He is going to be another giant – he is growing a lot right now.
I just bought him a new pair of shoes in a men’s size eight!
Send help.
Or send food.
We celebrated Lane on a Sunday when everyone was home!
After church (on line), Lane opened his gifts!
Addie out did herself again with a beautiful and delicious cake!!
We made homemade strawberry ice cream to go with that beautiful cake!
I had some of that ice cream and it was FANTASTIC!
We decided to start a new Sunday-spring-and-summer-time-tradition.
Homemade ice cream every Sunday evening!
Good idea, HUH?!
It was a beautiful day to be outside!
I remember very clearly the day Lane was born!
We were so excited to have another BOY!
Lane Stevan, you are such JOY!
How we love your visionary qualities – mixed with your big heart, gentle spirit, and enthusiasm for even the smallest things!
Your knowledge of God’s Word always amazes me too!
WE ARE SO THANKFUL YOU WERE BORN!!
Happy, happy birthday to our Joe B!!!
WE LOVE YOU SO MUCH, LANE!!!
Since we have had some nice days, we also dug out our popsicle molds to make popsicles!
I have been keeping busy with all the normal things that it takes to run our home and our school days.
I washed the kitchen cabinets!
I washed the shower curtains.
We use this Bac – Out to get rid of stains.
I also washed and put away all of the snow clothes!
Thankful for having regular chores in place too!
I made a goal to try to incorporate two new recipes in each week.
I have been enjoying the kitchen more than ever, well, because….TIME!
Well, now I’m hungry!!
The last two days of March were BEAUTIFUL and WARM.
I had my normal lunch – a huge salad!
These three played outside all day that day!
It was windy, as spring on a ridge always is.
Look where Ruby sits when I am inside and the kiddos are outside!
I am SUPER thankful for the weekends!
Sundays start with church on line.
We have been enjoying games, as always!
One rainy weekend looked like lots of napping, lots of snacking, and a drive in the country.
This is usually my morning line up these days!
The Lord has been blessing us with His handiwork.
We have been singing this song a lot lately.
Well, it’s time to start school with my trio!
You know it’s smoothie season when there are bananas sitting on the school table to ripen.
At the beginning of March I listed a lot of books on Amazon and started selling them.
We have been on a roll with our school days since January….thankful for that rhythm!!
Narrations and illustrations are a big part of the children’s learning.
Science experiments are fun!
Brothers and friends!
I enjoy seeing Tate read….he always whispers the words he is reading.
This is n
Tate sitting cross-legged.
Our cute school helper.
Before the quarantine went into effect we were able to see our favorite people a lot!
When you hang out with Kay, you get served yummy treats and yummy coffee!!
Here is all of us heading to Kay’s one day awhile back!
Pandemic or no pandemic – we are still eating around here.
This past Friday I had Grant take me during the day, and we over flowed two carts to stock up for hopefully quite awhile.
I am loving being in the kitchen even more than usual!
So…what have we been up to since the quarantine?
We got the video from the week before to play while we waited for church to start!
Before the 24/7 Shelter at Home went into place yesterday, we went to the park to get some wiggles out one evening.
I added a morning walk into our school schedule.
We are also sending out daily mail to people we know!
Chad got to ride with David while he worked on Monday.
I added a time where Lane, Tate and Eliza listen to Adventures in Odyssey (it’s free right now!) while I teach Chad his algebra!
I am very thankful I have been able to get three months of mine, Tate’s, and Eliza’s daily medications.
This guy moved back in with us for the next month or so!
After we all thought it was a different day one afternoon, I started writing the day and date on our white board!
I went to print some fun things off the internet for the kiddos to do and saw this.
We always play games!
We also have been doing quite a bit of deep cleaning.
We subscribed to the Up Faith and Family Channel and have been watching some movies too.
The libraries in our area closed over a week ago.
We always try to do what we know to stay healthy and keep our bodies strong!
It has been cloudy and rainy around here and it looks like we are in for a lot more of that this week.
Blake and I celebrated another year of marriage on March 4th!
I am sure I could ramble on and on about all the things that are rolling around in my head and heart…but I’ll spare you most of that!