Kiddo Update

I think it's been a while since I have updated on the kiddos, so I thought I would do a little of that today.

Evie is getting so big these days and doing so much!  She climbs up on everything.  She will get up on the couch, on the chairs, then onto the table...She is a mess.  She loves loves loves to color.  Everyday she will go color at the little table we have for the girls.  She doesn't mind if she doesn't have paper either...the table works for her just as well :)  ha.
She loves movies and has learned lots of signs from watching Signing time DVD's we get at the library.  She is also starting to say more and more words.  She can say mama, dada, sissy, NO, yeah, and tries to say other words that just don't come out too clear yet.  She has a cute way of saying banana, where she just sticks out her tongue and makes this funny sound.  And the girl loves her some bananas.  Every time I take her to the store, I know if I go in the produce section (which I do every time) she will scream for a banana till she gets one.  She would eat 2 a day or more if I let her.  She still loves dip.  She will dip just about anything in any kind of dip I give her.
She loves her paci still, but today she went down for nap without it, so maybe we are on our way to being done with it. I don't think we're done with it though...since I just had to go give it to her after she woke too early from her nap...
She loves her sister.  She loves to play with her and cuddle with her.  It is precious to watch.  She will go first thing in the morning into SK's room and say "Sissy!"  SK likes it too :)
She is starting to pitch more fits these days.  She will yell "NO" at us and cross her arms and make this face.  How did she learn this so early???  Then she will also hide something behind her back if she got something she wasn't supposed to and you call her out on it, like cell phones.  Little booger ;)
She has started watching me put on makeup (on a day that I actually do that...) and wants my makeup brush and will brush it on her face copying me.  And she loves to get her sister's toothbrush too.  I think that helps with her teething.  She has now got 5 teeth in the front and 2 molars that aren't all the way in yet.
She can answer "yeah" and "no" to any question you ask.  I ask her if she is ready to go get in her bed for nap or bedtime and she runs from me and says, "No!"
She loves hair bows.  She will find one and ask for it to be put in her hair.  And if it falls out, she will scream for you to put it back in.
She still loves shoes.  She will put them on all day long and loves to get her sister's shoes or mine to walk around in too.
At the doctor a couple weeks ago, she weighed in at 21.5 lbs., which put her in the 35%, which is the highest either of our girls have ever been in the weight category.

Let's see....now SK.

She is such a social butterfly.  I am wondering how she is going to do when we move.  She loves living in this community where everyday she can find friends in a matter of minutes to play with.  She literally plays with friends every day, some days for hours on end.  As I type this, she has a friend over and in a couple hours we will head outside where she will play with more friends till dinner time.  I am praying for her to quickly make friends after our move to AL, but also that the transition goes well as we also prepare to move to England and she can quickly make friends there.  It is going to be quite a transition for her, but I hear kids are pretty resilient :)
She has just about finished her phonics program I was using and can pretty much read anything now.  Not speed reading, but she can do pretty good!  And she finished her math workbook a couple weeks ago.
She loves ballet and is getting ready for her recital in a couple weeks.  She did tell me the other day that she missed gymnastics, so we will have to try to get her back in it maybe after we get over to England.
All the girls on campus are really into Loom bracelet making things.  SK will meet up with her friends outside (they actually named a hill on campus "Looming Hill") and they will loom for hours.


I can't think of what else to add.  We are gearing up for a busy last month here.  We fly out next week to go to B'ham for the weekend!  We will be at our home church's missions conference and also be able to go to my brother's wedding :)  Then when we get back, I am planning to crank out the packing and selling and preps for moving.  Graduation is less than a month away!  Crazy.  Sad, but exciting :)

ALright...I wish I could leave you with a couple pics, but I haven't taken any lately.  I need to take more pics, but such is the life right now :)  Maybe when we go outside later today I will make it a point to...we'll see.

