Family picture

Family picture

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

A school activity


One of the perks of homeschooling is
getting together with other families
for fun and educational activities.  Our homeschool
co-op calls these activity days "events."

Today we participated in a Native American
time at an area library where we played Indian games and made some of our own games to take home.

We even had a cornbread cookie!  Yummy!

The event coordinator gave each child an arrow head
which will go into my treasure box instead of each of my children's!  Go figure - now why wouldn't I let my littles have their own arrow head to have and hold!??  Philip was practically salivating over how sharp each one was!  :)

 

After we left the library, we headed to McD's for lunch.  An older lady sitting beside us commented on how well behaved the children were and how
you just don't see that often these days.

  (Whew - I am so glad it was today
she saw my littles instead of a few days ago!) 

Anyhoo - this very sweet lady proceeded to ask me
if I was the nanny for these children! 

Now, Kevin and I have often been mistaken
for being grandparents to our littles, but never, ever have I been mistaken
for a nanny! 

That kind of tickled me! 

I guess (wishful thinking perhaps on my part)
that being mistaken for a nanny instead of a grandma meant that
she tought I was youthful looking??

I think that is surely what she meant, don't you??

Monday, November 7, 2011

A birthday celebration and an anniversary

November 1st marked mine and Kevin's 31st wedding anniversary!  Never in our wildest imagination on our wedding day back in 1980 could we have imagined the joy God would give us in blessing us with our four precious children, three of those amazing treasures later in life!

Ted surprised us with an offer of babysitting his little siblings and paying for our night out!  What a sweet thing to do.  We, of course, took him up on the offer and slipped away yesterday evening to dinner at Outback and then took in the movie "Courageous" (which we highly recommend).  We had a lovely evening.  Thanks Ted!  That was incredibly wonderful of you to spoil us!

Below is another picture of one of our October birthday sweeties.  Eli is being sung to by his preschool teacher and class while we brought in B-Day treats for everyone.  He looks a bit overwhelmed but quickly perked up when he saw Philip and Sophia pop into the classroom.


Thursday, October 27, 2011

Singing about Christ and a costume party

Here are our precious littles practicing their parts for
our church's children's Christmas musical.  They are so cute to watch
as they practice.  No one is on key or even singing the same word at once,
but they each give it all they've got to sing these sweet songs.


Here is our littlest car of the family.  This was Elijah's first costume day
at preschool, and Kevin got to take him and see all of the cuteness of the morning.
I was with our biggest car (Ted) while he was having dental surgery.

What a privilege to be parents to our four amazing children.



Sunday, October 23, 2011

Happy Birthday Elijah Jiehao

Today Eli is 4!  We now have age 4, 6, 8, and 25 year old children living in our home, and it is wonderful!

We love you Elijah Jiehao.  We thank God your China mommy chose life for you!

Birthday Breakfast

Waiting patiently for his gifts.

Now Eli has his own photo album to match Philip's and Sophia's.

Opening gifts at his family party.



Sunday, October 16, 2011

She is officially 8 today!









Wow, we can't believe Sophia is 8 today!  Last week we celebrated with a big family party.  Today it was just the six of us.  Kevin fixed her pancakes for breakfast, we had a quick bite at Wendy's for lunch, and I made her a yummy Italian dinner tonight along with cake and ice cream.

Sophia seemed to enjoy her birthday, but when she was opening her presents today and last week,you could tell she didn't quite know what to make of it all.  With as many birthdays as we celebrate around here, she will quickly get used to them!  :)

Happy Birthday to our sweet and beautiful daughter.  Thanking God for bringing Sophia to us forever.


Sunday, October 9, 2011

First "Happy Birthday" party for our girl






Lovely special people
came to celebrate
our lovely special daughter's
first birthday home!


Happy Birthday Sophia.
We love you so!