Smile!!

Weston's smile before...

His smile during... 

And his smile now...

:-)

100,000 + 2

I went to our blog to publish a post and I noticed this...

Wow!!
5 years and 2 months
806 posts
50 followers
2,403 comments
100's of new friends...
=
100,002 visits to our blog

Thanks to everyone who cares about our "goings on"
and takes the time to "check in" on us.
It has been a very fun and memorable 5 years!
Here's to many more - Cheers!

Mommy's Little...

Princess...

AND

Buckaroo...

Got Milk?

Cooper DID HAVE milk

(in his belly)

until Caleb came along and started wrestling/playing with him.

And now Caleb has MILK...

in his face!!!

(yuck)

Cooper - laughing!

Caleb - not so much!
(not to worry, we did get Caleb a towel immediately following this pic)

4 Strings and a Bow

"Let us come before him with thanksgiving 
and extol him with music and song."
Psalm 95:2

I absolutely LOVE the violin.

So thrilled to have not just one but two playing in our home.

However, I will admit, at first I was not too sure about it.

It was a little hard on the ears.

But I am happy to say after lots of practice and a year of lessons,

the girls are playing amazing - much better.

They enjoy playing piano/violin duets - pretty cool.

Right now, they are working on a Christmas song (violin) duet together.

And they are both learning fiddle songs.

 Maggie

Abbi

So Sweet!

We LOVE these girls!!

Silliness...

"Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; And His greatness is unsearchable. 

One generation shall praise Your works to another,  

And shall declare Your mighty acts."

Psalm 145:3,4

3 Green 1 Blue

We now have 

3 Green Belts

and

1 Blue Belt

Watch out!

Way to go Abbi, Maggie and Weston!

Hudson (not pictured) is the blue belt.

Friday

Have you ever wondered what we do on Fridays?
Probably not.
Well, if you keep reading
 you are about to find out anyway...

First of all,
it's French Toast Friday.
A favorite breakfast around here.
Then we do 2 hours of school.

Then...
we load Grandma into the car and head to
Main Street in our small town
for her weekly hair appointment.
"The Shear Touch" is our destination.

This is where Mrs. P awaits our arrival and gets started on Grandma's hair.

We enjoy our visits with Mrs. P 

BUT...

the person Tessa can NOT wait to see is 

"Rebecky"!!

(her name is actually Becky but Tess calls her Ra-becky)

Meet Rebecky.

She is 43 years old and lives with her mom.

Becky's mom was kicked by a horse in the stomach when she was pregnant with Becky.

Becky can not walk.

She understands EVERYTHING!

And can talk.

(not real clearly but enough that her mom can understand her)

She and Tess have a fun time together.

Becky's mom gets her hair done just before Grandma so we get to see and visit with

"Rebecky" while her mom finishes up.

TA-DA!

Grandma is all fixed up and ready for another week.

Well, whether you wanted to know or not - 

now you know...

what we do on Fridays.

:-)