Blessings

I love being a mother. All through my teenage years I begged the Lord to send me children someday. I know how lucky I am to have my three... But sometimes, in hum drum of life....you forget. You forget just how lucky you are to be a mommy. Today I was reading the blog of a couple that just lost thier little girl to a drowning accident. It helped me remember why I wanted this job of a mother in the first place.

Sometimes perspective is so good and so humbling.

I love watching my children sleep. I love sitting next to them and hearing them take deep, sleepy breaths. I love watching their limp, sleepy forms snuggled under their covers. I would just die if the day ever came that I couldn't do that.

Matching smiles :)

All of my kids have their daddy's smile in some form or another....they all close their eyes and smile as big as they can....so funny, and SOOO cute!!!

Luke

Sarah

Seth

Sarah's Angel

So, Grandma Lisa had this angel that Sarah just LOVED...It sat on her coffee table and wasn't supposed to be touched, but Sarah would always sneak into her living room and turn it on so that she could hear the angel sing Silent Night. Anyhow, long story short....Grandma sent it back to Utah for Sarah!! She was speechless when she got it and she hasn't parted with it since......

My Beauty :)

Showing her angel to her friend Abby

The angel had to eat breakfast with us at table :)


She kept the angel in her shopping cart so Luke wouldn't get it.

Playing Chess with Daddy

Seth has been BEGGING Jimmy to teach him how to play chess for a couple of months now. Tonight they went and picked out a chess set together and spent the evening learning the game. I must say (just a little bragging here) he is picking it up Super Fast!! He is such a smart boy, and he is so excited about it that he pays such close attention to everything Jimmy tells him. It is so neat how special things become when your children love them...I NEVER would have been interested in Chess...but now that Seth is so into it, I think I might just have to learn!!

Ice skating graduates!!!

Seth and Sarah graduated from their first ice skating lessons!! You have to take a certain test depending on your age group and they both did great! They actually learned quite a bit during the last 6 weeks...they can both ice skate on there own really good and they can also stop, turn, and do this zigzag sort of thing. I am so proud of them, especially Sarah...she sometimes has a hard time trying new things...but she did really good going out of her comfort zone a little.

Notice all the cute girls around Seth? I think
this is the real reason he wants to take ice skating lessons! Ha Ha!

Crawling (Sort of)

My baby is crawling!! So crazy. Now I have three mobile children, YIKES!! He does the army-crawl thing, but it gets him to where he wants to go. Jimmy has been telling me for a couple of days that he could crawl but I hadn't witnessed it until today...I set him down in the hallway and then went to start the bath for the older kids...as soon as he heard the bath (his favorite thing ever) he wasted no time getting into the bathroom army style!! (Of course I HAD to stick him in there also, I couldn't let him do all that crawling for nothing). So Cute!