Random Kid Pics and Updates

Spring has sprung, and here are some random pics of kids, life, and what we've been up to these past couple of months!

 

Charlye...Growing like a weed! 5 months already...started eating solids, is still pretty laid back, but likes lots of attention! This girl has a giggle that will get anyone laughing! She has started rolling over and can almost sit up on her own. Loves baths and watching her big sisters run around.

 

 

Olivya...our free-spirited, yet stubborn child! This kid knows what she wants and gets into everything! She loves to get messy, loves to paint, play in the sand, and test every possible limit there is to test. Her vocabulary has expanded greatly and she loves to sing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and "ABC's". Of course, she also enjoys instigating trouble and antagonizing her big sister Adelyn.

 

 

Adelyn...loves dresses, dolls, lipgloss (we blame her Aunt Tasha for this one:) ) , and being outside! This girl has grown up so much and says things that floor us every single day! She loves writing and spelling her name on her own. Of course, being the oldest child, she continually pushes her limits as well and has learned how to be a bit sassy too. However, she has the most loving and caring heart and is always trying to "be good" and make people happy. She is also a great peacemaker between her and Olivya (quite the good negotiator also).

 

 

And when the girls all get along, it's pure bliss. Completely melts my heart that they truly love and care for each other.

 

 

 

Every day, we feel so incredibly blessed to be parents to these 3 amazing girls!

 

February 2015: Extravaganza & Charlye's First Trip

Charlye's first traveling experience happened back in January when she traveled with me to a work conference in Detroit. This is an annual conference for those who work with and in Youth Ministry in the ELCA, as I do. Since I am still nursing Charlye, it would have been hard/impossible to leave her home for 5 days so we brought her with...she was a champ! Her first plane ride was pretty uneventful...hurray for another good flyer!

 

 

And Charlye even had her friend Lucy to enjoy the extravaganza with! (My friend Sarah's baby girl).

 

 

Yep, Charlye was a champ all weekend! She got to learn about the book of Mark from a great story teller (and one of Michael's old professors from TLU)...

 

 

And she got to hang out with Michael from Lost and Found, which is a music group that I thoroughly enjoy (they sadly are retiring after this year! Nooooo!!!).

 

She got changed right in the middle of the conference...(hey, when you gotta go, you gotta go...and the Hyatt Detroit isn't so great about having changing tables in their public bathrooms).

 

She got to endure the daily Starbucks trip...

 

 

She got to hear Bishop Eaton speak (the current presiding bishop of the ELCA)

 

And she got to hang out with lots of friends and co-workers!

 

 

While Detroit wasn't my favorite place that this conference has been held, it was good to go and see where we would be bringing youth this summer for the ELCA's National Youth Gathering. Charlye approved.

 

Next year's conference is back in Anaheim, CA (one of my favorite places that it's held)...and this baby will be staying with Gramma:)

 

 

Charlye gets baptized!

"Something in the Water" [Song] by Carrie Underwood

 

He said, "I've been where you've been before.
Down every hallway's a slamming door.



 

No way out, no one to come and save me.
Wasting a life that the Good Lord gave me. 

 

 

Then somebody said what I'm saying to you,
Opened my eyes and told me the truth."

 

They said, "Just a little faith, it'll all get better."
So I followed that preacher man down to the river

 

 and now I'm changed
And now I'm stronger

 

 

There must've been something in the water 

 

Oh, there must've been something in the water

 

Well, I heard what he said and I went on my way
Didn't think about it for a couple of days

 

Then it hit me like a lightning late one night
I was all out of hope and all out of fight

 

 

 

Couldn't fight back the tears so I fell on my knees
Saying, "God, if you're there come and rescue me."

 

 

 

Felt love pouring down from above
Got washed in the water, washed in the blood

 

 

and now I'm changed
And now I'm stronger 

 

There must be something in the water
Oh, there must be something in the water

 

 

And now I'm singing along to amazing grace
Can't nobody wipe this smile off my face

 

 

Got joy in my heart, angels on my side
Thank God almighty, I saw the light

 

Gonna look ahead, no turning back
Live every day, give it all that I have

 

Trust in someone bigger than me
Ever since the day that I believed I am changed
And now I'm stronger

 

 

There must be something in the water (amazing grace)
Oh, there must be something in the water (how sweet the sound)
Oh, there must be something in the water (that saved a wretch)
Oh, there must be something in the water (like me)
Oh, yeah

 

 

I am changed (I once was lost)
Stronger (but now I'm found)
(was blind but now I see)

 

 

Charlye Price Carmack, Child of God.

12/14/2014.