VBS 2009

We just wrapped up VBS this year. Macy and Charlie had a great time! This is the 2nd year Shawnee Trail has done VBS, we had 60+ kids this year, . Macy and Charlie are already asking when we get to do it again. My camera lens is still busted, but I took a few pictures for the church. Here are a couple with the kids in them:

Seth holding Emma while I was walking around taking pictures:

Charlie in his class:
Macy in her class:
Someone had a 4-wheeler in their class decorations and that is where I found Charlie most of the time:

Emma hanging out in the nursery with me.
It was a good week, but we are spending today recovering from staying up well past bedtime 3 nights in a row!

Finally Feeding Emma

About a week or two ago, I finally started Emma on cereal. She has been doing great and likes the oatmeal better than the rice cereal (does anyone like rice cereal?). I started her on Vegetables yesterday and so far, so good.

Here are a few pictures from her first feeding.

Excited to be in the high chair: First taste of it:

She kept grabbing at, so I had to pin her arm down:

Not sure what to think:

Likes it!:

I will try to be better with the blogging, things are still a little busy and my camera is still broken, it is just the lens, but we took it to the camera store and to get a new lens for it isn't cheap. I have found if I hold the lens up to the camera and hold it tight without moving, I can get a picture, so if we have any major picture moments at least I will be able to get a shot. Hopefully sometime soon we will get a new lens though.

Busy Busy Busy

We are still here! Things have just been really busy lately. We calculated we have had about 100 people over to our house (50 of those people at once for one thing too!) in the last couple weeks for dinners, bible studies and other things, so it feels like it has been constantly busy for a little while, but now have slowed down for little bit.

So to catch up, here are a couple pictures from Mother's Day

I still can't believe I have 3 kids, wow I am old. Also, I know I really need a haircut, it is way too long. Speaking of haircuts, I decided to experiment on Macy and wanted to save $10, so I cut her hair. For my first haircut ever, I think I managed not to mangle her hair too much, I think it is pretty even. I must of not done too bad of a job because Seth let me cut his hair this past week too and I even did Charlie's too, think of all the money we saved! I started Emma on cereal this last week, and will post pictures about that tomorrow or so! Oh, and I broke my camera.. ughhhhh... well, I think maybe I just need a new lens, but it still stinks.

Bubbly Bubbles

Daddy's Coming home!

The kids and I have been on our own this week. Poor Seth had to spend the week out on the beaches in Malibu at the Pepperdine Lectureships. He was asked to lead singing again, so he got to lead for a couple of things. One of these years when the kids are older, I will make it out there with him. His celebrity sightings this year included Larry King and the Kardashians (reality show family).

We did fine on our own, but will be glad to have him back in a couple of hours!

Photos of the Kiddos

The kids were all playing on the carpet this afternoon, so I snapped a couple pictures of them. I like this one of the 3 kids the the best, too bad it is a little out of focus (notice how Charlie gets progressively less interested in being in the picture): Our little 6 month old! (Has it already been 1/2 a year??):

6 Month Check-Up Freak-Out

So Emma had her 6 month check-up yesterday. And I wasn't expecting anything out of the ordinary, but the doctor was listening to her heart and said he thought he heard something and started asking me if we had a history of heart valve issues, holes in hearts, and if we had many relatives drop dead suddenly before the age of 30 and that he wanted me to take her to a cardiologist. At that point I start crying and he is trying to explain stuff to me, and he mentions things like surgery, and maybe this is why she is on the small side (Macy and Charlie were on the small side at this age too.), freaking me out more. So he leaves the room to call the cardiologist to get me in right away and I call Seth and freak him out with my crying and tell him what is going on. Thankfully, Seth was home with Macy and Charlie, normally I would of had them there with me, so THANKFULLY the kids were with him. So after Emma got her immunizations, they sent us into Dallas to a big hospital to see a pediatric cardiologist. There wasn't enough time for someone to come and watch the kids and for Seth to get the hospital in time to see the doctor, so I had to go by myself, but again, I was thankful he was with Macy and Charlie, because that would of been difficult taking them to the hospital with me. Emma had an EKG and ultrasound of her heart and then we were able to see the doctor. She wasn't a huge fan of the EKG and kept playing with the tons of wires tapped to her, but did really well for the ultrasound. The doctor was very nice and drew this little diagram for me:

He came in and the first thing he said is "I am not concerned, she will be fine.", which was a HUGE relief. If you look on the left side of the heart, there is a small opening on the left-flap-thing (whatever it is called), so blood is coming through that and it is making a murmur. He said the opening is about 2 mm, which is on the very small side. He said when it is 8 mm, that is when they do surgery. He said it is called "Atrial Septal Defect" (no, I am not going to google it, and if you do and find some scary story about it, don't tell me). Basically, he said he is surprised they even heard this early and that it will either grow together on its own or she will always have it, but that it won't be and issue and that he is 99% sure that it won't ever be an issue and she won't have growth issues or anything. So we have an appointment in 3 months to just make sure everything is still fine. What a morning! I did not expect to have a morning like that. I am very grateful that she is fine and even more grateful to know that God listens to our prayers (even when we are freaking out) and that he is ultimately in control no matter what happens.

A couple pictures from Praise in the Park today...

Despite horrible wind, we had a good turnout at our church's Praise in the Park! Here are a couple pictures of the kids from this morning.

Egg Dyeing Fun

On Saturday we dyed our Easter eggs. The kids were really looking forward to it this year. Charlie was convinced the blue dye was his and was upset when anyone else tried to use it, but got over it and shared. He ended up dropping one, so I took off the shell and gave it to Macy, that is what that last picture is. Despite the look on her face, she ate it up!

On another note, Seth went for his two week post-surgery check-up today and the doctor said everything looks good and is healing the way it is suppose to!

On another note again, I know I haven't posted any pictures of Emma lately (She was taking a nap during the egg dyeing fun), I need to do that. There is a hill outside our neighborhood with bluebonnets, so I am going to take the kids out there sometime and take some pictures.

Graphic Designer, I am not

But look at what I made for our upcoming Praise in the Park. It is a postcard for people to pass out and will be mailed to some. If anyone is good at Photoshop, can you tell me how I need to save it? I saved it as a JPeg and I already sent them to the printer and picked them up today, but the font I used seems grainy on the postcards, like not sharp, they are still fine to use and everything, but I figured I probaly didn't save it correctly, or at the correct size. I just get in photoshop and fool around, so I really don't know what I am doing. Or if you know of a better program that we should get, let me know!