What a Blessing

Words can not begin to express what a blessing Will is in our lives!! Here are a few pictures from his Blessing day. He is too cute!!

My Hayden is 4!!!

Oh how I love this little boy!!! He is such a light in my life. Every day he makes me laugh and his smile is contagious! He knows what he wants and how he wants it and is never shy to share how he feels. He gives the best hugs and loves with his whole heart! I love you my Hayden!!!

Christmas

The one thing I didn't want to happen while we were getting ready to move and with the Birth of Will was for Chirstmas to get lost! We did our best to be prepared and had a wonderful Christmas with our babies!!!

Florida Bound

We have moved!!! After Christmas was over, the packing and our move back to Florida began!!! Jeremy took the whole week off and our friends were incredible with all of their help with the kids and food for the week, so that all we had to do was focus on packing and getting the house ready to go. It was hard watching my things disappear out of the house little by little. Every day a new room would be gone. I tried not to think about it, but I was getting sadder by the minute to leave my home and friends. The only comforting thing was that we were going to be moving closer to family and that we knew it was what our Heavenly Father had planned for us. As soon as the huge semi truck was loaded (we have a ton of stuff!!) and our house was empty the camping began in the house. We stayed for a week after our stuff had already left so that Jeremy could finish work. Lets just say that living out of a suitcase and on a air mattress for 6 days with 5 kids, one of them a newborn, is no fun, but a memory we will never forget!!! We loved our time that we lived in the Carolinas, and have made friendships that will remain in our hearts forever, leaving there was really hard but we are very excited about all that the future has to hold for us here in Florida!!!

This is how we felt every night after packing and painting!! Jeremy worked so hard everyday! It is no easy task packing a 3600sq ft home almost all by yourself, but that is exactly what my Jeremy did, while I took care of the baby! I love him!!!!

Always a Miracle

Anyone who says that they do not believe in Miracles, has never had a baby!!!You would think that after having 4 children, the entire act of child birth would be routine, but it never fails to amaze me the miracle that it truly is. Tears come to my eyes as I think of it, that we are trusted to teach and bring up our Heavenly Fathers children. We go through life never knowing that something is missing until that vacancy is filled. I didn't even know that I wanted little Will, but I can not imagine my life without him and he has only been here one week. He is such a sweet baby and fits right in with our family. It is like life is a puzzle and we can see what a beautiful picture we are creating, we just can not tell if we have all of the pieces yet to make our picture complete. I thank my Heavenly Father every day for all of my blessings, those I can see and those I can not. I am so blessed to have my children in my life all 5 of them (well 6 if you count Jeremy)!!!

Just what was needed!

For Thanksgiving my parents treated all of us kids to a getaway in Gatlinburg. It was just what we needed with the stress of the upcoming move and all the events that were about to occur in our lives. It was so nice just to escape it all and spend time with the family. Not to mention the fabulous luxury cabin that we stayed in, surrounded by beautiful mountains. I have never been a morning person, but I loved waking up every morning to the sun coming up over the mountains. Even now when I get caught up in the anxiety of everything, I think back and remember our time there.

Can't Believe ...

I can not believe that my little girl is old enough to be baptized! It was such a special day and we are so proud of the choices that Ashley is making. She has such a sweet spirit and really wants to learn so that she can choose the right. I hope and pray that she always keeps the desire to stay close to her Savior!