Anna's Dedication

Yesterday, we had to wonderful opportunity to have sweet Anna dedicated at church.  What a wonderful thing to stand in front of the church and pledge to raise our sweet girl to know Christ.  We certainly feel blessed to have the support of such amazing family and friends as we strive to do that each day!

Family of Five

Precious Anna

Scar Face :(

With a wild and crazy little guy pike Miles...It was inevitable that we would end up with stitches as some point, and I guess it's probably a miracle that we almost made it 2 1/2 years before we ended up in the ER!?

Monday evening, our little bear fell and hit his head on the fireplace :( As soon as I heard him crying, I said,"what happened?!" and Caroline said, "I didn't push him!" Ha ha...
It was immediately clear we needed stitches so, we loaded up, dropped big sis off at the neighbors and off we won't to meet Daddy at the ER.

His expression looks so pitiful, but he was actually quite happy the whole time we were there. Between the iPhone games, the TV, and all the attention fro the nurses and doctors, he was in heaven ;)



Changing channels with the fancy remote...


The put a topical numbing gel on first...



The they wrapped him in a sheet, gave him a numbing shot, and sewed him up. He didn't cry at all! He was totally distracted and didn't feel a thing...that made things muuuuuuuch easier on mommy.

3 stitches...



After it was all over, he got to ride home in Daddy's truck. Such a treat!





So proud of our brave little bear and praying we can make it 5 days without busting our stitches open!!!

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A hunting we will go...

Jon has been looking forward to taking the kids hunting since before they were born :)  This summer, they have been spending a lot of time at the ranch, getting "prepped."  He practiced shooting with them around, so they wouldn't be afraid of the guns, etc.  

He even let them shoot the gun!

(Jon is VERY careful and safe with the guns, i promise)

The image of Caroline wielding a firearm is scary...ha ha!

Miles got to shoot, too, but there aren't any pics of that.  I am guessing Daddy needed both hands to supervise mr. m with the gun ;)

Daddy always gives them candy at the ranch!

Such fun!

Gotta love the rain boots :)

Labor Day weekend marked the official opening of Dove Season, so Daddy and Caroline headed out EARLY Saturday morning.  They were gone all day, and had a blast.  Hunting, swimming, kayaking, cooking out with friends, and just running around outside!

They were too busy having fun to get many pics, but you can see our little huntress was all decked out. Complete with pink headphones, and of course...pink and zebra rain boots ;)

They can't wait to go back soon!

Anna at 1 month

I am not going to promise monthly updates, but I do want to try to remember some of the little things about this sweet time!
Precious Anna is proving to be an easy baby so far. She eats and sleeps wherever (like she has a choice!?) and basically just goes with the flow.



This week she has started sleeping longer stretches at night. Jon gives her a bottle (5 oz or so) around 10ish. She usually wakes up around 3-3:30 to eat and then sleeps til I wake her up around 7-7:30.
She isn't really napping in her bed, which is a HUGE change from what I did with the other kids. I need to work on that : /



She gave us what we thought was her first "real" smile ( not a gassy reflex one :)) last week. But, she hasn't done it since, so now I am thinking maybe it wasn't real smile afterall! Guess we will just wait and see :)




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