Spring Cleaning

I know it's only February still, but I can't help myself! The weather has gotten a bit warmer here and I see spring flowers beginning to poke up out of the ground. I am encouraged and motivated to start cleaning and get ready for this baby and many other things. The realization that we are moving in about a year and that our 4th child is due to arrive sometime in June or July has me wanting to go through everything! I have the urge to purge! Declutter time! Questions like, do I really want to pack this stuff up only to open it later and find that after quite some time I never really used it or had a need for it? Or, why am I hanging on to this? So now I am cleaning and purging and donating!

For some reason I felt the need to share! Maybe it will motivate others to do the same!

Its a...........

Well, Yesterday I had another doctor apt for baby number#4! We had gone to the sonogram apt last Monday the 9th, but much to our dismay our little one was not cooperating! WE couldn't even see it's face! I left that apt sad and with no picture of baby! Wayne and I had originally decided that we did not want to know the sex of our little one. But as the week went on we couldn't help but wonder.....so after our apt yesterday with the doctor, myself, Wayne, & all three kids walked down to radiology for another peek....while we were there we learned that our little one was still stubborn and using my placenta as a pillow....but this time we got to catch a glimpse of the face! All of us were excited to see this little one moving its mouth and everything! Then it came time for the big moment! The verdict was in...Wayne, Lilly, & I all thought it was a girl. Hannah thought it was a boy. And Lucas well he just turned 2 so he didn't know what was going on. So who was right?

Our Newest Little One is a ......

BOY!

Hannah was right! And she loved every minute of it! We couldn't be more thrilled! Now we have 2 girls and 2 boys!

Another Year Older!

Happy Birthday!!!!

It is so hard to believe that my kids are as old as they are. I still look at them as babies! I remember the days we brought each of them home. In a span of 1 month each of my kids had a birthday! My precious daughter and first born, Hannah, turned 7 years old! She had her very first slumber party. Wow! That is all I can say! This house was full of little girls! They had fun and Wayne and I survived!







Then just 11 days after Hannah turned 7, our little Lillian Grace turned 4! Yes, 4! It is scary to think that next year she will be starting Kindergarten! Yikes! Lilly's one request for her birthday was a flower cake! Wayne and I did a team effort and made her our rendition of a flower cake! She liked it! But I think she liked the Hannah Montana guitar she got from Papa John even more!



Two weeks after Lilly turned 4, our only Son and youngest child, Lucas, turned 2! He's not a baby anymore and the little man is talking so much and developing such a BIG personality! He was thrilled to see his elmo cake and the elmo edible arrangment his Gamie sent to him!

So the past month has been such a reflection of the wonderful blessings God has given to Wayne and I. We continue to be amazed at how the kids are growing and learning. The kids are amazed at how Mommy's belly continues to grow with the newest sibling due to make its arrival sometime late June or early July!

James 1:17-18

Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.
In the exercise of His will He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits among His creatures.