Happy 19th Birthday Katie!!!

 From this..... only a few days old.

(terrible picture of me)

To This..... Ready to take on the world @ 19!

Katie is in Lubbock TX in a 2 year mission training program, and it is extremely strange not to have her home with us.  Don't get me wrong I am thankful that she gets to be a part of this awesome work for her God.  Just not the same without her here with ME!  She is missed and LOVED...... I pray she will know that all the way in TEXAS!  (of all places)

To Blog or Not To Blog......

That is the question!!!!  Due to life and being a mother of "Many" children.  Life gets busy......  And such is what has been going on with me.  So I am going to attempt to update my blog on a more regular basis.  1. Because it is a great way to remember important things that we do as a family.  and 2. So that my daughter can see all the fun things we do while she is away from home :)  JK!!!

So here is my first post in over a month......... Just a lot of  pictures from the summer :)

Justus learned to tie his shoes :)

My summer wouldn't be complete without Baseball ;)

Canoe Trip on the Mendenhall Lake 
(David, Joe, and Luke)

Worked on the Camaro (All paint was stripped off)

Played outside in just our diaper & red rubber boots.....
 I'm also happy to report he is potty trained now :)
No more DIAPERS!!!!

Out on the boat....
it seemed that every time we took our
boat out this year it had engine troubles.
Thankfully David was able to fix
that issue:)

4th of July

Playing in the water at the Glacier

And last --- Sleeping in the Livingroom~

Hope everyone's Summer was as 
FUN and BUSY as ours :)
(FYI it only took me 3 days to post this because of all the pictures and problems with the picture up-loader....  hopefully it won't take me that long next time)

Matthias is 4!!!!!

It is hard for me to believe this special gift from God is 4.....  It sure feels like yesterday that I found out we were going to have our 5th child.  Matthias has been such a JOY.....  he is the quiet serious one of the bunch,but don't let that fool you because he also has a little mischievousness in him too.   His most favorite thing to do right now is play the Wii or the PlayStation. In fact each night when I tuck him in he will ask "Mom, Is it Friday tomorrow?"  (Friday is movie day and game day at our house) And also anything that is YELLOW  of course a big hit for this little man. He often asks for yellow pants, a yellow helmet, yellow jacket, pretty much anything yellow.  

So yesterday we had a pre-birthday celebration with 2 of his favorite friends (1 friend was out of town).  Owen & Isaac came over to help him celebrate his special day.  They had hot dogs for lunch, followed by a yellow train cake, and then tag with Luke, and ending with a movie. (How to Train Your Dragon) 

 Such a happy little guy 

 Sometimes a little help from your friend is what you need :)

 Watch out world these 3 are going to be TROUBLE!!!

Watching the movie together at the end of a super fun day

Super fun filled day for our special 4 year old!!!!  

God is Good ALL the time :)