Slowing Down...

Ashlyn Hope 9 weeks old

It's hard to believe that it's been 9 weeks since this little darling entered our family.   We are enjoying her so much!

She sleeps for 7 hours at night usually (yeah, I know I'm blessed. :) ) and smiles a lot.  She has started cooing - tiny little coos that are just precious!

She now weighs 11 lbs 5 ounces and is 23 1/4 inches long.

 A beautiful miracle!

 I love these tiny booties that my mom got her.

 Not the best picture, but I love how she holds her head up.

Thank you for enjoying our baby girl with us!

A Sledding We Will Go.....

 What an AMAZING God we serve!

 Hills * Kids * Snow * Sleds = FUN!

 Dad's the BEST!

 Fun Stuff!

 Since the sled was occupied, Owen decided to roll down.

 This is fun, Mom!

 Ready, Set, GOOOOO!

 Snow ball fight

 Thank the Lord for 4 wheel drive

 Sledding behind the suburban - VERY fun!

Warming up with hot chocolate = YUM!

Babies Don't Keep...

God gave us these little ones for such a short time.

He said they're your blessing, but remember they're mine.

Made in His image, this myst'ry unfolds;

A child is more precious than silver or gold.

                           Chorus:

So house-work be quite and chores wait in line.

I'm holding my jewel for this is my time.

Dishes can wait and dust go to sleep.

I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep.

Some day you'll be grown up just like daddy and me, 

And if you're not loved now, oh how sad it will be.

So I'll tell you of Jesus for He loves you so;

And though we all love you, 

He loves you more.

I sang this song for Mother's Day a few years ago when Megan was a baby and it's been singing through my brain the last few days.  Time goes by SO fast!  Sometimes I wish I could freeze time to right now.  Then we have a day like yesterday and I'm glad days move on. ;)

Don't forget to hug your family (whether big, or little) today!

:)

Issues.....(sigh)

I'm sure all of you, well those of you that care anyway, are wondering why our blog is not private, yet.  I just wanted to let you know that we are really trying, the blog is just having some "issues". :)

I do not understand what it's hang up is, but hopefully soon we can figure it out.  We have tried to follow the directions perfectly step by step and it still just jumps back to a different page saying that there are "invalid" e-mails. 

So do I delete all the e-mails and start over? (I've already tried that several times)

I'm not sure what to do, but we'll keep working at it and maybe one of these days without any warning, it will be a private blog.  Who knows!  I love technology! :D

Thanks for hanging in there with us. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

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I had no idea what to name this post. It's just random stuff! :)

 This little man is SO in love with his baby sister.  He is a very affectionate boy and "most" of the time he is very gentle - sometimes the "boy" just shoots right out of him, though and he has to act like a crazy person.  I hope that's normal for little boys - to act crazy sometimes???  Experienced moms, help!

 Our little lady is growing TOO fast!  Kind of makes me sad.

 Keith says she smiles with her eyes.

 Okay, Mom, you can stop now....

 Uh, Mom.......??

 See what I mean about being crazy?  I guess that's his dad coming out in him. :)

 Speaking of...This is my wonderful man!!  

In the spirit of giving, he decided over Christmas to give his razor a break.  What a handsome face!  Now he's clean shaven again and still as handsome as ever!!

I took this picture this morning.  Kristyn and her class was out playing on recess.  It was snowing and SO beautiful!

Hope you have a wonderful weekend!  

(I'm still trying to figure out the private blog thing - it's smarter than me obviously.)