What they did on that rainy day! Hmmm not many rainy days around here this year!YAYYYY!

You know it’s so easy to forget things when you have a large family and you are living so fast pace.I was just thinking how happy I am to have a husband who works as hard as he does,even though he is not in LOVE with his job,he spends allot of overtime there lately. (Because they have lost people in the past few months either to death, or moved.)

Tomorrow he has a funeral he has to attend,for a coworker who recently passed from cancer,then work until midnight.That is an Entire Saturday he will be gone,then Sunday he has to go into work early yet again.(although the overtime pay is nice,we do not NEED it) They are in desperate need of people to work there. All of the officers are working overtime every week to fill for the ones they have lost.

I guess What I really want to say is,how much I miss him being here at home,and how much I do appreciate how much he does work,so that i can stay home and take care of our children.(also i know work is very hard to come by at this time and even though both of us do not like the line of work he is in and we both pray he will find a different line of work soon….we are grateful that he even HAS work to begin with) I guess you could say his job is not going to disappear , unfortunately jails are a necessity in this system.

It seems lately he is always gone working,then when he does have off,chances are he will be called to go into work. There is not enough officers for him not to work overtime right now.

 I look forward to the slower days,when I am not pregnant or nursing,when I can focus my time on TEACHING my kids (not that I am not teaching them daily in all we do) But really TEACHING them. It seems for the past 5 years I have not even had a chance to do much but change diapers and nurse babies. (well laundry and dishes and cooking and…and…and….

There is so much more real teaching I want so bad to focus on. We talk about God in just about everything we do,but there are so many deeper things I want to teach them from the Bible.(when I can barely get myself a drink sometimes,well I guess you get the picture,very hard for me to really FOCUS on a real GOOD teaching session.)

I love being a mom and PLEASE do not think I am complaining by any means,I just miss my husband.(and I love him too) I want him to be here more so we can focus on TEACHING the children TOGETHER.

Proverbs 3:1-6  My son, my law do not forget, and my commandments may your heart observe, ² because length of days and years of life and peace will be added to you. ³ May loving-kindness and trueness themselves not leave you. Tie them about your throat. Write them upon the tablet of your heart, ⁴ and so find favor and good insight in the eyes of God and of earthling man. ⁵ Trust in Jehovah with all your heart and do not lean upon your own understanding. ⁶ In all your ways take notice of him, and he himself will make your paths straight

 I of course would rather it be warm then cold….but this is crazy HOT. Pretty much spend the evenings at the lake since we can just walk across the road to it.(even though I drove to it last night LOL sshhhhh)

Yes folks it was too hot to take the kids out during the day yesterday so we just waited until about 7pm to go swimming and even then i drove across the road (I am whimpy like that when I am carrying around an extra 20 pounds.)  It was a race back to the car to get away from the bugs that came out when the sun went down!

Today doesn’t seem quite as hot as yesterday but it’s a scorcher…at 10 this morning it was already 90 out!

  Just some pictures from over the past week or two.

No time to wright much now, although I do want to say, I have been keeping up on the housework for the most part and not letting myself get behind….since I do have energy at this point,and I am hoping it will last!!  Starting to get that urge to sift through  baby things….  (well thinking about it is the start right?)

 27 Weeks

June 22,2010

My sister Robin came over and we decided to play around with her new camera… Just a few of many.

I was surprised at what she can do with them. I wasn’t expecting to like any,but so far I have a few I am in love with. Next time she comes over Mark and I will do them together. I can’t believe I have been pregnant SIX times,and these are the first actual pregnancy pictures I have done!

On our walk back to the house, I found this little Caterpillar…I love her camera!

So there was this hot air balloon the other day that about landed on our house! No really it almost did….. I wasn’t worried.

It showed up at the perfect time cause I had just been thinking it wasn’t quite bedtime,but I didn’t have anything planned for the kids until it was…how neat that sometimes things work out the way they do! So we ran outside and watched it land in a yard just up the road.

I thought it was kinda neat. The kids have never seen one so close up before!

Carter brought this in the other day when he was out helping mark with the garden…

To most it is probably boring,but I use to collect all kinds of fossils when i was little,so to find a rock with both pieces,and you open it to see the inside is pretty cool. It’s so neat because when it is closed it looks normal.

String beans

chives

eggplant

peas

brussels sprouts

peppers

green and yellow squash

Still working on tomatoes,lettuce,onions,and some herbs..hopefully will be in soon!

Baby bunnies are BIGGER now here is just 2 of them with the mom.

seriously, any takers?   

  The past few days we have hit the 90′s. I am so thankful I am not THAT huge and THAT uncomfortable yet.Next week is supposed to be in the 70′s low 80′s so I’ll get by week by week.  

Things have been going much better with the kids…Maybe it was the heat that did it? The only thing now is they are all sick AGAIN! Poor Alaina Has a high fever right now,and she spits anything I try to give her right back out.I sneak it in her bottle,and she refuses to drink it.I try to hide it,doesn’t work,just outright try to force it…definitely DOESN”T work.

Sienna has this cough and runny nose back,I mean a cough that has lasted ALL day(started at the store today)…You should have seen the looks the people were giving me at the store earlier,she hacked and coughed nonstop! AND then the runny nose started as soon as we hit the refrigerated section,it was a faucet that would not turn off,it was terrible.This one lady standing behind me in the checkout got sneezed on …..so I offered her to go ahead of me.(she only had one item and of course I have a cart full.) As she was passing the cart,Sienna sneezed again,and the lady i swear jumped about a foot high to get away. 

 What was I thinking,I take them all the way to the store,Alaina starts running a fever,and Sienna won’t stop coughing.

Laura was such a good helper,as always…while I am putting my items at the checkout,Sienna starts screaming “PEEEEE” I didn’t even have to ask Laura,or even look at her and she said she would take her.Thank goodness the restrooms were right there.

If Laura was not with me, I and everyone else for that matter would have had to endure her screaming “PEEE” until I was done checking out.

Jonathan stayed home with Mark to help with the garden,and Carter was in school. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT IT IS LIKE TO TAKE THEM ALL? And then there will be six !

It’s all good though…Thankfully I don’t have to do it often.

I figured it’s about time I actually TOOK a picture of myself…you know being that I just LOVE having my picture taken and all. These didn’t turn out so bad…I do think I look allot bigger then 23 weeks though. (i guess the more you have the bigger they get? We will just have to wait and see won’t we.)

The only mirror we have that is big enough is Lauras in her room.(maybe I should have at least made her bed on top?OH WAIT I can’t fit up there right now,Huh oh well )

Oh and do you like my Junior tee I got at walmart for 3 dollars? It is so soft and stretchy and…not Maternity,so I LOVE it! And it is actually long enough! (got 2 more different colors too,a total of 9 dollars!!!)

While I was taking these pics…Sienna was in Lauras play makeup,which was left where she could reach it.

She came over and pointed to her eyes and blinked them fluttering her eyelashes..very cute….I said smile!

Yup..good thing it just wipes off. 

Jonathan heard me taking Siennas pic,so he wanted one too.

Stole the show but she didn’t care!

Then Jonathan wanted one of me and them so here it is..

Just noticing how dusty the mirror looks. And whoops! the cameras over my face…darn .

At least It’s not as bad as this one I left the flash on..whoops again Ha! (I love the kids faces though,a little blurry because the kids were squirmy)

I couldn’t leave poor Alaina out either…I feel so bad for her,Mark went to Walmart and looked for tylenol to go in the other end  but he said a Walmart lady said she thinks it has to be prescription. I’ll call her Doctor in the morning.