a picture post!!

hey all. i have a quick minute and wanted to post some super cute pictures of the kiddos.

i forgot to mention on friday...dustin was SEVEN months old!! can you believe it. S.E.V.E.N months.

wow. time is truly a vapor. it seems to me you all enjoyed the flashback on friday! it was so fun to share those pictures. and for me to look through them. i love to look back through old pictures. and more so, reflect on the work god has done in our lives since the pictures were taken!

god truly blessed us with a great weekend. even though shaun did have to work! he worked eight hours on saturday, which is actually long for him on a saturday. but we didn't have plans so it worked out fine. but as you can see...a longer than normal hours of work did him in...and what a perfect excuse for a nap but a fussing baby...

don't mind his furry face, he shaved FINALLY saturday night. :0) he usually doesn't shave during the week. the cows don't care. and i don't either. because today i am not referring to myself and cows all together. ;0)

the other day the girls and i made bird feeders while dustin was napping. amelya was very proud of hers...

now if we can get the birds to eat off them...it'll all be good!!

i actually got caitlyn to be cooperative for me this past week. she sat. still. for pictures. that in itself is quite a feat...
isn't she sweet!?! (btw most of these are edited using photoshop elements w/ the add on 'make it better'. i loved the one of dustin! and caitlyn's is so vibrant! love it...)

breigh will one day be upset with me for posting the following pictures, but i could not resist:

you can only guess what's coming next!

totally hilarious. well at least to me.

a super sweet mommy friend of mine had a special present for me on my deck the other day. i was so blessed by it. she bought us a white lilac bush to plant in memory of our baby! and because i don't have anything from our first baby, i'm using it as a memory of our angel babies. we planted it on saturday. now i just have to keep it alive!! i have the furthest thing from a green thumb. i don't have a spec of green in me! but i'll do my best to water it and keep it alive. i just can't wait for it to bloom. i LOVE the lilac smell. we do have a purple lilac bush in bloom already. so i'm enjoying those for right now.
our hay field is coming up so nicely. they should be cutting it this week. we about lost amelya in it the other day! and that's our dog with her!

and of course planting something is not any fun if you can't get dirty and find bugs!

well there's the lilac bush. i'm so excited to see it bloom. it would be so fun to see the first blooms around mother's day next year. because regardless of where my babies are...i'm still their mommy!

whew. that was longer than i thought! and i still have loads more of pictures. but i'm off now. to enjoy today with my babies. and my hubby who gets to get done with work early! whoo hoo. it'd be nice if he could have the day off like most everyone else...but i'm happy with early. :0)

have a super memorial day. thanks to all of you who make this day what it is. and thanks to jesus who saves our souls for eternity.