Cousins!

WHAT FUN!!!!

Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus

Words and Music by Helen H Lemmel

Turn your eyes upon Jesus, Look full in His wonderful face, And the things of earth will grow strangely dim In the light of His glory and grace.

What a sentence.
If you want the things of this earth to grow dim, just look FULL into His face!
Why does this seem so hard sometimes?

Silliness

Of course, for the children...





All of our silliness is always for the children.






It has nothing to do with us wanting to be silly or us wanting to see each other be silly.





It is really all for the children.....














Have I convinced you yet?
:-)

At Maw Maw & Poppa Bob's

What fun moving all our noise to Maw Maw and Poppa's house! And, yes, Christmas is still going on. Just take a look.

The under-the-chin pose! Great!

Justus is very serious!

I know he is not looking up but can you see that smile?

Seriously. Who thought of a Dora book and DVD in ONE?? Genius!

My sweet hubby oh so excited about his NCSU toboggan.

Wow! We are so Blessed!

Our Family

My Dad captured this moment.
There is something about it that I really love.
I think it captured a little bit about our family, even though we are not all looking right at the camera.

At Nannah & Papa Joe's

Our children are blessed beyond belief. Here is the first of many "Christmas'" celebrated after the actual Christmas day.

Nannah and Papa Joe loving all the noise in their house. Really. I am pretty sure they loved it. I think. hummmm.... :-)

Trying to get some good pictures by the tree. You think the kids were in to it? They really just wanted to be silly...

Justus loving the Mickey Mouse ornament.

Hannah being a big helper. Putting the candy canes on the tree and then being the elf helping Papa with the presents.

Very Exciting!!

This is a precious book. Hannah may be a little young for it right now but I think it will be a blessing to her in the next couple of years. Penny's Christmas Jar Miracle by Jason F Wright.

I don't need this string - I will just carry the dog around!

SO! So What!!
I am excited about a view finder and an Adidas outfit.
SO!

He really does like to sit down and look at a book every once in a while.
(For about 45 seconds.)

The kids loved the hand-me-down toys. They played with them so much. That use to be my Fisher Price airplane and my Strawberry Shortcake doll. The plane has a date on it of 1980. How Funny.

Justus' First Haircut

I don't think I really realized until after Justus got his haircut how long his hair really was. I was really nervous and almost sad about this. It is different from Hannah's first hair cut. I don't think it changed her much. I think it just helped her hair look healthier.

But this.

This changed the way he looked. It is good. Really. It is.

Just means he is growing up! I know that is good. But it is sad in some ways too.

BEFORE

AFTER

DURING
Don't you worry. After the fit or rage, he got cuddled and given a little more snack and TLC! He was happy again quick.

Christmas Morning

With so many Christmas' and so many pictures, I get a little overwhelmed. I use this blog to remember moments and so I want to put Christmas pictures on here but to choose is so overwhelming to me and sometimes I even dread it - even though I want to do it. Does that make any sense??

SO, anyway, here I am, finally doing it, still not sure this was all I wanted to put or say but I have some pictures of things that I want to remember, even if every picture is not the "prettiest" of everyone!

It was such a fun morning.So, Hannah is in to Tinkerbell. And Dora. And loves Cinderella. This is funny to me. She does not even know who Tinkerbell really is. She has never seen Peter Pan. She has never seen Cinderella. We don't have the channel that Dora comes on but after she liked her so much we finally got her a video. It is so amazing to me where kids pick up all these things. These PJs were a BIG hit. They are so cute.
I love that Hannah can really listen and follow directions very well now. ((I am not saying she always does - I am just saying she can.)) And so Hannah became a pro at holding things under her chin so I could get a picture. It was great!
Hilarious story. Chris opens up a wonderful gift from my grandparents and it is a Greek Bible. Chris puts it in a pile and gets back to taking pictures and helping the kids. Well, Justus marched right over to the stack, gets the Greek Bible and walks halfway across the room where things are not so busy, sits right down and starts to "read" it. We could not believe it. He might have a little preacher in him - watch out!
I have a few pictures with this expression. I could never get one that really captured what he was doing. He is happy - despite what you may think. In real life it looked like a smile. When he would see the box that he was opening - he would gasp and look up and smile. He was a very thankful and gracious recipient of presents and I don' think he even knew it. I thought it was actually pretty beautiful.
This picture is funny to me. Hannah is trying hard to wait patiently as Justus opens his presents. Usually the pieces he tore off were not this big so waiting was a normal thing while Justus was opening his presents. Don't think that the next pictures were not Hannah helping to move Justus along in the process. he he!
Hannah was so excited that they both got chairs to sit in when we go watch Daddy play softball. I was actually pretty excited too. This means they don't beg for my chair!! Yippeee!
This picture cracks me up. Things had settled down a bit and Chris and I look over and see Hannah playing with Justus' toy and Justus playing with Hannah's toy. Both just as happy as they can be. Hilarious.

Hannah was so funny, she came down the stairs, saw the Barbies in her stocking and totally ran right past the big car sitting there for her. When we told her to look she turned around and it was so obvious that she never even saw it. She gasped and ran and got in!

Look closely at these last two pictures. Do you see these phones? These phones are gold in this house. No other play cell phone will do. I think I might start a new rule that they always have to stay together because I can NOT handle the drama that comes along with only one of them having one. It is awful! ((I think they were $2.99!))

Our Sunday Pictures

Comments on today's pictures:

Notice any static electricity?

I wish you knew how many pictures of Justus moving we had today. Crazy.

Notice how Justus is climbing in the chair? He is a monkey!

Thank You Caroline for the beautiful "paper doll" dress!

Good Job today, Daddy, on the challenging task of Sunday Pictures. Thank You!