Happy Holiday Season

Happy Holidays, from our family, to yours!

Christmas is almost here!

Our good friend Tony Haag took these wonderful pictures of the kids for us. We will be forever grateful because they turned out awesome!!

We hope this holiday season finds you happy, joyful, and in good health. This is such a wonderful time of year to be thankful, and we hope you are enjoying it with family and friends, staying close with the ones you love.

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

The Hains

Thanksgiving and Finals

Happy Thanksgiving from the Rowe/Kindt clan!

This is all of us gathering around the computer, to talk to Jessie via Skype. She couldn't surprise us this year, and walk right through the door like last year (which, by the way, was an AWESOME surprise). But this was good!

The weekend after Thanksgiving, Mark's parents, Linda and Tony, celebrated their 40th Wedding Anniversary! We went up to Kansas City to celebrate with them, while they renewed their wedding vows! Here's the happy couple :-)

One good thing about Thanksgiving (besides the family gathering and turkey), is that the school semester is almost over! Mark and I had a hard time getting back into the groove of school work and finals after the break! But we're making it through and this is our last week, then it's a full month without homework assignments, projects, etc.

This is a picture of my clinical group for 1st semester. We had a wonderful instructor (Denise-in the middle), and good experiences at Select Specialty, in Via Christi-St. Francis hospital.

November, here we come

Caleb lost his 1st tooth!! We can't believe how fast this moment has come upon us...but he worked hard on that tooth for the past few weeks, and now we finally have something for the tooth fairy!

Another big milestone-Mark turned the Big 3-0 yesterday! We were able to go up to Manhattan to see K-State beat KU, and without the kids. Caleb stayed with Papa and Grandma Hain, and Katelynn stayed with Great-Grandma Rowe. After the game, Mark and I went over to Kansas City for the night and we were able to have nice dinner and a night out on the town! Of course, we were in bed by 10:30pm! Overall, a nice way to celebrate Mark's birthday!

Happy Halloween

Halloween baking in the kitchen!

Before getting into their costumes...

Yikes! Who are those scary kids?? Oh- that's just Caleb as a spooky skeleton and Katelynn as a pirate princess! Whew! That was a close one ;~)

Fall Fun!

We went to the pumpkin patch with Papa and Grandma Hain and had a lot of fun! A great picture of Mark and the kids on a haystack ride at the pumpkin patch.

Navigating through the corn maze....a lot harder than we thought!

Fall in our backyard...the trees changing displayed beautiful colors this year! The kids enjoyed playing outside with the bits of warm weather we've had.

Katelynn loves being a ballerina =)

school, school, school

First day of clinicals, at nursing school =)

It's been so busy around here, Katelynn's having to make meals.

It's been all school, all the time here at the Hain house! Good news we're over half way done now with this semester :)

Katelynn turning 2

We can't believe it! Katelynn will be turning two tomorrow! How amazing! Time really flies by, especially with these early steps and milestones. This past Sunday we had a small Birthday party for our big girl =)

She enjoyed having friends and family around, and of course the neat gifts and yummy cake! Here are some pictures we got from our friends, Shelia and Tony. They have an awesome camera and are great photographers, so this is why these pictures look phenomenal!!

 Some of our friends...