Catching up in Captions

I thought that perhaps catching up via captions would be the best way to go. So...here goes... Gracie in the clubhouse. There's something so dear and sweet about this shot.

One pretty girl in the sand.

Two pretty girls soaking in some sun.

Now this simply makes me smile.

Love simple moments like this so much.

Our play yard at night...the coziest place on earth.

Our play yard in the day time...love it just as much...almost

If only I could forever remember what it's like to watch all 3 of my boys playing baseball in the yard...even now that they're big.

It warms my heart to no end to watch my boys all playing football together in the yard. Mitchell and I had a talk the other night about how my prayer is that they will be the best of friends for life. That's how I've raised them.

The Party Center. My Grace. She loves, loves, loves to do this. Some nights after bath time, she will take her dry erase board and do this...

Most times she writes options to choose from for which show to watch. (I usually choose The Brady Bunch.) I vote. Other imaginary participants vote. Gracie reads the voting results and then we actually pretend to get on a bus (the party center bus) which Gracie then drives back the hall and then into the tv room. She usually stops the bus by the kitchen counter (ie. the snack bar) for drinks or snacks. The process begins by her saying, "Mother, are you going to the party center tonight?" Sweet Grace. I LOVE so much how she spelled "spachell" and "chrip" (trip..but she spelled it like she says it)

Christian turned 14. ...hold on there...might be something fragile in this bag

Fish

And little Faith turned 6.

With her castle cake. She ordered this cake. She said she wanted "A castle with a commode that you can lick out" ummm..huh? We figured it out though...A MOTE!!

Made by one and only cousin Jennie.

With her usual...goober uhh...oops! I mean "peanut butter jelly time" from cousin Ben

And then it was finally December. And with only the Christmas tree lights on, the kids built an entire village (which I really coudn't fit into the photo) with events that army men and barbies alike attended.

Sugar cookie time. And a week long visit from sweet Kelli Belle.

Ice till you drop.

I love the next photo soooooo much. Two big boys. Brings a tear to a momma's eye.

And the kids giving each other the gifts they got for each other. Late Christmas Eve we set aside especially for this. It is my favorite part of gift giving, watching the kids give their gifts to each other. I love so much watching how well they know each other.

Faith's favorite...a gigantic carton of goldfish from Mitchell.

...and how sweet it was to see how well my kiddos know their momma. A couple of them gave me chocolates (Oh yeah!) Matthew gave me a MacArthur Bible Commentary...

and Mitchell gave me this "classic" that I've been wanting!!!

And now we're diving into 2013 which began so fun last week as we headed out to winter jam with my parents. We stood in line in the freezing cold for four hours shivering and laughing and it was just...well...cold and FUN! And because we did all that shivering, we got awesome seats. So we shivered and then we danced till we were sweaty... and my momma danced to Toby Mac and it was great. I love my momma and daddy so much. They are absolutely the best. And now, I'm hoping that by the next time I post, I will be able to figure out this new blogger interface. It appeared during my absence from blogger and I can't figure out how to get anything to go where I want it to. Oh well, one more thing to tackle. :)