WAY TOO BUSY!!!!!!!

Okay I am back....my computer crashed conveniently therefore the brief absence.

2 weeks ago we attended the most beautiful wedding of 2 of the most beautiful young people! Well, Heather is beautiful anyway and she did pick a super guy! We love Heather so much and are so PROUD of the lovely young lady she has become!

We got home at 2 a.m. that night then the next day had Caeden's 5th birthday party. It was a hit-we had a bouncehouse in our backyard and all kinds of little midgets running around.

I cannot believe my little boy is 5 years old! My goodness...he's still as cute as a bugs ear too. I told him I didn't think he would be able to turn 5 being that he is so stinkin' cute-I told him they didn't let super cute kids grow bigger than 4. Oh how I wish I COULD stop the clock and keep him little for just a few years more.

Caeden, you amaze me each day with your sweetness-such an angelic, perfect lttle face with big soulful brown eyes with lashes TDF! You are a dream come true!

Don't anyone let his looks convince you of innocence or lack of testosterone-he proves each and everyday his human need to be naughty and his 100% boyishness. He still has a little speech thing going (although he is as smart as a whip trust me)

The other day he made this announcement:

"When I gwow up and have kids, I'm not going to take them to a mean babysitter when they be bad"(my little threat at times-shame on me-head hanging)

Before I could respond to his 5 year old statement of wisdom he kind of jumped like he'd had an afterthought and said, "Oh but I'll nevuh see my kids anyway"

Of course I was caught off guard and confused as to his thinking this and I asked "Why not?"

He nonchalantly shrugged his shoulders and said "Huntin'".

I was pondering this for a second then I said, "Hunting?"

Caeden matter-of-factly answered, "Yeah, I'll nevuh see my kids cuz I'm gonna be gone huntin' all the time as soon as I get my tags".

WHEW!!!!! And here I thought the kids had some sort of predeath intuition and I was about to hyperventilate. Once I finished laughing I informed him he'd better rethink his little plan!!!

So then the rest of our time has been spent rotating the cold from hell amongst ourselves...I was first, then Ava joined me...she had a fever so then I started running a fever to tag team with her and then Chandler stepped in and wow did he ever get sick! He always gets hit pretty hard with whatever hits. Then Elise got it and then we thought we were all going to get well and that Dad and Caeden would be the lucky escapees but that was not to be so! Well actually, Doug jumped in with this "I think I'm coming down with it" routine...just enough to get him a few days on the couch...sssshhh...I love him anyway-its okay, can't say I wouldn't jump for a chance to plant my seat down for a day or two. Anyway, then Caeden finally came down with it and burned with fever all night last night. So we have been on lock down here in Cowtown! Its a weird bug-it tends to come and go-like you feel better and think you're on the up and up then "whammo" its back in full force.

Oh and my daaahling hubby bought me a new TOY!!!!!!!!! He knows I've been wanting a truck but its not the most practical with 4 kids so he got me a Yukon...its super fine its totally loaded and has cream leather and a huge sunroof-I LOVE IT!!!!!!

Thank you BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SMOOCH!!!!!!

Our little monkey

Just look at this little monkey we found!!! Isn't he the cutest you've ever seen??? Caeden ADORES his new baby sister...everytime he sees her he has a little word he says in a teeny tiny high pitched voice, "rah! rah!". It is so funny, I know it looks to you like a tiger sound or something but its not is really soft and sweet!!!

The other day, he was HANGING on the refrigerater door crying for something he wanted that was in there...I asked him what he wanted and he kept saying the funniest word. It was "oily-oh, oily-oh!" I opened the door to see what in the world he was talking about...this oily-oh stuff... Duh!!! CANTALOUPE!!!! Should have known Mom!!!

And yesterday, I went out for awhile and left him with Daddy...when I got home, Daddy told me that Caeden had disappeared for awhile and freaked him out! He said he looked EVERYWHERE for the little booger and he was NO WHERE!!! However, when he would call his name he would hear him say "huh?", EXCEPT when he called him in his room that Caeden shares with Chandler. Well, by and by, (I'm in storytelling mode) he went back into the boys' room and there on the TOP bunk, staring at him between the poles of the guard rail were two little eyes that belonged to the missing person!!! Daddy was soooo relieved of course and we laughed so hard we couldn't scold him...he's NOT allowed up on the top bunk you know...there is not even a ladder to get up there for that very reason!!! Monkey boy figured out how to scale the end of the bed. That's why he wouldn't answer Doug when he was in the room-he really didn't want to get caught!!!

He's really cute though I promise...makes me laugh all the time. My kids bring me so much joy!!!

Mommy and Baby Caeden

And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children. Isaiah 54:13

Wishing all of you this at ALL times...especially in the wee hours of the morning!!! I am not a professional photographer but photography is my favorite hobby...especially when it involves my most precious posessions, my sweet and innocent children.

Aren't they so serene and pure tonight? I pray God's hand upon them to protect them even though they are so small. My deepest desire is that the the Peace of God overshadows their lives in ways unfathomable to human perception.