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!

 

March 2015 - Cabin Weekend with Friends

As you may remember me mentioning in years past, every so often, I get the chance to get together with a great bunch of friends from my college years and we even try to get away together on weekends and we head up to one of our friend's cabins! It's been awhile since we could all make it work, but this winter, we all found a weekend (and I had a quarterly weekend that I could take off, so it was perfect!) and we ventured to northern Wisconsin. Unfortunately, Michael was not able to get off of work, so I ventured with all 3 girls on a 6 hour road trip to the "Waterman Cabin".

 

 

While it sure isn't like it used to be at the cabin (I'll let you search through the archives and see previous posts about how it used to be), our cabin weekends now revolve around naptimes, and bedtimes and eating times and of course play times! Basically, the cabin weekend reflects our lives of all of our friends right now and revolves around kids! - though we did manage to get in an "adult" game or two and of course we always have great and memorable conversations: )

 

 All 4 families were able to make it (except Michael:( boo). And between the 4 families, we were entertained by 7 kids. My friends were AWESOME at helping me out and holding Charlye and taking care of the older girls being that I was flying solo. We even managed to get all the kids outside for a bit each day to enjoy the great outdoors!

 

 

And instead of all us adults getting out to go snowmobiling or engaging in an intense game of broom ball, we did a lot of pulling kids around in sleds (or driving them around as Scott did! They loved it!)

 

 

I'm so very grateful for these friends...Scott, Maggie, Suelynn, Aaron, and Scott and Betty (Unfortunately, I didn't get a picture of them!). And I love that our kiddos can play together and we make it a point to continue to get together and grow in our friendships.

 

 

...until we see each other again:)

Winter Fun 2015

Now that spring has sprung, I'm in the mood to post about winter. Go figure. We didn't have much snow this winter....and it was often very cold...but when we got the chance to go outside and enjoy the white wintery bliss, we took it! Here's some fun that we had this winter...

 

 

 

 

It was fun while it lasted, but I'm sure glad Spring has made an appearance:)