Wordless Wednesday: It's been a while!

I have been dying to get back into regular routine again.  Wake up, work out, eat breakfast, have daycare kids, blog while kids are napping.... but somehow it hasn't been working out...
This is me, kicking myself in the butt.  GO, KATHRYN, GO!!

So a nice slow start, Wordless Wednesday! Just a couple pictures of my family over the holidays.

Lucy opening presents with Daddy!

Im kidding!  This is NOT a real headlock!

Seth on a float for his grandparents church

My girls visiting with Santa Claus!

 Seth recently won a video contest.  He also got a lot of equipment for making more videos for christmas, so I thought I would share his most recent one!  Thanks for Watching!

Grace at my House

A good friend of mine and I read a book together last year.  We called each other once a week, and talked about what we read and what was going on in our lives. The book was called 'Grace based Parenting' by Dr. Tim Kimmel.  I recommend this book to all parents, but especially Christian parents as it really speaks on the basis that we, as parents, need to be able to show the same grace as our Father shows us, to our children.

I made this as a reminder that God has given us his grace so I can make mistakes, and so can my kids.

WW: Dishwasher: try, try again

I know that the dishwasher doesn't clean sandwich containers very well.  My husband knows that too, yet for some reason we continue to try....

Wordless Wednesday: Beach Day!

I feel this captures the essence of "beach day"

Time for a big sand castle!

Peek-a-boo!

If you want to read more about our weekend and our trip to the beach, click HERE!

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Wordless Wednesday: Welcome to the garden.

 

Of course, my girls pick all the flowers and throw them into the kiddie pool!

This is what happened after being left in the pool overnight. It was white!

Wedding Wednesday

I am sorry I missed Wordless Wednesday.  I feel like a bit of a fraud, blogging as I please, when I have time and it is convenient for me.  I rarely miss Wednesday because it requires no thought and almost no time! But I chose to skip it because today, I have words, and I have photos, but also a lot of words!

I should have wrote everything sooner, but I didn't... I have no excuse, only that I didn't.

On our way to Brockville, we were able to stop in on a good friend of mine.  I hadn't seen her in quite a while, and although we keep in touch almost daily, it was nice to actually see her face, her children's faces and her husband's face.

my girls and Erin's boys

We headed from Trenton to Brockville, met up with my brothers, went out for dinner and then headed back to the hotel. The boys (which means my brothers and my husband) went out for a couple drinks while the women were trapped in their hotel rooms by sleeping children. That was ok, because it gave me time to paint my daughter's, my mother's and my own fingernails!

We went for a tour around the Brockville area the next morning.  We saw the new house my brother and his wife just bought, and we went to a neat little garden that has tons of biblical statues and quotes.

There was a nice little ceremony in a gazebo, down by the water's edge. My brother's daughter was the flower girl, wearing a beautiful white gown just like her mommy

My other brother's son was the ringbarer and wore a cute little tux just like HIS daddy, who was a groomsman.

All in all, a beautiful little wedding with lots of close family and friends.

Whoo hoo!  Ben opened the champagne!

I grew up with 3 brothers, and no sisters.  My mom and I were the "girls" and I always liked being an only girl in a family of boys, mostly because I didn't have to share the bathroom with a sister (although my one brother takes an awful long time to get his hair 'right') and I got boyish hand-me-downs which I thought were WAY cooler than girly things.

Now, between spouses and grandchildren, the girls are out numbering the boys 9-7. Weird how things change over time!  I am happy for my brother and his wife (my sister in-law)!

Now I just have one brother who isn't married, but is engaged!  Can't wait til he is married next fall!

Wordless Wednesday: Newborn Shoot

I was racking my brain all week wondering what I would put up for wordless Wednesday.
Yesterday I found out I was going to do a Newborn Photo session.
It has been a while, I guess since I had Lucy and I did her photos!  I was so excited.

It went wonderfully!  The humid weather made it nice and easy to get little baby Sydney naked and sleeping!  Sydney was a gorgeous, content little model (as you can see from 2 smiling photos, ya, ya, ya, gas, I know) She is 5 days old!

Before I start writing too much for something that is meant to be "wordless"  I will just add the photos, but you will see, my affinity for baby feet is evident in these photos!

I have to mention - this is SOC (straight out of camera) not a tad of alteration!

May I also add, and it is kind of embarrassing, and I hope I am not the only person who has done this, I shoved the SD card RIGHT into the CD slot of the side of my computer.  I had a panic attack!  But, once I was finished panicking, I was able to act rationally, turned the computer on its side and was able to retrieve the card with some tweezers.  I honestly was so close to tears!

I hope you liked my baby session as much as I did!