Multitude Mondays

It's been so long since I've participated in Ann Voskamp's 1,000 gifts linkup that I thought  I'd start fresh-  here goes...    :)

Thankfulness is easy, despite the icky cold I have today...

1. The glowing of the fire in the woodstove
2. Toddler voice singing "Happy Birthday to meeeeeeee"
3. Baby giggles
4. Wooden train sets all over the floor
5. "Love Spheres" for the Valentine's Party tomorrow (thanks Michelle for the idea!)
6. My Natie, who turns 35 this week- thank you Lord for helping me find my best friend and letting us live this life together!
7. Children's excitement at cards in the mail today
8. Chocolate
9. Putting the baby in the Bumbo seat for the first time- so stinkin' cute!!!
10. Girls who love their daddy so much that they jump at the chance to come cut wood with him
11. Sunrises over our field (so amazed that this is really ours...)

Come join us over at Ann's site- and if you haven't read her book yet, please do. You will be better for it.

Birthday Time!

We shared a fun time with the Michigan side of the family celebrating our nephew's birthday last weekend...

Good eats!

 Great Grandma Mary with Emily Ann

 Fun with cousins

 Silly!

 Bekah's scrumptious new hairdo- her hair is finally long enough!

The grown up table

Hidey-Ho, Neighbor!

Hee hee! I always liked Wilson, the somewhat eccentric neighbor on the show "Home Improvement." We have gone from living in a neighborhood where we'd talk with our neighbors quite frequently, to one where we finally just met/saw them for the first time after living here for 6 months... crazy! Anyway, here we are after a long hiatus, and I have a sinus infection- so I have to rest- which means I'm going to try to catch up somewhat on here. I don't know who is still out there reading, so bear with me as I try to figure out what to put on here. There will be a bunch of photos, of course, and hopefully I can start blogging soon because I will finally have a computer again (yay!!!). Here is a little taste of what we're doing today... We discovered the fish lens on my camera (flattering, eh?)...    :)

A New Year...

I love lists... they are the only way to keep all of the balls I juggle in order. So, just in case anyone needs lists as badly as I do, I thought I'd share a couple of my favorites. I know I've talked before about how many great organizational tools are over at Donna Young's site, so here's an example of how I took her grocery list and adapted it to my own needs. My grocery list...

Here's a wonderful way to keep everything organized daily on a clipboard (I started using this method over a year ago- and I love it!)- which helps to keep everything in one place. As you probably know, I appreciate Ann Voskamp's writings so much... so take a look on her blog- you might just be blessed with more than a daily organizer! :)   Happy New Year from all of us here!!!

Announcing...

 Emily Jane Harlan, born October 13, 2011 at 4:02 pm...   She is 7 lb. 11 oz. and 21 1/2 inches long...  and she is perfect! :) We love her so much more than we can say... 

 Stephen has played songs for Emily each afternoon...  :)  He keeps stopping himself from calling her "baby Katie" (another baby at church), and then he says "Momma, what's the name of the sweet tiny baby you just had?"    I'm so proud of how much all of the children love her.

 Bekah has already nicknamed her Emmy and Em, depending on how fast she's talking. :)

Sigh...  sweet baby!!!

School days...

 Bekah insists on doing school with us (and her baby!)...   :)

 Erin doing her copywork.

 Stephen is doing the Rod and Staff preschool books (and building a bridge over the Tennessee River!).

 Hannah  watching the "Spanish for Children" lesson...   they love it!

Katy doing her math.

For May May...

 I know they are not the best pics, but the girls really wanted you to see them...  ;)