A Time For Every Season....

Drew is learning how to read! We are only 1/3 the way through the curriculum, but he is learning so much! Today he read three sentences and knows some sight words like "The", "a", "little", "ant," "at." I'm so proud of him, he is learning so much and working so hard!

Abby was 13 weeks old on Thursday, she weighed in at 10 pounds, 10oz. She has been eating a ton and gaining weight. I can't wait for her to sleep through the night! She will have a night or two only waking once, then three or so nights where she wakes up every 2-3 hours. She is still fussy in the evenings, but seems very happy when we get out of the house. Abby loves noise, she loves to be sung to and also loves to snuggle in the front pack. We dedicated her at church today, she was perfect - sleeping through the whole thing in mommy's arms. Here are some fun things the boys have been saying lately: Drew calls his Tkids binder his "finder" because it helps him find things. Drew calls his tank top a "tater tot." Drew says when he becomes a man he will marry a girl and they will have 4 babies, they are called "tubelets." When Drew grows up he wants to sing and teach children. He said a music teacher might be nice! Gabe now loves to talk t...

Dear Family & Friends, A Letter of Thanks to all who have served, prayed, and loved us! I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you all so much for the thousands of prayers lifted up in the name of Jesus for our family these past few months! We also want to thank the many people who brought dinners, watched our boys, transported the kids to preschool, cleaned our home, left encouraging words, sent gifts, and were the hands and feet of Jesus to us. We could not have made it through the months of January & February without all of you! God heard our prayers for Abby’s safe arrival & Melissa’s safe delivery.  Our precious little girl; Abigail Mae Williams, was born on 1/14/2010 and weighed 4 pounds 8oz, she has strawberry colored hair, blue eyes and according to her “Nana” looks just like her mommy! Melissa was induced due to severe pregnancy induced hypertension two weeks after being placed on bed rest. Those two weeks were crit...

All the kids at 3 months of Age - Abby, Gabe & Drew I am still amazed that Drew had so much hair at 3 months!    Abby @ 3 Months, Gabe @ 1 Month in the same outfit.

Abby is 11 weeks old today! She is growing, today she weighed in at 9 pounds 6 oz. She has officially doubled her birth weight! To celebrate, Mommy did a hat photo-shoot! Look at the beautiful hats that Abby's Grandma Carol made for her. Aren't they darling! Abby loves to eat! She still isn't sleeping through the night, but will give me a nice stretch from 11-4:45am. She is in the fussy evening phase, but as long as she is around mommy and getting lots of cuddles she handles it pretty well. It is when mommy is busy with the boys and can't hold her that really make her mad! Abby just finished her third chiropractor appointment, everything looked perfect and we're not scheduled to return for a month. Now its mommy's turn for the chiropractor! Well I've been trying to make it to the gym consistently. Unfortunately, consistently is once a week. I'm hoping to get a little more sleep and at least one more day a week at the gym. I'm at the weight I wa...

After church this Sunday we celebrated the Risen Lord with some family time. We headed to mom's house for a great Texas style dinner and then had a fun egg hunt! We got out an automated Nerf gun and the boys had a blast being shot with Nerf bullets by their Daddy! It was a wonderful day of family and celebration! The boys woke to their favorite popover and then ate their candy cane which represented Christ's sinless blood shed on the Cross for man's sins. They loved a sugar rush for breakfast before heading out to church. It was a glorious day of celebration!

We had a wonderful Easter, it was all about Christ and the resurrection - just the way John and I wanted it to be! Here are some pictures from this past weeks celebration of our Lord's sacrifice. We read in Luke starting last Sunday and walked with Jesus through his final week on earth. It was so special to see Drew begin to make sense of Jesus being God in the flesh - fully man and fully God. Drew grew so much this week, learning verses and talking about the resurrection planted many seeds into our boys hearts, my prayer for Drew and Gabe was that they would begin to see that they too have a choice to accept or reject the claims of Christ. I was deeply encouraged by the inquisitive questions Drew asked! Our week of exploring the resurrection challenged me to press on and continue coming up with fun and unique ways to teach our children about the Lord! Good Friday - Jesus is in the Tomb Sunday Drew woke up, ran downstairs and yelled, "Mom, He Is Risen! He even f...

The weeks are flying bye! Abby is growing into a chunk, she is 9 pounds 2 oz today and to celebrate we took her to the chiropractor! Yes, the baby chiropractor. Last week I noticed that she wans't moving her head very much and that she was always stiff. I just assumed her issues stemmed from being constipated. On Monday John had his masseuse come over to the house and give me a massage because my back went out -  3rd time its happened, once with each newborn - I'm convinced its from those car seats that I carry all over creation. Abby also wore her first Spring dress to celebrate her 10 weeks of life, she looked so cute! Anyhow she gabe Abby a little tummy massage and said she might need an adjustment, her mom happens to be a chiropractor so she set us up for an appointment. I took her in and discovered that her neck was out in both places, it was the worst on her left side. Most likely it came out of alignment when she was on the  ventelator for a week. They don't adju...

Gabe is 1 flip flop shy of a full pair! He somehow lost his brand new sandal while dropping Drew off at Pre-school this morning. Those middle children! He even knew he lost it because when I went to take him out of the car he was upset that the sandal was missing. I asked him if he left it at school and he shook his head, "Yes." Sigh, good thing I only paid 2.00 for them! Here are some pictures of the kids from last week when it unexpectedly snowed on the first day of Spring.