Enjoying Summer!

Summer time, green grass and darling children!  What joy it is to watch my nieces and nephew enjoying life!

 3 brown-eyed munchkins! 

 An auntie and her niece.  Lydia has blossomed into such a dear little "mother" to numerous children!  She has become quite the little young lady.

 So precious!

 Owen is growing up so fast!!!  What a guy!

Precious girly!  

Vienna is almost 4 months old!  Goodness, she is just so sweet! 

My Nieces and a Nephew!

There are some days that I just yearn to hug and kiss on these precious children (we see them a lot, but there are days I feel that I miss them!)!  Some of my favorite moments are the times their little arms are about my neck and their little voices are talking to me.  I treasure every moment with these little ones because some day they will be all grown up and be too big for their auntie to hold them!  But I can be happy knowing they'll never out grow hugs and kisses!

 

 

Our happy Emma!  If that smile doesn't make your heart melt I don't know what will! 

 

 Precious Molly!  I love her darling little voice and her amazing hugs! 

 

Our little man is growing up!  Owen is our charmer!  He makes the hearts of his aunties and grandma flutter when he's around!  

 

Put all three together and you get intense cuteness!!!  We thank God for putting you three into your lives and hearts and can't wait to meet your little sister or brother in February! 

 

 



Guess What!

You'll never guess so I'll tell you...

...in the next blog post!  Haha!  I know you'll all be dying to find out "what",  so I'll get back to my long list of chores so I can spend some time putting this epic post together.  It might take a while!  :whew:  Just the thought of the work it's going to take makes me tired.  Anyone want to bribe me to hurry?  :-)  

Two Tired but Happy Girls!

I was Kami's backup photographer for a wedding this weekend and after a long day shooting pictures we snapped this picture of ourselves.  We had so much fun together while making special memories!  Thank you for the sweet and crazy time Kami! 

Canon 60d's Unite!

 There are 4 of us in our unit with Canon 60d cameras so naturally we had to get a picture of the group!  Thanks to Kami for taking these with her even more awesome 5D!  lol!  Sorry Paul, just had to throw that one in!  ;-)

Mikaela, Paul, me and Grace.  We love our cameras!

 Shooting each other!

Shooting KAMI!!!  We all got her too!  

(just for a side note, we all shoot with our right eye!)

8 Siblings in the 1860's

Kami (who has Crooked Streams Photography) took these lovely pictures of us siblings last weekend.  I was hoping to get just one picture of the 8 of us but she just kept snapping pictures and rearranging us and this post is the result!  Thank you SOOOO much for these treasures Kami!

Our Little Man Owen!

Almost 4 months old

Independence Day Party

We were charmed and delighted to spend the 4th of July with dear friends.  We treasure these special memories with God's people.

 On the way to the party we saw these stunning flags lining an intersection.

 Gathered and ready for a feast!

 Eagerly waiting!

 Heather made this lovely jello!  Red, white and blue!  (Dianna, recognize the bowl?)

 The abundance God has provided for us to share this day!  What a bounty of food!

Johanna getting her plate ready.

 Enjoying good books together.

 A most DELICIOUS Boston cream cake!  Grace H. made it and I'm going to request it for a future gathering!!!  ::hint::  Grace, I know you're going to read this!  

 Then us girls had fun doing a photo shoot together.  This is all the girls in our 3 families.  (Except the married ones!)

 Smile!

 Don't smile!

 Football time for the girls?  Yep! 

 Great pose Mikaela!

Zachariah and Leah enjoying their new fence!