Day4 ... The Key

picture the holidays photos

Day 3:  All you need is love...

 Day 2- Reframe the season

Day-1 Thankful

Advent

We are reading our Advent devotional series again this year.  We are excited to hear about "Tabitha's Travels".

The kids also enjoyed rolling their own Advent candles again this year for our advent wreath.  Finally, they are also looking forward to the calendar of the chocolate and Lego type.  We are officially counting down the days until Christmas here. 

The Cow, by Robert Loui$ Stevenson.

This is Ben's third poem this year.  :)

Concentration

Concentration:  Science Experiment

Birthdays

Kansas was a great place to celebrate turning nine and five!  The kids enjoyed this lakeside party with family.

More misc. pix

Where did my brownie go?

Faith bridged up to Junior Girl Scouts this May!  No more brownies in this house.  (Well maybe the chocolate ones...)

Strawberry Pickin

Ben enjoyed picking strawberries with his preschool friends back in April.

Easter Shots

Not a lot of time or planning spent on these... Tripod family pix with less cooperative kids...
Real life here.

Baseball and a Parade

Ben had a preschool parade last Friday.  He did great bringing up the rear and beating his drum!

Here is Ben in his T-ball gear.  Hannah is also playing softball this year which has kept us busy with practices and games.

A Poem

Spring Awakening

By Hannah Grelk

The world is clothed in springtime, 

Grass blades in dew drops divine,

Flowers strewn with honeybees,

The wind blows sweet, fresh, and fine.

The world is new at springtime,

The branches put their leaves forth,

The cold and snow are gone now, 

And again the birds fly north.

Just Pix

Daddy's home!

Brian finally returned on Saturday.  His flight had been delayed two days.  We were hopeful that it wouldn't be delayed again.  We were able to go to the gate to welcome him home with our signs.  I just stood there with tears of joy rolling down my cheeks.  Needless to say, no pictures were taken right at the reunion.  I actually forgot to even bring my camera.  Faith said that she didn't need any pictures of the moment, she would already remember it for the rest of her life!

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Gifts for the kids and gifts for Dad.

No one took our picture together so here is just a quick snap shot.

Brian made it home in time to take the girls to the Girl Scout Ball.  They were so glad he could take them.  Faith said she is so glad to have two parents again!

Lazy Day

Snow Day~Never Say Never!

We enjoyed some more snow in the south.

I believe I had just a few weeks earlier explained to the kids that they wouldn't have a day off from school if it snowed.  "We don't have snow days here," I believe were my exact words.  Never say never.  Two days off and a delay due to snow and ice that fell.  That will teach me!

Here are a few pictures of the boys playing in the soft snow before the sleet arrived and the girls exploring after the sleet coated everything in ice.   Please take note of the girls' careful construction of snow girls, finding delicate snow leaf prints, etc. while the boys romp and run and throw.

They just have a different way of interacting with their world, that is all I am saying!