It is really a good thing God gave this child to a parent who is not overprotective! can you imagine?? he has been climbing and jumping since he first could barely walk. many moms have partial heart attacks when they see him do stuff like this, but we are used to it. he so rarely gets hurt, and has a blast!!! Enjoy this one..it is fun!!!
Thursday, April 30, 2009
The Vision...
I was blessed last week to be able to spend a whole 14 hours in a car with my husband...then another whole 14 hours in a car with my husband. A trip to South Dakota will do that for you!! I had spent the last few weeks doing a lot of reading on a new Homeschool teaching philosophy and i had so much to talk about with Dirk. We were able to really decide what it is our family stands for, what it is we are purposefully goign to teach our children, and in exactly what ways we are going to do it. It felt so freeing. We now have spiritual and character goals for each child defined and how we plan to reach them. We have the summer and fall all planned for schooling. We are trying a method i totally agree with, yet it goes against my whole personality so we shall see. We decided to try it for one year to see how it goes. I am believing God will use this time to either grow me to change, or to show us the way He wants us to go next year. Either way it will be a great year of learning. The bible says that where there is no vision the people parish. Well, we have our vision. We pray God blesses it. and we look forward to carrying it out. And WOW...do i feel great being all organized!!!
Elias Crawls...Life as We Know It Ends...
I was thrilled when i realized that due to all the siblings continually getting things for Elias, he was not interested in crawling a bit. i knew he was capable...he was developing normally in every other way. but why bother moving when 4 other people do everything for you? finally, i stayed on the kids to leave the poor baby alone and let him get frustrated enough to go after something. it only took a few days of his abrupt cessation of servants around him and he got to movin'. at 10 1/2 months old he finally crawled. everyone but daddy was there to see the very first crawl!!! he did great! and we got it on video! and now...life will never...ever....ever...be the same!!! The funny thing is...he was almost walking when he started crawling..it won't be long.
Feeble Attempts At Family Pictures...
I got this hair brained idea that i could somehow get all 5 kids in one picture...smiling...all still...all cute...what planet am i from???
This is the only one that turned out remotely good....enjoy the rest of the the "outtakes"
"i have how many sibings??"
This is what Elias does when you ask him where Jesus is...
He discovered a blade of grass...
Kenna was the only cooperative one...
apparently running in a straight line is not possible...that would be too good a picture!
this one was almost good....except bella looks constipated!South Dakota...
We went to South Dakota to visit our friends, Steffen and Beth, what a place!!! Such beautiful country. i had no idea how amazing it was til we arrived. of course there is NO civilization around, so it would never be a place i could survive! But we saw antelope, deer, mountain goats, long horned mountain goats, and even buffalo...although i lost that picture somehow...
Gorgeous scenic overlooks everywhere.
Chipmunks that ate right out of my hand. they were so cute!
Needles Highway!
Little did i know Mt. Rushmore was there. til about 400 miles out of grand rapids when every single sign every 30 feet was about Mt. Rushmore, then i realized..hey, we can go there! i was so excited!
Quite an amazing feat...so glad i got to see it with my honey!
this mountain goat walked right by like he owned Mt. Rushmore...like we were the weird ones or something...
Steffen and Dirk
The Gateway to the West...
one of these days i am going to figure out how to get these pics in the order i want then to appear so as to make my stories flow...but obviously that has not occured yet. Last month we decided to take just the big boys on a weekend alone to St.Luois (per isaiah's request). We went up in the arch, went to the Magic house, the City Museum, and all sorts of fun. However, after the arch, i very suddenly came down with the flu and ended up in the hotel room the rest of the weekend. the kids and daddy had a great time though...
The boys in the turtle head at turtle park.
i love this pic. these boys sat here looking at a working construction site for almost 20 minutes. it was soooo cute!
Here is Ian making friends with yet another stranger...as always...
These boys did some serious bonding...it was funny to see how they handled things. at one point they were fighting over some insignificant thing...and solved it by wrestling for a few minutes..then laughing about it...why can't girls be that way????
a little fishing at the city museum. i wasn't there hence the reason we only have one picture...
At the Arch
The elevator ride up....and up....and up...
They loved this part...
Easter in Hurstbourne...
Last month Dirk and I were at our new neighbor's house that God has blessed us with. We were talking about how much i think constantly about doing outreaches, but never actaully do them. so...we decided on an easter egg hunt this year to reach out to all those neighbors we never seem to be able to meet. at first i hated the idea becuase i have always disliked easter egg hunts due to how much they distract from the greatest day of the year...Christ's resurrection! however, when i realized that this would enable us to know these people to then be able to reach out to them in a whole new way, i was game!
This is Layne and Meegan. Layne's wife, TC is the one who did the organizing.
Isaiah and Ian surveying their loot!
so many people turned up. and all we heard were thank you's upon thank you's!
Elias having his time with his daddy on his first Easter!
Mamalane and Elias
My mom and TC
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