From one baby to another!

Adoption is expensive...part of our planning to help pay off this trip, was selling the truck. It's been on the internet for several months now. And it has finally found a new owner. Paul has had the truck nearly 8 years now, and he got it at a price that would really be impossible to find again. In fact, it was more of a gift! The boys have argued over who will get it after Paul...well, that is all solved now. Parting is hard, but the face at the end is worth it ALL!

Saturday, Paul and I had our last trip to bagels and coffee in his classic 1965 Chevy. We enjoyed sitting CLOSE!

The guys are sad to see it go....c'mon Travis....let go!


Daddy with old baby and new BABY!

No comparison!


No regrets!

This one....
is forever!

Lindsey's 20th Birthday

Birthday kisses for Lindsey!

The older ones will have to teach the younger ones...."the look"!




This party is a snoozer!

Nathan is skippin the cake!



Great Gma with Amie

Taking the Initiative Against Drudgery

I don't revel in my kiddos being sick, but when they are, there is something special about that time of holding and rocking that I love! But I have to admit, I don't think I have EVER seen so much green snot in my life! The runny noses were getting to me! May I wipe those precious runny noses with a different perspective!

Below is the February 19th reading of Oswald Chambers, in My Utmost for His Highest

""Arise, shine..."Isaiah 60:1

When it comes to taking the initiative against drudgery, we have to take the first step as though there were no God. There is no point in waiting for God to help us-He will not. But once we arise, immediately we find He is there. Whenever God gives us His inspiration, suddenly taking the initiative becomes a moral issue--a matter of obedience. Then we must act to be obedient and not continue to lie down doing nothing. If we will arise and shine, drudgery will be divinely transformed.

Drudgery is one of the finest tests to determine the genuineness of our character. Drudgery is work that is far removed from anything we think of as ideal work. It is the utterly hard, menial, tiresome, and dirty work. And when we experience it, our spirituality is instantly tested and we will know whether or not we are spiritually genuine. Read John 13. In this chapter, we see the Incarnate God performing the greatest example of drudgery--washing fishermen's feet. He then says to them, "If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet" (John 13:14). The inspiration of God is required if drudgery is to shine with the light of God upon it. In some cases the way a person does a task makes that work sanctified and holy forever. It may be a very common everyday task, but after we have seen it done, it becomes different. When the Lord does something through us, He always transforms it. Our Lord takes our human flesh and transforms it, and now every believer's body has become "the temple of the Holy Spirit" (1 Corinthians 6:19)"

Drudge on...in obedience...to God's glory!

fOOd...more fOOd, please!

OK, this little girl can eat. I am not sure where the full meter would be pegged, but we aren't pushing it! So this is our usual meal time antics....

What? You say I am all done?
But...I'M NOT DONE!
All done fussing!
Shhhh....
PL...
...EA...
......SE!

As you can tell, we are working on sign language, and Amie is a fast learner!

Basketball/Homecoming week

(I am not too good at sports shots!Too dark, too blurry!)
After missing half the season, Jordan is getting a little play time. Game at Cilchrist.







Mom...he's trying the gangsta look out on me!



Pass me the candy, Jenny!




Disney Day...Jordan went as Aladdin



Blast from the Past Day...He went in a toga...as the Greek god, Zeus

Misc. pictures

Daddy's feeling BETTER!


Bonding time...at the grumpy dinner hour!


Amie's favorite time...just before getting pj's on....running free! well almost free!



BUBBLE BEARDS!




Luci is getting used to another one around.


Playpen time...well...this is new...and not something she's terribly fond of yet, but Sophie and I have some "school time", so this is her entertain herself time!

A few more pics of Nathan