Fun at the Park

Jeremiah's face after his 3rd time down a slide by himself.

God blessed us with such a beautiful day so we took a walk and went to the park.

Bluebonnets

We were out at my mom's this weekend and we got some pictures of the girls in bluebonnets that I thought I would share. My brother is also in some of these with his "pet' turkey. My parents are raising some wild turkeys. This turkey follows my brother everywhere he goes. My dad says that Payt is her tom. The tom my parents had died awhile back and this particular turkey is wanting to lay eggs. So, instead of having a tom to mate with she chases my brother everywhere. He can even ride in the mule and the turkey will run alongside the mule right next to Payt. It is quite a sight!

Growing Up

Jeremiah is changing fast. On Monday he weighed 8lbs and 15.5 oz. Today he lost his umbilical cord. He is starting to stay awake a little bit longer. We are enjoying him very much.

My little man

Micah adores him.

Gabriella adores him too. In her defense he had already started to fuss before she came to love on him. But she is rougher with him than Micah is, so we have to watch her very, very closely.

Christmas Pics

Merry Christmas to all!

Sorry, we never got around to sending out Christmas cards and pictures this year.

Pictures from October Happenings

Micah and Gabriella helping Daddy make an angel food cake.

Gabriella licking the spoon.

Daddy, Micah, and Gabriella with the largest pumpkin in Texas.


Mommy and Gabriella

Micah and Gabriella finding their way through a hay maze.

Our Two Girls

Waiting at the Door

Our precious girls waiting at the door to leave for CBS

Newest Addition

Meet Lambchop! He's a male Bichon Frise about 12 weeks. He will get between 7 & 10 pounds. He does not shed! The girls love to play with him. It is very important to Gabriella when we are praying that we pray for "puppy" and Micah chimes in with "our puppy Lambchop." It is very cute! They love him very much. We've enjoyed hearing Micah talk about him. When we first got him, Micah would sit next to him and say, "He's cute! Momma my Lambchop is so cute." She also says of him, "My puppy is beautiful." and "He's so handsome." We are so thankful that we are able to let them have a puppy to take care of and to love.

A Trip to The Fair

We went to the fair to watch Payton show his goats. He did a great job handling his goats. As exciting as getting to watch their Uncle Payton - the girls really loved all the sights of the fair. Micah was very excited to get to pet a pig, a cow, and a goat. Gabriella was excited about petting a cow - but much more reserved with the rest of the animals. When we first got the the fair there was a clown with her little monkey. The girls really enjoyed seeing the monkey & we were able to take a few cute pictures of them with the monkey. When Gabriella first saw the monkey she started pointing repeatedly saying, "Baby! Baby!"


In this last picture the clown had given the monkey a peanut as an attempt to get her to look at me with the camera. As she was eating her peanut, she was dropping the shell - which Gabriella tried to pick up and eat!




Micah really wanted to pet a pig. PePaw helped her find a pig to pet.

Gabriella with Aunt Shan

Sisterly Love

Micah's Imagination

Micah has definitely developed an imagination. We have all kinds of adventures in our home. Sometimes we chase tigers until we catch their tails. We see pink monsters. Stars in the grass at night. We pretend that we are other family members at the dinner table. Clay and I have been so amazed at her imagination. We try to encourage it by imagining with her, but we have found it to be so much harder than it was when we were children.

Today I managed to capture a couple of her "imagining moments."



First Micah put this blanket over my head and said, "Mommy is Mary." She then took the blanket and put it on her head and said, "I am Mary."




Micah loves playing in the sand. After a few minutes of being in the sand, she walked over to me and said, "Mommy, I drank milk!"

Gabriella is a Climber

She has been climbing for a while. But here are a few pictures to show you some of her climbing attempts.
She loves to climb on this bench and try and figure out how she can get out of the fence. I pray that it will be a long time until she figures it out.



Gabriella now loves to climb on top of her sisters bed, so she can play on the bed. She has successfully made it all the way on the bed once. In this picture she is screaming, "Stuck" which is what she now says anytime she is somewhere that she does not want to be.

But I must say - these are tame to some of her adventures. She climbs all the way up the slide. I have seen her try to climb the wall to look out the window. She now climbs onto the toilet. She climbs up all stools - regardless if her sister is on there or not.

I have to just pray for her safety and trust that God has her in His Hands because I am not always quick enough to catch her. Besides, if I did not just trust God with her - I think that all that worrying for her safety would have driven me to mental hospital by now.

Pictures

We are going to put up a few pictures from the past few months of the girls. Sorry we've been so bad about sending them out before. But now maybe everyone who wants to see will get a chance to look.

Micah Turns Two


Daddy and Gabriella

Micah, Gabriella, and Mommie playing the piano

Say, CHEESE!

Our princess

Micah loves princesses. She has two sets of princess pjs & a princess umbrella. If it is princess - she wants it. Micah tells us that she is our princess & likes to dress up as one. She loves to play in the closet in our room. Today, I had the bedroom door closed. She started pointing to the door saying, "Oh no, My princess closet."

True to being a princess - she does not like to get dirty. She is always ready to wash stuff off her hands. She especially does not like mud on her feet. If she gets mud on her feet, she will cry to come take a bath. Not at all like her sister.

Reading in a basket

Gabriella loves to read. She takes after her "MaMa" and her "Peepaw." She will spend 45 minutes pulling all the books out of the basket in her room or off the shelf in her sister's room. Then she will intently look at one book. When she is done looking at it, she throws it over her shoulder and then moves to the next book. It is not uncommon for her to come walking in to me with a book saying, "MaMa book!" When I sit down, she will squeal and then fall into my lap so we can read her chosen book.

A Trip to Grandma's

We drove out west to visit Grandma this weekend. We really enjoyed getting to visit with her. The girls had an absolute blast. If Micah was not sleeping on the way there she was saying, "I want to go to Grandma's." Gabriella and Micah both loved playing and exploring in Grandma's house. Gabriella especially loved getting all of the books off of Grandma's shelves to look through them. Micah really loved going to into the basement to play. She would tell Clay and I that she wanted to go "upstairs" - which meant she wanted to go to the basement. It is a blessing to get to spend time with Grandma and to learn from her. I am also so thankful that my girls are getting a chance to know her. I hope that they will always remember the fun they had at Grandma's - just like my sisters and brothers remember the fun we had when we went to Grandma and Grandpa's.

Below are some pictures of the girls playing in Grandma's beautiful yard.







Here you see Micah and Gabriella wrestling. This is a very common occurence among our two sweet girls.

The world would like to welcome us to the 21st century

Well, we have finally jumped on ye olde band wagon and created a blog, now if only someone will read it...

clay