My laptop has been sick …
very, very sick!
After three days at the doctors it is feeling much better!
Now to get caught up.

A happy day to you!

Rick and Jacob started taking drum lessons!
So there has been a whole lot of drumming going on at our house!

They really want ‘real’ drums!

Are we ready for this?

A magical Wednesday to you!

Caitlyn has been busy snapping pictures, luckily her siblings all love to have their pictures taken.

Rick loves to make faces!

So expressive! So Sweet!

A wonderful day to you!

I am not sure if I mentioned that February seems to be birthday month around our family. Today is my nephews birthday, is eight days younger than my daughter … so what does that mean? He is turning 15 too! Oh my! And he is ready to drive … he already has an appointment to get his permit! He has been waiting for this for along time!

It seems that as long as I can remember (which is all the way back to the moment he was born) he has wanted to drive!

For awhile this little black truck was great! Powered by his own little legs!

But then he started to hope for more … more power!

And again this was good for a bit … but now the real thing!

Oh my goodness!

Happy Birthday, David! I love you.

Watch out world, he may be driving soon. David please be careful!

See this beautiful girl? It is my sister, Lisa.

Isn’t she just gorgeous? I miss her very much.

I love her fun ways and  wish I could give her a big hug today (and everyday).

See that amazing smile? She passed that on to her son, Cyrus!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY BEAUTIFUL SISTER, LISA!

I LOVE YOU!

YES! These brownies are gluten free.

Two weeks ago I messed up and gave my little Sam a couple of mini cookies that were not gluten free. I take complete responsibility … I am not sure where my head was but it happened. It was Jacob who said: “Mom are those cookies gluten free?” and as I realized that they were not I tried to think fast … lets share, so really Sam had just a couple little cookies, I was hoping that it would not be a huge deal.

Well here it is two weeks, yes two full weeks later and this was the first day that I felt like Sam was back to his normal self.

I am so sorry that I messed up and will be more vigilant about Sam’s diet. I am learning. One of the questions that I had when we first went gluten free was “would it be okay, if he had a little now and then?” The answer is “NO”! After two weeks of watching him first go through the physical discomfort and then the emotional discomfort (for all of us), I am sure that gluten just is not for my little Sam.

Caitlyn’s first picture with her new camera!

See how clear the picture is, so clear you can see just how dusty the window sill in the girls room is!

So precise that she can capture really cool action shots like this:

And this:

And even a really cute picture of two of my favorite guys!

This morning she took over 400 pictures!

All I can say is thank goodness for digital technology, I could never afford to develop all these pictures!

A magical Wednesday to you!

See this cute little baby?

Yesterday she turned 15!
She is so beautiful!

For her birthday she got a new camera!

She is very talented and now she has a great camera so stay tuned for lots of pictures!

A wonderful day to you!

It seems my children always have lots of energy after dinner! As it is dark most of the time outside and our house is small so it becomes loud and crazy! Even Willy who is not even one yet, has joined in the after dinner run around! Please disregard the messy house!!!!

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