First 3 days in September

Friday, September 3, 2010 Posted in daily life

This is my view from the car rider line.   This set, in fact, was from the very first day of school.

The rest are just some snapshots from our afternoon the other day.  I’ve decided to make the images collages here on this blog from now on, now that I have a script that puts them together for me.  The individual photos are smaller, yes, but the full-res files are on flickr for friends/family to access (print to your heart’s content via flickr).  James is loving school, but he loves video games even more.  Lowell is desperate to follow in James’ footsteps and be a “big boy” while Korben should have been named Jack-Jack. :-)

I love these boys.  They do not know how to get along on a regular basis, but I love them dearly.  We tested out the morning nap thing and that Did. Not. Work.  I would say it did worse than simply not work, it backfired.  So Korben is napless and happy AND he falls asleep at night.  It’s just the new norm.  I was dreading it but I think he will still live.  I just hope I do, too.

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a day of firsts

Monday, August 23, 2010 Posted in daily life

Daddy dropped him off so I made sure we got pictures at home.  I’ll pick him up in the afternoon.  He’s very excited.

first day montage

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Erin Beaver - So sweet! You cried a little, right? He’s getting so big! Congrats on the first day of school!August 23, 2010 – 4:22 pm

One day, in June

Thursday, August 19, 2010 Posted in daily life, enjoying

After a day of legos, David had to be at the church for a meeting, so I took the boys to the park.  I took my camera to the park.  The boys had fun.  I had fun.

We all got dirty in the rocks.  (note to the grandparents: these are all up on flickr so you can order prints via flickr/Target)

At the park, I shot everything wide open.  Yep, f/1.4 on every single one of these.

Kinder Camp

Wednesday, August 18, 2010 Posted in James

Can’t believe it. James starts Kindergarten on Monday.  David is dropping him off so we probably won’t get all the sappy pictures that the moms take, though I will try to send David with a camera.  I’ll be picking him up.  His school has a “Kinder Camp” which is basically an open-house for the kindergarten kids to meet their teacher and walk around the school with their class.

If you’re on a phone you might need to wait until you get to a computer — the slideshow is flash.

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Grandmother - These pictures are so cute. James looks so big.

James, I hope you have a good year in kindergarten. What was in the aquarium?

Did you like getting on the bus?

Your teacher looks real nice.August 19, 2010 – 9:04 am

Jen - there wasn’t an aquarium. maybe you’re mistaking the lunch line?
he was neither here nor there about the bus. He won’t be riding a bus but they all got on it just to see.August 19, 2010 – 10:16 am

Mom K - Wow! Kindergarten already!! James is growing up so fast and I know he will do well. You and David have prepared him and given him the knowledge of his abc’s and 123′s!!! Praying God will bless and keep him safe.August 19, 2010 – 10:28 am

BYBC, day 3

Wednesday, July 21, 2010 Posted in praise

I’m running pretty behind in blogging.  Sorry.  Frontierville has kinda taken over the free time as I play that with the boys in my lap.  It’s precious time when they’ll actually let me hold them, so I indulge.  My oldest just turned five.  I cannot believe how quickly it seems that he reached this age.  I wish sometimes I could distill the sweet moments they share with me and bottle it up to open and enjoy later in my life, when I’m old, lonely, and yearning for their little boy voices, kisses, hugs, and logic.  I cry nearly every time I see them asleep in the van.

So, BYBC day 3 was wet and wild day.  It was truly a wild day and ended in such a serious way that I will always remember this particular day.  One of the girls from our BYBC (the host’s daughter, in fact) slipped and fell backwards, hitting her head on the slick concrete.  I talked with her mom a little the next day and she said she thought her daughter would be fine until the little question, “Momma, why is everything black?” revealed that she couldn’t see!  Her momma and dad rushed her to the ER at Dell Children’s Hospital before any of us really knew what had happened.  I didn’t know in what capacity I could be the most help, so I called the driver coordinator for HCBCNW and started a prayer chain.  Thankfully, they called a pastor to go out to the hospital to be with the family.

Everything ended up okay; her sight came back and they were headed home later that night.  The loving neighbors took care of the other children while Gramma and Grampa headed down from Salado to be with them.

The astonishing thing is that this sweet little girl’s brother (she’s a triplet) accepted Christ that very night!  Praise be to God!

Since I am not a very good writer, we’ll get on with the pictures.  I know that’s why you’re really here, right?  I had a tough time narrowing it down to just a few pictures to share here… I took well over 200 this particular day and narrowed that down to 81 for the church.  I’ll share just 15 of them here.

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