Forgot to mention that Z turned 1 :) Lil Zachary Alan had his belated birthday party. It was not what I had planed but life rarely is.

 

May update

Ok since I seem to be a dud at getting posts in here I am thinking it might be easier if I just shoot for once a month and see what happens. Maybe that will get me on a roll. LOL! So mothers day came and went. We were at the cabin as I said before. It was very nice but not relaxing. Matthew worked on the siding that was removed and needing to be replaced. I did most of the deep spring cleaning which included washing the ceilings and walls and dusting, mopping and the such. I was sore and tired. Matthew put some steps on one end of the deck so it is a little more completed but still needs the other side and a railing of some sort. I will take pics when he is finished.

After that we came home to do school and prepare for small group. It was very busy that week! I worked a few times in there and then we packed it up and went back to the cabin to finish out the month.

Our annual fishing trip!!! This is the second year that Matthew has invited Joe Culver to come up with us for the Walleye jamboree, though smaller than it has been in the passed due to lack of advanced planning it was still fun. The fishing was good though not many keepers were to be found. Andrea suprised us all when she won first place for the kids by catching three fairly large Walleye! The largest in at 23 inches. She won a really pretty pink fishing pole that has a light up reel. It is very cool and high quality so she will be able to fish with it for a long time. Joe caught six keepers. Matthew caught no keepers and Kayla caught no keepers but they all caught ALOT of fish. Matthew said they were biting constantly so it was fun fishing.

As for me and the kids we mostly swam and played out doors. It was in the 80s all week and so it was perfection. God sure gave us awesome weather for our trip...oh yeah and He cleared out the bugs for us!!! :) woo hoo! No black flies this time and the mosquitoes were not really a bother either.

Home again and our big news for the begining of June is that we finally have a closing date. We will close on our new house the 30th of June. We are very excited! 

New house!

Hi everyone and sorry that it has been a while. I am popping on to say that I posted an album on facebook (because it is easier for large amounts of pics) of our new house. We will be much closer to Matthew's work and it will afford us a little more family time...or atleast face time with him as he might just be popping in and out sometimes during the evenings. Anyways it will be nice to have the possibility of having him home on his on call nights.

We are spending mother's day weekend at the cabin :) So excited! and then I will finally get to see this deck that my dad and Matthew put on it. I am so ready for a break from "real" life! Too busy around here with school, and then trying to have any semblance of a life after cleaning and chasing Z! Holy cow is that kid fast! and into everything!

well that is it for me. I am attaching the link to the house listing so you can see pics that are not on FB.http://www.pprmi.com/SWMRICRETS_10015202 We will have a nice get together there after we are all in and comfy!

Kayla's teeth

My proud and toothless Kayla! She lost both teeth within a week of each other and recieved a gold dollar for each tooth. Which she was so happy about because "I brushed them so good, didn't I mom?" So she was so funny about that. She is now wiggling another one...goodness! The tooth fairy is gonna go broke!

Promised pictures!

Andrea and Alexis goofing off

The kids by their tree!

Yeah she can give me nice shots when she want to :) lol!

AND Z!!!!! he hates being in that thing now but sometimes Mom has to stop chasing him and he has to be confined.

Z's first Christmas!

We started out this holiday season by getting our tree. We found a place that only charges 25 bucks for a tree. Any size! So we all bundled up and made our way around the Christmas tree farm and let the girls pick out a tree that they liked. Alexis and Zachary enjoyed the sled ride and Andrea and Kayla kept trying to hitch a ride. After securing the tree ever so precariously on top of the van with a rope simply slung across it (Matthew didn't feel it was necessary to actually TIE it down) we shut the ropes in the doors and held onto them for the trip home. Which was slow going because the wind was raging and the tree kept sliding back and forth on the top making the ropes difficult to hold onto. Yes, we hillbilly tied it. That was interesting...When we got home the kids went inside while Matthew and I got the tree put in the stand. I then strung it with lights while the children napped and Matthew went off to help with a project at my Grandparents new house. We didn't get a chance to decorate it right away but the lights and the other decorations were very beautiful as our house was transformed into a Christmasy wonderland. There were wise men, and angels, Joseph, Mary and Baby Jesus, Houses all lit up on the top of the entertainment center, snowmen gallor, and hot cocoa for all to enjoy. Of course when the gift started showing up then it was all new excitement and the little ones enjoyed putting the ornaments on the tree, but my favorite times were in the evenings when we would read the Christmas story from the bible. We truly had 25 days of Christmas each night as we read the different accounts of Christ birth over and over again. We enjoyed reading other stories by Max Lucado about Christmas but the girls asked for the story of Jesus every night...It was a blessing to our hearts!

Zachary's first Christmas was filled with fun and also sickness as we all ended up with the flu but I am thinking that despite that this was by far the best Christmas with children to date. Pictures to come...my batteries died this morning! :(

6 months old and feelin grown up!

So Zachary is now six months old and sitting up on his own with his nursing pillow. I never actually used it for nursing but I do so love that it wraps around the babies when they are sitting up for the first little bit with out help. He feels so big! And is loving his new freedom. The girls play with him more too which is nice for all of them. They are beginning to realize that he is fun.

Ok well back to the daily grind. I know this is not much of a post but well that is what I got. :) Oh and Z is eating a lot of solids now! WOO HOO! Less nursing for me every day...love it!