!!!!It's a BOY!!!!

Ezekiel Thomas Hinton

Born yesterday, December 9th - right on the due date!  He knew we couldn't wait any longer. 

8 pounds 13 ounces - 21 1/2 inches

 GivingThanks

*three cheers for pie*

We were invited to the Danahers place this year.  The first time we had ever left our house for Thanksgiving since we've lived in Virginia.  We had a lot of fun hangin' out and eating with them!! 

The day started by being too warm for sweaters and a hot kitchen.  But, thankfully it rained while we were eating and cooled everything off for a very happy day.

Sarah and Laura getting into the spirit of things by working off a little bit of dinner and getting prepped for dessert.

Sarah and Mr. D

Sitting.  A tradition for thanksgiving.  *wink*

The Danahers are a family of 11, and not including us, they had about 3 other families there.  A big fun group!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone, we hope everyone had a great day and took time to count your blessings....instead of sheep. 

Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good;
         For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

- Psalm 118:1

 Truman and Hannah turn thirTEEN

"Double the pleasure, double the fun!  That's the statement of the great mint in double mint..... - YUM!" 

Their birthday morning doughnuts!  HOMEMADE

Laura took Hannah out for a little one on one... sister time.    Tea and Shopping!

Dad was gone for their actual birthday, so we waited to celebrate 'till Friday night. 

  They're N'sync and dishin' out the good stuff!

Playing Hannah's new game.

hmmm...   kid's birthdays are fun, they come with cool toys!

Our Aunt and Uncle sent this picture with the twins birthday cards.  This is the Christmas right after the twins were born.  1994.

Snow White

Xango !

Conference 2007

This is the store that they set up at the Salt Lake Palace in Utah (that's where the whole conference is).  They were giving away that thing in the middle...

The store is lotsa fun to hang in.  Play a little Xango soccer, meet the President & CEO, and then let's not forget the shopping...

The Holiday Xango bottles

The Great Salt Lake.  Utah has lotsa beauty!

meanwhile....

Youth Challenge

Indiana has the prettiest trees

We went to the Candy Festival with the Hausers before leaving for Youth Challenge...

Caleb had a lot of fun playing on the turf   And we had fun watching

We took a fall walk and picked fall bouqets   How do you think Katie looks with half a mustache?

Playing Halo 3 on a 50 something inch tv, on an XBOX 360!! ...lol, sounds cool anyway.  We stayed up nice and late hangin' at Meredith's house.

The next morning -- BREAKFAST!  Meredith making his "melt in your mouth" eggs.  It was the best meal of the trip!

We ride with our cousins church bus from Pennsylvania...this is on our way home

oh yeah buddy...a great rest stop!

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Fall Time

RIGHT after Laura got home from Utah, us 3 girls reunited and headed for a party at the Quanns

Our VERY first time EVER to carve pumpkins!!  o how exciting

It was lotsa messy fun. 

Laura's        Krissy's         Katie's

We only carve nice, happy, fall, pretty, charming, uplifting, fun, creative, funny, romantic, outstanding...things on our pumpkins - as you can tell!

Our fun simply continues.  We have more to post about, but we'll have to wait for another time...

We have noticed that most people have switched to facebook...for those of you who still check out our Xanga (but you STILL DON'T COMMENT *stinkers*), then this is for you...and our own enjoyment hehe

Next we're looking forward to Thanksgiving, Christmas, AND a new baby!

INDIANA

first night there -- bowlin' with becca

We put together a candle light dinner complete with pumpkin pie :)  

We got to stay with becca for 3 nights!! We hadn't been able to see her for about 9 months! *ahh*

Breakfast with some HINTONS

Rebecca let us use her car and we were able to go visit our cousin Rhoda and her kids one afternoon

happy times, happy feet

We had some team dutch blitz - serious stuff!

Some of our friends drove to Marion and we got to hang out one night.  It was a BLAST!

A chilly and very enjoyable picnic in Indianapolis!

Walkin round town

Laura and Katie took the stairs up this big ol' monument! haha, and they're proud of it!  24 stories

Starbucks is beautiful this time of year...

