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!

Slowly ,ever so slowly

Orrin is walking.... slowly!

One little step at a time

Sister takes her job seriously as she helps Orrin along!

Saturday, helping @ U Terry's new house

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

Christmas in our home.

Last year we received this beautiful card.

I loved it and had to save it to use with my Christmas decorations.

The amaryllis is starting to peek out!

A winter bouquet from none other than Trader Joe's

This year it has been especially fun to set up our naivety sets as Arabella is understanding more. One night Thane read Luke 2 and had the children help play out the story of the birth of Christ. Bella is now seeing that it means more than just a play toy.

Arabella showing you her and Orrin's Nativity set .

Orrin loves to just knock them all off the table.

The remnants of black PERMANENT marker on the food. A little girl (no names here!!) wrote on our couch, chair, coffee table, all over her Nativity set and started on the carpet before I interrupted her art work. I don't know what I was more sad about, her disobeying or my reaction of bawling then having loud anger about material things.

How can we change our reactions to responses?

{By the way, Mr. Clean magic eraser works wonders and we have scheduled a carpet/couch cleaning!!}

Baby Jesus is now clean! Are you washed by HIS Blood?

O is for Orrin, O is for One

We had Orrin's birthday party a couple of weeks ago when my parents were still in Ohio. Our little house was full of friends and family in every room.
This is as close as I'm going to allow on Orrin's cake.
It was a sad flop but it still tasted good

[Here is my pride coming out]
This is what the cake was suppose to look like with a few more boyish accessories.

[Cakes from Arabella's first birthday]

Cupcakes for our Guests

Treat bags for the children filled with old fashioned candy and animals

Orrin is One!Cousins waiting for some action

Birthday Boy with his cake!