Father's Day

I really enjoy Father's Day.  For one, I am very thankful for my own father and the influence he has had in my life in different areas. I am thankful for my father in law as I see many of Tim's wonderful characteristics in him, and I am thankful for the example he was/is to Tim.  And of course, I am SO thankful for my wonderful husband who is such a wonderful father to our 3 sweet girls!  I really want to make Father's Day a day for him to feel appreciated and loved.  So often I take Tim for granted and don't thank him for all he does for our family.   So on this day, I always want to make it special for him as I am so thankful for him!  Here are a couple of pictures from Father's Day weekend.

The girls making Tim cards.  They loved making cards for Daddy!

Megan and Emily

Anna drawing a picture for Tim.

I made calzones and pizza for Tim the day before Father's Day as I knew we would be eating lunch at my mom's house on Father's Day. He loves pizza and calzones:)  Megan and tim being cute except for the pizza hanging out of Meg's mouth...

Tim and the girls on Father's Day

The girls with Papa on Father's Day

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Anna's 2nd Birthday!!

Our sweet little Anna turned 2 back on June 3rd.  She is no longer a baby and is getting so big.  She has developed such a personality.  She is very independent, strong willed, loving, fun, silly, and cute:)   She is very fun to listen to talk now as she is such a talker! (Yes, now Tim has 4 girls that love to use lots of words on him!).  She loves to play with her sisters, but also loves to annoy them (I call her Annoying Anna at those times!).  If she is bored (for example her sisters are watching a movie which she could care less about movies), she will just go and annoy them to get attention.  She gives good snuggles at naptime and nighttime as Tim or I will rock her and sing her the same songs every time: He's Able, Jesus Loves Me, Good night Anna, and Daddy/Mommy Love you.  We love our little Anna.  Here are some pictures of her special day!  ( I realized that Tim didn't get into any of these pictures with Anna...oops!)

Good Morning, My Big 2 year old! 

My mom and I took her to the Derby park so the girls could feed the ducks, walk/ride bikes around the little pond, and play at the playground.  

Anna is ready for the walk as she gets pushed in her stroller while her sisters ride their bikes.

Anna on the slide!

I had to get a few things at Walmart while in town.  Mom stayed in the van during this time.  I bought them fruit rollups for a little snack.  I believe it was Anna's first fruit rollup, and she loved it!

My little girl

Ready to make Anna's birthday cake!

Anna helping with mixing up the cake mix.

Anna and I putting sprinkles on the cake.

Anna-blowing out her candles.  Gpa, Gma, Papa, Nana, and Auntie KK came to her birthday party!

Such yummy cake and not good manners...

Anna looking at a birthday card from one of her sisters.

2 Years Old

I thought this was such a cute response by Anna. I don't what she was laughing at, but it is sure cute.

Anna riding her scooter  and wearing her helmet she got for her birthday.  She always is wanting to keep up with her sisters, and now she has a scooter just like them.





 

Mother's Day

I am so thankful for the children God has blessed me with in our family.  The Lord has given me 3 wonderful girls that I get to enjoy, Baby Blessing who I never was able hold, and a baby boy who is on the way.  I have always been reminded on Mother's Day how thankful I should be for the children God has provided, but this Mother's Day had a little heartache as I was never able to meet and hold my Baby Blessing.  Yet, God has been so good to us.

I am forever thankful for my mother as well.  I am so privileged to be able to have lived close by to her for the last 5 1/2 years.  I never imagined I would be raising my family in the same town as her and working with her at our church.  She has been such an encouragement and help to me.  I am also thankful for my mother in law.  Although we are not able to see her as often as we would like, I am forever grateful to her in her raising of her son.  She has loved me as a daughter and I feel like family with them.

Here are a few pictures!

A week before Mother's Day, we had a mother/daughter banquet at our church.  I took Megan and Emily with me to this special banquet. They were so excited for this date! (Anna stayed home with Tim...next year, she will join us!)

Mother's Day with my sweeties!

After church picture of my grandma, mom, sister, and my 3 girls.  My mom cooked up a wonderful meal on Mother's Day...she is always serving.

I loved this picture of Anna with her Auntie KK. How fun it is to have Auntie KK so close to us!

What a sweet face....love this girl!

Sweet Sisters

 You have to capture sweet sister moments to treasure, b/c there are certainly a few non-sweet sister moments in our house.  For the most part, Megan and Emily usually get along, but adding a 3rd child who wants to play (or annoy) to the mix, and there are plenty of moments of squabbles.  But, we do have fun times where the girls do get along and love each other.  Here are a few pictures to note the fun/sweet times by the sisters captured on camera!

The girls always loved it when it snowed in the summer, and they always enjoyed playing outside in in.

One day a couple of months back, I caught Megan "reading" a big girls' book to Emily. They were sitting their so nicely!

Another sweet moment...they were all 3 playing together nicely with their horses.  This was so fun to watch as more times or not, the 3 playing together ends up in arguments/fights.

A picnic in the kitchen with the girls.

Movie time with the girls.

I love this pictures. I am not sure what I was doing, but I was in the other room, and noticed it was quiet. I found the girls all drawing with markers on the floor.  I thought it was so cute how they all started doing this on their own and were just loving it!

The end result of their drawing on the floor. I so wish I would have remembered what Megan was drawing.

The girls were playing in the sprinklers on this certain day, and papa brought them a Sonic slush!! Fun times!

Grandma Armstrong got the girls a cross necklace for Easter.  They were so excited.

I love these girls so much.  I do get frustrated with them at times as life gets crazy, but I do love being a mom!

Easter

I wanted to get up some pictures from Easter.  I won't write much other than I LOVE Easter.  I am so thankful that the Lord chose to die for me on the cross, and that He conquered death and sin by rising again.   I love singing Easter songs on His resurrection.  This year was the first year that I went to the sunrise service for our church.  (The previous years, Tim has gone while I stayed with the kids.).  It was neat to sing songs and read the resurrection story as the sun was rising.  We had a breakfast at church, then Sunday School, and then a special service for Easter.

Family picture on Easter

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Emily-3

Anna-1

  

 "Christ is risen, He is risen indeed!"