Our Kids

Meeko and Riker, Thanksgiving 2009! It's so rare that we capture a picture of Riker with his eyes looking normal as opposed to glowing like an alien. Although these two don't snuggle they do enjoy each others company during the day when we are away. I thought this was too cute not to share of our two snoring babies;) Although for you non-animal lovers it's probably pretty corny, sorry, but I don't care.

Congratulations, It's My Birthday!

My niece Ashlyn made this for me for my birthday. It was very thoughtful and beautiful:) I love all of the colors as well as the gentle reminder of how old I am...ha.....oh man......only one more year in my twenties!

Bills Cosby Presents Noah's Ark Lego Style

Dan wanted me to share this with you. It's a video of one of he and Stuart's favorite Bill Cosby's stand up skits, BUT put to a Legos, on Noah and the Ark...hilarious!



Also....remember this post? Stuart has now made ABC news with a brief picture of his lego creation.

Viewing Dan's Sermons Again!

You can once again view/listen to Dan's sermons. They finally figured out how to upload the videos to our new church website. Go to www.paynesvillelutheran.org and click on "worship" and then "sermons"!

Random Thoughts from the Dornfelds

-We finally had a nice day to finish raking our leaves yesterday. It felt good to have the sun on our backs after a whole month of gloominess. I guess we only had two days with sunshine in Oct...blah!
-Been thinking about this family lately from the cities. There are a few christian women's blogs that I follow and one of them is this family. Their son is going through a very risky heart surgery on Tuesday. I can't imagine the stress they've gone through with their son being diagnosed before he was born. There was even the chance that he might live and now here he is one year later, but in a very critical situation.
-We are staying healthy (knock on wood) and are very thankful for that. There were busy days that Dan wished he had the flu so that he could stay home, but the flu for me is something I fear horribly. When I get it, I get it really bad.
-Dan is experimenting with a painting technique that is supposed to make counters look like granite. He's trying this on the downstairs bar so our parents will get to see when they come for THANKSGIVING!
-Our families are coming for Thanksgiving!
-Dan and I played Scrabble for the first time ever. He warned me that he was a master at it. He beat me by almost 100 points! Maybe I'll lay off the margartias next time and try my luck again:)
-We saw the new Christmas Carol 3D. Very good, but don't bring your kids unless they are a little older....I was scared at times....that doesn't take much though!
That's all we have for now!

In LOVE With Dancing

Most of my family knows I like to dance. Pretty sure we all do, as even my Grandpa can dance all night at our wedding. I'm thinking about asking Dan to convert the rest of our basement into a dance floor. We've got the sound system, now we just need a floor. For Halloween I went to a bachelorette party down in the cities. We all dressed up and danced all night. I seriously cannot stop smiling today! I really need to do that more often. Here's a picture of half of our group.......who doesn't love to dress up and dance the night away like nobody is watching!