Quite A Crew

Look out, here comes the pack...Bryton, Isaac, Caden, Avery, Samuel, and Addison. This pack of cousins had great fun together, out at Nana Cheryl's house.

Cousins

These little blonde heads can put a smile on anyone's face, especially when they are all together!

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.
~Frederick Buechner

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True Signs

Yesterday afternoon I finally saw the first true signs of the kid's feeling better, and getting over the hump of these bugs they've had. I took them to McDonald's to eat, after church, and they inhaled their food. Each of them ate an entire fish sandwich, a few french fries, and Bryton had another 1/2 of a snack wrap. Those are the kids I know :) And then we stopped at a clothing store, so I could check out a few things...and they were very naughty! Hiding amongst the clothes racks, playing hide and seek; running from one side of the store to the other, playing "race"; laughing one minute and arguing/pushing each other the next. I think the ladies working there were happy to see us leave that place! Finally, I took them to get their hair trimmed...and Avery proceeded to talk her way through her entire haircut... and Bryton's. She talked about everything to that poor hair stylist: our dogs and how they are very different; the songs on the radio and where she's heard them; her long pretty hair, and how she thinks its "just beautiful"; and her friends. Bryton would add tid bits here and there, but mostly he played with the toys he had stashed in his pockets (typical Bryton :). Ahhh...to have healthy kids on the my hands again, who are very full of life... That feels good.

A Mother's Prayer to the Guardian Angels of Her Children...

I humbly salute you, O faithful, heavenly Friends of my children. I give you heartfelt thanks for all the love and goodness you show them. At some future day I shall, with thanks more worthy than I can now give, repay your care for them, and before the whole heavenly court acknowledge their indebtedness to your guidance and protection. Continue to watch over them. Provide for all their needs of body and soul. Pray, likewise, for me, for my husband, and my whole family, that we may all one day rejoice in your blessed company.Amen