A Little Mother's Day Humor

It's not a secret around here that Hoops and Yoyo are my absolute favorite e-card characters.   So, although I could take the time to send this card to all the hardworking mothers I know.  Instead, I'll post the link here so all of you can click on over and enjoy it for yourselves.

Happy Mother's Day!!

17 Years!

17 years

5 kids

6 puppies

2 dogs

1 cat

3 guinea pigs

4+ hamsters

2 hermit crabs

an assortment of Beta fish
too many surgeries

1 house fire

and more prayers than I can even count

LATER.......

..........the adventure keeps getting better and better.  I wouldn't want to be on this ride with anyone but YOU!  

A Little Update on our Little Man

Hey Everyone! This is Olivia with an update on Brayden.


Our little Buggy has grown so fast and now is a little boy! He's a year old now, and as handsome as ever. (have you ever seen such a cute little face?)

For his birthday he had spaghetti and a cupcake for the first time.......and.....well.......he must've enjoyed them. 

Have you ever tried stuffing the whole thing in your mouth?

Let's just say, his whole meal was very memorable.

Then he almost got buried in his sea of presents.

And had tons of fun playing with them.....

We LOVE our little Brayden!!!

(I realize that his expression is a little weird in this picture......but it's still cute. How can it not be?)

Happy Birthday Brayden!!

How did it come to be, dear sweet little prince, that we all blinked and our tiny little

graduate-to-the-6-pound-club .................

became a little boy?!

Maybe one day you'll begin to understand how you've blessed and changed us all.

We love you.

I've decided I'll let his sisters post about his special day. The day wore me out emotionally! ;-)

A Special Day

Today is a special day around here. For that reason, there will be a special post to follow later on today. I've been anticipating this day (and this post) for some time. I knew it would be bittersweet. I've experienced a day like this 4 other times in my life. Yet, I knew this one would feel a little different, a little more intense. This time, I'm older and not so prone to taking things/people in my life for granted. This time, there are more people around to mark the day and to be affected by it. This time, I recognize I may never mark an event like this again. So I'm left wondering. Did Mary weep the day her precious Jesus turned one?

Happy Easter!

"He is not here; he has risen just as he said."

Matthew 28:6

Good Friday

“So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called the place of a skull, which is called in Hebrew Golgotha. There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them.”
– John 19:17-18