Home for the Holidays

I am so grateful to have such a wonderful family to enjoy the holidays with. I look at my little family and have to just smile, inside and out. I feel so blessed to have such wonderful children and a great husband. My parents and siblings, and my in-laws, bring such joy to my life and I appreciate all that they are, and all that they do.

During the Christmas Season, I find myself pondering on all the blessings that I have. My family and I are truly blessed. It's been quite a difficult year, but through it all, we can clearly see the Lord's hand guiding us and helping us through it all. We may not always understand the reasons for our trials or what the Lord has in store for us, but if we continue to be faithful and endure through it all, I know that we will be blessed.

Thank you to all of my family who has been there for strength, love and support.

May the Spirit of the Lord find you this Season and Always!

Happy Helpers

This is our Management crew. He gets to sit there and laugh while the rest of us work LOL
Lots and lots of leaves to rake before the snow hits....unfortunately we didn't get it all done.

Caroline had the most fun raking the leaves while Quentin jumped in them LOL

Here's Quentin climbing the tree. I'm glad that we have big, beautiful trees for the kids to play on.

Working makes us happy!

Bath Time!

Quentin and Kendrick got to play in the bath for a little while. Quentin loves having a little brother to spend time with.
Doesn't he look like James here? LOL


Learning to babble and jabber at us. He talks like he knows what he's talking about. Remind you of anyone? ;)

All dressed warm after a nice bath....ready to play trucks with big brother.

Oh, and here are his 6 month measurements!

17 lbs (42%), 27.5 in (85%)

Food and FUN!

This is Kendrick's first experience with rice cereal. He ate it...but wasn't as enthusiastic as he's learning to be about the fun things he can do with food!

This was taken the day before he turned six months old. This new tasty treat is some banana puffs. He went crazy for them after his first one. He's loving his new highchair and more importantly, his sippy full of WATER! He started drinking from Grandma Huml's cup a couple months ago and now he just can't get enough water.

Ooops! He found the camera.

Moving Forward

James and I recently moved into a cute little house. We are absolutely loving it! The kids have their bedrooms upstairs and are having quite an adventure. It's nice to have our own backyard for our dog and I can worry at little less with the kids going out to play. We still haven't unpacked all of our things. Go figure! It's hard to find a place for everything. The last place we were in we just stuffed everything in the garage LOL but now we don't have a garage and have to stuff closets. All in all it's a great place to live and we are enjoying every minute of it.

Kendrick will be 6 months on October 8th and he is getting so big! The last appointment at Primary Childrens he was 15.8 pounds and 24 3/4 inches. That was at 5 months old. We will see how much bigger he is in about two weeks.
Milestones:
Rolling over
Pushing up off the floor
Trying to get knees under him to scoot forward and reach a toy
Sitting up on his own
Eating solids
Drinking out of a cup! (not perfectly :))That was his own decision....he loves water just like Mommy
Of course, smiling, giggling, cooing and jabbering....just like Daddy LOL

Such a cute family

Dad put away his shoes and got some time with the kids. We all went to the Egin Lakes and had a blast! We are wanting to go again before summer ends....

It was fun to see the kids enjoying themselves and getting along so well. Oh, and Penny had a blast too!
As we were walking back to our car a woman stopped us and said "I thought you should know that you guys have the cutest family"......I would have to agree!!!









No swimming for Kendrick...but after the end of the day we all went home and got in our 'jamas to relax from a fun-filled day!

A family that plays together....

Quentin just learned to ride his bike WITHOUT TRAINING WHEELS!....Thanks DAD


What are you looking at?

Thanks Emmett for sharing your backyard for all of this summer fun!







Payton is always good for a laugh! It's so great to have cousins to play with...






Make a FUNNY face!

So pretty in her little dress. Caroline loves to dress up!

All alone..... that's okay, Mom will pick you up in a second

Good Times

All smiles!
Isn't he getting so big? Two months old today

He's a fast learner...he was doing this at three weeks old!

She loves to be a big sis

These pictures make me laugh and I just had to share

Caroline's 3rd Birthday

Caroline was so excited about her new bike from Grandma and Grandpa Huml. She just couldn't wait to get on and ride with all of her safety gear. She is doing really well on the bike and loves to be out there with Quentin.

Caroline got a backpack, 2 outfits, my little pony playset, and a two tinkerbells. She loved being the center of attention!

When I asked Caroline what she wanted for her birthday, she kept telling me a birthday cake. This is my first one in a very long time. It was fun to do.

Happy 3rd Birthday Caroline! We love having you in our family!!!

Summer begins....oh so slowly...

The first sign of a nice day Quentin was outside on his bike. So glad that we don't have such a busy road and a place for him to ride his bike. Goal for the summer: No more training wheels!

Quentin started wrestling back in February and had mixed feelings about it, but by the end of it he really enjoyed doing it. Most of all....he loved getting time with James.

I wish I had more pics of the things that we've been doing and of my other children. But I seem to forget about the camera when my house gets in chaos. LOL I'll do better.

Be looking for an update of Caroline's Birthday!

Kendrick's Blessing

Kendrick was blessed on May 2nd. We need to get some more pictures of him in his outfit. He was crying and upset because he was hungry....sorry to torture you little buddy LOL.


We are so blessed to have the family that we do. They are all so loving and supportive. It's been a long time since we've had everyone all together, both my family and James'. It was so much fun to be with our families and to enjoy each other's company. Thank you everyone for all of your support and yummy food!
In the picture: Russ and Jared are pulling the teeter-totter to a better spot to play on. Jonah is watching and Nate and Payton are playing on the logs. (The logs have been pretty entertaining)

In the picture: James (talking of course), Vince and Katie watching Emmett and Andy playing on the teeter-totter.

In the picture: Janet, Jim, Becky and Katie watching the kids and visiting. Quentin, Caroline and Gavin are riding the whirly-gig.

I'm glad the weather was okay enough for everyone to go out and enjoy some of the toys.