Hope and Tears

It has been an incredibly hard week.  4 days ago, Elizabeth Joy, daughter of some dear friends of ours here at Covenant went to be with the Lord.  I am heartbroken for Nate and Leigh Ann.  My arms ache for her arms that long to have her baby back in them.  Yesterday, they had a funeral service in the chapel on campus, and today they will take sweet Ella and bury her body.  Death is wrong.  We aren't supposed to have to deal with this kind of grief.  We weren't created for this.  And while it feels unbearable at times, what an incredible hope we do have that Jesus has rescued us from the ultimate death.  We know that one day on Christ's return, we will see sweet Ella again and we will all be together praising our Savior and singing and dancing.  What an incredible day that will be.  At the service yesterday, I was so overwhelmed with so many emotions.  To see Leigh Ann and Nate raising their hands to Heaven praising their Savior was one of the most beautiful things I have ever witnessed.  To see how they are clinging to the cross and to the promises of the gospel was breathtaking.  To hear Nate and Leigh Ann proclaim Christ in such a horrific time was beautiful.  Would I be able to do that?  There was much sobbing, but not sobbing without hope.  I could see how Christ was so present with them and so real to them.  When Leigh Ann spoke, I could see such rawness of how her heart longs for her daughter, but also how her heart longs for her daughter's life to have a kingdom impact.  Her life was not wasted and will not be forgotten.  I pray with them that the Lord will use this for his Kingdom purposes.
To see Nate carry the casket with his baby girl inside was gut wrenching.  What a testimony to the Lord though that he was first of all able to do that.  The Lord is definitely holding them during this time.
I haven't grieved like this in a very long time.  I am feeling myself brought back to the pain of loosing our baby in miscarriage.  I am not trying to say I even understand the pain they are facing right now, but I do know the pain of loosing a baby.  It is a different situation and I couldn't really imagine fully, but my stomach gets the pain in it that I remember from when we had our miscarriage.  It hurts down in my chest.  I ache for them.
I do pray in excitement though of how the Lord will use this little girl in their ministry as they face the coming days and years.  Their story won't be what they thought it would be or would have wanted it to be, but the Lord is writing it and it is going to be beautiful, and already is.  Even looking at their faces and hearing them share yesterday, he is their Savior and they are clinging to him.
Continue to pray for this family.  Today is not going to be easy.  I couldn't imagine what they are really feeling.  Pray that the Lord will use this for his glory.  And as Nate said yesterday, Death is not the last word over Ella.  We serve the God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob, He's the God of the living, not the dead.

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I give up on being a good blogger.  I just can't find the time these days to sit down and blog.  I have ideas run through my head throughout the day of things I could blog about, but when I actually sit, nothing comes to me.  Or taking a nap sounds better than being on the computer.
So what have we been up to lately....

*Evie turned 18 months old yesterday (or 2 days ago, I don't even know today's date...).  She is a fussy pants these last few days and we now know that we can blame it on teething.  The crazy kid has 4 teeth in front (been at 4 teeth now for months and months!), with one more in front coming, then we saw that she has a molar almost in and the one on the other side looks like it is coming too.  Poor baby.  I am not sure what is going on with her teeth...I guess they will just come in how they choose, not in the order that is "typical".

*We are pressing on with the semester.  Busy.  Constantly thinking through getting ready to pack and sell a whole bunch of stuff.  I am having an "estate" sale, if you can call it that.  We will sell most of our things here in STL before moving back to Alabama in May (where we will finish out support raising).  We are moving to a fully furnished house in AL so there is no need for us to bring down things that aren't going with us to England except for things that are going to family and such.  It is crazy to start thinking of selling all of our stuff.  Kinda messes with my emotions a bit.  I get excited that we are getting closer to getting where the Lord has called us.   But it is crazy that we are doing this too.

What else....

Let me get honest for a bit.

I am tired.  I am excited.  I am scared.  I am trusting the Lord.   I am questioning the Lord.  I am wanting to be used by the Lord.  I am wanting to be used by the Lord.

Such a crazy mix of emotions, that might not make sense to anyone reading this blog.  There is just so much going on in our lives right now and so much ahead in the coming months.  Oh, while I am being honest, let's throw on top of all this the fact that infertility sucks.

It sucks to take a pregnancy test and it be negative.  I struggle to trust the Lord with his timing and the way that he is writing my story.  I want to take the pen away from him as he writes my story and erase some things and change it to the way I see it going best.  But that wouldn't be good would it?  I want to trust that this is the best story for me.  That He has a plan far greater than I can understand right now.

After weaning Evie, I hoped we wouldn't face the same struggles as before.  I even thought right after weaning her that I was pregnant that first month.  I wasn't.  It is hard for me not to work up excitement in my mind.  I do know that the Lord has good and perfect plans for our family.  I want to trust him and not be anxious or worried.

