Happy Birthday Lindsey!

Happy Birthday to my sweet girl, I can't believe you are 7!! Not long ago I was at the hospital waiting for your Daddy to come to VA from PA, after being up all night at the hospital. What a wonderful surprise when you were born that night and we found out you were a beautiful baby girl. You are a delightful person and daughter and we love you very much! We are so blessed to have you as our daughter!

Lindsey chose L.P.S. as her birthday theme this year and Grandma made a beautiful cake for her, and she requested chocolate...good thinking Lindsey!


She had some friends over and we played games...


and opened presents. She finally received her long awaited DS and a couple of games.


Rachel picked out a new dog for her...Lindsey loves her animals!

Here is Lindsey with all her girls.

It was a fun night and Lindsey had a great time! Thanks to everyone that made her birthday so special!!

We had to do it...

this is the only year we could pull this off...a little old woman with "her" walker...


thinking seriously about all this craziness...


and having fun.

But, at "she" lost "her" hair and chose a handkerchief, a "woman" is free to change her mind at times...

but, "she" always loved pushing the walker.


We decided to change Zachary's costume for the church Fall Fest, we thought it would be cute and lots of people had a good laugh.

But here a few more faces of Zach...

and some of these only a Mother can love...

Happy 16 months Zach...you're a good sport!

Happy Halloween!

My little pumpkins dressed up for trick-or-treating and had a fun time gathering lots of candy. Lindsey is a Queen at a masquerade party, Rachel is the princess Ariel, of course, Brady is a kangaroo...

and Zachary...a lion. (And when told "say trick-or-treat", he roared....it was cute actually!)

I think this is the best picture I took all night of the 4 of them. This is with our sweet neighbors, the Worleys, notice Brady is right with the man that gives all the tractor rides.


And Polamalu, a.k.a Bruce, pulled the boys around our old neighborhood in a wagon.


Lindsey posing with the completed carved pumpkins, these are Rachel's and Zach's...


and Lindsey's and Brady's. (She was proud. She carved her own all by herself.)


And these are a few pictures of the kids opening their Halloween package from Grandma Marsha...they loved all the great treats.

Thanks Grandma Marsha! Happy Halloween everyone!

Zachary's Dedication

We were given 4 sweet children to love and take care of. On Sunday, it was Zachary's turn to be officially dedicated back to the One that had given him to us. Zachary is full of laughter and fun and loves to do whatever his older siblings are doing, like horsey rides on Daddy...

being outside...

and his blankie and paci (a.k.a "pappy or pa-pa").

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. " (Deut. 6: 5-7)

We are so thankful for Zachary and all of our gifts from God. We want to leave a legacy for our children and raise them in a way that brings glory to Him.

I want a cookie....

So......my 14 month old decides to get a chair and...

push it up to the kitchen counter.

Looking over his shoulder, he climbs up into the chair...

to finally reach is goal...

cookies!

And helps himself to one that is tasty.

"Snips and snails and puppy dog tails, that's what little boys are made of..."

But, my sissy's make yummy cookies!

I turned my back...

for one moment...
to clean up some sticky hands...

and found my son...

like this.

(And with this take two he was much quicker at his new accomplishment.) I'm very busy these days.....

Another 1st for Zachary...

FINALLY after several days of fever, some diarrhea and grumpiness....Zachary cut his first tooth....at almost 14 months. We're all a little sad about losing those sweet toothless grins, but excited too.


I just love this picture, I can't believe it turned out so well!


And here's a picture of Zach with his birthday cake (yes, from 2 months ago). My friend made his cake and we had a red, white and blue theme since we celebrated around July 4th.