Kind: The Perfect Name for this Healthy Snack Bar!

 

       Just thought I'd take a minute to tell you about these, these deliciously wonderful snack bars are my favorite for a couple of reasons, they taste absolutely sinful (which in this case is a good thing!), they are filling, yet don't make you want to plead for mercy from an overload of sugar and carbs, and they are made with mostly healthy ingredients!  These are so good for on the go!  If you have a couple of children that need snacks in the middle of lunch and dinner like I did when I was a wee tot, but don't want to give them one of those snack bars that is entirely too inundated with sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, and all those other forms of junk out there, "Kind" is the way to go!

Happily Munching Away,
Hannah

Jostie Flicks - Man VS Kitchen

Love,
Han

Post Christmas Shenanigans.

 Apparently we (as in the Woltersdorf family and a few others) decided that we wanted to go up into the mountains and hang out one day.  So, we did.  It was fun, It was wet....  wait no what am I saying...  It wasn't wet a bit actually, I guess I am just so used to saying that it was wet because it normally is.

Let me start over ok?

 Here goes...  It was fun, it was cold (not wet), well if you count the river then it was very wet, but we didn't go in the river and the river didn't bother us...  Well there were a few mud puddles.  Whoa, ok I need to focus or I am never going to be done with this post and you are going to be stuck here reading it for hours....  Or never reading it because I never finished it because I kept on rambling...

(focus, Hannah, focus.)

Alright let's try this one more time shall we.  It was fun, it was cold, it was muddy, but really it was pretty awesome... And I hurt my leg...  (Just thought I would throw that in there just in case you wanted to know...  You probably didn't but it doesn't really matter wether or not you did or did not because there you have it.)

I was so bummed when we got there because I realized that our camera was broken and the Bloomers didn't bring theirs, so we were cameraless....  Or so I thought, it turns out smart phones are good for something besides looking at facebook...  Who knew right?  So, Ethan took these pictures (yes all of them) with his phone.  I was really glad that he did otherwise we wouldn't have any pictures of our time up there.

Hundreds of dead fish in the river....  Wow this is a wonderful way to start off the pictures isn't it?  Oh well.  I am feeling very random today.

And the dude with the camera.

Typical Josh picture.  :P  

The vehicles.

Seriously, dads hat...  I can never take him seriously in it.

ITS LUNCH TIME!
Mom made chili for all of us AND, AND, she says she's disappointed that there is no pictures of the (so called) "camp cook"  or the "camp cooks chili".  I think that she should fill out a complaint form and give it to the photographer...  Watch out Ethan, my mother is ruthless. ;)

More lunch

and more.

 After we were done goofing off way up out in the boonies, Me ( acting as co-pilot), Josiah (as squashed banana 1.) , Ethan (as Pilot), Gabe (squashed banana 2), and Josh (squashed banana 3. and nominated most talkative person on trip....  Ever.) decided that we wanted to go to a movie.  We saw Tintin.  I really liked Tintin, it was very faithful to the books/comics (I guess they are just comics but we have a book with comics in it...  What now?!  Two in one.  Pretty impressive eh?)  And the animation was incredible.  Andy Serkis did a really good job acting as the Captain, and Jaime Bell (Tintin) will always be one of my favorites.  I had a really hard time, I must admit, getting it out of my head that he wasn't actually "gollum" anymore was... pretty tough.

Hey look a nerd...  wonder where he came from?

Oh look another nerd... I mean geek.  Sorry.

Josiah dancing with Elvis outside the cinema.

from left to right: Josiah, Me, Gabe, Josh.
and the last picture of the evening.  You can't see it very well but all of us "minors" were told to stand behind the "no minors" sign just for kick and giggles.  It was fun.   

After that we went home and chilled out, put puzzles together, got warm by the fire, Watched John Wayne, and since none, (and when I say none... I mean none.) of these losers had ever seen Tangled.  So we watched that too, and sadly they didn't get to see the end but they did see most of it.  And got to hear all of us sing along to the songs as it was playing, was that as annoying as it sounds you ask?....  Yes, yes it was.

All in all it was very fun and we had a great time!  Hi-lights of the day I think were, listening to all the guys sing "amerika" in the car, watching Jared back up his jeep and go through a mud puddle fast so that he could get mud on his car, and joking about duct taping Josh's mouth shut, and renaming aforementioned "duct tape" to "Josh tape" (sorry Josh, but that was funny).

Thanks for reading/looking!  I hope I will be able to post about some other New Years stuff soon, until then!

Love,
Han

P.S. How was that Maria?

Christmas Eve Breakfast.

This year we had our annual christmas eve breakfast as usual.  Although it was a little bit cramped it was still awesome, and one of the best ones yet.  (yes Mack family we missed you so much)  It was...  In my opinion, everything it should have been, and was expected to be.  I love the christmas season for so many reasons...  And for those of you who don't celebrate christmas....  You are seriously missing out, and I mean seriously.  

Rebecca took this picture of the table.  

