Glimpses of the week!

I have to work in the morning so I really should be in bed but instead I'm going through pictures and enjoying thinking about some of the sweet moments of our week!  I have a lot of thoughts that I want to write down too but that'll have to wait for another day (you know, like in five years!)

The kids are loving all the flowers and things blooming -- love seeing the world through their eyes

Gretchen!  My kids LOVE her which, of course, makes my heart happy!

Play date!  4 kids and 1 box makes for lots of fun imaginative play!

She was "helping" me make nachos for dinner :)

Eden is one!!  We love you, sweet girl!

A new tutu!

When a new tutu arrives in the mail from Grammy and Gramps, you might end up with ...

An excited little ballerina ...

A pooped out ballerina post-dance party ...

A silly ballerina ...

A ballerina who may have a jealous twin brother who insisted on wearing a tutu too....

Two pretty cute kiddos!

Happy spring!

"Celebration is the acceptance of life in a constantly increasing awareness of its preciousness"
- Henri Nouwen

Celebrated NINE years with this man last week!  We were babies :)

Celebrating this sweet girl

Celebrating the JOY of mud and getting dirty!

Celebrating Spring and new life and beauty

The beautiful moments (between tantrums!) ...

We love you, Addy!  You are such a joyful baby!

That look on Amelia's face?!  Priceless :)

Sweet girl!  Fun to see her using one of L and A's favorite toys when they were babies

Love those little bellies!

Caroline Jane

Sacred moment.

Whoah! There's some strong genes for you!

There are some STRONG genetics going on here!  Baby Addy looks so much like my mom/my brother/Luke ... check out these pictures from when Luke and Addy were the same age!  Whoah!

The week in pictures ...

It's been a busy week and in many ways a trying week -- Scott's Grandma, Ruth has been quite sick and my mom is recovering from a knee replacement and the kids have had their millionth cold for the season (is it Spring yet?!) and poor Scott is still recovering from the pneumonia he caught when he got the kids' last cold ... and yet in the midst of illness and fatigue there are so many joys -- my sister and her girls are here for a few days.  I feel like the older three cousins are old enough now to truly remember one another and ask about each other and look forward to visits which is really sweet.  I have a million thoughts right now but don't feel like I have the time or space to write them out at the moment (since I should be getting lunches and bags ready for preschool) ... so, a few pictures will have to do!

It's ALWAYS a good day to see Gretchen at work :)  Makes my day!

Meeting Kendyl!!!  Sweet Milne sisters :)

Bike rides and rock collecting and the beautiful randomness of preschoolers!

What a play date looks like with six kids that are 3 and under!

Contained chaos!