Monday, June 30, 2014

Weeks 24, 25, & 26/52

2014 Weekly Portrait Challenge

Week 24, 25, and 26

These weeks we are catching up...

We celebrated Father's day,

went to Vacation Bible School,
and
celebrated Owen's 6th birthday!
(we have been pretty busy around here, 
hence the lack of blog posts)

Week 24

We celebrated Father's day...





What a blessing this man is. The kids adore him and I couldn't imagine life without the abundant love we share.


Week 25

                       We went to Vacation Bible School...







All week our home was filled with the sound of the kids singing, 
"I want to be like, Jesus!"
It was a welcomed brake from the Frozen soundtrack.


Week 26

                       We celebrated Owen's 6th birthday!






Owen is 6!
The kids ate 90% of a huge watermelon at his party.


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Thursday, June 12, 2014

One month

1

"On the night you were born, the moon smiled with such wonder 
that the stars peeked in to see you and the night wind whispered, 
"Life will never be the same."

"Because there had never been anyone like you...
ever in the world."

"On the Night You Were Born"
-Nancy Tillman



One month has gone by since we first saw your sweet face and we breathed our first breaths together.
 Yours a breath of life and mine a breath of relief.
You were here, alive, and well, and life would never be the same...


Ava

*you are amazing

*you  love ceiling fans and, well, basically any fixture hanging from the ceiling

*you love the windows and the curtains, opened or closed, and the shadows that they make

*you love to smile, great big smiles at us, and you have since birth

*if we stick our tongue out at you you will stick yours back out at us, repeatedly.
 you especially love to play this game with your siblings.

*you are starting to coo and "talk" to us when you make eye contact with us and get very excited when we talk back to you. you wave your arms and legs to show us your excitement.

*you love to nurse and have been a pro since day one. Mommy thinks that you must have been sucking your thumb the whole nine months to be born that well established.

*you just started wearing cloth diapers this week.

*you look like your mommy did when she was a baby. you have "stork bite on your eye lids and you even make the monkey face that she did, making an "o" with your mouth a good part of the day.

*you discovered just yesterday that you love the swing.

*you have lost most of the hair on the top of your head making you resemble an old man with little hair on top and a ring of hair around the sides. however, from the back. your hair is long so you have a bit of a mullet going on. the hair that you do have left on the top looks like a thinning mohawk. it is a one of a kind hair style for sure.

* you often have what we call "doggie dreams" because you go through a whole plethora of emotions in your sleep. you smile, you frown, you make all sorts of faces and show many emotions. we watch you and wonder just what you are dreaming about.

* you have adorable dimples

*you have hiccups at least once a day

* you have blessed us beyond measure and healed a place in us that we didn't know could ever be healed.
you are an abundant blessing little girl. 


"We love you more than you ever will know, so we sent love to follow wherever you go."

-Nancy Tillman










Monday, June 9, 2014

Week 23/52

2014 Weekly Portrait Challenge

Week 23

This week are...



Emilee, enjoying some strawberry cake on the front porch

 Olivia, snuggling with her "older" sister
(by 4 minutes)


 Owen is such a good big brother. 
He loves to smother her with love.


This little boy fell asleep during a movie last night and had to be carried to bed. 
Then he came back out a couple of hours later, fell asleep in my lap,
 and had to be carried back to bed again. 
My little boy is getting to heavy to carry!


Ava, sporting her first cloth diaper!
She is 4 weeks old today!


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Monday, June 2, 2014

Week 22/52

2014 Weekly Portrait Challenge

Week 22

This week are enjoying the sunshine 

before all of the rain comes 


these two sing the Frozen soundtrack from the time they wake up in the morning until they go to bed

this young man is only going to be 5 for 26 more days!


what a good big brother he has become

this babe is three weeks old today and weighs a whopping 9 lbs!


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