Dear Grandma: Arabella's Sewing kit

Dear Grandma,
Thank you for my sewing kit. My mommy helped me make my birdie and I stitched a heart too! I used a different thread on the bird. It is green. It is fun to learn how to sew. I like to sew with you at your house. Come see us soon!
Love, Arabella

Little moments with Thaddeus

First bath shows all his roly poly areas

All clean

Meeting Friends

Haley Jade

Playing "train" with my sister & brother

Arabella & Papa playing babies!

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Outtakes from Christmas/birth announcements

We are simply home enjoying these little moments.

{We somehow managed to be completely ready for the Christmas activities before Thad's arrival!!!}

Enjoy your little moments this week as you prepare for the festivities and Remember what Christmas is really about---God's Gift , His Son -Jesus.

He grew from the manger and went on to save you & me!

Praise His Holy Name!

Her actual day & house news

Arabella's request for breakfast-- "green" smoothies.

hmm...is there such a thing as a natural green smoothie---So instead I pulled out my green sorbet glasses and blended up my fav, Peach & Mango.

She was satisfied.... can you tell!!

One of her favorite things to do

Our little house---Sale pending ....tears....

I really have been enjoying my little house with little maintenance

Oh well time to grow up I guess

Hello yard work

We finally( warm sunshine) were able to go to the community pool for a few hours on Bella's birthday. It even worked for some cousins to be there at the same time! Fun! Fun!

Last of all I thought I would share.....

We are planning on moving to the farm house close to Thane's Dad & Mom.

It has room to roam outside for the kiddos, Thane's shop is right behind it and more room inside for our growing family. Our house now would have been great for me, no biggie to have 3 children in one room, right R? but it seems God has a different plan being as this keeps falling into our lap.

So with no further delay i share our new home ,Lord willing.....

Beautiful huh!!

OK so it's a work in progress.... You'll have to wait for a few more months

We could have moved in as is...We told our great God, we were willing to... The house was livable, not beautiful, not cozy but livable( Thane's brothers family lived here for 3 years while they completely redid their house) but once again things we didn't expect( our house selling in a few weeks) happened and it seem things kept working out. So now we are going ahead (have to being as we have a gaping hole in the side of the house) and redoing and adding an addition to the downstairs of the house. Please pray for us & our home that God be in every decision and that we may make this a Godly home to serve him out of. ( and stay on budget!!)

A Tiny Party :: Part One

A tiny cake

Tiny cousins

Menu:

Mini Chicken bacon pizza

Mini meatballs

tomato-basil-fresh mozzarella-artichoke stack

Herb cream cheese cucumbers,

smoked Swiss & bacon deviled eggs,

mini cupcakes

Fresh peach slices & ice cream

tiny party hats

Treat box: Wooden yo-yo stamped with initial, punch balloon, button candy

enjoying her balloon.

Birthday girl

{{She's Three}}

Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is He that hath made us, and not we ourselves, we are the people, the sheep of his pasture

Psalm 100:3

......more details of party & her day to come

{Oh Happy Heart Day!}

My sweet Thane took us to breakfast this morning

OH YUMMY

[My camera battery died right after this, so no pictures of my sweetheart TJB]

{Creamy Caramel Latte , Spinach & Artichoke Soufflé and Cinnamon Crunch bagel}

{My heart beats for you!}

am I that shallow!! yikes!

Now on to MUCH steadier heart beaters of mine

[It makes sense in my mind...]

• First my Lord and Savior- I want to love you with all my heart, all my soul and all my mind. I want to show my love by obeying you Lord. May my actions in my small life glorify YOU!

• My dearest Thane- May I love you, reverence you, submit to you through our Savior more each day to come in our lives as we strive to Serve HIM
• Our babies- Arabella & Orrin-May I love you by showing you God's love by example and teaching you about HIM every day.

We love because God first loved us

John 4:19

Ohio Christmas

We had Christmas @ Thane's parents early, before we left for California.

All of our stockings ready to fill
Finally after a couple of years I got around to making 2 stockings(supposed to be 4 but...) for Arabella & Orrin

The triplets of course were at Grandma's

The boxes are always seem more fun than what is inside!

Sweet Little M

So fun to be with cousins!

The night before we left for California our little family shared our gifts in the kitchen!?......

the carpet and couch were drying in the living room

(the ink came out YAY)
We just gave our children little stocking surprises this year. They receive so much around this time of year that we try not to overload them with so much more.

I was talking to a friend about this once and she shared what her family does. After they have given gifts to one another they then have each child pick out one of their new gifts to then be given to needy children. A hard thing for a child to do yet a wonderful lesson that we need to give our best to God and His people( all people are His people, He is just waiting on them to Choose HIM). I would love to implement this for our little family next year.

Thrilled with her new jump rope

our little cool man