The double nickel!

Nana and her grandsons.

Never a dull moment!  

We had the privilege to celebrate my mothers birthday with my brother Bryce and his fiance Abby and my nephew Hayden.  She turned the big 55 this year on Valentines Day!  Getting a photo of the boys and her together is a hard thing to do.  They are either making silly faces at the camera or busting a gut thinking of the ones we have taken and didn't turn out right.  No matter how many times we tell Annikan that bunny ears aren't funny he just later cracks up laughing and says, "but bunny ears are funny!"   We are hopeful that they brought her lots of joy! We are looking forward to celebrating many more years together and are gearing up for our first family vacation in August.  Bryce and Abby won't be able to come as they will be saving their vacation time for their wedding in September, but Craig and Brittany will be there!  First time seeing the ocean for all 3, I believe!  Exciting times ahead!

It's Tree Time

We started a new family tradition this year and cut our own tree down.  Well, we didn't grow the tree, we just cut it down and purchased it for our own.  We have always gotten a tree the Friday after Thanksgiving, but this year we wanted to build a few more memories and start making a day of it.  We had a good time, despite the cold.  The wind really rips through the fields at Hensler's.  The boys don't believe in Santa, but if yours do, they have a Santa there to talk to.  They also have wreaths and cut trees for purchase.  We are blessed to be gifted a giant wreath for the barn and a normal size one for our house from Grandpa Don.  It is heartwarming to see him bringing them over to our house!  We proudly light the barn for all who pass to see his handiwork.  

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!

Chris and I enjoyed celebrating his birthday at Lake Michigan in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The boys love playing in the sand and lake and we enjoyed watching them!

2009 Update

Another year is gone and so are my good intentions of blogging about the family. Here is a year of photos to show what we have been up to.

Dad broke his arm in January checking the roads for us to go to town for groceries.

Went to Florida in January to see Justin

and Disney World!

Chris went on his first work mission trip to Chile.

A tree fell on our house during a storm and we got a new roof! Major praise for this one. The lord is so good to us.

Annikan was running low in the yard and whacked his face on a brick tile in the yard. No stitches, just surgical glue.

Daddy spent 30 hours with random help to build the boys a play set.

Annikan played organized tball for the first time. Go Rockies!

Olliver enjoyed his first set of gymnastic lessons. He is such a monkey.

Jon Troast helped us celebrate Chris' 33rd birthday in style by having his 99th concert at our house on his tour of 100 concerts in 100 days.

We enjoyed living in Indiana and ate way too much sweet corn this summer.

Dad celebrated his 55th birthday with the best birthday party ever, says Olliver.

CCC summer picnic was a blast!

Olliver was finally big enough to ride his tricycle.

Annikan learned to ride his bike with no training wheels.

Annikan played soccer and rocked the field.

We utilized our family membership to the zoo, several times.

Gianna our beautiful life group baby was born.

The boys held still for a couple seconds for a fall photo shoot

Olliver the dragon for Halloween.

Annikan the mailman, again!

Chris tried to grown a mustache. I said no way.

Olliver celebrated his 3rd birthday :)

Annikan celebrated his 5th birthday.

Getting ready to celebrate Jesus birth with the family. I hope you come to know our Savior better this year!

All our love,

The Pettit's

Olliver

Olliver is finally doing well.  He is up to 21.5 pounds and is 2 years and 4 months old.  He is the cutest "tiny" thing.  He likes to remind me that he is tiny all the time.  He has been released from all but one doctor, so that is great.  He prays for sausage and eggs almost every  night...his favorite.  He is still very underweight, but is fine in everything else.  He is super sweet and likes to defend his older brother, alot.  He is such and encourager and loves to sing......all the time!

Annikan

I was playing around with the Mac and this is one of the pictures that I loved of Annikan.  He has gotten so big.  He is in Pre-K 3 at Greater Warsaw Cooperative Preschool.  He is doing really well.  I can't believe that he is already 4!  

BUSY

It has been really busy for us this summer... who am I kidding, since Olliver has come. Chris got a new position and has been working almost 60 hours a week! He also is still training for the Columbus Marathon on the 21st of October so he runs a lot...well he's supposed too. Then he is running a 50k in Huntington late December. That's 31 miles~ Annikan is very tiring. He is so very active and quite naughty. His speech is really taking off....he's very curious and loves to repeat things that he hears us say in later conversations. Olliver is still struggling to gain weight but is somewhat crawling...on his head mostly but gets around. He can clap, give 5, pull himself to a stand and say mama. I am still adjusting to life with two and all of Olli's appointments. He has OT every Tuesday, Nutrition every Wednesday and PT every Thursday. Every 3 months he has two appointments at Riley in Indy with Dr. Hamati in Neurology and also at the Developmental Peds unit. He then sees his pediatrician every 2 months for checkups. All of his test have come back clean so that is promising but he is still Failure to Thrive. Frustrating but we are working hard on it. He now weights 13 pounds and 8 ounces. He has a lose a couple weeks ago but has gained it back...he had a virus with projectile puking! Fun.

We are really loving the weather change. Now on our walks Annikan will ride his tricyle. It is cute. He thinks he is really fast.