"CHEESE"

Today the girls and I were just playing around with the camera. They both got new outfits and Austy wanted me to take a picture of them. I just think they are so cute. : )

Addy is feeling much better. After a blood test was taken they said it was a virus. I'm so glad she feels better. Thank you to all those who prayed fo her.

Pray

Addy has been crying since yesterday about being in pain. I took her to the doc but the test they did was clear. She is still crying and they want to see her back. Just please pray its nothing big and that she gets better soon.

Quote of the day

"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."
~Kenji Miyazawa

BIG

My four year old decided today she is big enough to dress herself. I just love how it came out. : ) She is so proud of herself.

7 Years

Wow, its been seven years already!! I am so blessed to have the greatest husband ever. Poor thing, he puts up with a lot from me. :) I'm not very good at writing all this stuff but I just wanted to say I love you Joely!! Thanks for being you. I'm looking forward to the many years to come.

New Orleans

Joel and I had the awesome blessing of getting to have a couple days to ourselves last week. A wonderful dear friend of ours watched our kids so we could go on our first trip since the kids were born. Wow, it was great. I missed the kids bad, but I will admit, it was a great break. We went to New Orleans and stayed in a nice hotel down town. There were parts of the experience of NO that were good and some that were not so good. The artistic part and the history part were just about the only good thing. Of course the being together part was good too. : ) We saw a lot of things I only thought were made up in movies. I left very thoughtful and sad. I am very thankful though for my great husband and the time we had together. He is such a great man!

Here are just a few pics from our trip. We were able to go on a carriage ride, see a plantation, and just take walks and watch all the people on the streets. I wish I could have captured everything we saw.