Now don't get me wrong.  I am so so so thankful for the 2 little girls that we have been blessed with.  And if we aren't to have any more children, then that is ok.  The Lord will have to change my heart if that is the case.  My heart is for more children and the Lord knows the desire of my heart (and Michael's).

Are we crazy for wanting more children even in the midst of such a transition?

All I can do is pray.  Pray for the Lord to make my heart more like Jesus.  To love each day and use it for his glory.  I want to trust that this story of mine is amazing and beautiful...broken, but so redemptive.

These 2 little girls have been such sweet cuddle buddies lately.   When we leave both girls with a babysitter or at the Log Cabin for Parent's Morning Out, Evie reaches for her sister to hold her.  They will cuddle up and watch a movie together and it is so cute.  SK is begging for them to be able to start sleeping in the same room.  :)
Thank you Lord for these 2 precious girls.

Memorial Stones

This morning, I read Joshua 1-4.  Lately I have been reflecting back on our time here in St. Louis.  How the Lord has done mighty things.  I want to remember these things.  At this point, I wish I had written more down along the way, but I want to at least put down now, how I have seen the Lord provide for us and work through our time here.

1--2 years ago...it was a couple weeks from the semester starting and tuition was due.  I recall sitting on the couch in tears wondering what we were going to do.  First, let me go back.  The Lord first provided in that we have had scholarships every semester we have been here.  The first 2 years, we were given a 50% scholarship.  That is incredible in and of itself.  That is provision.  The other 50% we have trusted the Lord to provide.  We would send out updates to friends and family just letting people know our needs and every semester we would have people want to help us in paying for the tuition.  But this semester was different.  This was the closest we had been to due date for the money without knowing how we would pay.  Then we get a phone call.  A guy called Michael (which they are good friends, but rarely get a chance to catch up on the phone).  He and his wife had been feeling like the Lord was calling them to send us some support.  They had a certain amount put aside each year to support someone, and they wanted to send it to us.  His words were, "It's not going to be much, just $1,700, but we hope that can help."  Y'all.  What we still needed to pay the bill was $1,700.  I am still drawn to tears as I write this to think of that day and how we sat shocked at what the Lord had done.

2-We knew we wanted to get started on our support raising before graduation.  We knew the Lord was calling us to England, and we didn't want to have to wait another year to begin raising funds to get there.  We also knew it would be hard to begin raising funds for England, while we were still needing funds for tuition for our last year.  We heard about a scholarship for final year students that was 100%.  We applied and were chosen to receive this scholarship.  That provided the means for us to be able to begin support raising last summer.  How incredible that we have been on 100% scholarship this last year.

3-I remember when we sold our house in Alabama, we were asked "how are we going to make it?  How are we going to pay bills and buy groceries?"  At that point of walking away from our home, we really didn't know.  A month or so before moving to St. Louis, Michael and I came up to visit to find somewhere to live and interview for me a nanny position.  I had a couple interviews lined up for nanny gigs.  My prayer for finding work was that I could do something that SK could be with me and I could still be mommy and not have to be away from her.  I interviewed with 2 families and was offered the job on the spot for 1 family.  I remember sitting at the airport waiting to board the plane to come back to B'ham, calling the family and accepting the job.  They had a newborn baby girl and were looking for someone full-time.  They lived right behind the campus and seemed super sweet and happy for me to bring my daughter with me.  Now, more than 3 years later, I am amazed at how the Lord put them in our life.  They have truly been like family to us.  They have trusted us with their daughter to still go and do life and not just be in their home all day.  We are still able to go out and about to do fun things like go to the library or go to the park or even if I need to run an errand to the grocery store.  They have trusted us and been very generous as well.  They have given my children gifts for Christmas and their birthdays (and Michael and I).  I could go on and on about how great it has been to work for this family.

4-On our trip back a month before moving here, Michael was also offered a job working at Chick-fil-A.  It was a great job when we first got here, but then the Lord opened a door for him to work at the church we were attending.  Between his part-time work and my nannying, we still didn't make enough to meet our monthly bills.  But the Lord raised up a handful of people who have supported us monthly while we have been here.  And when extra things have happened, the Lord has provided.  Either by someone sending us a 1 time financial gift out of the blue or providing extra work somehow for one of us.  How cool is it that I can say now 3 years later, while we haven't made tons of money, we haven't gone hungry.  We are walking away from here without credit card bills or loans.  And that is not to say that someone who has had to take out loans or use a credit card or what not, the Lord hasn't provided for.  For our family, though, we knew being in a support raised position after leaving here, we truly desired to have as little debt as possible.

