Merry Christmas

Wow it is early Christmas morning!  And I am wide awake.  Writing the post may come back to bite me later today when I am super tired and we have family here!  I guess I can always sneak off to feed Hayden and then snuggle with him and sleep a bit!

Why is it that with little kids trying to get a great family photo just does not happen!  Okay I should say a nice orderly photo does not happen because looking at this, it is a great and totally accurate photo of what life is like for us!

We opted not to send out a Christmas letter this year as we just sent out Hayden's birth announcements in the fall, so my Christmas letter will be found here.

Our family hopes that this year has been an amazing year for all who read this and for those who do not as well.  While we know that life has it's ups and downs I truly hope that when we all look back on the past year we are all able to see some of the wonders of God in our lives.

So it was a year ago that we got an early Christmas gift from God in the form of finding out we were pregnant, and in August we welcomed Hayden Ezra Krahn into the family!  While life with three children age 3 and under is often crazy we cannot envision a life without our not so little baby boy.  Hayden is by far the most laid back of the three kids ( I could handle having one more baby if we had another baby like Hayden, and Kenzie has been asking for a baby sister lately).

This year also brought us to a place of reaching out for help with Jaris.  We are currently waiting for the IHCAN assessment to take place.  We are looking into Autism Spectrum Disorder or Pervasive Developmental Disorder.  In the mean time we are taking Jaris to speech therapy every few months until he is off the wait list and gets to go more frequently, and we are waiting to get into OT.  Jeral and I also sought out the help of a play therapist to help us with helping Jaris regulate his emotions a little better.  While we know we have a long way to go we also are seeing him thrive and progress.  He truly is a gift to our family.

It is hard to believe that three years has passed since Kenzie was placed in our arms, and totally captured our hearts!  Okay who are we kidding she had our hearts long before we ever held her.  She is a fireball our little girl, and she loves to talk, run, play, and be mommy's helper.  We love her infectious smile and laughter.  We know our family would just not be complete without her in it!

Life on the farm and having three little ones keeps us very busy.  As the new year comes in we are looking forward to settling more into a routine with three kids.  Trying to find more time for just the two of us!  Oiy that seems to be not something that we find a lot of time to do.  However we are leaving all three kids with some friends for a few hours on our anniversary in a few days.  We have been married for 6 years!

Well I think I need to go snuggle with my daughter so from our family to yours we pray and hope you have a fantastic Christmas and that this coming year is full of love and the desires of you hearts!