...Everything as loss...FOR GREAT GAIN

Yep, my birthday has past and I now am one year from thirty! Praise Jesus...right?? I mean I'm actually blessed to have another year to live with my amazing husband and beautiful kids and worship the Lord and be a witness for Him...who cares how old I am...it's another year! I should also tell you how fun my special day was. We went up north for three days two nights in Boyne, MI...right off the hill they ski off...well they call it a mountain. It was interesting to say the least. One thing you learn as a parent is to have open expectations of your children no matter how well behaved they are normally...puting them in a hotel room with you isn't easy! Getting them to sleep while you're in the room and not wake each other up when screaming to sleep or needing to eat was very interesting. But we made it through...barely! We did enjoy a delicious dinner in Petoskey, MI off the shoreline of Lake Michigan and took our lovely dessert back to the hotel due to our screaming inf...

When people told me that each child is completely different I figured that they'd be different in a few things....well so far that are polar opposites in almost everything accept sleep! So here goes the fun of trying solids. Malachi took to it like a regular...not Rachel! These photo's don't even do it justice. She made the absolute funniest faces and didn't swallow anything for at least a week of trying!!!! Now we're into it now that we have bananas in it! Hillariously picky girl!

So bathtime is very fun for Rachel since Malachi loves to help and here you can see how he is actually trying to help mommy put lotion on Rachel but it certainly looks like he's about to swat her bottom!! Absolutely precious! She has no idea either:)

Here's a new years tradition that Aaron is used to being mostly English....the poppers! Here we are wearing our lovely crowns that came out of our poppers! It was fun and Malachi ripped his off within seconds. And of course here's a cute outfit little Rachel got from Auntie Tiffany!!! SOOOOO CUTE

Here's some fun new shots of the two kids....the first is for Manaw....yes she made these sweaters and Malachi's head is so stinkin big I couldn't get it on so here ya go! We tried for about ten minutes to get it on...but that noggin...it is huge!!! Sorry Manaw!!! So....Rachel likes her fingers!!!!!!! Maybe...I like my fingers too!!!! Do you like my crazy laugh Rachel???? Or is it blowing you away??? Just too cute! He loves his bottom lip...and look at those bright eyes!