Birthday pic

Our girl turned 15 at the beginning of the month!  Hard to believe we will have sweet 16 next year!
This year she started high school, finally got her braces, and has been babysitting her siblings.  She loves to write stories and is currently writing a 10 book novel series.  She enjoys drawing people and has really created her own individual style for her characters.  I'll have to post some to show you.  I think she will be a world traveler when she gets older...she loves studying maps and places. 
Happy birthday to our firstborn!  We love you.

Birthday pics

A month late, but here are the birthday pics of our now 8 year old!  She had a Belle themed party and her little sisters got in on all the fun as well.  What 3 beautiful princesses I have!

Dolly and Molly's new kids

Dolly's babies born December 8.  Two males, Jacob and Esau.  She rejected Esau about an hour after he was born, so he's been in the garage.  We are milking Dolly every morning (and sometimes evening) and giving him a bottle 5 times a day right now.  Hubby built me a milking stall today which is going to be a big help!!!

Molly had her babies this morning while the kids had their dentist appointments.  I can't believe I missed BOTH births!!  Molly had a boy and girl.  Still working on names for them.  The one with white is the male and the brown in the female.

She's 1

Happy First Birthday to our girl!!   Thanksgiving Day was a time of thankfulness and celebration this year.  How quickly this year has gone by!  Here are a few of her birthday pictures.

Photo shoot

This little gal was just too cute today not to take a quick photo shoot!

10 month update

A little late on her 10 month update but here it is:
18.5 lbs
starting her first solid food (prunes, sweet potato, squash, blueberry, apple, pear)
gets into standing position (but cries because she can't figure out how to get back down)
5 teeth, 6th visible
favorite word: dada
loves to cover her face and play peek-a-boo
crawling, sitting, clapping, smiling, laughing

Birthday pic

 Our boy turns 10 this week!!  The double digit birthday!  While at the Ark, we took his birthday pic for the year.  It's funny to look back through pictures of him in years past because he doesn't change much at all.
 He is very diligent with his school work, he looks up to his older brother, he is a little comedian, sensitive, loves being outside, not as much of a reader as his 2 older siblings, enjoys setting up army men bases and acting things out, still into Star Wars, and just a lovable boy :)  Happy birthday!

Ark

Finally made it to the Ark!  The kiddos were sure happy to get to see it (and have a day off school!)  Made for a nice field trip :)

9 months

Baby girl turned 9 months old!  Her updates are :
17.5 lbs
exclusively breastfed
clapping her hands
sitting
trying to stand
beginning to creep forward (not a crawl yet)
'mama' 'baba' and other babblings
Mama's girl for sure!!!!
4 teeth
does not like being alone

     In other news, we are getting our school year under way.  Still finishing up a bit of math from last year but the kids are mostly into all their new studies for the year.  Grade 9 has been interesting as we now have to plan her credits and prepare a transcript.  We switched everyone to a different math course this year (Saxon).  I think it will be more effective than what we were using.
     Nothing else to really update.  We have a birthday next week and plan on finally going to see the 'Ark'!  The kids have been waiting for that field trip for awhile :)  We are getting ready to close the pool for the summer.  The weather has turned cool.  I love fall!  I need to take an updated family pic soon.  Time just seems to go by so fast these days.

Birthday pic

Finally got this one done!  Sometimes birthday pics are a little late in coming :)
12 years old

New room!

Daddy built our oldest her very own room in the basement!  She is so excited :)

closet space behind double doors