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Happy Halloween
My cool man

Kiley getting ready to get her ear's pierced, finally....this has to be at least the 5th attempt

And he went through with it

Lathan's new big boy bike

Kiley and her friend, Dana Cheer

Updated..August- December

Emma Grace broke her arm at school, this is her showing off her green cast, with LOTS of signatures:) She had to wear it for 4 weeks September-October.

Kiley did cheer this year and feel in love with the sport. This is her team competing at Cheersport, in October.

This was Sun Valley's Homecoming Game, for the middle school. Kiley was escorted by her Daddy.

More of the homecoming...

Emma Grace turned 6! She had a big party at her most favorite place, Kate's Skates!

Blowing out candles!

Lots of friends.

Cheer season was May-October, so Kiley had lots of practices and lots of games.

Sunny, our CRAZY dog, we got her in July, for Lathan's Birthday!

I took a long blog break, but realised I really want to keep this blog updated for my kids to refer back to one day. I think it will be really neat for all of us to go back and look at what happened, during the crazy, busy, yet memorable and fun times....so this is me playing catch up:)

July 4th

Happy 4th of July!

Lots of FuN, with great, family and friends. Lots of pictures in particular orders. The kids had a BLAST and so did the adults!

An Amazing Easter Gift

Ryan entered into the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil. I am so overwhelmed with happiness and joy. I have the faith I longed for, for so many years. I am very fulfilled with my relationship with our God and my husband. Wow, I have never had such peace, it's an amazing feeling.

I was raised Catholic, as were my mom, grandparents, etc. I really didn't realise what a wonderful gift I had received. I went to church, at my convenience, for many years, when I was in college and even after me and Ryan got married. Ryan was raised Southern Baptist and he wasn't too interested in converting to Catechism, he was happy with his faith. I remember our family trying many different churches for a while there, trying to find the right church but nothing ever fit.

Fast forward to about 2 years ago.....we were really struggling, for the first time in our life, faith was all we had. We needed a reality check. Ryan was working A LOT, the kids would go days without "Daddy time", I was stressed, overwhelmed and pretty sad....I prayed, A LOT, as did Ryan. God answered our prayers....in ways that scared the heck outta us but it was a good, much needed scare. We had to make BIG decisons and we did, with God on our side. We started putting God first, just the way it should be. We started going to church every Sunday, we felt "at home" at a Catholic church, close by. Ryan was called by God to join "RCIA", Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, and started a long wonderful, amazing journey. Every Sunday, for the past nine months, Ryan would have class on Sundays, for 1 1/2 hours, along with weekend retreats and workshops. It was hard at times, I was kinda on my own with 3 kids at church. Along with Ryan's work schedule, and many other issues, but this made it so much more meaningful. We had to work for this. I can't begin to tell you what this has done for our marriage, our family. We have had some hard these past few months and God new we would. He also new we would have "RCIA", we would have faith, we would have him and we would turn to him. God amazes me! I never once asked Ryan to become Catholic, but I did pray to God, for our family to have a wonderful, close, fulfilling relationship with him and he granted us this X's 10! What an amazing Easter, one that our family will never forget. God is Good!

Matthews 5:16: Let the light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and give glory to your Father who is in Heaven.

Spring...it that you?

What a wonderful weekend, I just love the "taste" of what's to come....SPRING TIME! My kids crave the outdoors, as do Ryan and I. We love working in the yard, love to plant, prune and garden. We are all counting down to warm days......not really knowing when the countdown will end. It has stay warm outside sometime, right?!

Okay, so I have been super busy!!!! So busy, when I looked through my pictures I realized I had not taken any new ones in quite a while.

Busy, you ask.... dance class, church 2 times a week, girl scouts, swim class, homework, and everything else that goes in between, but we love it, I have never really been a home body, I like to stay busy as do the kids.

Kiley had H1N1 last week, along with 15 kids in her class, but has recovered and I managed to keep everyone else healthy, thank God for Lysol spary and Lysol wipes, I sure do keep them in business. She is doing great in school, perfect grades and she got star student the first week of school. She loves school and that makes me so happy!

Emma Grace is doing amazing in school. She gets new cycle words each week and is doing really well with them. She is on her way to reading. She has lots of little friends she talks about everyday. She is such a funny girl, the other day she asked me how do you spell "I don't want a baby brother anymore", after he hit her across the head with a toy.

Lathan, well he is SLEEPING through the night 12 plus hours:) and still taking a 2 hour morning nap but slowly weaning out that afternoon nap. He is running now and making me a nervous wreck, and with the running comes all kinds of cuts, scrapes and bruises. He is into EVERYTHING! He keeps us busy, but I wouldn't have it any other way. He is learning his body parts and animal sounds. He LOVES our cat Daisy and looks for her out the window at least 10 times a day.

That pretty much wraps up the last month or so. Pictures to come, when I remember to put the fully charged battery back into the camera.

Monkey Joe's

We had promised to take the girls to Monkey Joe's , "This Summer" and it kinda hit me, "This Summer" will be over for us next week. Emma Grace, starts Traditional Kindergarten Monday and Kiley starts school the following Tuesday, so Summer's pretty much over for us. I only got a few shots of the girls, because I had Lathan and if you have been to Monkey Joe's with Ryan, well, he turns into one of the kids, so him and the girls went and jumped, bounced, raced. I took Lathan to the toddler section and he LOVED it. He kept toppling over, it was the funniest thing. Here are a few shots.

Just Some Pictures...