Thanksgiving Day

We celebrated our day of Thankfulness with some of our wonderful military family here in Minot. We hosted a traditional Thanksgiving dinner and the two families who joined us each brought things to contribute to the meal. It turned out to be a perfect relaxing and enjoyable Thanksgiving. It wasn't super crazy from too many people, but it also wasn't depressing as if we were alone. All the kids had a wonderful time and the adults ate way too much food!

Paula Dean's turkey reciepe....lots and lots of BUTTA!

The kids (minus Jarvis and Rissa!)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our family and friends.  We are spending the day relaxing and doing lots of cooking for our military family that is coming over tonight to join us in thanks.  

We hope you all have a wonderful day filled with lots of love, food, and joy!

Holidays...

I thought I would post this, even though I think most of our family and friends already know...

We just wanted to let everyone know, that we will not be coming home, or going anywhere for Christmas this year.  We realized recently that we have not been in our own home for Christmas for the last 3 years.  In fact, since we have been married, we have only spent 2 or 3 Christmas' in our own home.  We have always tried to make sure we spend at least one Holiday season at each base we are stationed at.  We have yet to spend a Christmas in Minot!  With that said, we would LOVE for anyone to come and visit us for Christmas, or even before or after...or for Thanksgiving!  People hear so many horrible things about ND and we feel that nobody thinks it's worth it to come out here and visit us :(  Honestly, it makes us a little sad.  Minot is our home, and we love it, and we would love to share it with our family and friends. We have said it before and we will say it again, that our home is always welcome.  We have the most comfy queen size bed in the world for a guest bed :)  Also, for all you west coast family...we can guarentee you a WHITE CHRISTMAS if you come out to visit!!!

With that we would like to thank those who have come to visit us over the past 2 years:

Grandma Kathi

Grandma Betty

Aunt Carolyn

Angela

Cassie

:)

Easter time!

I know its a little late, but we have been crazy busy...so here are some photos from Easter! The girls got to dye eggs and decorate egg collecting buckets. We also had a great time at Chuch, which took place at the Freeman Collesium this year. They had a ton of stuff for the kids to do before service...it was great!

Happy Easter from the VanDyck Family!

The Easter bunny put ponies and pets in our eggs!

egg huntin'

Daddy's egg dippin invention...it worked great!

such concentration!