December Update

I can't believe that December is over!!!! The month has flown by for our family. We had a wonderful Christmas and are enjoying our Christmas vacation. Unfortunately, I came down here to upload our pictures and videos from Christmas and our memory card has malfunctioned! We have NO pictures from Christmas day up to today. I am sick!!!

I do have a few pictures of Anna in the snow and of our Christmas eve ice skating trip. We'll have to take some more soon and post them. I am hoping to be better at keeping our blog up to date.


This was Anna the first snow of the year. She and Neil built this snowman one morning after they took the kids to school. A day or so after this snow, we had a big ice storm. The snow turned to solid ice and everything was covered for a few days...very pretty, but very slippery! We had another snow storm after that with 8 1/2 inches of snow. Unfortunately, there are no pictures of that!!!

On Christmas eve we went ice skating. It was really fun for everyone ( I watched!). Anna was really good at walking around on her skates, but she DID NOT like being out on the ice. She hung out with me and had nachos and hot chocolate. Everyone else loved it! We are hoping to go again before the kids go back to school.

Here is Isaac out on the ice...

Here is Anna standing on her skates and hanging out with mom....

A sweet one of Bekah and Neil....

Sarah with her friends Hanah and Addie...

Jacob wouldn't come near me to get his picture taken. He was too busy zooming around the rink and doing fancy spins...I tried to get those on film too, but he wasn't cooperating! So, all I have of Jake is a quick video of him skating by (you can see Sarah and Hanah too)...

News from Anna....

Announcing the newest Headman!!

Here is a picture from the ultrasound...it looks like a Headman! (To see the picture closer, just click on it.)

Happy Halloween!

We went trick or treating with some friends. Sarah went to a haunted house with a couple of her friends. I think everyone had a great time. We sure have enough candy to last a while.

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Sarah was Jack Sparrow, and Jake and his friend were Jedi that were captured by an enemy.

Bekah was a pretty witch!

Isaac was Jengo Fett from Star Wars

Anna was a black cat

An Update of Our Life

It has been harder than I thought to get this blog online. I keep thinking that it looks silly, or that I'm not getting it right. I have finally decided just to go for it. This will be a work in progress, and I'll add to it as I go along.

We have been through a huge life change in our family. After 9 years of homeschooling, all of our school age children have decided to try school! They have been in school for 1 quarter now (9 weeks), and have adjusted remarkably well (much better than mom!). Sarah is in 8th grade, Jacob in 6th, Bekah in 4th and Isaac is in 1st grade. We live in a really good, safe, small school district, and this made it lots easier to feel good about them being in school. After the 1st quarter, the 3 older kids say that they want to homeschool again next year. Isaac loves school. We will have to see what next year brings...which leads me to our next big life change....

We are having a baby in March (our final baby I might add)! This pregnancy sure took me by surprise, and I was really sick July-the beginning of October. Now that the morning sickness has gone and I have more energy, I am starting to get used to the idea of six kids and to be excited about the prospect of one more little one. I definitely know that we are supposed to be having this baby. I look forward to finding out what we are having. We have our ultrasound Nov. 7th. Look for an announcement around that date!

Neil is doing well and enjoying his professor's job. We really love the flexibility that he has as far as hours go. He is working hard to be able to earn tenure in the next couple of years.

I am enjoying having time home during the day with Anna. We go to story time at the library each week, music class, and playgroup at the park. I am thinking of starting a Joy School group in Jan. for some of the 3 yr. olds in her nursery class.

I wanted to post some pictures with this update, but as I said before, this is a work in progress. I just need to be glad that I am getting anything posted at all!

We love you all, and we hope to hear from you too! My email is trishaheadman@gmail.com .

Premier post!

Well, here it is! My attempt to keep in touch more with our family and friends. I am TERRIBLE at correspondence, so I am hoping to keep y'all up to date with what is going on with us. I hope you enjoy reading about our happenings, and that you'll keep in touch too!