O Christmas Tree

I'm always so excited to get all the Christmas stuff out and our tree up as soon as Thanksgiving passes. So on Tuesday we went and bought our tree. It's a little smaller than we thought it was going to be but it turned out nice in the end. Isabelle thinks all the ornaments are pretty and like to take them off and pull them apart. She's learning quickly to just look and not touch! :) When we first put the tree in the stand and began decorating it, Ben stood up and sang "O Christmas Tree" with his hand over his heart. Well now we'll catch Isabelle trying to sing the song but we here "Happy Birthday to you" instead of "O Christmas Tree."!! Whatever works, I guess!


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Thanksgiving

We traveled up to Indiana for Thanksgiving and had a wonderful time with family. We praise the Lord for His goodness to us and his gracious hand upon us. So much to be thankful for and give God the glory for! Isabelle had a blast playing with her cousins and Ireland did great the whole time too! A special blessing was being able to see my mom and dad. They were able to come to the Ice's for Thanksgiving dinner. Of course they sure enjoyed seeing the girls and it was the first time they'd seen Ireland so she got in some good loving time by both Grammie and Grandpa! Thanks for making the trip mom and dad it was sure great seeing you! Below are some pictures of our holiday. The half of the pics got left behind on someone elses computer but we have Thanksgiving day.

The Girls

I got the camera out yesterday to take some more pictures of our smiley little baby. She's started to coo and talk to you when you talk directly to her. I'll try to post some video of it soon. Isabelle and I also had some fun with the camera today. She liked me taking pictures of her just so she could see them after that. Isabelle is getting more used to her big girl bed now and doesn't get out quite as much. She loves her baby dolls and like to pretend all sorts of things with them. It's so fun to watch her pretend and play.

Busy Weekend

Ireland Faith is 11 weeks old and has just started smiling when you talk to her in the last few days. She's been very attentive and serious looking since this time. So I was able to snap a few pics the other day of her having happy faces and sweet looks.

We have had a very been a busy weekend. Ben's ordination council met to question him on friday and he did very, well praise the Lord, and received a 100% vote by the council. It was so nice to have Ben's good friend Lukus Counterman come for a few days before the council for some Truth Trackers meetings. Mom and Dad Ice, and Paul, Scott, and Michael were able to come down for the council as well. After the council met on Friday morning for a few hours, we had a luncheon and then came back to our house. Later that evening we went for pizza (Ben and Lukus actually were at the church for a Family Activity) and then we all stayed up way to late fellowshipping and having fun chatting! I will say there were too many boys here and Liesl and sister-in-laws you were very much missed! Sunday was the big ordination service day. The service was in the evening and was great. Ben's dad gave the charge to Ben and Pastor Taylor gave the charge to the church. Then the pastors and ordained men came and prayed over Ben committing him to the gospel ministry. What a blessed day and weekend we had! God has been so good to us. We praise Him for how He has clearly lead and directed us in each step of our lives!