5-Evie.  I could go on and on, but I have blogged a bit about our journey to conceive her further back on the blog.  The Lord provided greatly with a Christian doctor who was so kind to help us in treating infertility and loving us well all through the pregnancy.

6-When we chose a duplex to rent when we first moved up, we thought we would be in that place for the entire stay here in STL.  The lady renting the place wasn't convinced that we would be able to pay rent, given that our income didn't necessarily add up to what the bills would be.  We told her we were willing to sign a  longer lease, but she would only sign a 6 month lease for us.  Little did we know at that time that the Lord was working through that.  By a few months in, we realized we needed to move to campus.  I needed that community of women and to be closer to where the family was that I nannied for.  The Lord knew I would need those things.  So 6 months later, we were able to move on campus.  We were able to sell a vehicle to decrease our monthly bills and so many blessing have come from living on campus.  I could go on and on about how great it has been for me to be here.

7-Dates with my hubs.  I wondered when we moved here if we would be able to go on dates very much, given that we didn't have grandparents ready and willing to watch our kids for us or many funds for going out.  Well, the Lord met our needs above and beyond in this.  We were able to connect with another family that lives in our building where we date swap once a week for each other.  So 1 Friday night, they will go out, then the next we will.  We were also blessed to have someone buy us an occasional groupon deal so that has helped greatly in letting us go out to some fun places and it not cost us much.

8-Michael being able to take the trip to S. Africa 2 summers ago.  It was paid for, so we didn't have to figure out how to pay for him to go.  He was hooked up with a church in town that had a mission trip planned and ended up with such an incredible team to go with.  And how the Lord worked in him being able to stay over in England for a couple days after leaving S. Africa.

9-A church where we have been ministered to greatly while we have been here, that has been such a gift.  Michael has had the opportunity to serve there and practicing things like preaching and teaching Sunday School, and going to visit the sick, and seeing the workings of the church more closely.  He has learned a lot from his time as an intern here.

10-The opportunities I have had to audit classes here at Cov. for free.  And Michael being able to learn so much from his time here.  I am sure he could go on and on about how much he has learned and will take away from his time in the classroom here.  There is truly some great professors here at Covenant.  I have learned so much from taking the counseling classes here.  Things that I am sure will come in handy as we prepare to move to a new culture and take our children into a new culture.

11-SK's friendships here.  I wondered when we moved here if SK would leave with many friends here...well, she will.  I am praying for her now (and you could too if you want to join me in praying), as she nears the time to say goodbye to some dear friendships.  By us living on campus, she has played with friends literally every single day that we have been home.  The Lord knew what he was doing when he made her an extravert.  The girl could play with friends all day every day if we would let her.  Which I am thinking will come in handy as you are moving overseas and wanting to do ministry and get to know people in your community.  She has such sweet friends here and that has truly been a blessing.

12- Dear friendships we have made here.  I was nervous moving somewhere new and having to start fresh with people and get to know new people.  The Lord placed some pretty incredible friends in our lives here.  We are sad to leave here and not see these people every day (which you do if you live on campus :)), but so excited to know that we are literally spreading all over the world.  We know people that are heading to the south, the north, the east, and the west here in the states, and also people who are going all over the world.  We have friends that we can call confidents.  Friends that we know we can call when we are facing hard times and they will pray for us and be a friend that can help be a sounding board and be an outside perspective when we might need it.

I am sure if I sat here longer, I could go on, but I will stop for now.  This blog is getting long.  But isn't it cool to see?  I am blown away really.  God is mighty and so kind.  And loving.  And He cares about our every need.  While He might not do things at the timing I want, it hasn't been what I have needed, and He does know best.  I have to trust him.  Because he's got the whole world in his hands.

Hello Again...

Blogging has gone to the back burner lately, but I am hoping to get back to it more now :)  Lots going on with us and I have no idea where to start....

Things on my mind in random order for today...

