Happy New Year!

Here are some fun photos from the last month or so. By the way, I do have a "goal" this year to update this blog at least once a month. That seems attainable, so we'll see. Enjoy the photos!

Superhero muscles

Our first fire with a Sunday night snack feast!

Aunt Amy and Kara (both with their babies in their tummy:) Little Reuben was born 12.23.09

For Christmas with Grandma Rosey we went to the GR children's museum. Lots of fun!

We had a great time with family and cousins.

Christmas love :)
Legos, legos, legos....Austin's dream

Our Christmas breakfast....delicious

Kara's smoothie mustache


Yes, this is Coach K. He came to scout a kid from Mt. Pleasant. Trevor was....giddy :)


Well, if I keep up on this, hopefully it my posts won't be this long :)
Hope you enjoy the slue of different pictures.

Applefest at the Pumpkin Patch

This weekend my mom came to visit and to go to the Applefest with us. It was a pretty rainy, muddy and cold day, but we still went. We all love that stuff....pumpkins, apples, fall.

We had a great time despite the weather.

Corn tunnel

Pumpkin Maze

Hayride through the pumpkin fields

Kara and I snuggling to keep warm :)

Hello again....

So, I'm going to stop apologizing for it being so long since my last post, 'cause my track record shows that I'm not the most consistent at posting- so it's not like it should surprise anyone when it takes me so long. Therefore, I'll just post when I post and not feel bad about it anymore :) Enjoy the picture updates.

Kara, taking after her big sister. The dressing up has just begun.

Our sweet little Hailey ended up with 4 stitches this summer from a wildly thrown frisbee golf disc. Mom was away for the day and Dad handled it awesome (Dad has a way of making just about anything fun), but what an adventure!

Here's Austin with the traditional first day of school pose. What a big 1st grader!

He had to have the favorite Star Wars lego shirt on.

Kara's "smile" these days are with the eyes closed. This was at the girls birthday celebration.

I just love this pict. of Austin. He looks so sweet and innocent.

Here's Hailey and her little pals at their birthday "cookie party". There are five little girls that were born all within about 4 or 5 weeks of eachother. One of the little girls really wanted to have all of her friends over for a "cookie party" to celebrate all of their birthdays. They really do get along well and have a great time together. I'm so blessed to think that they'll grow up together.

Things come and gone...

I know it's been a while. Here are some photos of things come and gone since I last posted....

Austin played T-ball for the first time this year. It took some encouraging, but once he tried it, he loved it! It's just getting kids to know the basic things of baseball. We had a good time watching and seeing him do really well and try something new.

Kara is no stranger to dirt and rocks, they are some of her favorite things. We do have to watch so that she doesn't eat either of them. She got away from us on this one. :)

Austin lost his first tooth! It was a long and exciting process. He did it all himself, and he was very proud.

Trevor and I celebrated our 8th anniversary. We were able to get away to Mackinaw City. We always forget that it gets colder as we go more north though. Plus it's only mid May, so it never is very warm. Plus it was sooo windy that day! (ie. the hat, sweatshirts and fleece). We had a great time together though and saw beautiful Mackinaw City.

Hailey loves looking at books and she loves shoes. Well, the pictures speaks for itself. But if there is any question- those are Trevor's shoes.

Well, that's all for now, hope to get a little more consistent again. Enjoy.

Did I mention....

Did I mention that Austin Has a mohawk? I have kind of forgotten about it....and then I remember when people say, "does Austin have a mohawk?" or "what's up with his hair?". In the grand scheme of things...it's no big deal. Plus, he looks pretty darn cute with it too. He loves it. He saw someone at a wrestling match (a really tall mohawk) and mentioned it, but didn't say too much about it. Then once hair cut day came he mentioned wanting one and Trevor said, "okay". It started off pretty small and the more we cut the rest, the taller the mohawk gets. I'm interested to see how long this lasts.
He even wants me to blow dry it and spike it up. It's pretty funny.

AND....Hailey has been chewing on her hair and just getting a bit of everything in it. Well, I told her not to chew on her hair or we'd have to look at getting cut. Well, she called my bluff. She said, "yeah, mommy, I want to get it cut. Short like yours". Well, here it is. Real cute.

The three, Kara after bath time.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I haven't been on here in quite a while, so I thought I'd post some recent picts of the kiddos in their St. Patty's day wear. Our little K- bear tossed her cookies (well, toast) this morning, but seems to be bouncing back quite quickly :) Thank you Lord.

My three leprechauns

Peace out

Speaking my love language...

A fun day, answers to prayer.....we (Hailey, Trevor and I) got to attend Austin's Valentine's Day party at school today (Kara's sick and a good friend came to stay with her). I love going to his classroom to see his little friends and hug the ones that need it and just have fun with Austin in "his" environment (that he is oh so proud of). A good day, but feeling a bit "antsy"- for lack of a better word- tonight. The girls are in bed and Austin is with Trevor at a basketball game (Trevor has to work at). I sit down to do a few things on the computer and find myself at a blog that a good friend suggested to read. Check it out, it's worth the couple minutes it takes to read it! (especially moms) http://www.aholyexperience.com/search?q=ducks%20of%20a%20feather

So, in the middle of reading this blog entry Trevor called to let me know that Austin was on his way in the house. He said that he didn't even stay for the whole time at the game that he could have, because he looked at Trevor and said, "I'm having fun Dad and I like coming to these with you, but I need to go home and spend some time with Mom." My heart melts and my eyes well up (totally speaking my love language there). So, instead of hurrying him off to bed, (like I had planned because it is late and I have MY stuff to do), we sat and talked and snuggled and read a few books. What a precious moment. What else can I say, but that I am blessed. I am so thankful that the Lord stopped me to read that blog at that very moment. Otherwise I would have missed out on some sweet time and "soft feathers" with my Jaybird.

Thank you Lord for that very important reminder....for which I needed badly.