Life Is Good

The life is good festival is by far our favorite festival of the year.

It was pretty chilly but great turn out and the kids had a blast!

I hope St. Charles will again be on the list of festivals for years to come.

Our Favorite Month

This is at the pumpkin patch.

I love this picture, it captures excitement, joy, fear,

anticipation, love and protection.

If only they could act like this more often.

More to come!

Rain, Rain, Go Away

The girls actually love rainy days and I do too!

You can do it, Paigey Poo

Back to School and 3rd Birthday

Paigey turned 3, We had a great day! Out to lunch @ Joe's Crab Shack, for the playground and to Toys Rus for her new bike! After dinner we went out for ice cream. Oh did I forget to mention the whole potty training thing. Well we are trying, she really doesn't want to and yells at me when I make her sit on the potty. So far today 4 hits and 2 misses.

Not too shabby for day One.

P-Dog is back to school. 1st grade. I knew I would miss her, and today was really odd not having her here to entertain, feed, clean up after, and break up all of the sibling rivalry. It was nice and I plan to get a lot of cleaning, organizing and focusing on Paigey poo while she is at school, that is on my days off.

Skyzone

P-Dog wanted her birthday party this year at Skyzone. Since their birthdays are so close, we did a combo party. I am thinking this was the last year they are going to want that! Wall to wall trampolines are too much fun! Since Shane and I are also big fans of jumping, we let her have it there. It was a blast. The kids had fun and we acted like big kids!

The Girls!

Jumping with Daddy!

Another Fabulous Cake from Susie G's!

Baby Ryan

Not many have experienced the loss of a child. You have such an extreme sense of joy, excitement, wonder, anxiety from the moment of conception. What are they going to be? What will they look like? How will they be? Hoping that everything is perfect, but accepting anything that may be thrown your way if it is not.
My heart is aching today as a sweet friend had to say goodbye to her 6 month old baby boy. This is the pain that no one ever wants to have to endure. How do you go on, you have to go on, but nothing will ever be the same. There is the guilt of ever smiling again or being happy. The life he was not able to live. She and her husband are an awesome couple with a profound faith in God.
I wish there was no such thing as SMA. Spinal Muscular Atrophy.
I would love for you to pray for her family as they search to keep their strength up in these next coming days, weeks, months and years. Love you girl.

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