How Did I Miss January?

A month gone by too quickly. Here's a series of photo updates.Counting her olives, Oa adorns herself.
We spent New Year's Eve with our friends from church... yest, I'm a real party animal!The kids are going very strong (too strong) at midnight.
Oa combines culinary skills with innate fashion sense.
After every vacation must come a first day of school.One more vote for afternoon only school.


My biodiesel converter finally arrived. I'll start making fuel from waste vegetable oil sometime in Feb.Chase gets his groove on in my shopsuit.
Krista and her friend Shelby work out our zip line.
Shadow's my date to the family reunion in March.

Christmas Montage of Photos

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care....

Krista did the whole thing... a work of art!

Next year, a smaller christmas jigsaw puzzle.

Jenny will thank Chase for this................ someday.

Can you say puppy chow?

Hmmm, food!

Hmmmm.....food?

Why does Boyd have to sit with Shadow on the floor to eat? He doesn't seem to mind.

Too much good cheer...

Alice made our Nativity Act with her great music.

The Happy Hainsworths

Nativity scene preparations

David is even happy when he's the donkey.

Fortunately, Krista-Mary knows CPR!

Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus

Angelic Jenny

Chase will take any role where he gets a long stick.

Pole-vaulting in a manger.

Cousin-pile!

The longest Smith has smiled for me yet!

My bed is a cuddle bed.

If you ever need a really cool stocking-stuffer...

Even the cameraman got it!

Noah's own keratoplasty practice kit!!

Daddys' never drive correctly for their women.

My computer guys.

Merry Christmas 2007!

Hope your Christmas was safe and full of family wonder. Ours was..... "I wonder why Dad is so weird".... "I wonder if he's adopted....." It was so great being all together... I know the in-law kids were missing their own families, but glad '07' was our turn. Best way to share it is through the pictures. Here goes.

Krista's clothes look good on Chase!

It doesn't take much to content Josh

Christmas is Coming! And so are You!!

We are so looking forward Christmas. The greatest part will be your coming. Sunday night can't get here soon enough! The kids have been out of school for a week. Key events have been video games to new heights, Josh and Krista climbing into Santa's workshop (formally known as the RV), Dad's surgery going well, and our house closing yesterday!!! (Free at last!)

Preparing for Christmas

As we prepare for Christmas on Haywain Drive, I hope you are blessed with the peace and joy the season will bring those who can overlook the commerce of it.Chase enjoys his height by attaching the top section of the tree this year.

Chase and Krista made a Gingerbread House this year.
The finished product.

Have you ever tried to decorate a cat? The scratches will heal.
Oa entertained us at the office party (a dinner at our house) by showing her 'olive fingers'.

Great Machine Music!! This is real technomusic, courtesy engineer students and John Deere Tractor parts. Thanks, Jan for the clip.

Time for Confession...

Okay, time to 'fess up. On our trip, I taught the kids how to play 'Oreo Poker'. We played 5 card draw, seven card stud, with and without wild cards. I know I am a bad father, corrupting my kids, but we had lots of fun. I figure that if I have started them on a slippery slope of gambling degeneracy, the results will be obesity, not poverty. Sometimes you just have to pick your poison.