Family Faces - Thanksgiving 2008

The holiday season has started and we embraced it in a grand way. We traveled to Chattanooga for Thanksgiving week and then returned home to Bluffton with Kylee's great grandparents, the Lindaueres and Matt & Katie, to continue the celebration of family. Many great meals, a couple extra pounds and a little work on the golf swing, some bowling and baby showers were just a few activities that took place. All in all it was a wonderful time. Katie made a comment that every time we gather with family she gets to meet someone new. Tim, Barb and the kids visited for Thanksgiving also. (One of many cousins from Denise's family tree). And when she came here to Bluffton she got to spend time with Kylee.
Now everything is quiet and the dust is settling (oh yea, no dust in a Dutch house), lol, we are getting ready to continue the holiday with a quick trip to Maryland. Then during the Christmas to New Year's week Denise's sister Dee and b-i-l Russ are coming to visit. A tradition we truly embrace. Here's hoping you also embrace family during this holiday season and focus your thoughts on our Lord and Savior, Jesus, who has given us all things.

Kylee Almost 2 Months

I haven't been posted for a while now. Here's why. The creation of Facebook has made it so easy to keep up with photos and friends. Log on and post a quick note and the responses start flying. A picture here and there; then you find yourself navigating to look at your friends albums. And so on.... So as Denise is busy having pillow fights, searching Jenny's page for the latest Kylee updates and generally seeing what people are up to on Facebook daily, I forget to download pics of my granddaughter for the world to see. Some of us are Old School and are still posting on blogger.

So you don't have to read to much more of me rambling....here's some of the latest pics. The pink dress (her first) is what she wore to church on Sunday (16th) and then to Oma and Opas for dinner. As with all of us wearing the fancy clothes, it was short lived.

A few photos and then into comfy clothes.

Kylee's first PINK DRESS

Oh, yea I almost forgot that if you wear a PINK dress you

must have PINK ballerina slippers too!

A perfect smile for a perfect dress!

Sean and Jenny fight for camera time. It's more about Kylee, guys!

Bailey checks out this little person that getting all the attention.

What a face!

Not so sure about that big dog, yet.

It's official !!!

Well, it's official. Stephen has asked Courtney to marry him. They have been dating for a little over a year and he really felt that she is the one that God has called to be his partner in life. So last weekend on a trip to see her grandma in NC, he popped the question. We of course, couldn't be happier. She is so full of life and brings some southern charm into the Jansen tree, too. Courtney said yes to Stephen with only one stipulation...She will finish school first. I think this will test the devotion they have for each other, as well as help them grow closer together. In addition, this gives us time to save up for our 3rd and final wedding.


So start planning to pack your bags and spend some time in HHI 'cause they're planning a wedding in 2010, sometime between May and October. That narrowed t down, right? Keep watching for updates.