Eight is great!

Our sweet baby Kayla turned 8 in February. She is growing so fast and yet she is still such a little girl. We are so pleased with the blessing of her life in our home. She is our tender heart and clown. Last year she gave her life to Jesus and since then we have been so amazed at the way that the Holy Spirit is working in her life. We should not be suprised because God has promised to do that good work in us when we accept Him into our lives and choose to live for Him but it still blows me away each time I hear her pray or ask her questions about scripture that she knows the heart of what is being talked about even if she doesn't understand all the messy sinful deception of people stuff. She is always using crazy accents and making us laugh in abundance...:) she is so precious!


So the cake...GRACIOUS! that thing was so hard even though it seemed so easy when I watched the video instructions. As you can see it is sloppy looking at spots and the funny part is that when Kayla woke up in the morning after I spent many hours getting it ready after they were sleeping she walked into the kitchen and says "WOW! MOM IS AWESOME! She even put in a drawbrigde!" Laying in bed listening I was very perplexed as there was NO bridge but found when I went out that the layers of the cookies had seperated and were indeed a drawbridge making me the coolest mom ever hahahaha!

Baby K is one!

This is a post all about our dear little Kendra. She turned one the week of Christmas, so feeling a little overwhelmed at that time I didn't get around to writing anything about just her. Kendra has got to be our "sweetest" baby. Not to say the others weren't sweet but this little girl of ours has donned the knick name "sweet pea" like as in Popey and OliveOil's sweet pea. She has just got this quiet little demeanor and it is just precious. She obviously favors Matthew a little bit more than me though I know I am loved so no worries on my part. LOL! Kendra's birthday falls at such a weird time of the year because of Christmas so her party was sort of last minute and we were blessed to have many family members come and share it with her. She obviously loved her cake

Next year we hope to be more organized and possibly get some Aunts and Uncles there :) Christmas birthdays have to have some advantage right? Why not be that more family is around to enjoy it with you. Happy first Birthday baby!

sleep?

So I am lying in bed...just lying here while everyone else sleeps. Why? Because my mind is racing and my heart feels heavy and I think I should have skipped that last cup of coffee I had

before dinner. Thought this sign was funny. :)


So my mind is full of my day...really the whole weekend. Do you ever feel like that? Some things from my marriage, some parenting skills I need desperate help with, and then there was church. Just filled with thoughts and feelings and praying seemed to only add more things to my mental overload....

Ok well knowing me I will probably delete this tomorrow but it felt good to do something instead of thinking so hard lol

Our summer at the cabin!

Well Another season at the cabin is over. We had a fabulous time again as expected and made many memories with family and friends. We had my grandparents come up several times and Matthew's mom and sister Rachel came. Joe and Chuck came for a work trip to help Matthew re-roof for insurance purposes. We truly appreciate friends that love us so much that they will come help with things like that!!! During Matthew's time between projects up there this year he did alot of fishing. Here is one that he and the older girls caught together :) We went on the Manistique board walk again and went to the lighthouse as we do each year to get a pic and remind the girls of how cool it is. Amazingly they still never remember it until we are right up next to it.As you can see they cooperated so well! LOL!

 Our visit with Jill and Rachel was alot of fun and one of the things we did is re-visited the waterfalls. We always enjoy seeing them and this time was no exception. It is a delight to share with others the beauty that God has created. We even did a picnic lunch (which I felt could have gone better since I stepped in a pile of dog doo that someone so pleasantly didn't clean up) on the grounds of the munising falls!

Jill took this pic of our whole family :) I believe it is our first pic as an entire group?...Kendra LOVED the backpack and we were delighted that we could tote her around and enjoy the afternoon stroller free.

Well that is all for now! Hope you enjoy the pics.

Computer SOS

So there is a great reason to blog in this world...my computer had a major virus and between this and facebook I now have many of my precious pictures that would have been lost forever because as a mom I just never quite get around to burning my photo discs...just saying that it is something that I am greatful for today.

All about Zachary

Well here is part of our celebration as a family with Z. He turned two on the 27th of April. He is such a carefree little guy and we just love how much joy he has added to our family.

So a quick update on his legs. We took him for his annual well child appointment and the doctor said he also has knock knees and that this part of the condition may be worse than the pigeon toe. Because knock knee can almost always be helped with physical therapy he reffered us to the one in Portage where I took him for his initial visit. The therapist took the full hour and watched him as he walked and played. Felt his joints and moved his legs. She ended our session by giving me suggestions on excercises but said that it would be pointless to have him come in and to wait until we speak to the Orthopedic Pediatric people. I am not sure what that meant but we will see in June. Keep us in your prayers!

the freedom of childhood!

Yesterday the sun was shining, where Thursday it was pouring rain. Yesterday the children swung as high as the chains allowed, picked every ripe dandelion, pretend games seemed so real to them and the carefree spirit filled the air and overflowed into my heart! Ofcourse, I had the same feeling Thursday when I heard them belly laughing as they danced in the rain. The simple joy of childhood. I am glad that I get to revisit it!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_SbgXGBmaI