Fishing, not catching

Hannah has a love of fishing. And luck me, I have a love of her. Although we've been fishing together on different occasions, we haven't caught anything. I guess that's why it's called fishing, not catching. Even still, we have a great time just chatting, laughing and enjoying the peaceful scenery. 

 Hannah was casting and I was recording in slow motion. When we rewatched the video we saw that her bait fell off into the bushes...thank goodness for slow motion or she would have been fishing baitless!

Art Time!

The girls have been busy getting ready for an art walk at their elementary school. They decided to carry on the family tradition of creating with rocks and have completed some art pieces that Grandma Genice started. I love how they turned out and can’t wait to display them in my house!

Catherine also created something from Grandma Genice...glass pendant necklaces. She became such an expert that she taught Rachel Lee and Hannah how to make one too!

A visit from Suzy and Grant

Little biker babe

We just got a little glider bike for Emmy. She so

far just walks slowly on it but as so goes she proudly calls out “I got this thing!” or “I can do this!” Yes baby  girl you can totally do this!

Firing the tooth fairy

It was a tough choice but as a family we had to let the tooth fairy go. I’d like to say it was budget cuts, but in reality she wasn’t fulfilling her part of the bargain. You see, the deal is you lose a tooth, put it under your pillow and she takes the tooth and leaves money! But she didn’t come. Even with signs hung on the doors! She was late, made excuses and after too many disappointments we as a family decided to fire her and hire a tooth turtle. The tooth turtle is different. He is slow and steady and gets the job done. You never know when he is coming so you put your tooth under your pillow and just wait. Rachel Lee is the first one to lose a tooth with the tooth turtle on the job and we’re still waiting (she lost her tooth on April 3...Hannah’s birthday!) but we know he is on his way! 

Just a test

To make this blog work I need an app on my phone...my life is on the go keeping up with these 5 kids! Does it work? Testing, testing, 1...2..3...

Yay!! It works! Cheers to recording my familys’ crazy’s!!

Restart

It seems like forever since I have blogged. My family has grown, grown again and shrunk in the time that has passed. We have sold our home, moved, bought a home and moved again. We have spent family dinners laughing, talking and crying together. We have been a family. And it has all been so good and so enjoyable. We have grown spiritually, emotionally and physically (seems like every time I turn around someone needs new shoes and new legging...oh the leggings we go through!). I sat down yesterday with Kate and treasured the pictures of baby Emmy and how the simple story of everyone always wanting to hold her and play with her and how a kid would often complain, "But I only held her once today!" reminded me that these simple moments of our family are profoundly precious and irreplaceable. And as the days turn from one to the next, months pass and years fade, those are the memories I want to hold onto. So early this morning I decided to sit down and begin again...

Here we are in our family photos in October, when Suzy lived with us:

And here we are last week for Easter...all in our best navy blue! 

So here's to our family...all the moments together that we have lived and to the moments ahead!