God's Best Gift

"Don't you see that children are God's best gift?

The fruit of the womb his generouse legacy?
Like a warrior's fistful of arrows are the children of a vigorous youth.

Oh, how blessed are you parents with your quivers full of children!" Psalm 127:3-4 MSG

We are so blessed by this little boy and all our boys! When God showed me this verse for Carter's birth announcement, I really focused on the first part, but now after being blessed with 4 amazing little men, God reminded me of this verse and I LOVE the Message version...quiver full of children! Indeed our quiver is full and I LOVE every bit of it!

Couldn't you just eat this little guy up! Crosby will be 5 months next week and it has gone by almost too quickly! He is loving every bit of his cereal and baby food and continuing to be a wonderful, happy boy! Such a blessing from God! Thank you LORD for all our boys!

Snow Day

Here are a few pics of my lovelies during our little snow last week. We didn't get much and it was pretty stinking cold but they were begging to go out in it. So we bundled up, put Crosby in bed and went out for a bit. Cole only lasted about 10 minutes and he was DONE!

They were so irritated I made them pose for a pic, but you know I had to have it!

Caden was so excited to eat the snow...not really sure why!
This is the best shot I got of Carter, he was RUNNING around EVERYWHERE!

Cole got cold fast, probably because he kept eating the snow and laying down in it on the trampoline! Silly boy!

We got the sled out for a bit. We have a pretty good slope in the back so the big kids had fun doing this for most of their time out there. Cole wanted to try it out so Caden was a good big brother and helped him out!

Cole came in shortly after and took a hot bath and put on some footie jammies and snuggled up on the couch! The other kids threw a FIT when I asked them to come in! It melted a couple of days later but was so fun while it lasted!

Being Two is Exhausting

Cole has apparently had a long day! I put on Dino Dan while I nursed Crosby and look over to see this...


Oh so tired


Can't stay awake:)

New Blogs

I have added a few blogs to my list of daily reads and wanted to pass them along...

Read them, be encouraged, encourage them, or ignore :)

Blog Thru The Bible - written by Don Hughes, the President and CEO of the Christian radio station we listen to here. He has created a reading plan for reading the bible through in a year and written a little devo for each day.

Beyond Our Wildest Dreams - meet Jenny, a mom of 4 (3boys and 1 girl), an adoptive mom and a foster mom! She found me and I now follow her because of our common ground!

A Holy Experience - introduced to me by my blogging friend Kathy (check out her Jcrew!) I came to read at Christmas time because Ann had posted a nifty advent book that I wanted to do, but I am now a daily reader! Her writing is wonderful and I am doing her Colossians memorization...memorizing the ENTIRE book of Colossians in a year (well trying to do it :))

The Stedje Family - a nephew and niece in law of my mother's business partner and friend. They have had lots of ups and downs on their ways to becoming parents. They were expecting triplets, who arrived early at 25 weeks (I think). One little babe went to be with Jesus, but this blog chronicles the life of the twins that are here and doing well!

Afta? - A friend from high school, her hubby, and kiddos are missionaries in Vanuatu. They are preparing to move to a village and do more ministering. It is great to keep up with them and pray for them as they serve!

Can You Believe It?!

This little guy is two weeks shy of being 5 months old and can already do this...

Crosby in the high chair at McD!

Crosby is growing up too fast! I took him in last week for his 4mo check up and he is 25 3/4 inches and 17.4lbs. The other three boys were all around the sane weight but 1/2 in to an in longer. So maybe he will help me not to be the shortest in the family:)

Crosby is now on rice cereal and we started veggies and fruit last week! He seems to love it all!! He adjusted so quickly to the spoon. He also loves the high chair or anything where he can sit up and look around!

I know I will turn around and he will be crawling soon!

Crosby Can Jump

We borrowed this new jumper/saucer from Grammie. Jada doesn't need it anymore so we took it! I wasn't sure if he was ready or not. I remember putting an exersaucer together for Caden right after Christmas, so I gave it a whirl!



As you can see Crosby loves it! He loves it even more when Caden is there to provide added entertainment!

Christmas Aftermath

I mentioned we spent a WONDERFUL week with my family, but I didn't mention that I was TUCKERED out! Crosby decided to go on some sort of a growth spurt or something and was awake much of the night wanting to eat! Cole also had a hard time going to bed or down for a nap. Even with the off schedule it was still a FABULOUS time had by all! Aunt Jana ROCKED and entertained the kids to no end! There were a few meltdowns, but expected with 6 adults and 5 kids all in one house and the 5 kids off schedule but it was GREAT! Here are a few of the cute aftermath photos taken on Christmas Day!

I had to lie down with Cole to get him to sleep, and I must have dozed off too!

This sums up Crosby's day...he was so fussy most of Christmas Day and the day after. Poor little guy! But still a cutie!
Pops and Aunt Jana were POOPED after entertaining our kids all day!

Christmas Day

Christmas morning was a blast with all these kiddos! Crosby and Cole woke up early, but were in our room, so I fed Crosby and Cory tried to keep Cole quiet! Cole found Caden's Nintendo DS and thought he could "play" it! Well that wasn't a great idea for picture time! Once everybody was up, that kid woudn't put the DS down! So this is the best picture I could get of everyone! At least they are all in matching jammies :)))

Just the boys :)
Cole is OBSESSED with farm animals, so Santa brought him a cattle truck with cattle in it!

Carter LOVES his BatMan Batcave!!!

Caden received Secret Spy Gear - look out for him!

Crosby wasn't too sure about all the commotion.

Aunt Jana got the kids a couple of movies...they loved them and had a blast loving on her!

They all got so much stuff and loved all of it! We had such a great time spending the week with my family!