This is our first basketball hoop ever.  We checked out the old house as we drove by *picture*

Breakfast with "OLD" friends.  Marty was our Pastors son and Jared was just another church playmate!  OK, a close church playmate and Marty's cousin.

After picking up Caleb from the Counseling Seminar

COLTS shake

We got to stay with the Witters over the weekend!  Church reunion

We played Apples to Apples, Upset the Fruit Basket, and Mafia after supper at Nathan and Sharons

And...traveling home...

Fun Times at Home

We had a superhero party just because we could. 

Members of the Justice League: Flash Gordan, Wonder Woman, Batman, & Green Lantern

We ran around making costumes out of nothing - it was fun

Laura's WONDER WOMAN & Katie's POISEN IVY (some dressed as villains, haha)

Sometimes on Mom and Dad's date nights, us kids create a lot of good times.

Matt did great on his Inspector Gadget costume!

Quann's Family Fall Party

A fun campfire with music, and s'mores!

FACE PAINTING

Krissy & Jenna Q.

It was lotsa fun getting our cheeks decorated   Can't remember the last time we did!  It's good to be young...

bouncy...bouncy...bouncy...  weeeeee!!!

Bubbles too!

Friday Night Lights

Katie, Caleb, Laura, and Matt along with a friend (Joe Wise, who invited us!) went to our first highschool football game!  The only thing most of us had seen before was little boy rec leagues.  Afterwards, Joe treated us to dessert at Ruby Tuesday's...he knows how to get on our good side

Family Time

Sometimes we get to splurge and go out to dinner.  This is Red Robin - gooood times.

*mmmm*

Dad just saw the check haha

Aw, me and Liberty...we're like this (doing the two fingers motion that signifies "tightness")

We're home again!  Here are the pictures of the end of our visit...

  geo cashing - a new game rick taught us!  It's like a treasure hunt.

After geo cashing, we celebrated with frosties!

Chilis again on Wednesday night after church!

Golf cart ride!  We played on the green )

 Luke and Rhoda Grout served us real Russian tea and chocolates!

Oh, and the tea set was also from Russia.

Once upon a time there was nobody around and so we played on the church playground...it's a good one!

With our cousin, Jonathan, at a flag football game.

The Huffs let us take their vehicle to Ft. Lauderdale to visit our friend, Kathryn!

She took us to a really cool pottery place where we painted our own memorabilia!

Up on Sunday morning to watch the sunrise on the beach.

That night we were back in Hobe Sound and our family came over to hang out with us after church!

Everybody left our place kinda early so we crashed the party at the Shillingtons! )

The cool group

Headbands!

We were finally able to get together with Kristi Dolan!  We went to Perkins and had a blast!

Katie teaching the kids how to make funny faces...her specialty. lol

We ran into our new friend Rebekah, and her son Chase, at the beach. 

The waves were huge (to us) and we had fun trying to boogie board!

mike & laura

Blowing Rocks 

whoo hoo!!

Then we got ourselves cleaned up and went to church that night where we saw all our friends before we left.

The church we went to while we were there is the same one that we usually watch online, here at home.  We had an amazing time going to church LIVE!

Our last meal in Florida, on the way to the airport.  Had to make it a good one!

We feel very blessed that all 3 of us were able to go.  Everyone down there was great and we had fun meeting new people.  Special thanks to Dad and Mom, & Rick and Mary!!!!!  We had a fantastic time!

Went to a local ice cream shop!  It was a very yummy and happy place.

"I'm from Matel" 

Playing at the park

We took the kids to the park and brought a picnic too.

Playing twister with Kaitlyn (one of her favorites)

We drove off to Steak 'n Shake one day before a little shopping!!

mmmmm....

found this one in the parking lot. 

Dinner on Sunday with a bunch of people!!  Fun stuff...

doing the dishes.  good girls.  (we didn't really do much - they let us go play instead)

Play with these!! 

Krissy and Katherine

After one lesson from Kaitlyn.. we're master violinists!

Rik had us over for supper.  He grilled and we took care of the sides.    We had fun, YUM!

probably the hottest beach pictures you've ever seen.

those crack us up!