A New Addition To The Family

So most of you at least know of the "small love" of Basketball that Cohen has but what you might not know is the umm.... large access we have to "Hoop Ball" as Cohen affectionately named it. So I thought I would post some pictures just to give you an idea!!

this is the hoop that started the whole thing.... Thanks Mom:)

this one above it the latest addition-- isn't she a beauty-- David thought we "needed" it because we didn't have a double hoop..... so of course this was perfect... does anyone think we have a few to many hoops?!?

The sad thing is this is just our hoops, I didn't feel like spending an hour taking pictures of our Soccer goal, baseball bats, ping pong table, kiddie pool table, our golf ball set(s), bowling, hockey, Basically this poor angel doesn't stand a chance!!

YES!!!

We are still alive and kicking.... just a little slow with the blogging world :) But I promise to try and do better--

Enjoy this beautiful photo of my precious Nephew!!

Resurrection Sunday with a little egg finding as well :)

Our Resurrection Sunday was WONDERFUL!!! We had our family over this time, and it was so nice to start our own family traditions!!

I am to tired to type a lot right now..... so here are some photos instead-

My New Book

Soo I have been wanting to purchase this book for awhile, and have kept putting it off. So finally last week I decided to go ahead and suck it up and pay the $6 on Amazon and buy "Parenting the way God Parents" and I just got it in the mail and I am soooo excited and already learning soo much so I had to share some quotes that I just loved and for any parent that is wanting a good parenting book to read I am totally recommending it -- and I am only on page 46

So Here Ya Go

Family discussions about such topics as devotion, charity, heritage, and excellence must find their way back into our living rooms. As Kingdom parents, we have to go deeper places of discussion with our children than simply their outward behavior. Jesus warns against working to make people took good on the outside while neglecting the more important heart issues like patience and faith in the face of uncertainty


Of course, no one wants to pass generational sin on to his children. But simply not wanting to is not enough. We have to take a more active role. Just as God our Father is a shield and protector to us (Psalm28:7) we must shield out children, praying against specific generational sin and looking honestly at ourselves for signs of influence.


He want us to leave the things that are familiar - the way things have always been- and to go out in faith, building a family of His design. It's easy to build a family of our own design, but God invites us to throw off what we think we know and open ourselves up to HIS vision for our families. Just as God challenged Abram to trust in His plan, He calls us to trust Him wholeheartedly with our families.


Our best hopes and dream for our children pale in comparison to those God has for them.

She now wears a size 2

I am so sad :( She is getting to be a big girl

Who knew my house was cleaned by a leprechaun?

So I am learning that I am not as good with Holidays as I thought I was. My neighbor blows me away with the creativeness with EVERY Holiday. Today was not a disappointment!!

So her 2 little boys and 1 little neighbor girl, came off the bus to green water in all the toilets, a compass in the mailbox to help them with their treasure hunt, green bags to put their goodies, and then a serious treasure hunt inside and outside. Oh... and their was green silly string all over their deck..... The leprechauns had taken pillows and stacked them up on the couch, put bottles of water and coke cans all of the kitchen in a crazy manner, and put things in odd places. The kids LOVED it and knew that the leprechaun must have hit our house as well (Ummm.... oh no, hear comes the thing that I may not be as "with it" when it comes to Holidays)

So we went on a walk back to my house to see what the leprechaun had done at my house, and I was nervous that they were going to be sadly disappointed, and tried to create my story as to why nothing at my house was out of the ordinary

The little kids walked in to my not so messy, not so clean house, and they KNEW that he had been their as well because so many things were "out of place"

They kept looking around my house and gasping when they would find things that HAD to have been done by this leprechaun...... My Bananas were out of place on the table? My 2 pillows were on one side of the couch instead one on each side! A light was left on in the bathroom, there was a guitar in cohen's room .... a definite sign of a leprechaun they LOVE guitars!!

But the funniest thing was when the kids went upstairs to make sure we didn't miss anything that this "little leprechaun" might have done in our house, so I decided to make Olivia a quick bottle before we left.

I put her in her swing and started making the bottle when the kids came down and totally started freaking out and in loud shreakish voices they pointed to Olivia and said "OHHHH MYYY GOOOSHHHH.... HOW DID SHE GET IN THE SWING.... SHE WASN'T THEIR WHEN WE WENT UPSTAIRS....... OHHH MYYY GOSHHHH THE LEPRECHAUN DID IT"

:) I want to be a kid again!!

Can it be true??

Is she really 3 months old today? These past three month have FLOWN BY.
I love that she is getting a personality, she smiles when she sees me and her daddy, she coos at her brothers and has just brought so much love to our family!! Happy 3 Month Birthday Baby Girl

WE LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!

and p.s. how cute are these new shoes of hers!!