and our next musician soon to join the praise team...

at home praise team

Ian is growing fast...way too fast!

He's so eager to keep up with big sis and bro and has mastered crawling, fighting for his own matchbox car, pulling up to standing and melting everybody's heart.

Happy Valentine's Day - Father Daughter Dance

thanks to uncle joel and aunt mandy the kids had so much decorating their bikes and getting on their new gear...biking is definitely a favorite activity for the zylstras!

A Zylstra Family Christmas

Snow Mountain Ranch - Winter Park, CO

It was a bittersweet Christmas.

We desperately missed Grandma Beth

who flew back to MI to be with her mom (Grandma Ippel).

Our hearts were with Grandma and Grandpa Ippel and the family

saying goodbye to a wife, mother and grandmother.

But, we had a wonderful time in the snowy mountains

and were so thankful to be together.

The cousins can never get enough of eachother.

Brody just wants to be Dirk and Kaatje loves the "girl time" with Kiera and Dayna. We had a really big cabin, actually a family reunion lodge, with room for a craft table,

lots of space to cook, eat, read, play games, sleep, etc.

Santa (aka grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins) was very good to us this year!

Thank you so much!