Summer 2013

A quick recap of the summer. The days have gone by so fast and there has been a lot going on! Between kids, garden, travel and everyday life it seems my blog has sadly suffered. I have at times thought of giving it up but then how could we share some of the simple precious moments in life with those we seldom ever see? So if you all can bear with the random posts for a while longer maybe in a year or so when I no longer have a baby in the house...maybe I can plan to do a once a week post.

So on to the recap and hopefully I can get back and do single posts for some of the highlights!

Our little snuggle bug! She has been growing so fast :(

 Some VERY special company!

 This is Baby Sister's hair do! Yes it really is long enough for pigtails!

 Biggest Brother can always make Baby Sister laugh!

 Our Little Lady turned 4!

 Sunday Nap Time Snuggles

Baby Shower for a Special Mommy-to-be

 The Mommy-to-be *smile*

 Morning Story time

 'riding' the fourwheeler

 Father's Day

 Happy Father's Day to a wonderful Daddy!

 Teaching the dog new tricks!

 Cousin photo shoot! Anyone with kids knows how that goes!

 The sky after the storm.

 Story time with mommy

 Chubby Cheeks!

I'm going to miss...

When the kids are sleeping and the house is quiet 

we begin to think of the day 

they will be grown up and gone away...

...when that day comes we will look back and remember

the little things that were so precious...

 ...and the things we wished would go away! But some day I will miss...

Piles of laundry,

 Little Shoes...

 ...that never seem to have mates!

 Toys scattered across the floor...

 Dishes, dishes and more...

...Dishes!

 mud...and someones Sunday shoes stuck in that mud!

Yes, these are all the 'little' things that someday will be missed.

Mothers Day

The Adventure...

...that was ended by Mom! But first A Laugh for the day...

 

 This is a sign they put up in the community this spring. Eventually they realized their mistake and fixed it.

Back to the adventure... Mommy looked out the door one day to see these three headed off to who knows where but they were a lot farther from the house than I like them to be. So, after getting their attention and the message across that they needed to return I ran and got the camera to take pictures of the way older brother was looking out for his little brother. They are a bit blurry but if you enlarge some of them, their expressions are priceless!

Big Happenings!

We have had a few big changes happen in the last month and more to come! Big Guy had Kindergarten Round-up. It will be hard to change gears this fall and get him off to school in the mornings!

Baby Sister is now three months old!! She uses her hands some and is discovering her feet. She uses her tongue all the time to check things out, which, looks quite funny most of the time! She prefers sitting up to laying down and even tries to sit up on her own. She loves to visit and is such a smiley baby.

 Here she is figuring out her hands.

 Matching dresses! A big thank you to Grandma Esther for getting these adorable dresses for the girls! The picture does not do them justice.

 This picture cracks me up every time I look at it! You can see the mischief in Little Britches' eyes and he is mischief through and through! The other night we got to bible study sat down, but there was not a spot for Little Britches so he says "Sit, Me" with his hands turned up and shrugging his shoulders. Daddy picked him up, sat him on the couch by Big Guy and he promptly reaches over and squeezes Big Guys leg right above the knee! Which did make his brother jump as he intended! Yep he definitely keeps things rolling at this house.

 Here is Baby Sister talking as she does at some point during every day. Evening is when she likes to visit most.

Another BIG happeming around here...Little Britches is now two years old! Hard to believe that he is two already and yet in some ways he seems older than that.

Flash Back

Just a few pictures of the present and then some from the years gone by! Here is the only current family picture we have. Not very professional and it is hard to get everyone looking at the camera and much more difficult to get us all smiling at once. Plus there was a lot going on behind the camera that was occupying the kiddos.

 Baby hands are so sweet! Not to mention their feet! :)

 One tired little boy!

 Here is a picture of Big Guy at Three months. Many people have asked if our other kiddos had dark hair too. So here is to one yes!

 This is our little lady. As you can tell had almost nothing for hair! And it was lighter in color.

 Here is Little Britches. He was nearly bald too but what he did have was darker than Little Lady's hair though you cannot tell that from this picture very well. 

Little Britches is now putting sentences together like crazy. Baby Sister has started figuring out her hands and is reaching out to grab things now! She prefers standing or moving around instead of sitting still and loves to watch the other kids or mommy working around the house. She coo's smiles and tries to laugh. Oh, did I mention she smiles?...not just now and then but she loves to smile! She wakes up smiling! Anyone who will stop and talk to her is rewarded with smiles.