*We have finally seen some warm days here.  I know there are more cold days in the forecast, but I will soak in whatever sunshine and warmth we get for now at least.  The snow has finally almost all melted, and we had a random thunderstorm yesterday, so there is plenty of mud out for the kids to enjoy.  And my child has def. been enjoying herself in the mud the last few days.  I am choosing to chill and let her have a blast and not worry about the loads of dirty clothes and extra baths/showers that are necessary after such fun play :)  To be such a girly girl, she loves to get dirty!  SK is doing great with school these days.  She is plugging right along with her phonics and reading so much these days!  She is just getting too big...It is fun to watch her grow up though :)

*Evie is a mess these days too.  She is goofy.  She gets to giggling so!  She loves her belly.  Like, she will scream at you if you put a onsie on her.  She screams till you unsnap it and let her get to her belly.  She will walk around all day with her hands on her tummy.  It is soothing to her when she goes to sleep too :)   She has been a bit difficult at meal time, but we recently found that she likes ketsup.  So we dip everything (or most things at least...) in ketsup.  Yesterday it was peas and chicken dipped.  Makes for a messy baby, but that's ok, her sister is covered in mud, so they make a good team.

Fun random stories....

Last week I got Evie up for the morning after she woke.  I went to change her diaper to find a surprise in her diaper.  Nope, not poop.  a silver spoon that is from her sister's kitchen toys.  I am guessing she was playing with it and the way she loves her belly she must have just stuck it down her diaper before I got her zipped up in her sleeper.  It left a silver/grey spoon shaped spot on her skin for a couple days before I finally was able to get it off.  I had to explain to the nursery workers at church that it wasn't a bruise...
Needless to say, the spoon never made it's way back to SK's kitchen.  That just felt wrong...

Yesterday on the playground I heard a great story about my eldest.  Supposedly, when we had a good snow a few weeks ago, SK was playing outside and was seen (and corrected) by another adult because she was licking the ice cycles off of cars...FIrst off, yes we do watch our kid, but she is busy and we can't be 100% eyes on her all the time.  I believe she was influenced, or maybe I just want to believe she would come up with this idea on her own.  Eww...gross kid.

What else...

Not sure where else to catch everyone up on.  I hope to get back to regular blogging and talking about more than just what my kids are up to and such.  I have a lot on my mind these days and would love to blog about it.  It helps me process and I want to go deeper than just funny stories on here.  I want to share what the Lord is up to with us.  The classes I am taking are amazing and I am soaking in that time so much and pray that the Lord will use what I am learning in some way as we go from here.

Speaking of...we are moving in 3 months.  Ack!  SO much to process there.  Like I want to sit down and write a reflection on our time here.  I want to look back and see how the Lord met our every need here and he has been at work so much in our lives as a family and individually in the last few years here.  It has been so good.  Hard...but good.

Hope to see you again soon :)

Toe touches and road trips

It's been a while I know…what can I say other than life is busy and crazy.  I was looking back at the blog last night and it looks like I haven't updated since before Christmas.  SO here is a random update of things I can think of that have been going on around our household since then…

*Let's start with a funny/not so funny story.

Last Sunday, it was lovely outside.  We knew it was going to be cooling off the next day, so we wanted to get outside for a little walk and soak in the warm sun.  While on our walk, we went around campus, and were outside of the library (on campus) and SK climbed up on a brick retaining wall thing. She was walking along it, so I decided to climb up there with her and have some "fun".  She then jumped off the wall to continue on our walk following daddy who was pushing Evie in the stroller.  The thought in my head was for a little fun I would jump off too, but I was going to do a toe touch for added flavor, so to show my 5 year old how cool her mom was.  Well….I am not cool.  No where near.  Michael turned around as I jumped up and off the wall for my spectacular toe touch (which said toes were not actually touched until I landed, at that was to see if I could still move them…).  I had ballet flats on and was landing on concrete, 2 more factors other than my age and inability to actually still do a toe touch.  I hit the ground on my feet and immediately went to the ground.  I sat for a while and Michael and I decided to just get me back home to ice it and elevate it.  I knew I could move my ankle, so it wasn't broken.  Well, we waited it out and I tried to carry on limping everywhere for the rest of the week.  I used crutches for a couple days, but they slowed me down too much and I found it easier to just walk on the outside of my foot.  Then my knee started hurting by the weekend and I knew I needed to get in to the doctor to get an x-ray.  Monday morning I went to an urgent care and after the x-ray was told that I had fractured my calcaneus bones or something like that and needed to see an orthopedic doctor.  So Wednesday, I got in to an orthopedic guy and was written a prescription for a lovely boot to wear for the next month or so.  Recovery, I was told, should take 6 weeks and probably another 4 before I would really be able to use my foot fully.  Joy.

