My baby boy:

What a great day you had...If all little children could only be loved so much! All I heard all afternoon from your big brothers and sisters was we never had this many gifts...well, that's because they bought them for you! What an honor to have all 11 of your siblings, your foster baby, plus some friends, Geama, and Aunt Betsy here too!

Look at all my babies!!! What a smiling time!!!

Even though you had to go to one of the three soccer games today...you were great...this is a funny picture of us all cheering on my almost 9 year old daughter in her very first soccer game!!! Once again, I had to hear from the big kids about how we hardly ever went to "their" games...Guilt!!!  I said..."Well, we have lots of drivers now!"...even though I had my 15 passenger van...it took 6 cars to get all these people here from all their activities...but we made it and she played great..."Go Mary, Go Mary...the other team is hairy...they are really, really scary! Go Mary!

Your baptism with your God parents...and big sister and brother

Bishop Holley who baptized you

We love you so much...you are such a blessing...stay close to Jesus all the days of your life!!!

Thy will be done!!! +JMJ+

Trying to heal my broken heart:

As I try to heal from our loss of Steven 

God continues to hold me in the palm of HIS hands...

He puts many cute faces in my path daily 

to remind me the importance of continue my work of being the best christian, 

wife, and mother I can be...

so I press on and wipe the tears from my eyes 

only to find a sweet child in front of me looking for the love of a mommy! 

Thank you Jesus for my husband, kids, 

and a huge community of people who pray 

and help us in many ways!

It was my son's fifth birthday 

and all my kids were home for a family dinner...

so of course we pulled out the camera 

to catch them all before some of them head off to college and life...

we had to catch my son in love after work...

but we still got him! 

Nothing like a Christmas picture 

when the kids are all tan!!!

MY GIRLS!!!

MY BOYS!!!

My son in love...surrounded by my beautiful daughters...

My oldest and her hubby!

Thank you Lord again for a great day...

a wonderful husband...and super kids...

please help me to continue to heal in soul 

and body help me grow closer to you each day 

and be a better wife and mother to my family!

Now if I could just get out of these maternity clothes!!!
THY WILL BE DONE!!! +JMJ+

Happy Birthday 5 year old!

BORN ON THE FEAST OF THE ASSUMPTION OF MARY

 oh for the days when you took a nap...

 third birthday

 first birthday

 11th child...11 lbs!!! Cece with you at six hours old!

 you with long hair...before they all left...

 you with short hair...when I had you all to myself...

your baptism

You keep us smiling and laughing all the time...your big brothers teach you all kinds of stuff that mom doesn't approve of...you are our TANK boy...we love you so much...so proud that you are going into kindergarten...stay close to Jesus always and HE will take care of you!!!
WE LOVE YOU FOREVER...
WE LIKE YOU FOR ALWAYS...
AS LONG AS WE ARE LIVING...
OUR ERIC YOU WILL BE!!!

THY WILL BE DONE!!! +JMJ+

My Baby girl is Five!!!

My Advent baby.

Wow, Cece...you are getting so big. You are becoming my little helper. You are my cleaning lady, so glad you are in our family always making us laugh with your silly shenanigans!!! You are a good big sister to your two baby brothers and our cuddle bug to everyone else.

God has great plans for you, my dear one...

EMBRACE THEM

and become the amazing young lady

He has created you to be!!!

WE LOVE YOU HUNTER/TINKER BELL!!!

THY WILL BE DONE!!! +JMJ+

BABY'S FIRST CHRISTMAS:

MY FIRST THUMB SUCKER!!!???

THE LOVES OF MY LIFE!!!

MY CHRISTMAS PRESENT FROM JESUS!!!

I got my Christmas wish...did you?

THY WILL BE DONE!!! +JMJ+

Instant large family swingset...

Ever since I had kids I have wanted this kind of a swing set.


Years ago my hubby made this great one...three swings worked most of the time, but today we added these:

We took our regular three swing swing set and attached the two baby swings to the hooks on the three regular swings...if you can't tell, the 1st, 3rd, and 5Th ones are hooked to the top bar and the two baby swings are hooked on to their swings. It works great and when the big kids swing the babies get a free ride!!!

THY WILL BE DONE!!! +JMJ+

Cool haircuts??? Hey, they were free!!!

Before the buzz...could he get any cuter???


MID BUZZ...

How could two boys get any cuter? Well after playing outside in the heat all week for some strange reason...they decided it was haircut time...I think it may have something to do with dad and watching SANDLOT. If my little darling tells me one more time "your killing me mom!!!" I am going to pull out his vocal cords. Then the neighbor down the street, when I called to check on the boys, said, " they said their "melting like a toasted cheezit???" I had to explain it was from the movie!

Half way done...we started with the mushroom cut, then they decided to go with more of a cut

I have been cutting the boys hair (those under 10) forever. Some may say that I have ruined them for life...my son in the seminary calls me the hair Nazi...and he gets his hair cut at least once a month now.

Finished product...

So I will continue to buzz away and be thankful we homeschool and no one will make fun of the boys hair...except their big brothers and sisters!!!

Boys with the little one who actually NEEDS a haircut, dad won't let me touch it...

THY WILL BE DONE!!! +JMJ+

Our vacation...great ending...

VIEW FROM OUR BALCONY


AUNT BEP BEP CELEBRATING HER B DAY WITH US

#1 CHILD RELAXING AT THE DUNES

#2 CHILD, who I thought would miss us, till we were talking on the phone with him when the van broke down...I think I heard a snicker on the other end of the phone when we had to pull over!!!

#3 CHILD...I THINK HE IS TEXTING ME A I LOVE YOU MOM MESSAGE...

#4 CHILD ENJOYING THE SANDY DUNES

#5 WITH A BIG SMILE


#6 WITH HIS FAVORITE HAT

#7 BEING GOOFY

# 8 AFTER BEING PUMMELED IN THE SAND

#9 SHOWING OFF HER WARES

#10 WHO ENJOYED THE INDOORS ALOT WITH HER 2 FAVORITE GRANDMAS...

#11 WHO WAS GOOD...FOR HIM!!!

For those who read about our bad beginning of our vacation you will be happy to know your prayers worked...the weather was great, our rental home perfect, and the kids were pretty good. I do feel sorry for my hubby who had to deal with the stress of getting the car fixed, bringing back the rental van, and going back to pick up the "fixed" car. Of course the financial stress to...of course we had the same problem fixed 13 months ago and had a 12 month warranty. I think our mechanic (a close friend) who just checked out the car before our trip was just as upset as my hubby was.

Well since my husband is pretty much the computer person in the family, he always puts on pictures on his blog before me...even if I took the really great pictures!!!

All in all it was a successful trip...and we got home in 5 1/2 hours...good we traveled on Sunday!!!
THY WILL BE DONE!!! +JMJ+