Some Serious Goings On!!

So, now that we have moved we have this incredible backyard!! The girls love it and since it has been cooling down a bit in the evening it's the perfect picnic weather. So we broke out the card table and set up some food and the girls had a blast. Couldn't we move the sun though just a bit? I mean is that too much to ask? Sorry girls.. didn't mean to blind you!

This is what happens when you don't feed your baby. She resorts to other measures like eating cowboy hats! Since she has started crawling she is into everything and eating everything... Fun for mom trying to keep all of the Little Pet Shop toys and all the Barbie shoes off of the floor!

Here is my happy girl.. I can't believe she is nine months old already!! Wow the time flies by so fast. She has two teeth already, she did have a top tooth and it went back up! She crawls everywhere and tries to stand up already, she looks like a stink bug! She is my chunky monkey and such a joy!

Here's another shot of the picnic in the backyard. It was so cute to listen to their conversation. They obviously thought mom wasn't listening. Oh, I was and let me tell you it will be fun with they hit those teenage years! They were giggling and whispering and talking about boys and it was quite the entertaining gossip fest! We have some boys that live next door and they like to peek over the fence and talk to the girls!

This is a picture of Cecely's first day of Preschool! She was so excited. She is so smart. You would never think she was three. She carries on conversations better than most adults :). Now, if she would only stop waking up at 4:45 in the morning thinking she needs to go to the bathroom. We put Devonney in her room and I don't think she liked that at all. So she would wake up at 4:45 am and scream out that she needed to go potty. Of course that would wake up Devonney and so my morning would begin.. So Devonney is back to sleeping in the 4 bedroom until we can work out some issues.. I would love for both of them to share but we may have to wait a little bit.

We are enjoying the end of the summer and now onto Fall. It's still pretty warm here during the day but it has started cooling off at night. The girls are busy with school and homework. Mom stays busy with all of that and busing kids around. We are in our new home and pretty much unpacked. I will post pics of that later. Hope everyone is ready for Fall. I know I am. That is my favorite season! Pumpkin bread and cookies and everything else pumpkin.. I can't wait. We love and miss all of you who are far away!

Peace

You know as I sit here and type this my house is so quiet.... I can hear my husband snoring in our room :) My children are all asleep. I went and checked on each one. I put covers on each of them, I kissed their foreheads, I put falling limbs back onto their beds.... I lingered longer at my precious 9 month old baby. She is so chubby and so precious just like each of my children.(well my other children technically aren't chubby anymore)

I realized something though as I checked on my children tonight. I am sure that I have felt it before, I am sure it's not a new feeling to me. I guess it just kind of struck me tonight as I looked at my precious family sleeping. PEACE. I am at peace. You know our lives have kind of been a whirl wind for the past little while. Between the job losses and moving and moving and moving.. Between the preeclampsia and the bed rest and our preemie little bundle of joy, life has been busy. Good but busy. All along the way we have been extremely blessed. I have felt Heavenly Father watching over our little family. My testimony has been strengthened by the many friends and family members who have helped us get to where we are today.

Sometimes I look at my four beautiful girls and I cannot believe that they are mine. I know that they are mine, I remember each of them as they came into our lives. Blessing us in ways that continue to melt my heart everyday. I am so grateful that each of them are sealed to us. That we are an eternal family. I am so grateful for my husband and how hard he works for our family. He is an amazing father. My girls have such a deep love for their dad and it warms my soul because each daughter should have that bond with their dad. The love that daughter's have for their dad's is a special and tender love and vice versa. I am so blessed to have all of them in my life. So as I look and listen to my family sleeping I feel peace. The days may sometimes be overwhelming. I rarely get done what I think I will for the day. Sometimes I feel like I have utterly failed as a mom.... but at the end of the day when all is said and done when everyone is sleeping and mom is still awake typing and remembering the day and all of it's blessings... I feel peace.