Blog Spot taking a vacation....

Because today is SUCH a special day in this family's life....blog spot must be taking a vacation day, too. :)

Today is Keith's birthday and I haven't been able to get on here and post anything. I still can't post pictures, but hopefully I can tomorrow!

I am married to the most wonderful man God ever created.....heehee, I know I'm a little prejudiced though. ;) I never thought when we were in the 4th grade, or the 8th grade together that I would be married to him. (stop laughing Misty and Lizzy. :) ) Our grandparents grew up together and Keith's grandpa often says, my grandpa would have been so proud to know that his grandaughter married Gene's grandson.

I feel blessed today to be married to Keith and I'm so proud of him and what he stands for and how he is leading our little family.

He is a wonderful Daddy to our kids. They look out the window each day when it's almost time for him to come home. You'd think the president was coming to visit when he walks in the door. There's shouts and screams "Daddy's home! Daddy's home!" Hugs and kisses flying and plenty of love going around.

We love you, Keith. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

A little side note: Keith shot a VERY nice doe yesterday. He was very happy and the kids were beyond excited!! He's out there in the big woods again this afternoon hoping for another one. :) So if any of you would like to hop on over, we could grill up some fresh deer meat. :)



Pictures coming tomorrow, I hope!!

Sniff, Sniff....

Life has slowed down some around here, for which we are thankful. Last week we had IHC here at our church and the services were very good. We enjoyed the messages and songs very much.

This week has been sniff, sniff, blowing noses, coughing, cleaning up tummy upsets, washing sheets, changing dirty diapers, suctioning little noses, (ewwwww) forcing Vitamin C down little throats, giving baths, warm snuggly jammies...need I go on?

Yesterday Owen sneezes and pretty much emptied the entire contents of his sinus cavities. I told Keith, I didn't realize your sinuses reached clear down to your toe nails. So he has been doing much better and I think as a whole, the family, or kids, I should say, are on the road to recovery!!

Keith has been hunting, but the only deer he's seen, has been too small to shoot. So he's still on the look out for a nice one to bring home. :)

That about sums up our life lately. I haven't even taken a picture in the last week. Not so good for a picture blog, huh? I'm sure I'll take plenty next week.

Have a great afternoon!

Megan's Dedication...

We tried to "kill as many birds with one stone" as we could while we were in Kansas/Oklahoma. Since we don't make it down there very often and since all of our family couldn't come up here, we decided to have Megan's dedication while we were there.

Keith's grandparents celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary that weekend (that's the reason we were down there) and it was a beautiful tribute to their life together.

Grandma and Grandpa with almost all of their great-grandchildren. We took a family picture, too, but I didn't get one on our camera, so I'll have to bribe one off of someone.

Our little family at Megan's dedication. Again, we got extended family pictures, but none on our camera. :( Hint, hint, please send me one if you got one... :)

My dad preached, Keith's dad prayed the decication prayer, Keith and I sang a dedication song and Kristyn and Owen sang "Jesus Loves Me". I thought it was a precious service for Megan and we appreciate all of you that took the time to come and help us dedicate our "baby" to God.

Kristyn and Owen singing their song----you couldn't really hear Owen---I wonder why??

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After the service we had a wonderful dinner. Thank you to ALL of you that brought in the yummy food and to both of our mothers for working so hard in making extra food and helping Megan's day special.

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We had a wonderful weekend and exjoyed being with our family. Of course, it's never long enough and it seems like when we try to do so many things in such a short time, we kind of have "sensory overload" and sometimes feel like we're just "floating" from one thing to another, but it's always a nice time. :)

Megan's Birthday...

These pictures are backwards, but I've tried to fix it and have spent way too much time with it, so I'm just leaving them. :)

Megan's birthday was Friday. I can't believe she's one year old already! She is growing SO fast and is such a joy to have in our family. We were in Kansas for her birthday. Tori and Megan almost have the same birthday, so we had one big party for both of them.

This was after it was all over and she was nice and cleaned up! :)

Squeaky clean!!!

Can you tell she hasn't had very much sugar in her short little life? She looks a little spaced out!

All of her cousins were there except for the one's in FL. :( It was so nice to be with everyone!

The big cake (actually it was cupcakes).

Megan's own little cake.

Yummm.....

There are SO many more pictures I could put on here, but for the sake of time (and your time), I'll stop.

Thank you to everyone for all of her beautiful gifts and for making an effort to be there. We enjoyed being with all of you!

Catching up....

This was a beautiful sunset we saw the other evening. What a wonderful God we serve!!

The kids had fun playing in the leaves last week. It's a good thing, because it's freezing cold now and the leaves are all wet and yucky!

Kristyn and Owen helped me make bread last week. They really thought they were big stuff. We made 4 loaves.

Yes, their hands were clean. :) Kristyn told Grandma on the phone, "Owen and I punched and punched the bread down."

Happy (Late) Birthday, Tori!

It slipped my mind yesterday when I was posting to wish our precious niece, Tori, a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! I thought of it later but wasn't able to get back on the computer. :(


We love you, Tori, and hope you had a very fun day yesterday. We'll see you in a few days!!!