Another Girl!

One, very EARLY, morning phone call in mid-March resulted in a precious 3 month old girl joining our family for now.  Jaelyn was so excited to have another girl in the house!

We have all fallen head over heals in love with her.  I am amazed how the kids have adjusted having a little one in the home and taking up some of their Mommy time and at times interupting their "normal".  Such a blessing to get to love on this little one.

Mid-March Snow

It only lasted a few hours, but Aiden and I enjoyed it!

Swimming Lessons 2012

We finished another season of swimming lessons.  

Aiden had his first lessons without a parent and actually started putting his head under and swimming!  Huge accomplishment for our boy who doesn't like water in his ears or eyes.

 Jaelyn has now completed all classes.

 Zander moved into the big pool and took off like a fish completing two levels in there.

 Elias gained enough confidence to think that he can do any trick that he sees anyone else do, plus a few others.  Makes me hold my breathe!  I'm sure it was just where I was standing, but do you see how close his head looks to the diving board?  He is now a pro at front flips with twists and turns. 

Now we are done with swim lessons until next winter, when it is dark, rainy and we need to get some energy out. 

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

Best Dates a Girl Could Have

Love them! And so privileged to get to date them.

Especially this man ;)

I think that they kind of like each other too.

For the kids Christmas presents this year we got them tickets to see the Harlem Globetrotters.

Jaelyn and Elias were laughing SO hard. Such a blessing to hear.

I'm sure I'll be seeing a few of these stunts attempted in the next few days.

I don't think our plastic hoop is going to be able to handle it.

Sorry to our neighbors for the abuse their hoops may get from attempted stunts.

Such a fun family date day!

Coming at you

Snow Day!

Seventeen inches

"I keep falling down when I walk" -Aiden

Aiden is 4!

This little man...

turned 4 today!

He asked for a balloon for his birthday, he got 70 of them.

He also got a new identity

Happy Birthday, Aiden! We love you and enjoyed celebrating you today!

When...

becomes...

and the papa says...

(OK, it was the doctor that said no parties for us)

you could just...

but instead we...

and welcomed in the new year!