Lydia in her spiffy new PJ's.  We always wear the new pajamas that we got for christmas for breakfast that morning...  It is pretty awesome.

The Koch's grandparents!  I was so glad they could come!  I love these two.

Mrs. Koch explaining something to everyone.

Our huge table, with everyone eating breakfast at it...  I am so glad dad and Josiah made this for us.

The guys bein weird.

Jessica and I....  My hand looks very creepy in this one....  Just sayin'

The guys trying to smile, it wasn't working very well...  I couldn't get them to all smile at once.

Josiah and Ethan....  Josiah wouldn't quit moving.  He is such a pill.  :P

Dad trying to look scary...  It kinda just turned out looking weird though.  haha

I'm pretty sure he was telling me not to take a picture here...  And Meshach.......  Well ya, we wont go there. 

Excited!

After breakfast all the younger people (younger as in young adults) and some of the little kids went on a walk.

LOVE this picture!  Thanks Rebecca for taking it.

Now that we are through the myriad of photos...  I think, Christmas Eve 2011 = Success.  Definitely.

It was so nice to be able to spend christmas with friends and family, we are very blessed to be able to do this every year.

Love,
Han

Thanksgiving.

Oh my, I am a little late in posting this but...  Oh well, you will just have to deal with it.

I thought that with this post I would write down a few things that I was thankful for since I didn't get to do it earlier.  So, this will be two posts very mixed and mingled into one, so much so that you wont be able to make out which post was supposed to be which.

So for thanksgiving we had oh so much food, and oh so much fun, and an oh so huge turkey, actually we had two huge turkeys.  It was yummy, it was fun, it was a lot of work, it was in short wonderful.  And man oh man, that tryptophan sure did a number on me.  :)  I was so tired I could hardly keep my eyes open!

I think though out of anything my favorite part of the meal is the dessert!  Seriously, sweets are my thing, I love sugar and candy, so when dessert rolled around I was very happy, and believe me we had a lot of it.  What is your favorite part of the thanksgiving meal?

1. I am thankful for wonderful fathers that love the Lord, and their families.

Dad was cutting up the turkey and he couldn't resist having a little snack while he was at it.

2.  I am thankful for precious time spent with friends and family.

They worked on this puzzle so hard ad didn't even finish.  It was sad.  

3.  I am thankful for little boys that make me smile and laugh, like this one.

Little Bradley is quite the cowboy.  Him and Naomi get along very well.  hehehe.

 4.  for long fun conversations with dear sisters in Christ.  It was great catching up with the A. family.  :)

We had so much fun laughing and talking with these girls. 

5.  For growing up sisters who get to be better and better at helping around the house all the time.

Lydia was very tired by the end of the day.  

6.  For the time consuming art of putting together puzzles.  I am afraid I am not very good at it, I don't have enough patience to ever finish one.  :)

I think Charles was there at that puzzle most of the evening.

7.  For childhood buddies, that turn into life long friends.

These guys are so cute.  (Yes, Naomi is in this picture)

8.  For mama's that take care of and love you forever and always.  And cook awesome turkeys at thanksgiving.  :)

This turkey weighed 34 lbs.  It. Was. Huge.

I know, these guys were the center of attention that night.  :)

 9.  For precious babies, that grow into godly (in this case) young men.

Just to put your mind at ease.  No he is not dying, that purple stuff on his mouth is from 'gentian violet' and it is for thrush.  I can't believe how big he is getting!

I think that they were doing cheers here.  It was so cute to watch them.  :)

 10.  I am thankful that God provided the means for us to have a thanksgiving feast.  God is indeed good.

What is a thanksgiving day without sparkling cider anyway?  

 11. For huge tables that everyone can fit around.  :)  Dad and Josiah built this table for mom last christmas.  It is pretty awesome!

This is our table picture.  Usually for thanksgiving we set the table really nice but we didn't do that this year.  I think it had something to do with not wanting to break anymore nice plates.  Hopefully we will do that for christmas.  I always love eating out of pretty dishes, it makes the food taste that much better.  haha.

He was drinking Apples Cider out of the bottle.  I had to get a picture.

Alan looks very creepy in this picture.  On a side note...  He did make some very yummy food for all of us!  It was delicious.

 12.  I am thankful for Dessert.  It has seriously saved me from having a complete mental breakdown.  Ok, so maybe I exaggerated a little but, ya know.

Robyn made a really yummy pumpkin pie.

Charles made this.  It was kinda like a fruit pizza but not.  It was really yummy!

Mama and Lydia made this. One of my personal favorites...  Lemon Meringue Pie.  

Keziah and I made a cheesecake!  It was so yummy.  I don't know why I have never made one before.

My beautiful sis.

The A family!  Thanks so much for coming we had a fun time visiting and catching up with y'all!

13.  And last but certainly not least, I am thankful for Gods providence, I am thankful that He sent His son to die for us on the cross, and that He is in control.

Love,
Han

¹⁵And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
~Colossians 3:15~