Dress-up

You never know what this child's going to come out of the playroom wearing. Some of its on her own initiative and other times its with her sisters help.... She does like to dress up and loves to play with baby dolls, and stuff like that.

Swing set....

We were out on the swing set the other night and I enjoyed getting pictures of this little guy...

Even though this one is blurry, I think it looks really cool....

Felicity and Daddy seeing how high they can go! 

Two little people trying to be helpful.

No kris- nnn(Christian), I do it!

A good pictures of His first two teeth....

His first cheese puff...

Baby Jedidiah

I took these pictures of Jedidiah a couple of weeks ago, but kept forgetting to ask Becky if it was ok to post them. So here they are.....

The foursome....

Monday the kids were matching, boys and girls, so I thought it'd be a good time to get some pictures of them. I really like how they came out and couldn't decide which pose was my favorite. They all behaved really well too, which is always nice! And Jonathan was especially good, smiling for most of the pictures and everything...... The last pose was the hardest though, with trying to keep him from falling off the couch and all!

Birthdays....

I love helping make other peoples birthday special, but would rather mine go unnoticed....Also as I get older, they're not anticipated at all!!  Everyone was so sweet this year though. Grampy bought me flowers. Some gave me candy(which I don't need)! Becky and Joe gave me a free hair appointment(cant wait). Felicity drew me a beautiful picture. And Justin(and the children)gave me a special balloon and flower, and also made me dinner Monday night..... And everyone came over to help celebrate at my parents house Sunday evening!!! Thank you everyone, it was all so sweet of y'all to think of me and to make my day extra special!

 

Handsome guys...

Jonathan was really fussy last night, so Justin took him on a "scenery" walk outside.... Watching them out the window made me think of a black 'n white picture in a color world!

Blessings....

In the last couple weeks we've had several unexpected blessings that I'd like to share about. Even though they are all at different levels of value, each one was truly a sweet blessing to us.

  The first was a cast iron skillet. We've wanted one for years, but because of the cost of them never bought one. Well a couple weeks ago, we were at someone's house for dinner, and we were all talking about the benefits of having one and the wife was like, here you can have this one! Wow, that was so surprising to just be given one, but am truly thankful for it and love using it.

  The second was a "New to us" stove! Our stove has been messing up since we've had it, the oven shutting off without warning and not accurate in temperature at all. We had actually talked about needing to replace it for awhile, but lacking funds have kept putting it off.... Well, at the LARC yard sale, there was a very nice smooth top stove, exactly what we had wanted.  So of course we got the stove and only had to pay $25 for what could of cost us several hundred dollars! What a huge answer to prayer...

  And the third thing was, being given cloth diapers! Two of my three potty trained children still have to wear a diaper when sleeping. And after considering the amount that it would save us each month, we decided to switch to cloth diapers for them... Well after placing an order with my sister for 6 diapers, I was told that someone had covered the cost of them for us. Wow, praise The Lord..... But I not only was given 6, but 23 diapers!  It just makes me smile at his goodness to us. Justin and I are so thankful for these blessing and enjoy sharing them with the children, letting them experience how The Lord can provide even in the "little" things.

 

Random pictures....

Felicity giving Jonathan a ride on the bike..... Savannah and Christian helping mommy put peppers in a freezer bag...... Jonathan loves to pull up on anything and everything, which usually leads to falling over and getting hurt...... Felicity loves holding Jonathan, but it's not always mutual though.....

Milk....

Thank you God for the squished milk..... Is what Christian said! A sweet woman from our church blessed us with 2 gallons of milk today. What a blessing!!!

Hotel, Breakfast, and Sea World

I found this great deal on groupons for our hotel and we were really impressed with the quality of it, you never know when you get without seeing first! But it turned out very nice and was in a good neighborhood too!

 They had a full buffet breakfast as well...

Free breakfast is the best kind....it was really good too!

We originally were thinking of going to the "holy lands", but after checking the price decided against it. So we went to Sea World instead, since we have season passes there anyway...... I wanted to do some stuff that we hadn't done the last time, so it'd be different! While there we found two very important things out: You can't take a baby on Any rides/ moving things,  and you can't bring a stroller into any exhibits at all! Even if a wheel chair can go in.... Soo, needless to say that actually is a problem if your baby is asleep in a stroller and you don't want to wake him! 

The dolphins were in a really playful mood....

Justin showed me this sticker when we got to the park.....The Schmidt Family!

He figured out how to drink out of a straw....don't worry it's only water!

This place was soo neat....Justin wanted to go back in again.

Very tired baby....waiting in line to go in.

We weren't allowed to sit in a bucket and instead had to go on foot.....cause of the baby!

Jonathan finally fell asleep.... It's 30 degrees in here, but he slept through it all

All of these are real penguins.....

A one armed sea turtle......