round here

round here...

summer is in full swing,

we are enjoying lots of time home,

kiddos are growing, changing, (fighting), playing, hugging, creating,

justin is loving his new job working with food and people once more,

we are spending lots of time with family as one of the patriarchs is in his "twilight days",

and mama...

well, mama is watching it all,

soaking it all in,

trying to enjoy it all,

trying to wrap her arms around it all,

trying to see her Savior in it all...

 flowers elise picked for me from the front yard

isaac when his poor eye swells up.  he has allergic reactions to stuff and just rubs, rubs, rubs...

elise discovering we have dolls from nanny and when i was a kid...little girls and dolls...

drawing a picture of her beloved cousins, eva and mara

reesey doing what he does best...chillin'

isaac banging on stuff.  doesn't matter what it is, he'll bang it 

justin found him like this one morning, not long after moving to his big boy twin bed.  if you can't quite tell, he's sleeping horizontally inside the headboard

and another one caught sleeping...elise fell asleep while actually coloring.  the marker lid is still in her hand!

and yet another one found sleeping in an odd place.  went up to check on him after putting him down for a nap...yup, found him in his chair.

rock band with aunt mare mare (elise put that costume together herself!)

love this face!

kissing daddy as he leaves for work.  we are so thankful for his new job at trader joe's.  what a blessing.  God's hand and planning are all over this.  within two months of being laid off, he was starting at tj's.  after years of applying for job whenever he'd get laid off and never hearing anything back from companies, this opportunity came through in less than two months!  Thank You loving Father.  it's so nice to see my husband enjoying what he does again.  there is no price tag on that.