Last day and New seat

Today was our last day of school for the year!!!  YeAh!!!  We made it through our first year of home school successfully.  We already have our cirriculum for next year, so we are ready!  It has been a good adventure!  We are excited it's our summer time!

First day of our first year of home school!

Last day of our first year of home school!

We had a "Little" pizza party to celebrate!!!

Anna Claire has graduated from her highchair to booster seat at the table with us.  It's time I start letting her feed herself with utensils and I wanted her to be at the table with us.  She is digging the new seat and sitting with us now.  We shall see how this feeding yourself goes (I'm not much into messes, but oh well)!

Fun fact:  On Sunday, I will have been blogging for a year!  I've enjoyed doing it and plan to continue.  I'm not much of a scrapbooker, so I like to think of this blog as my scrapbook of which I plan to make into a book each year.:)

Weekend Recap

Friday night, the girls watched one of the movies they checked out from the library.

No, Anna Claire did not sit there and watch more than 10 minutes of the movie!

Saturday morning, the big girls and myself went to a cheerleading program that Haley was in.  It was a fun time and the girls really enjoyed it.

That afternoon, we didn't do too much.  Washed some clothes, washed some dishes, did a little cleaning, cooked dinner and helped Dad with a project he was doing.  After dinner, we played a family game of Skip Bo.  We had to teach the girls how to play and we had a good time.

Daddy won!!!

I braided some little girls hair.  Kyndal's does really well, I guess because it's thin and I can do so many small braids.  Abby's does well too, but she has very thick hair, so I don't do as many braids, because it would take Forever.  Kyndal always gets so many compliments when it's done like that.  Not the braids, the outcome!!Ha  It is really cute!

She wanted me to take her picture too!

We had combined Worship Service last night at a sister church to present something that several of the pastor's are putting together as an outreach to children this summer.  It was a really nice time.  So Sunday afternoon, the girls went to help Craig set up everything while I did our last week of school's lesson plans!!!

We had a really good relaxing and quality time spending weekend!

Let me just brag on this girl a little:  She is so helpful to me around here.  She will do just about anything I ask of her with no complaints (she does complain occasionally, but not often).  She helps with the baby alot too.  We got home late last night and I still had to give AC a bath and get the dinner warmed up.  Abby said I will give AC a bath while you do dinner if you want me to.  I let her and she always does a good job.  However, the little stinker (AC) refuses to let Abby put clothes on her!  She (Abby) is getting so big!

Kyndal is a good helper around the house too!  She cleans up after herself without me telling her too most of the time and she does her chores without me asking her to.

If I squat to take her picture, she does the same thing!

Silly girl!!  I really like this outfit, it was Abby's!  Abby, Kyndal, Marley, and now AC wear it and it still looks brand new! (the bow came out, oh after 2 minutes)

When I was getting gas on Friday, Abby said, Momma why does the money number go so much higher and faster than the gallon number!?!?!?  She said, wouldn't it be neat if gas was only $.80?  Um, yep it would:)

Turtle

The other day, Abby and Kyndal were outside playing and they came in for a few minutes to do something.  When they went back out, Abby came Flying back in the door yelling, there's a turtle out there.  It was hilarious.  It scared her to death.  Those who know her well, know she is terrified of animals, even little turtles.  Once she saw that it doesn't do much, she started playing with it.  It finally made its way to the neighbors yard.

Thank you

Thank you to everyone who prayed for our church's revival services this week.  They were wonderful services indeed.  We had some excellent preaching of God's Word, and an excellent leader of Worship through song. 

Last night of revival service!

We, as a family, received a wonderful blessing from the Lord yesterday that we are SO very thankful for!

I took the girls to the library today to get some books and they each picked out a movie too.  Now that school is all most over, we will be visiting the library more for the fun things they host in the summer.

Abby's face here is priceless!

She was mad that she didn't get in on the picture with the big sisters!

Have a Great weekend!!!



