Our year recap so far

January:

Jase turned 5

We went and watched a lot of my nephew Trey's Basketball games

February:

Most of the month of Feb and Mar we were sick.  We had pink eye, colds, ear infections, bronchitis.  It took three antibiotics for me to get rid of it.  In the month of February me and the kids probably only left the house 10 times.  IT WAS HORRIBLE!!!

March:

Blaze turned 1 

April:

We dyed eggs and hid plastic ones. 

  Shane has built me this chair and a bench.   The bench isn't quite finished yet but will be soon. We have been busy outside working a lot.We put a sandbox in for the boys. We have been riding bikes, digging, playing, pulling weeds, filling in dirt around our fence.....  There is always something that needs to be done.

Sad Day

My computer and camera are having issues.  They don't want to talk to each other so we are momentarily shut down :(

LIfe

Life has had it's hard parts these last few months.  I feel as though I have struggled more than normal.  I feel as woman that we look down on ourselves a lot. We are never good enough at being wives, mothers, daughters, sisters, friends, neighbors, etc...  I fall in this category a lot and I know that it is the work of Satan, because I know he doesn't want us to feel good about what we have done or how good we are.  We seem to only see the bad in ourselves. I hate feeling like this, I feel week and vulnerable.  I guess that is maybe something that the Lord is trying to teach me, to try to find the good in myself and others.   Finding strength in your weaknesses is what this life is about right.  Another fault would be forgiveness, and the Lord is doing his best at teaching me how to forgive as well.  Sometimes forgiveness is the hardest part.

What I have to smile about:

Jase is so excited about turning 5 we hear about it everyday!

Gage thinks that as soon as Jase turns 5 he is turning 4.

Blaze is army crawling everywhere!  His 2 bottom teeth have finally come in.  There for a little while he was a grump but he has finally returned to his normal happy boy!

Halloween

Blaze at 7 Months

Gage

I finally did Gage's 3 year pictures

New dog, a frog, and what I wake up to everyday!

For those of you who don't know we had to put our last dog down because he had double hip displacement and could hardly walk. The dog was only 5 months old...

 We decided it was time to try again and this time we got a bird dog ( aka German Shorthaired Pointer)  We have had him for 3 weeks now and we love him.  He as been a really good dog.  For the most part he will leave my kids alone and not bit at them no matter how much the antaganize him. Loves to play fetch. 

This is Havoc

Shane recently went on a hunting trip for a few days and one night while he was gone I was cooking dinner when the boys come in and said they had a big bug that they wanted me to see.  So go out to investigate what kind of bug because it was a really big bug.  It was a praying mantis.  The boys wanted to put it in a jar so I tell them to go and grab one and I would watch and make sure it didn't go anywhere.  So while they are getting the jar I started to pull weeds that were by the fence.  They come back out and as Jase goes to put the jar over the praying mantis he steps on a frog that must of been hidding underneath one of the weeds I had just pulled.  Jase looks down and screams "frog mom there is a FROG."  Jase was so excited and grinning from ear to ear. 

I tried to get a picture of Jase and the frog but it just kept on jumping.

Almost every night while Shane was gone one or all three kids would end up in my bed. 

These three boys are definitely crazy but I love them.

Jase is always willing to help.  Loves to be outside.  Is learning to write his ABC's, knows most of the single digit numbers.  Always wants to hold Blaze.  Is friends with everyone in the neighorhood and we always have kids around.    Knows the first article of faith by heart.

This is Gage.  Shirt on backwards, I know.  It is like this everyday.  If you ask him about it he will say "that's the way I like it!"  Usually he puts everything backwards (shoes, shirt, pants, underwear, even socks he will put them on upsidedown) and there is no changing it after he puts it on.  He is one of a kind.  Loves to work outside in the shop or anywhere with dad.

Blaze always has a smile.  I am constantly asked if he is always happy, and he is.  Went 2 weeks of  waking up every 3 to 4 hours so we started him on baby food and he is back sleeping through the night.  Has learned to roll over, loves to play with toys.