true.

We had a wonderful visit from Rob, learning about life in Amman, Jordan and watching him play around with Pace.
In the photo they're doing "scrunchy nose." This, smacking lips, clicking his tongue, doing horsey lips, and sticking out his tongue are Pace's favorite ways of communicating.
For Halloween, Pace was a pumpkin and we went trick-or-treating all over the neighborhood. Poor kid still hasn't had any sugar, so we enjoyed the candy for Pace! :)

And perhaps the biggest event of the year took place November 17, 2006 - Pace turned ONE! We had a family party with Andy's dad and brother Grant coming to celebrate with us. His first cake was a spelt, oat, apple, and banana pancake but he loved it. Of course there were lots of presents (a very loved on first grandchild) that he mostly enjoyed tearing the wrapping paper off of. :)

As for Andy and Kira, we are busy with the business trying to finish up the design software for the website (due out probably in a couple weeks...fingers crossed!) and trying to sneak away for date nights.