Angels

I have always thought to myself while holding an infant it is as if you are looking at an angel. They are so beautiful, so innocent...just angelic.

Our family is blessed with 10 of these little angels. While I cannot actually hold most of these angels in my arms and rock them to sleep anymore, I know a part of me will always remember them like that. Here they are my angels on Christmas at Gee and Poppy's house...

Here's the best attempt of the group, angel shot. Clearly this should have been taken at the beginning of the day, not at the end. It's hard to be angelic all the time:)

...and there is another angel joining the clan in March

Christmas with Family

We could not make it to church on Christmas Eve as planned due to poor Robb's tummy. While we did not have the opportunity to celebrate with traditional worship, we were able to glorify God by rejoicing with family. It was a wonderful day (plus night before at Momo's) filled with lots of smiles, lots of laughing, and lots of love.

Christmas with Friends

I was terrible about taking pictures during the holiday season. Looking through them now, I am so disappointed I did not do a better job documenting this glorious time of the year. It seems that I was particularly lacking with pictures of gatherings and outings with friends. We are blessed with wonderful friends. I love you all dearly.

Now and Then

Let me set the scene...


September 1994, MUS Victory Dance

There is a girl dressed in her finest, Harolds attire and a boy complete with a well-worn Steelers hat. There is a little football, a little dancing, and a lot of smiling.


16 years and 3 months later


There is that same girl, that same boy, plus two angels...still smiling.


Happy 7 year wedding anniversary, Will. I love you.

Giggle, Giggle, Quack

The Orpheum has productions through the year aimed to get kids to live performances. They are stage adaptations of children's books. This year the whole season is comprised of plays from some of our favorite books. The first was a couple of weeks ago, and Will and I took Trey. He got to go through the petting zoo and feed the llama, make a animal crown with the people from the Children's Museum, and sit next to Will the Thrill. It was lots of fun, and we would love to have more friends join us at the next show.

Gingerbread House-aka sugar high

We decorated our gingerbread house yesterday. I take that statement back I decorated, Trey placed a few decorations, and Trey and Robb gorged on every sugary confection they could get their hands on. Needless to say it was fun, and I think we got a pretty cute product.

Thankful

I am of course thankful for all the blessings in my life, but as I was looking through all of our Thanksgiving pictures I realized some silly subcategories of things to be thankful for. They are as follows:

I am thankful for . . .

Will taking over carving duties.

having a glass of wine with my 95 year old grandmother.

sleepovers with Hank.

nieces and nephews who keep me laughing.

a mother in law who encourages this at her house.

a sister in law who doesn't forget a thing!!!!

curls.

a brother in law who will drive close to 20 hours to make my sister and many others very happy.

and sisters who love mine like their own.

I am truly blessed.