Monday, February 25, 2013

Birthday, Owen and Honeymoon

Bug turned 5 on February 21st!!!  I can't even believe it!!!  I still can't even believe how BLESSED I am to be her Mom!!!!  This beautiful Five year old treasure is MY DAUGHTER!!!!  WOW!!!!!

(Conor is definitely her favorite Big Sibling!!!  SHHHH - Don't tell)

Owen had a wonderful visit with his Birth Mom yesterday!!!!  Look at that Smile!!!!  I can't say it enough how GRATEFUL we are to Tiffany for sharing her gift from God with us!!!!  AMAZING!!!!


Our sweet little Bean has not been doing very well.  UGH!!!!  The cardiologist had mentioned a "honeymoon" stage regarding Lyla's heath.  Well, it seems the honeymoon is definitely over.  Even standing up now takes a lot out of her!!!  Nights have been hard too!!!  Dave and I are taking turns sleeping with her.  We are too scared to let her sleep in her crib.

Only God knew how I was struggling with her upcoming heart surgery.  I just wasn't sure we were doing the right thing.  I GET IT NOW!!!!!!!  

So now to keep her healthy for 2 weeks.  We have put Lyla on house arrest.  She sadly is catching everything and anything lately so we had to do something.    


There isn't anything I wouldn't do for this girl!!!  

Please Keep Lyla In All Your Prayers!!!!   We are Forever Grateful for every PRAYER!!!!!!

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Happy Valentine's Day

Taylor and I made shirts for the littles to wear today
I am not very crafty
Okay, I'm NOT crafty AT ALL
so this was a huge undertaking for me

The shirts turned out pretty darn good
if I don't say so myself

I decided a photo shoot was necessary
to show of my craftability (not a word?)

I gathered up those sweet little cherubs 
with their Fabulous Valentine Shirts
with a vision of obtaining
 a good quality photo

YEAH - UM 
I was really reaching when I was looking for 
"Good" and "Quality"
in the same picture

Making the shirts was a piece of cake
compared to getting
this group to all look at me
and 
SMILE
AT THE SAME TIME

I was asking way too much of my little crew so early in the morning

It is what it is

With out further ado 
I present
Eight
of
the 
Six Hundred and Seventy Two Pictures
I took this morning

Hmmm, Let's see,  what are the reasons the above picture just isn't what I was hoping for.
Well, Gavin holding on to Lyla's arm in a double hand death grip and trying to brag to Owen about it is not really appropriate for a photo.   Owen for some reason must of thought the audience would be wearing 3D glasses when viewing this picture.  Oh a good thing that came from this picture is that we now know Sara clearly needs to see an eye doctor ASAP.   Back to the "whats wrong with this picture":   Bellie did not take her happy pill and she was making that crystal clear.  Lyla is trying to figure out why in the world she is on the stairs with four of her siblings while Gavin is ripping her arm off and not a soul is making any attempt to save her.
 Really?  Why are they all looking over there??????

"Hey Guys, I'm over here!!!  You know - RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU"
Good Job Gavin - you got this one right pal


This one is really not too bad if only Gav's lower jaw was cranked back up about 4 inches!!!  Oh and if Sara didn't decide to share some sister secrets with Belle  right at the precise moment I took the picture.  Owen looks good!  Lyla might be taking "happy" to a new level here.   Sometimes "less is more" Lyla!!  We will work on that.


Yep, the above is the Best I got of the five of them!!!  
That's it, right there!!!  
Yes, the one where you can see Sara's tonsils, where it is obvious Belle would rather be anywhere then right there and where Gav is trying to hold back a smirk of "I could of told you this wasn't going to work Mom"!!  That's the WINNER!!!!  
 Then I thought I would try for the three Ukranians.  
This went a little better!  
Darn it, this one is so good of the girls but my sweet "heart breaker" in the back row decided to see if anything interesting was going on upstairs. 

Belle tried to make a getaway probably about 15 times in the 10 minutes we tried to take pictures.
 Look at the horror in Gav's eyes?
After all the threats I made to "sit still" he is confident he is about to be charged as an accersory to Belle's crime since she is holding on to his knee.  This is Gav's "Oh Crap" face!!!

FYI:  Gavin was not charged!!!  Well not for this crime at least!!!

Oh My!!!  Lyla is trying to help Belle sit like a lady.  Belle was trying to figure out how babies grow in tummy's.  And Gavin is giving his high eyebrows wondering if his PRAYERS have been answered and this is the last attempt.  Sorry Gav - Not Yet!!!

AH HA!!!!   Oh Yes, now that's a picture!!!!!



Happy Valentines Day To All Of  
YOU

Love,
Owen, Sara, Belle, Gavin
Lyla