And....More Pics!

....until I can carve out a little bit of time to say some words again.

The fun of him being stationed near us. We get to see him in action! You'd have thought when he appeared from building that the greatest celebrity of all time had just made an appearance within the lives of our children. An entire van full of cheering, clapping, exuberant kids watching daddy work. It  may not be a fun job all the time but the servant's heart that resides within every man in this line of work is to be admired. Praying that each of our children do not grow calloused and hardened by the world but grow in kindness and love with a servant's heart, as they watch their own daddy serve the hurting, the helpless and the lonely.

8 months old!!!

Guess she wanted to go.

There is nothing quite like picking up children's friends and making a mass drop off at church with an 80 lb dog unexpectedly along for the ride.

Somebody shared their Nutrigrain bar with a jumping baby. Messy....and a little bit sticky.

It's that time of year again!!

Pushing the display through the store as we shop. We know the employees well and they seemed to think it just as funny as we did. The joy of midnight shopping excursions for egg nog!

To make up for the nasty egg nog experience a few cold nights ago.

For the newly diagnosed, severely hypoglycemic girl. She's awfully proud of her new middle of the night snacks. What we have been told repeatedly is a virus or due to mold is not even remotely close to either of those things. Her regular, clock work like early morning hour puking episodes every night are, in fact, due to maintaining such a high metabolism that her body is burning up the sugar long before morning ever comes. Her blood sugar drops so extremely low at night...in the low 50's... that between the hours of 3:30-5 am hypoglycemic induced vomiting occurs. The treatment....4-8 ozs of juice every 2-3 hours throughout the night to keep her blood sugar up. The good news.....she should most definitely outgrow this and her little body take over the ability to maintain it within a few years. Until then....stocked up on juice we never usually buy. And some cookies for the fun of a late night party! 

Teamwork at its finest. They tried the fork first and then decided the screwdriver fit the hole a little better.

He thinks he is quite hidden

And the reality of his self made hideout

Early morning bed buddies after daddy leaves for work. I go to wake them up and they just migrate to our bed instead. Oh well...I got a quiet shower out of the deal.

She's officially on the team!!! Surprisingly, to have not really played basketball much until neighbors were amazing enough to give us their unused one, she is really good at the game and thoroughly impressed coaches. Looking forward to some basketball!

There is really absolutely nothing that duck tape can't fix. Sooooooo tired of him pulling them so tight he completely pulls the straps off within days of purchase. He now has slip on shoes....thanks to the wonder of....duck tape! He is seriously proud of them....claiming they look like official robot shoes. Works for me!

I am convinced there will never be a cake that makes it all the way to the party night untouched.  At least this one didn't suffer as much damage as the last one.

I just find this so entirely funny.

They finally made peace with each other's existence.

When she's been around kids most of her life.

The mundane of life that rarely gets posted. This would be what the beginning of our school day looks like as we gather to talk of day's schedule and do Bible as a family, before splitting up to do individual studies. 

He lost interest.

After shower races before bedtime