New photos

Here are some pictures of my BEAUTIFUL kids taken by my sister in law Lori. The link to their photo website is on the side of my blog-Harris photo gallery. She also took some great family pics of us the other day which will be posted soon!

Cute tater tot!


My handsome Gabe



Silly little Adam



Lily's blessing was on Sunday and it was great. I'll also be posting about that soon as well as some pictures of it!

Gotta love having a bow bigger than your head!!

Preschool Gradutation

Kate's preschool graduation was Thurs, May 29th. She was very excited to sing all the fun songs they had learned at school!

She loved her teacher Mrs. Peay and is very excited to start Kindergarten this fall.



Kate and her fellow graduate/cousin Landon


Lily had a very good time watching!

Here is Kate's favorite part!

Divorce

We are sorry that some of you will be hearing this for the first time in this manner. Many calls have been made, tears have been shed, thoughts and prayers have been offered and answered, but at some point it got too tiring to carry on in that way. To some this is old news, to others it is new, to all it is devastating and a bit sad. As of December 08' we have been divorced. The decision came to be mutual, the details have been worked out, and despite divorce never being nice or pretty, all is well. We are still friends and remain focused on our responsibilities as co-parents. We have appreciated all of the thoughts, concerns, help, and prayers. The reasons for and manner in which this came about is to each of us private and personal. We have tried to share with family and a few close friends our reasons but generally it is not understood. So we welcome the support, love, concern, prayers, friendship, and all that is given, but please don't expect answers, explanations, or understanding of our decision at this time. Perhaps, if you are patient with us and we continue in our friendship you may receive the answers that we have and see this as the better choice for us. Thank you for your understanding. Again, we are especially sorry to those to whom this is new and heartbreaking news.

Easter Pictures

I took the kids for Easter pictures

the first of April
and they turned out GREAT!!

Don't I have the cutest kids!?!

Sweet little Lily!

Adam is still the funniest boy ever!

My first E.R. visit

Last night, my bottom dresser drawer was pulled out. Adam came running into the bedroom, tripped over himself and landed on the corner of the drawer. I never knew how much blood gushes from a head wound!!

It actually was a pretty small, but deep cut. Instead of stitches they just glued it together. Adam was very mellow and quiet the whole time.

I am actually quite surprised that this is the first time I've ever had to take one of my uncoordinated children to the emergency room!

My sweet Katelyn just loves to dress herself and she's SSSOOOOO good at it!! hehehe

Lily's story

I thought since Lily is 6 almost 7 weeks old, I would get around to posting some pictures of her! And also the details of her birth. So if you don't want to hear a birthing story, you better just scroll down to the cute pics!

I was induced on Tues, Feb 17th. My pitocin was started at about 10 am. For anyone who hasn't been induced before, they up the amount of medicine every 15 minutes to get your contractions going in an even pattern. So I just kinda sat around in bed until about 11:30ish. Contractions were a bit uncomfortable by then, so Jeff and I started walking the hallway--it went in a small little circle around the nurses station-quite the boring walk.

I really didn't have very many hard contractions this time. It was seriously only about 10 mins worth--which calculates out to about 5 or 6!

You'd think after having a few natural births I'd know when I was getting close to being completely dilated and about to drop a baby out onto the floor--but I just don't. I climbed into my bed to have the nurse check me and was ready to deliver. (Same thing happened with Adam. I labored in a tub with him and almost had a water birth! I barely made it into the bed to have him!) The nurse called someone to come and help her and told them to call the dr over-his office is next door to the hospital. I told her I wasn't waiting for the doctor and was gonna push. First push she almost delivered, second push head out and third push my sweet Lily was here! She was actually born with her water sac till intact-apparently that doesn't happen very often.

Our nurse was very sweet and very calmly delivered the baby by herself. The doctor arrived a few minutes later to stitch me up. You'd think I would get a discount on the dr's fee since he didn't actually deliver the baby, but no such luck!

Lily makes the funniest faces!!!

I couldn't get this picture turned, but I think it is hilarious!!

Happy Birthday Gabriel!!

Gabe's 6th birthday was February 21st!!

He loves Kindergarten and insisted that we do a science fair project a few months ago. He loves his teacher and loves all his friends at school.

He is a very sweet, sensitive and loving little boy. He has been such a big help with Lily and loves to hold her(until she starts to make him sweaty)!

He loves karate and loves to ride his bike in the church parking lot across the street from our house.

He is a good and

(usually) patient big brother.

He had a birthday party at the Nickelcade and invited some friends from school and from church.

It was the easiest birthday party ever. The kids all had their own bags of nickels and ran around and entertained themselves and had a great time!!

Adam was very excited about the WALL-E book!