Wonderful Wednesday - Moments to cherish forever

Nine of our beautiful children!  The peace that reigns between these children is such a blessing.  The growth and love, loyalty and trust, healing and strength that these nine have is a miracle that only God in His great mercy can orchestrate!

Holland is 5!

Today I get to share Mother's day with my special princess!  I can hardly believe I am so blessed to have this little girl in my life.  She is such a delight in every possible way.  The saying "Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice" is 100% true with this precious gem. 

I love watching her tackle new things with her seriously deep intelligence!

I love how she says things so matter of factly!

I adore her deep belly laugh when something truly tickles her funny bone!

I love how she is such a lovely mommy to her little family of baby dolls!

I love how she is always dancing and singing!

I love how her imagination is full to overflowing!

I love how she is so kind and thoughtful of others!

I love how she is a girly girl who loves to go shopping in her princess crown, jewelry and don't forget a purse!

I love how she adores Morgan and Becca!  They are growing forever bonds!

I love how she loves to organize her belongings!

I absolutely love how she adores her daddy and informs everyone that he is her "Prince Charming" and that she will one day marry him!

I love that she gives us nose kisses...but no one else!  They are special for her daddy and mommy!  (She is known to give them out if you ask...sometimes...but she won't just come out and give you one!)

She is a blessing without measure.  We are blessed to have her in our home, lives, and hearts.  Each day is a new day of learning, laughing, and loving for her and with her.  Seeing her blossom in every way is a delight.  I am so grateful to God for each day, hour, minute and second she is in our lives.

Happy Birthday Princess Holly!  We absolutely love you!

Wordless Wednesday!

Friday Family Fun Night!

Friday night we were pretty wiped out after spending the whole day in court.  Court days always wear us out...all of us.....from Tim down to Holland.  Since court was on a Friday we decided to just have a calm movie night.  After picking up the kids, grabbing a fun easy dinner of Chinese food, and a redbox movie we were set for our night!

We got home, took care of the animals, got our pajamas on, grabbed blankets/pillows/stuffed animals, and settled down with our dinner to watch....

It brought back lots of childhood memories for Tim.  He loved watching Yogi Bear as a kid.  We had a lot of laughs which we needed.  We also had lots of snuggles, and egg rolls!!!!  After the movie we all headed to bed pretty early since we were so tired.  Another lovely FFFN! 

Time flies!

I can hardly believe time is just zooming by.  We are already nearing the end of the month and our calender for May is already filling up.  It seems like it was only yesterday that we were pulling April Fools jokes on each other and now April is almost gone.  Trying to slow down and enjoy every moment of every day as they slip by.  To cherish every smile, hug, laugh and not to take for granted one moment that we have been given with each other.

Justice, Becca and Holland ready for church Sunday!

Friday Family Fun Night!

Tim and I've always tried to carve out Friday night's as our family night.  It doesn't mean it just us all the time.  We've been known to invite other families over, but mainly it's just us and the kids.  Because of the cost of a family our size we usually do things at our home.  Friday we had our weekly FFF night and we went bowling ....in our living room!

Holly bowling on the Wii!

Bowling is one of those things we love to do together.  The littles play a round, then the middles, then the oldies!  It gets rather loud during the games, but we have so much fun.   Lots of loving competition.  It's such a blessing to hear the kids cheering each other on and not breaking each other down.  

Jensen's turn!

FFF nights also mean food!  We had pizza, salad, fresh strawberries and hot brownies!  Yummy!  We even added to the fun by having make your own pizzas.  English muffins, pizza sauce and fresh veggies, italian sausage, pepperoni, pineapple and other things to choose from.  There were some very interesting combinations made...ugh.

Jameson rocking the Wii remote!

Justice in good bowling form!  LOL!

There are lots of hugs as well!

Peace out!

Thankful Thursday!

I am thankful for our new Aldi's that just opened.  We bought a bunch of strawberries for $1 a pound which was a wonderful deal!  The kids found this jewel in one of the boxes.  It was four strawberries grown all together into one beautiful berry!

Johnston and Becca were the only middles up so they took some pictures!

And more pictures!

Doesn't it look like a heart in Becca's hands?  So sweet!

 

Then they cut it in half and enjoyed it!

The rest of the strawberries were enjoyed as dessert served over vanilla yogurt!  Yummy!