Baby is Here!!!!

This post is so long overdue its embarrassing but it just speaks to how smitten we've been with this little man and its not even an option to tear ourselves away to do something like.. blog. He made his miraculous appearance on February 6 (just two days after his due date), so he is already six weeks old. Its been quite the six weeks and the current situation with COVID-19 really tops it all. But this darling little gift just keeps growing and now, smiling, oblivious to it all (lucky guy!).  

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she adores him!!!!

we love adding "grandparents" to our job titles! 

He cooperated nicely with the photo shoot! 

He doesn't even know that his baby shower was held in his own living room with just Mommy and two grandmas since all the real events had to be cancelled - boo hoo!!!

He is such a gift to us and so fought over!!! He is so sweet and smiley, a good eater and sleeper too!  We praise the Lord for continuing to add such wonderful blessings to our family!
                                                                                                    -the grandma

2019 | A year in Review

It's hard to believe that 2019 is already over. It doesn't seem like very long ago that we were packing up and heading to Florida for a week... It only seems like yesterday when we were trying on clothes for a wedding... and can you believe the first semester is already over??? Yes 2019 passed very fast! Even so it was miracle-filled and memory-packed. It was another year of learning, another year of growing, and another year of witnessing God's faithfulness in the big things and the little!

Homeschool Life! :)

Getting ready for wedding!

Florida | January 

                    

Spring! :)

Niagara Family vacation | June  

Lots of work to do! (in frigid temps) | January

A new house! :) | February

Spring newborn kitties! | April

A trip to the ark | April

A growing tot! :)

Repainting the shed (It still isn't done! :0 )

Garden work!

Celebrating Mom's birthday | May

Lots of Family time! | Father's Day

Great Depression Play | June  

Applesauce day | October

Leman Vacation | July

Christmas Baking | December 

Birthday Season!

With Christmas comes official birthday season!! Everyone except me had an extra special birthday! Kenan celebrated his tenth, Jared his sixteenth, and Marcus his eighteenth! I just turned 14 (nothing special about that!). Kenan was super bummed to be sick with the flu on his birthday - again :( , the boys took a trip to a John Deer factory (it was actually for their last year birthdays), and I went shopping with some of my good friends in Champaign! The boys got a DQ ice cream cake (plus Jared got a cherry pie) and I got a strawberry chocolate sugar-free pie.  It was a great time of year just like always! :)

This is also a birthday celebration! Just a little late...

Over Christmas break, us girls had the chance to spend a wonderful day in Peoria together and Grandma could meet us so we could eat lunch together for her birthday (which was in November)! We loved it!

 

Grandma had a really neat little Asian restaurant for us to try and we loved it! This was our appetizer- lettuce wraps with some kind of delicious chicken mixture to put inside.