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Winter

We are loving the snow right now. It is 6 inches and still snowing.

I have such great helpers. One morning I told Cole to go tell Izzie good morning. He climbed in her bed and they were quiet for awhile so I fell back to sleep and they were too quiet, so I went to see what was going on. He was taking apart her Mobil. But they were playing so good. They also wanted to help with the laundry.

Elliott's work went ice skating and Cole had fun, but had a hard time learning to skate.

We finally raked our leaves and Cole was messing it all up, at least I got a cute picture of him

Children of mine

I want to apologize to all my friends and family for not keeping in touch with y'all. I don't check facebook anymore and I haven't looked at blogs for awhile. So congrats Dustin on your band tour, hope it went well. Sorry to hear about Dexter and Connor, I hope they are doing better. And Congratulations to Julia with the new baby. I hope to see y'all soon. This is what is keeping me busy:

Feliz Navidad

Merry Christmas from The Garlands!

We have been truly blessed this year with Elliott's great job at Raising Cane's, with a wonderful home, clothes, and food, with our health, and with 2 beautiful sweet kids, and so much more. We could not have had such a good year without the help of our kind Heavenly Father and his son Jesus Christ. I'm grateful for this time of year to remember and celebrate his birth. What a wonderful example he is for us, to be perfect and not sin. I know that our Savior suffered for our sins and died so that we might live with him and Heavenly Father again. I wish all of you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! With much Love!

Pictures

I have left the kitchen a couple times and came back and Cole was feeding Izzie. Like here, she has a donut in her mouth.

After a year, I have finally finished our bathroom. To see the before picture you will have to go back a year in our blog. But Elliott fixed the leak and put sheet rock up and taped and bedded it. Then I had to take off the popcorn ceiling, tape and bed some more, sand, tape and bed, sand again, float the ceiling, then Natasha and I painted the whole bathroom white. Elliott replaced the faucet and the toilet lid and it looks wonderful! You should see it. I'm so proud of myself for learning and doing so much!

November 3rd: If you cant tell Cole needed stitches. He lost his balance and smacked his head on our fireplace. I didn't think it was that bad when he first did it. Then I looked at it and it was deep and bleeding. Luckily it wasn't on his face, so we just put liquid bandage on it. Now it looks fine.

Halloween

I have been extremely busy or extremely lazy on doing anything on the computer lately. So here is Halloween. Poor Elliott had to work right as we went out trick or treating, so he didn't get to come. We helped out our new, wonderful friends Miriam and Andrew move into their house all day so we just trick or treated around their neighborhood. Cole had a great time. He went into a few people's houses since this was he first time really trick or treating. He got a good stash, but didn't get to eat much since we has really sick.

And my camera is totally broken so I have to take pictures on my new phone or on our video camera. So one of these days I will add them too.

We had Thanksgiving this year at the Cline's and the food was the best food I have had with Elliott's family. It was sad not being with my family for this first time, so I hope they had a good Thanksgiving.