Nate's B-day party

I know, I'm obviously not a graphic designer ... but I think this is still a pretty fun invitation :)
Happy Birthday to Nate! He turns eight this weekend and the partying goes on for two weeks! Lucky kid!

Can't Hardly Stand It ....

She's just so darn cute!

{Post something crazy at 12:57 p.m.? Check.}

Thought you'd like this. :)


Here are some more.

I'm going crazy with work right now, so I thought I'd take a break and show you this:



Your daily dose of cute! You're welcome :)

Cute, eh?

When we lived in Canada, and I was pregnant with Aidan, I was so hoping for a girl. I even bought one item, hoping that it would ensure that we did in fact have a little baby girl.

When we found out Aidan was a boy (and ALL BOY at that ... he's definitely not a docile, sweet girl! haha), I had to put away this little shirt with the hopes that someday we would get to use it.

I'm so glad we have this little someone. And I love this little shirt! It just reminds me so much of Canada. It says "Cute, eh?"

Here is your daily dose of cute!!

(See? Even Aidan can't keep his eyes off her!) :)

PS The headband is from Etsy seller Avy'sBoutique

Since you're all dying to see....

This was our Halloween this year! :)
And this is the ONE picture I have to document it. I promise, I AM a photographer. I just need to be better about taking pictures of my own children!!



Nate decided it would great to continue last year's Star Wars theme, Sophie was a ladybug and Aidan wore our Lightning McQueen costume from 2006. (Ironically, Nate found the costume to be heavy when he wore it, too ... they both loved the "idea" of the costume but didn't want to wear it after about 7.5 minutes)


Anyway, our Halloween was perfectly low-key this year. Boo to you!

I Want A Lot of Children, Too!

Just read a great little blog post on CJane.

Reminded me of the other night....

Adam and I had just put the kids to bed (the older two, anyway). They fought and kicked and screamed all the way to bed ... then fell asleep in 2.1 seconds because they had reached the point of exhaustion. That is what summer is for, right? Play until you can't play anymore! Anyways, I'd just changed a particularly poopy newborn diaper and was getting up off the floor (yes we change diapers on the floor at our house ... because we are all sorts of ghetto around here ...) and looked right at Adam, who had fallen into an exhausted heap on the couch. I said with a glimmer in my eyes "You do know that we have another baby coming to our family someday, right?" His look was incredulous. "You mean you actually want more children?!" (Which, methinks, was akin to saying "You actually think you can handle more children?!") I laughed and said, "I didn't say I wanted more children, I said that we are going to have more. Well, at least one more."

Now, to be clear, I don't know how more children will come to our family. Still not sure if I will physically carry them the nine months or if maybe someone else will. But sometimes I look at these amazing, beautiful, perfect(ish) little people and think, I want a million! I want to drown in the blessings that being a parent brings. But there is a part of me that speaks up : "If you are drowning in the blessings, you will also be drowning in the challenges." And that is why a woman's uterus gives up and waves the white flag after her childbearing years. Woman was not meant to have children past a certain point. And for each of us, that point is different. I have been heard to say that each woman should know her limit and stop there. But I think the truth may actually lie in knowing your limit and then going a little further -- with faith that the Lord will give you the ability to handle it. Prayer is the ultimate way to find out what He would have you do. And if you follow what you believe to be right, you have no one to answer to but Him.

And so, since most of the time I'm at my limit, I think we need to have at least one more ;)