This is too funny, guys!

This evening I was cleaning the bathtub and Macy came in and patted the toilet, asking if I would put her on it. I did a few times and she just sat there a few seconds and then got off. One of the times she sat there I realized that she had just gone pee-pee in her diaper, so I left her diaper off to see what she would do. Nothing happened, but she kept coming back to get on the potty a couple more times. I decided this would be a good scrapbooking moment, so I got my camera out. She was patting the toilet quite fiercely, but I just thought she was just being orney and I wanted to get a picture first. Well... It wasn't just orneriness . She peed on my leg. And she is doing it in this picture. Uck!!

That wasn't it though. About an hour later she went into the bathroom took off her diaper and peed next to the toilet. She then came out and said "Uh-oh." (That's her new favorite word.)

I was more surprised that she did this than anything else. I was not expecting to do any sort of potty training for about another six months. I guess we are about to enter the potty training phase anyway. Of course I have had enough children to know that she could be doing this until she is three. We will just have to wait and see. 

Here is another one that did not make it. 

This is the very first bloom from our backyard. For a birthday present Asher helped me tear out all the old plants from our flower bed in the backyard and he helped me to plant flowers that I like, rather than what the previous owners liked. This is our first bloom. So exciting! The girls and I have been waiting for our garden to do something, and this was definitely worth the wait. One of my hobbies is photography, so I brought my camera out there and actually took this picture manually. Ok, not fully manual, but not auto either. You can vote for which one you like best. I have my favorite, but I am interested to see what other people think. I think that when the other flowers bloom, I am going to take those pictures and this one and hang them in our bathroom. What do you think?

This is my husband Asher. We've been married for 6 years. He's the crazy guy in the velcro suit. He is a wonderful husband and dad. He is hardworking, passionate, smart, kind, funny, easygoing, cute, loyal, and just a great guy to be around. I am truly thankful every day that he is my husband and that he loves me.

Asher is at the end of his second year of dental school. But that is not his main focus in life. His main focus and the the thing he is most passionate about is his discipleship ministry. He is one of the leaders of a Bible study where he teaches other guys an emphasis on Bible reading, memorization, and recruiting new guys so they can go out and do the same thing. Because he has gotten into the Word, I have seen him go from being empty and without purpose to being more fulfilled than he has ever been in his life. The other guy is Mike Warren, he is actually the one who started the Bible study. 

Here are some more pictures. This program that I am using won' t put all the pictures on at once, so that is why everything is a little discombobulated. So, for those new to blogging, please start at the bottom.

This is Caylee. She is 5 1/2. She is my oldest. She is currently in kindergarten and she is the one I am homeschooling. I can't believe she is so big already. She is doing really well in school and knows how to read and she is also good at math. Next year we are going to homeschool with Christian Heritage Academy because I really want to make sure that she does excellent. I am doing fine in providing the basics for her, but I just want her to have the best. Caylee is my most social child. She has quite a few friends and she is very "into" them. Her best friend is the little girl that lives across the street. They play together almost every day. You can tell that Caylee is the oldest because she tends to get a bit bossy sometimes, but she is a good big sister. She is very loving and kind. She and Natalie get along great, and it makes her feel good when she can help with her baby sisters.


This is Bethany, the baby. She is 4 1/2 months old. There is not too much to say about her because we don't really know her personality. She is an excellent baby, especially now that I have stopped nursing and she is not constantly starving. Our house is so much more peaceful. I was worried about her because while I was breastfeeding she had stopped developing, but as soon as I put her on the bottle she slept for like a week. The first three days she slept all day, only waking long enough to eat. And then for the rest of the week she took four hour naps. After she finally started to stay awake I noticed that she seemed to be more alert and active. She started to reach for things, roll over, scoot and she smiled and laughed much more. I am so happy that she finally is getting what she needs. 

Hello everybody. This is my first blog ever. I am pretty excited because blogging seems like so much fun. It is funny because previously I thought I would never ever have a blog because I thought I did not have time for something like this. But I am beginning to see that it might actually save time because we can all keep up by reading each others postings and not have to spend hours on the phone. Cool beans.

Well, I guess I should do some sort of introduction since this is my first blog. These pictures are obviously not in birth order, but that is just how they came out. The first picture is my 1 1/2 year old, Macy Leigh (pronounced Lee). She is bundles of fun. She is such a cute age. You will probably see lots of pictures of her because at this age everything she does is so photogenic. One thing that I can say about her is that she has tons of ambition. If she wants something, she will just go for it. It was not long after she was walking that she was climbing ladders. Mostly the ladder to the playset in the backyard. At first I was hesitant to let her so I stood next to her, but it did not take long for her to become very proficient. Now she climbs up and slides down by herself.
This is Natalie. She is 3 1/2. (Halves are very important at our house.) Natalie's nickname is Sunshine. I named her that when she was a baby not knowing how appropiate that would be. It seems like she is always bursting with happiness and energy. The other night she was waiting for me to finish feeding the babies, so she just started doing her usual thing. There was a chair in the living room which she must have jumped off of like 50 times. Not only that but she quite thoroughly showed me how fast she could run by running from the front door to the back a zillion times. That's just Natalie. She also has a wonderful imagination and is always coming with all sorts of fanciful imaginary scenerious. One would not guess this but we have a wolf with huge feet on our roof who likes to stomp quite loudly. Of course this only happens when somebody makes a noise in a room that Natalie is not in.