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Is so much fun! I love this little guy...and so do the girls! They love to slather their little cuz with love and think it's a hoot having a boy in the mix. These pictures just make me smile. Olivia (7.5 months) & Jet (3.5 months) & Katelyn (2.5 years) Kate singing a sleeping beauty song to Jet...I'm sure Uncle Rob would love this. Oooh...what's that? (They were both fascinated with a toy!!)

Play time festivities that I have found amusing lately... Ava and Kate have been putting on concerts to the birds in our backyard. Here they are singing " Rockin ' Robin" to the birds. Other songs in their repertoire ...Chipmunk's version of "Single Ladies", Sleeping Beauty's "Once Upon a Dream" and "This Little Light of Mine" complete with motions. As you can see they are very diverse in their genre! Kate & Olivia...playing peek a-boo/fort. Kate takes this blanket and says "Olivia...get in my fort with me" (like Olivia has a choice). Olivia squeals the whole time...kicking her arms and legs (see them sticking out in picture) and Katelyn has conversations with Olivia as if her little sis knows exactly what she's saying. Kitchen puzzle time. Ava has always loved puzzles, but now she's trying to teach Kate & Olivia how to put them together. She takes them through the steps just as a teacher would.

We got a swing set! But first we have to put it together. Some cute shots of my two engineers sculpting out a game plan. They are two peas in a pod... Kate on the other hand preferred to sit on the side lines...

So...I have been slacking majorly in updating my blog...but I have a good excuse. I am trying to finish up our 2009 Blog Book and made a pact with myself...no new posts until our 2009 book is finished. The main reason I keep this blog is to chronicle our family's adventures so I can then create an annual sort of "yearbook". It's my way of scrap booking (and...I don't have to print off lots of digital prints that I'll just stuff into a box somewhere...they all go into the book). My mom has made beautiful scrapbooks for my brother's and I...but I unfortunately don't have the time to do that right now. So electronic blogging is my version of scrap booking . And...I can order a copy of the blog book for each of the girls (so they all have copies one day). If you need a good "publisher"...I use Blurb. com's "Book Smart" software. You have to download the software (for free), create an account...then blurb.com takes care of "s

With all I have on my plate these days - hubby, kids, work, house, dinner, laundry to name a few, I often get so busy and caught up in the details of life that I lose perspective. This Holy week, I made it a point to try and slow down a little, to re-focus on who it is I'm living for and try and live my days with my priorities in place. In working on this, I popped in one of my favorite singer's Cd's (Natalie Grant). She sings this amazing song - "In Christ Alone" - and I just could not get enough of it this week. In a short few paragraphs it sums up how He became one of us, died for our sins, but in the end was victorious - all on my behalf. God is greater than every circumstance happy or sad, every problem, every joy and every disappointment . There is nothing that can separate us from His love. Sometimes I have trouble grasping His greatness, but thankfully even that inability to grasp won't break His greatness. He is in control, He is Great, and He is my