Busted

So yesterday I was headed to our 6th adoption class and I like to stop by Sonic and get a large cup of ice for the road.  Craig was unable to go to this class because we are having Revival at our church.  Yes, he has to make up that class next week.  You can't just skip classes and you can actually only miss 2.  Ok, back to the point, so as I'm pulling out of Sonic's drive thru there was a car sitting half way in the drive thru and half way out, I guess waiting for food or something.  I was going to slowly pull around her to get out.  Well, as I slowly pull around I ran right into the corner of a curb and my tire BUSTED!  It was so loud, people in Sonic came out, and immediately the air came out so I couldn't really move.  Thankfully Sonic is right around the corner from our house and I call Craig (who leaves his phone on vibrate, so I was praying he would hear it and answer), to come help me.  He had all 3 girls, because the baby sitters were not coming until 5:30 since Craig would be there.  He comes in his little truck with all 3 girls and we haven't ever had a flat in our van so we didn't know where the spare tire was or how to get to it.  Long story short, someone came to help Craig and our baby sitters showed up 30 minutes early and I left in his truck to head to class.  I called the church (where class is) to tell them I'm running about 20 minutes late, and I was exactly 20 minutes late.  We all bring food to class for dinner since we are there during dinner time and I had the main part of dinner so they had to wait on me, but all was good.  At one point I didn't think I was going to make it at all, but thankfully I did.

Ok, so on the way there, I kid you not, I almost had a head on collision with a truck who was not paying attention and came right over in my lane.  Again, thankfully I saw him in time to get over out of his speeding way.  Boy by the time I got to class I was nervous nelly.  I prayed hard to make it back home safely that night, and I did.

I'm really trying to focus on the positive things these days, so in all of this I was thankful ...

1.  Craig was at home to help me.
2.  I was right around the corner from the house.
3.  Someone came to help him (he said getting that tire out was a nightmare).
4.  Our sweet baby sitters (or kid sitters as Abby says) came early.
5.  I could take Craig's truck.
6.  Craig still had time to get ready for revival amongst all my "drama".
7.  I didn't have a blowout going 70 down the Hwy. (instead it busted at Sonic) b/c I was barely moving, I promise.
8.  I am getting 4 new tires in the am.
9.  The Lord protected me from a head on collision.
10. I made it home safe and sound, with a headache, but safe!

Much more I could list here, but I will end there.  Grateful, Grateful, Grateful!!!

Thankfully...

we have 3 girls who have and do sleep so well.  All 3 girls started sleeping through the night somewhere between 6-10 weeks old.  They have all been good sleepers and still are.  They were all good nappers and AC still is.

There are some days where Anna Claire's nap gets interrupted by co-op or something else going on and when we get back home I can just put her back in the bed and she goes right back to sleep.

They usually go to bed at 8 pm every night except on Friday they stay up until 9 pm.  They are usually up between 7-7:30 am.  Occasionally they will get up a little earlier or a little later.

Thankfully, I have had the privilege and honor to stay at home with them since before Abby was born and not really had to have a set wake up time with the exception of when they were at Parkview.  We do start school at 8:30 am, but they are all up and have eaten by then, so it's all good.

I go in and check on them each night before I go to bed and if I get up during the night, I go in then too.  This one particular night, the big girls had the cover down like this, I guess trying to make a tent or something, who knows.  AC was sleep in a funny position too.

Love to see some sweet sleeping children.  I love that they are all in a room together too, it works out well for us.  Now, when we switch AC to a toddler bed, that will might be a different story!

She is...

a Daddy's girl to the core.  All of our girls love their dad, with good reason, he is an Awesome Daddy.  However, Abby is a huge Daddy's girl.  She wants to go everywhere with him.  She loves to have him sit down and read the Bible to her.  She loves to ask him lots of questions, and he loves to answer them.  She loves to help him make breakfast in the mornings.  She loves to hear him preach (her words).  She just loves her Daddy to pieces and he loves her to pieces as well.

She wanted to go to the wedding he was doing last night sooooo bad.  She must have ask, oh at least 4,932 times.  We agreed that she could go, and she was so happy.