Black Friday

Thanksgiving has already come and gone!!! We hope you all had a great, safe Thanksgiving with your loved ones. Instead of getting trampled on Black Friday or putting up Christmas decor, I decided to update our blog for you all.

We put our house up for sale last week so we'll see who wants to buy a house right before Christmas :). We had to do some last minute projects beforehand so we had the pleasure of Bonnie, Ryan's mom, come to help out watching Josiah.

A trip to Iowa was made to find a new lair for the Lins pack. We were not finding a lot in the way of acreages but the Lord was good and we found just the home for us. We made an offer and it was accepted (much to our surprise!). Our closing is January 11th so we will be staying with my (Katie's) parents in Minnesota in the meantime. Nana and Papa will have had thier full share of the little monster by then. Here's a picture of our new home. Be warned friends and family, there may be a call for a "barn raising" in the spring as the new pad has no horse housing yet.

Being so close to Minnesota while we were there, we spent a Sunday up there to see our new addition to the Lohse family. All cousins were together and I think Josiah is begining to feel a little out numbered so hurry up you guys on the Lins side, you seem to be our only hope of getting a boy in the mix!

We all (yes, even the horses) will be moving Monday, December 3rd back to the midwest so we hope to see some of you midwesterners here in the near future.

Josiah surprised us last week with his new talent, crawling! I think it's a survival tactic for Christmas....to get away from toy hoarding cousins and smoochy women.

Lastly, Ryan turns 30 (!!!) this Monday, November 26th so please make sure you give him a hard time about how old he is. He seems to remind me frequently of this fact.

We hope you all are enjoying your long weekend and don't forget to scroll down the page for some more new pictures!