The boot does help though.  I am resting it when I feel it start to hurt, but it is hard to do while chasing children around all day and such.   My hubby has been awesome though and helped out so much so I have been able to put it up when I feel I need to.

Moving on….

What else have we been up to.  hmmmm…

In mid-January we took a little road trip to Alabama to see family and friends and do a bit of support raising.  We were able to meet with many churches and are praying for the Lord to provide through these meetings, but more importantly for us to trust and rest in the Lord for provisions for everything we need in order to get to England.  We had a fun time seeing everyone down there and wish it could have been longer, but we enjoyed it.  In just a few months, we will be headed down south after graduation so that is exciting to know we will have more time then to see everyone a little more.  So if you don't know what our upcoming plans look like exactly (I can't remember what I have shared on here…) but we are graduating in May from Covenant (woohoO!!) and will be moving to Moody, AL to finish out our support raising.  Our hope is to be able to move to England by March of 2015 (so a little over a year from now), but we know it is completely up to the Lord's timing with all of it.

*The girls have been good, just fighting off colds and coughs and such.  I think we are getting better.

*I am heading out this afternoon for a women's retreat with the ladies at my church.   This will be my first night away from Evie and I can't really remember the last time I had an overnight completely child free, so needless to say I am pumped.  I am looking forward to being with women and having some refresh time :)

*Classes are in full swing for the spring.  Our schedule is a bit crazy on some days this semester.  Monday and Tuesdays are crazy for sure.  On Tuesdays, Michael leaves for class at 8:15, gets back at 12:30 (or a little after), then leaves for work after a quick lunch, works till 3 or so, then we have counseling at 4, eat a quick dinner, then I head off to class at 6 till 8:15.  Whew.  I know Michael has said so far that he is loving all of his classes, so that is good :)  I am taking 3 myself (auditing!) and am so glad I have been able to work out taking these.  I wish I would have tried to work out taking more throughout our time here, but I am thankful for what I have been able to take.  This semester I am taking a counseling class (Sense and Sexuality), Caring for God's Creation (Barr's class), and Ministry Matters (a class for the wives).    I am soaking in everything so far and looking forward to the whole semester.

I can't think of what else you have missed out on that has been exciting, but this will have to do for now…

Hopefully it won't be another month till you hear from me :)
And maybe I can upload pictures too so you can skip the reading part and just see some cute pictures of our girls :)

Snowmageddon 2014

Today has been quite a fun day so far!  When we heard and saw the forecast for the coming days we wondering if we would really get that much snow, but oh we have.  And it is still falling steadily out there.  Michael and SK are heading out soon I think to do a measuring, but my guess is we have 10 inches so far and sounds like a couple more before it ends in a few hours.  The temps are dropping all day too, with tonights lows in the negatives and tomorrow getting maybe to 1 degree.  That's the high, so most of the day we will be in the negatives probably.  Sounds like a stay inside and drink warm drinks all day kinda day :)
Since the snow started falling early, church was cancelled for most everyone.  So we had our own little "house church" in our apt. building with the other families that live in our building.  It was really cool.  After that SK headed outside to play with all her friends, which we thought was a good idea since she won't probably be going out tomorrow in the negative temps :)  At one point we looked outside and she was getting buried in the snow by her friend, then she buried her friend.  Oh to be a child and think that is fun.
Evie on the other hand has hung out inside with me all day.  She is taking a good nap now and we are getting plenty of chill and read book time and such :)

Here are some pics we have so far from the day.  Michael said he will snap some more in a bit when he and SK go out…

 The parking lot after they plowed it…I don't think we will be driving anywhere for a couple days at least :)

 Outside our door…winter wonderland!

 Building worship time this morning :)

 Sweet girl playing with mom while the others play in the cold :)

 Daddy having so much fun...

 "Where's Daddy's feet?"  And side note…I am taking the pic from the comfort of the indoors while these crazies are outside… :)

 Evie having a snack with me…fun story…she brought me the box of graham crackers from our pantry after chewing on the box for a bit (see the teeth marks on top???)   

 SK getting buried...

SK returning the favor :)

Cookies are baking in the oven and it's time for my afternoon tea.  SK and Daddy are bundling up to go out and the baby just woke from her nap.  More pics to come later!