Rebecca's 5th Birthday

Rebecca turned 5 in April. We celebrated by having a few friends join us for painting at Piddlin Pottery and then come over for cake and some jewelry making. We had a great time! Here are some pictures.

Sweet Friends
The girls and their painting

The Cake. Rebecca gave me know more guidance than a pink theme. So I set off to find a cute cake that I could make and that would look right pink. This is what we settled on. Pink sunglasses and pink flower cupcakes.

Rebecca learned how to read this year so we wanted to get her a grown up bible. She is so sweet and actually reads it. She has just about finished reading the 10 plagues (totally on her own initiative). Kind of a strange place to start studying your bible. Maybe she will have a good, healthy fear of our Lord.

And her Pink Razor

Rebecca, you are growing and maturing all the time. I love the girl you are becoming. You add a lot of fun and joy to our home! Thanks for being you! I praise the Lord for letting me be your mommy.

Easter 2010

I Love Easter. It is such a joyous time celebrating our Savior and what he overcame through His death and resurrection on the cross. There is no sweeter name than the name of Jesus!

Here we are doing our Easter egg hunt before church!

And a few quick pictures outside church

Aidan was missing a tooth so I had to get one a little closer up.

I almost ended this post wishing you a Happy Easter but that may be a little overdue considering it is July. It is never too late to remember and rejoice in Him and the wonderful gift of salvation we can receive through Jesus! May we praise Him all year long, no matter what the calendar says. He is Good!

A Big Snow In Tyler - February 2010

A big snow in Tyler? What does that really mean? This is what we got and we were perfectly content with it. I mean any snow i n Tyler is a big deal.

So we played and had a great time, but in the morning we woke to find this...

It was beautiful!!!!
It was fun!





Our friendly snowman!







Thank you Jesus for special winter treats!

The Olympics and A New Bike Star

Since I am not a scrapbooker, I try to kind of keep up with our lives through the good ole blog. I have been terrible at this so I am going to try to catch up a bit on our last 6 months of life. These next few posts can all be labeled catch up posts(mostly composed of pictures) and hopefully will not bore you to death.

First up is our Greek day that we did with some sweet friends after finishing up a study on ancient Greece

We wore the Greek garb:

Had some Olympic races

Ate some Greek style snacks, pizza, and grapes with our Olive branches on our heads

Made a Greek Warriors' shield for the boys

And a weaving loom for the girls

Another big accomplishment this Spring was little Miss Rebecca learning how to ride her bike like a pro!

And She is off...

One of the many fans of our bike star this day So proud and we are too! Becca is really growing up all the time. Such a joy!

Last set of house updates

Here are a few more changes to the house. Not the best quality of all the pictures, but you can see that there has been improvement (of course that would have been hard to not see).

Here is the hallway right after we moved in (everything is just dropped in that room you see).

And here is the hallway now, standing at the other end of the hall. That wooden door has also been painted white, but that was not finished yet and the basketball goal is a permanent fixture in the hallway. I think it is my 7 year olds most prized possession.


Here is the rest of the hallway...

And now bathroom #1. A close up of the beautiful wallpaper.

And here is another shot of the same bathroom. The lighting was horrible, I have no idea why you would box it in that way.

This was our solution:
And here it is once the box is removed, molding is added, and the cabinets are painted.

One last view:

Now to bathroom #2. This is a very hard room to photograph.
Here it is all painted and much improved.

One last view:

Lastly, here is Aidan's room. I don't have a before, but it was a pretty plain room. Here it is finished with my kids and nieces all piled in during our last visit

And this is the Long Overdue picture that I never posted of the boys first night in bunk beds
And sweet Andrew's first night in a big boy bed. This was taken August of last year. Can't believe how the time has flown!

So there you have it. Here is our little home. Thanks for checking in. I will keep adding updates to catch you up in the days ahead!