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Thursday, December 19, 2013

A little bit of everything

I know it has been quite a while since my last post and a lot has happened since then! As many may know we have been looking and hoping for a new house to open up in the community...and one finally did and we got moved! There are pictures to come on that soon but thought I would update everyone first on the kids. Baby Sister is crawling all over the place and just since we got moved has started pulling herself up to a standing position. Even brave enough to try standing without holding onto anything but that only lasts for a short while.

Big Brother has started Kindergarten and is loving it! His teacher is great and keeps the kids busy. He is in a class of six boys and one girl so it is a very lively, active class! They had their first school performance the other night and it was fun to watch.

The family clown keeps us all laughing! He is having the hardest time adjusting to the move. For the first week we would tell him to go to his bedroom and he didn't know where to go. Now when you tell him to go to his bedroom he says 'what bedroom' or you tell him to go to the kitchen and he says 'what kitchen'. Also everywhere we go he says we are going 'home'. He has a good attitude about it all though and is such a sweet brother. He will walk into a room where Baby Sister is and say 'you my cootie pie'.

Little Lady is becoming quite the helper and along with that is coming the 'bossy' sister syndrome! She does like having a live doll to play with though! Much to the frustration of her parents that is! She is trying to keep up with everyone and everything and it keeps her quite busy.

Here is Mr. Sweet loving his sister! He was reading her a farming book.

Big Guy is also a big helper when he puts his mind to it.

This is what happens when Daddy baby sits for a little while so mommy can get something done! He put her to sleep in a little wagon. Sometimes Daddy's have some pretty good ideas!

Baby Sister often has some wild hair.

"Yes. I did dress myself today...what do you mean my socks don't match?!"

Thursday, August 29, 2013

6 Months!

Our Little Sister is six months old. Taking pictures of her was a lot of fun and there were so many fun ones that I could not settle on just a few. They all give you a glimpse of her personality!

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Garden

At the beginning of the summer we had a bad storm. This is what my garden looked like after it passed. Not sure what would recover and what wouldn't I watered it then left it for a week or so.

The above picture 'center' is the leftover 'sticks' from my pepper plants. No leaves left. behind them is the lettuce, flattened.

In front of the fence was flowers and cantaloupe. It all looked pretty depressing.

This is what all came out of it! Oh the miracles of nature! The onions never did straighten up. Nor the garlic. But they have grown some none the less!

And now the harvest is in full swing!

My good helpers!

Saturday, August 24, 2013

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 :(