Mega-exhausted

Driving home from Spokane late tonight Gabe pipes up from the back and says,

"I'm about to get WAY more than exhausted."


Super funny!


Later I questioned him about the name for "way more than exhausted."

"Mega-exhausted," was his reply.

A look into the lives......

Sneak Peaks:

School Started

Gabe is in 2nd grade now and, as you can see, always
SUPER enthusiastic about having his picture taken.

I found Cael walking back and forth on the retaining wall, mumbling to himself, dressed for war.

Kian has discovered his feet and enjoys sucking on his toes whenever
the opportunity presents itself.

Uncle Andrew came to visit. We all enjoyed playing a bit of Rock Band
together (especially after the kids were in bed. :)

Kian is 5 1/2 months

and has started eating solids (so he will go back to sleeping 10 hours at night)

I cant get enough of his big brown (bugged out) eyes!

Also, Gabe started soccer.

It has been a bit of an adventure.

While practice has been a bit rough, he did enjoy his first game.




(Who needs to chase butterflies when you have a belly button?)

"Man...I'm pooped"

Where are the pictures of Isaac you ask?

Who knows?

Such is the middle child syndrome.

Family Picture Faves!

Super good way to start off the day......:)

This morning I ran a 5k with my friend Karen. (Go Red Head Power!)

She wanted a running partner and I wanted a new t-shirt (since Rob has "strongly suggested" (forced) me to part with two lately "because they [had] more holes than fabric").

Here's us waiting to start...enjoying the opening speech from the "Rodeo Royalty."

We (as in me...not so much Karen) thought it would be a silly idea to start off in the front (you know...with the really serious/competitive people).

For a whole 2 seconds we were in first place.

It felt awesome!

What a fun way to start out a Saturday!

I had a good time.

After a healthy round of encouraging yips, hollers, and high fives (no worries...I sanitized afterwards) I looked on toward the finish line where my dear husband and children were waiting.

In honor of the "family circus" (what I "lovingly" referred to jogging with my dad and various siblings in my youth) and a longstanding tradition of embarrassing myself and those I run with, I ended the race with a cartwheel finish (thinking of you dad). :)

TWO THUMBS UP FOR US!

(Way to go Karen....you did AWESOME!)

Life...and HOPE!

Sometimes my life feels like a crazy whirlwind...swirling out of control with no end in sight.

But....

The sun still rises and sets every day.

LIFE GOES ON!

Even when it feels like it wont.....

it does.

Some days it's "all" worth it...

and

some days it's not.

But....

It does goes on.

Some days I get the dishes done...and some days I don't.

Some days I remember that I am married to the most incredible man I know (whom I love very much)...and some days I take that most incredible man for granted.

Some days I stop pulling my hair out and sweating profusely in line at the grocery store while my children run around like wild boars long enough to realize that I am truly blessed to have 4 BEAUTIFUL boys who are sweet (albeit rambunctious) and who are children of God.




So...my thought for the day....

HOLD ON to those moments!


HOLD ON to those times that MAKE IT "ALL" WORTH IT!

They may be few....

they certainly feel far between...

but there IS hope.


In hope there is Faith.

In Faith there is Jesus Christ.

And he is aware of me (and you) at every moment of every day...and he wants us to be happy.



"Adam fell that men might be...men are that they might have joy."