Ropes Course

A local Christian camp (Black Rock, I've written about it before) has a number of different science classes for homeschooled kids.  I finally took the plunge and signed Claudia up for the ropes course.  It was something I loved to do there when I was young and she was finally old enough!  She took her friend, Madison (pictured below), and they had a great time together.  I stole this picture off of Black Rock's FB page.

All of our company is now gone.  Though it was very fun having everyone here and we miss them already, it is nice to feel back to normal.   Funny how after having a house full of guests, suddenly 5 kids feels peaceful!!  I have many pictures to post about our time together.

Ordained

Yesterday was Steve's official ordination at our church.  It was so fun having most of his family in for the special day.  Looks like our time together is going to be a little longer, everyone's flights are cancelled b/c of the storm.  Who knows when they'll all get home!!

Sweet Boy

Boys

Out of the Mouths...

Aaron has a way with the babies around here.  Josiah loves him and always giggles in his presence.  Today, Aaron was working his magic with his cousin Aiden.  Aiden was laughing so loud at Aaron.  Ashley and I were talking about how good Aaron was the babies.

Aaron comes over and whispers in my ear:

"Mom, I am a baby's dream come true."

He's Back!!

This weekend Steve is getting officially ordained at church.  We are so happy that some of his family is coming in for the event.  Ashley was so sweet and wanted to make the trip again even though she was just here.  Nobody knew she was coming except for Jeremy and I.  It was so fun to see the look of surprise on everyone's face when she showed up at church yesterday.
The kids are so happy to have Aunt Ashley and Aiden back.  Such a doll baby he is!!

11 Months

Not a great expression but the great lighting makes up for it, right??

A little dirt never hurt anyone, right?

Baby boy finally learned how to do "So Big!!".  You can see the look of accomplishment on his face.  Love it.