Family & Fun

 Brennan's birthday ~ 2 years old!

 Makayla's Birthday ~ 3 years old!

 Mama's Birthday ~ -- years old;o)

Justus's Birthday ~ 18 years old!

Truly this is wishful thinking, but I DID put a few more pictures on here and would love to do more eventually, but even as I am typing I hear a faucet running...

Okay, back again. I thought I'd throw a few pictures of birthdays on here since I missed several of them, and we'll see where it goes from there. We were able to go and celebrate my mom's and brother's birthdays several weekends ago. It was great to see my family again, and unreal to see how fast everyone is growing up. No longer is "home" a place of parents and children - it is now a place of parents and young adults. I wish I could be a fly on the wall to see what life is like for them at this stage day to day ~ quite different from Justus being Christa's Sunshine, and Siahjo being my little buddy. They're SO BIG *sniff*! Such scenes from home make me quite content to revel in my children being small while it lasts. My Kevin is how I remember Josiah! 

Anyway, we are doing well. Seth stays quite occupied with Riverdale and has been on a few truck recovery trips over the past months. There are ups and downs, but we praise God for the lessons learned along the way and trust that these ups and downs are a way to help us keep our gaze on Him. I am thirty-one weeks pregnant today, and am excited to meet our new arrival in December. Third trimester aches and exhaustion are very real right now, but nothing unbearable. Kevin is a first grader, and has been an eager student for the most part. He enjoys learning history, and finds it very satisfying to learn a song on the piano and make it sound nice! Makayla is still as talkative as ever with a multitude of "why's". She is working on her alphabet where letter recognition seems to be a small battle that we hope to conquer with much repetition. Brennan is our little "Rumblebuffin" ~ a name he was tagged with after the children burst into laughter over hearing of the giant Rumblebuffin from the Chronicles of Narnia. We joke that he has a lot of rumble in his buffin ~ a go-getter and a clown. A short synopsis to be sure, but hopefully enough of a reminder that we still do exist;o)