July ONE

In the blink of an eye... 

Celebrating Sarah's 1 1/2 birthday!

March ONE

February ONE

This is my life...

it's a beautiful mess!

January ONE 2012

Happy New Year!

I don't typically do new year's resolutions, but I do hope I can blog better this year.  After adding baby #4, I really had a hard time getting it done.  Now that we've passed the 1st birthday, I look back and am disappointed that I didn't record more here.

December ONE

November ONE

Yes, I took the photos, then forgot to post them. Then the photos I took on the first, I really didn't like how  they turned out.  So this one was actually taken on the third.  And that's ok with me.

It's amazing every month how fast they grow.

October ONE

Wow.

Really what else can I say?  The blog speaks for itself.  I've been blogging for 7 years and this is the first month I have only had one lousy post!  Not that I have a lot of followers, but to those who are following, I apologize.

I do have things to blog about.  We took an amazing family vacation at the end of August.  We started our home school year and started co-op classes.  We took trips to the fire station and the museum.  We went with our home school group to see a movie.  We had doctor appointments.  We celebrated grandparents day (though we forgot to tell them!) and the first day of fall.  Sarah turned 9 months old!  We started a small group in our home.  Maybe I'll go back & add some pictures.  If I have time.  I've got 4 kids and I'm tired. 

Well, anyway, it's a new month and here they are in all their cuteness, growing like a patch of weeds in a drought:

The one photo all day where not one child was crying... or caught in the act that made one cry.  Yes, they're a beautiful patch of weeds.  Some folks choose to call them wildflowers.  I'll try to remember that the next time I feel like pulling one of them up by the roots!!  : )  And my, how they grow!

September ONE

My, how time flies!
Last year: September 1, 2010

August ONE

 Another month has flown by!  Kids are growing, growing, growing.  We've been slowly picking school back up and are starting school back in full force this month.  By September ONE, programs will be going also and fall will be busy and fun.   I have some reviews coming up and some summer events that I still want to blog even though they're over.  Hopefully I'll get those things done this week.

David was holding Sarah and asked if he could look at her face, so he turned her facing him and began to talk to her while she laughed.  So cute!

We staged this month's photo on the couch again.  Tried to get one happy photo and one silly.  I think both are both, though.  : )

Rebekah was finishing off our popcorn snack.  And, after a lot of trial & error, I was able to get one photo with the kids piled up on me!  : )

love!

July ONE

 The First Day of July!  

Rebekah was crying because she wasn't holding the kitten. So...

 That's a good little cat.

His name is Steel.

On this first day of July, Dad went to a birthday party for a coworker.  I got the babies in bed early after a long week of VBS! and wanted to enjoy the finally-not-sweltering-temperature outside, so the 2 big 'uns and I walked down to the pond, which is just in the back yard.

Now I am really not good at getting the hooks out and this guy had gotten 2 of them stuck in the corner of his big mouth.  After a few minutes, I started to worry that I was gonna kill the thing by having it out of the water and not being able to get the hook out, so I started praying to myself about it.  I didn't even realize I was talking out loud.  Elizabeth asked me who I was talking to, so I explained that I was asking God to help me get the hook out and that the fish not die, and I continued working with the hook and with the prayer.  Finally it came loose!  Whew!  Thank you, God!  - Thank you that I did not forget to thank you when the little ears were listening! - Then Elizabeth said, "Wow, God sure is strong, isn't he?"  And that, my friends, was the BIG catch of the day!

Then David got my camera and had himself a good time.

There was lots of giggling as he took a few self-portraits

and then turned the camera around to see his picture.

 

 Then I told them I'd take some goofy pictures of them together.

Wow, that turned out to be a good evening!

See how the kids are growing every month here!

June ONE

Another month has flown by.  David is now 7!  He discovered today that he has another loose tooth!  On the top!  Often times he has trouble sleeping at night and ends up collapsed on the couch during the day.

Sarah is now 5 months old!  She has a cheering squad in her big sisters!  They love to love on her and also enjoy pretending to be Mommy to their own dolls & animals. 

 

 Look out world, she'll be headed your way soon!

 Love, LOVE, love !!!

 Watch the kids grow: month ONE

May ONE

 Wow, that snuck up on me!  I'm still waiting for my brother to email me our family photos that were taken on his camera on Easter, so I still have one Easter Egg Hunt left to post.  I'm printing new 8x10's to hang on the wall of the kids and these are the photos I've chosen.  I think my kids are adorable! 

Watch them grow month-by-month...

April ONE (almost)

Oops!  I forgot to post a picture yesterday!  But that's ok, because today we went over to fish beside the bluebonnets!

 Elizabeth was so proud that she got to hold Baby Sarah for some pictures!

 And my beautiful #3 is going to turn 2 years old this week!  Wow!

Elizabeth is all over fishing with her Daddy.  But I can hardly wait for her to catch her first fish!

This is an extremely poor example of baby wearing... but I had a good hold of her with one arm... and I caught a small bass at the same time!

March ONE

I guess until Sarah is able to sit up, I'll have the others lay beside her!  Things I noticed about this picture: 1) David looks more boy every day, and less little boy.  2) None of the pictures I took of Elizabeth were bad.  3) Rebekah's hair is long enough for a ponytail!  4) Sarah looks so serious... but then...

Yea!!!  Got a good smile!!!

Watch the kids grow month-by-month...

February ONE

 We've been spending a lot of time in front of the fire place lately!  I think I heard this is the longest below-freezing cold snap in North Central Texas on record - going on several days below freezing.  Yet this is how David is typically dressed.  But you know it's cold when he came to me tonight and ASKED if he could put on some socks!

 Sweet Sarah will be 6 weeks old on Saturday!

Getting bundled up for a cold night!

 Rebekah is full of life... and of scribbles!

Thank you, God, for Color Wonder!!!

 Elizabeth loves doing her school work!

David built Lego Australia 

and an Australian boy minifigure!

Wow, it's still hard to believe I have 4 kids now.  I hope I will get the hang of this soon and get back to blogging regularly.  I really do miss it.  Do you miss me when I'm not here?  Then leave me a comment!  : )

Watch my children grow the first day of every month:

month ONE

January ONE: 2011 ONE

 We are now a family of 6 - 

FOUR KIDS!

 Better get used to it, Little One!

See my kids grow on the first day of each month:

month ONE