The End of 2010!

This is Christmas day 2010 at our house! The kids with their new loungers watching a Christmas movie. We have been very blessed in the year 2010. Mark had completed his trainie position at the CORPS, I have been able to continue to stay home with the kids, and the kids are growing in more ways than one!

Many things always happening at our house!

Entertainment all the time!

Rejoicing in the Reason for the Season!

Raising 4 children…a challenge!

Ya, it’s almost time to open presents!

Ciara, Chris, Cayla, Cadee, are all enjoying school.

Having fun enjoying the kids all the time.

Reading ,writing, and math is what the kids are learning.

Into everything…but what are kids for!

Saying the most funny things that make you laugh!

Teaching what Christmas is all about.

Mark and I are blessed with our family and jobs.

Always thinking of things to do.

Savoring every moment that we can with each other.

Summer 2010

Ok so it has been a long time since I have been on here to update the progress of our family. Most recent news...Chris fell off the monkey bars at a family event and ended up breaking his arm. He broke it right above the elbow joint, he was very lucky not to have surgery. God was totally with him. He will be in a cast for another 5days!!! It has been hard for him to be in a cast, no swimming is the worst. Mark has been busy with work and many other projects around here. He bought himself a motorcycle last week, so that is his new little toy to mess with. The girls are being girls..enjoying the pool here at home. Have not went swimming in the river yet, the water is really high and I get a little nervious about taking them by myself. School will be starting soon, the 19th of Aug. We are ready I believe. I'm looking forward to it, I will have my mornings to myself!! Hope that your summer is going well.

A Time to be Thankful!

Time has sure been going by fast. Mark and I had the time to do some hunting out west by Kadoka ,SD this year. I had the any deer tag..Mark did not draw for a buck tag. I did have to rub that in a little. We were able to locate a nice 5x5 whitetail buck. There were not many mule deer around this year. We did have fun and we could not have asked for better weather. We still hope to be able to get a nice buck east river...stay tuned to see if we do.
Ciara is having lots of fun in school, at time she tells me she is bored and should be in 2nd grade. She is loving AWANA at church, she is doing great with her verse memorization.
Christopher is doing better in school, I think he is getting the hang of it now. He has gone out hunting a few times with us, he loves it and can be really quite.
Cayla is really enjoying preschool, she comes home excited everyday...she has been counting to 50 with only a little help. She keeps Mark and I on our toes.
Cadee is really moms little girl...she tends to be a little spoiled. We continue to work on potty training. She was in big girl pants for 3 days and then when everyone got sick with the H1N1, she went back to pullups and now to get her back out of them. It is such a challenge.
Mark and I are very thankful this year for the wonderful family that we have, the love that we are able to share, an abundance of things... We are so blessed!

Where has the time gone????

Now that it's been serveral months since I last updated anything on here, I figured I better. Ciara (1st), Chris (K) and Cayla (preschool) are enjoying school. Cadee has not known what to do with the time alone with mom. I have been able to help with the MOPS group we started in our church, and also help with the AWANA program in our church as well. It is a great blessing to be able to do both. Cadee is still working on potty training....she is a little bull headed about it. The garden has been cleaned out and ready for next year...we had a a good crop. Mark has been busy with work and when not there, constantly working around here on something. I will try to be better at updating this more often.
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