Our Children

New Camera

My parents got me a new camera for Christmas and gave it to me early. The camera is thin so that I can put it in my pocket or in my purse and it has a great zoom. I am so excited!!! It also has more features than my other one. Here is one of the special features that my camera can do. It can make pictures look like drawings!

Piano Lessons

As part of school this year, I am starting to teach Paul how to play the piano. He loves it and is always asking me when his next lessons is!!!! I took these cute pictures the other night.

Grandma and Girls

Pinecone Fun!

Its about time for me to start getting ready for winter. I usually gather pine cones and dip them in wax to make fire starters. This year I don't have much time so the kids have been going for walks and bringing me pine cones. It is so cute as Stella loves to go for walks now. She loves to sit in the wagon and get covered with pine cones! They all have so much fun going on walks!

Paul, Peter, & Stella

Our other cuties!

Water Balloons

It seems like the boys are always asking to play in the water whether it is hot or not. This was done over a weekend when Grandma and Grandpa were home and it was hot outside. Stella does not like playing in the water, mabey next year. She did enjoy holding and carrying the water balloons all around. The boys have so much fun playing in the water whether its the sprinkler or with water balloons. The weather is going to be changing for fall and it will be a sad day when they can't play in the water anymore.

Grandma Cathy's Visit

Grandma Cathy came out on July 2 to spend some time with us and to see our newest family member. On Sunday was the church picnic (see the post on how we spent our 4th of July), We had a great time and Grandma Cathy was able to go to church with us and then able to visit with our friends at the church. She was also able to spend time with Paul and Peter there. We had a very relaxing 4th of July as we stayed home for most of the day (see also our 4th of July post). I wanted to have some days to be able to relax and not do anything and let Grandma Cathy spend some time with the boys. Joshua and I decided to let the boys stay up to see the fireworks this year. They had a great time, but were very tired after wards. The next thing that Joshua, the boys, Stella, Grandma Cathy, and Auntie Mar all went to the zoo. Fay and I stayed home as I am not ready to go out and about yet. They had a great time and it was nice to have it quiet.

Otherwise we just relaxed and did not do much else. Grandma Cathy enjoyed being able to snuggle with her newest granddaughter.
We sure did enjoy Grandma Cathy's visit and can't wait until the next time that she comes out to visit us!

Our 4th of July

Our 4th started on Sunday as our church had a picnic in the afternoon. I have not been out of the house much since having Fay and I really wanted to go out and fellowship with friends. So we were able to drag everyone to the picnic. My sister took Fay and held and cared for her so that I would not have to. Grandma Cathy helped with the boys feeding them and also took them to go and play in the bouncers that they had there. Joshua took care of Stella, so it was very relaxing for me. We had a great time playing, talking and eating with everyone. At one point in the afternoon the clouds started to roll in and it started to down pour. We all scrambled around gathering kids and headed to the car. Except for the rain, it was a great relaxing afternoon.

On the 4th we decided to have a nice quite day at home relaxing and playing. In the morning the boys wanted to play in the water (sprinkler). They love to pull toys in and get them all wet and run through the sprinklers. I had bought a swim suit for Stella and put her in it. She did not mind it for the most part, only when it came to crawling around did she complain. She did not really like the water either. Stella preferred to stay where mommy and daddy were. We all took naps in the afternoon, did an easy lunch, and read to the boys. I bought the cutest shirt (matching) for the girls. They are pink and say red, white, and cute. The boys also had patriotic shirts. So of course I had to get some pictures of those.