Corban came home from school yesterday with a special Thanksgiving card.

Here is what it said when I looked inside...

Reading this brought tears to my eyes! I thought this was one of the sweetest cards ever.

For about a year, we would pray each night that God would bless us with a little girl! The boys prayed for a sister. We are so humbled that the Lord answered our prayers and blessed us with our Sophie! As we hold our sweet little girl in our arms this Thanksgiving, we are reminded of the Lord's blessing on our family! We truly are so grateful to the Lord for this precious gift!!!!

Santa told us we had been naughty this year!!!

Sophie and my nephew Jake with Santa...

Two months old ALREADY!!!

Our precious Sophie is already two months old. It's so hard to believe. These few months have just flown by! We are truly enjoying every minute with our little princess. She is such a doll! There are not even words to describe the love that we have for this sweet angel!!!

At her doctor appointment this week she weighed in at 9lbs. 5 oz. and was about 21 1/2 inches long! She has almost doubled in size since the day we brought her home!!!

I look forward to her smiles and coo's every day!
Sophie's favorite thing right now is to be rocked. She snuggles her little head right into my neck and we just rock and rock and rock.
Her sweet cheeks are so kissable too!!!

I want to truly treasure these moments with her, because all too soon she will be off running with (after) her brothers!!!

Thank you Lord for this precious blessing!!!!

One way to save $...

With Christmas just around the corner, Shane and I have committed to find ways that we can save money. One of those ways was to learn how to give the boys their haircuts at home. When Shane and the boys need haircuts, it would cost us between $30-$35 dollars. They usually get their haircut about every six weeks of so. Shane decided that we should learn how to cut their hair at home. He went to Walmart and bought some clippers. I was really nervous! I didn't want them to look like LEGO heads after we were done! My brother Steve, has been giving himself, and my other brother Tim, haircuts for a while now. We decided to enlist his help and asked him to come over and give us a quick lesson on how it's done!

We set up a little barber shop in our kitchen and Steve went to town!

My boys thought it was SO... cool that Uncle Steve was the one cutting their hair!
They love Uncle Steve, and we LOVE their new haircuts! It's really easy to do and it will save us some cash!!

Riley Sings Jesus Loves Me to Sophie!

It's a..............................................

We are home from the doctor and everything looked GREAT!!! PRAISE the LORD!!! What a miracle this new life is!!!!



We are so excited to share with you, that in April of 2009, we will welcome a little.......................................................................




BOY into our family!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shane and I feel very blessed by the Lord, knowing that He has entrusted us with the responsibility and privilege of raising three little men and one little lady for Him!! What an honor! We are so humbled and grateful!!!!

Today's a BIG day...

We are off to the doctor this morning and (hopefully if this little one will cooperate) will be finding out if our newest addition will be a boy or a girl! We are so excited! I'll post our news when we get home!!!