Leili's Blessing!

In our Church we bless babies, so today Dan was able to bless Leili at church! Here is our family picture from today!

Here are the men who stood in the circle with Dan (minus the bishop, he is too hard to chase down!)!! Grandpa H., Dan and Leili, Chris K., & Chris E.! The blessing Dan gave her was beautiful, I was able to record it with a friends tape recorder so that I can write it all down for Leili to have when she grows up.

Grandma and Grandpa H. were able to come out for the weekend!

And then the photo shoot began! :) Sorry she was just too cute to stop!

This is a dress my mom made to sell in a boutique when I was in high school, but I loved it and it left with me! :) It was perfect for Leili!

Have have QUITE a few more! :) But I'll leave it at that!

Fern also got a new dress, Grandma J. made her this fancy dress to wear when Leili wore hers! Fern did her hair this morning. :)

So Many Pictures, So Little Sleep!

Happy Birthday Dan!
Sweet Leili!

Riley, why are you taking a picture of me when I am not happy?

Leili LOVES bath time!

Asleep in the middle of the living room floor, yea she is a fourth child!

Beautiful sleeping Fern, could her eyelashes be longer!!

Are they related?

Three of my cuties!

Leili and Mama!

Well I have not been posting much and I am just not too wordy ether. But I am tired and busy! :) We are enjoying the last bit of summer, and dodging hurricanes! I hope to be up and functioning (mentally, physically, emotionally) before too long! So stay tuned!!

P.S. Sarah and family were the ones who guessed the closest on when Leili would arrive so they received some favorite cookies of ours that they ate right up! :)

The Beach with Friends!

BIG NEWS!

Well as many of you know Dan was told his job would be gone as of the end of June, this caused a little stress in our lives. :) Well he heard this last week that he indeed does still have a job and that job will be staying around! We are so very thankful for everyone's thoughts and prayers! Another of our stresses was that our van died...again, and thinking Dan would not have a job we could do nothing about it. But after hearing he would have a job we found a new (to us) van to buy! We picked it up today and are so happy to have a car that our whole family fits in again! After 3 months of having just my old honda civic (and borrowing, and asking for rides), I almost don't even care that we have a car payment (almost), for the first time ever!
And just to make you smile, and because both of my girls are so cute here is Leili smiling and Fern just being Fern! :)

Life!

We have the best little mommy here! I just love the sweet sister love!


Here is Leili in her favorite sleeping place, mom! :)

Look at the sweet chub slowly packing on!!

We are really enjoying all of the great awake and alert time Leili is having now, we all just marvel at her cuteness!!

Here is Leili's first bath! She had quite the audience and she really enjoyed the water!

All last week Riley was at cub scout day camp, his good friend Orion got to go too!!

My birthday was on Saturday so after a yummy breakfast of vegan french toast we drove to the canal at lock 12, had a picnic and then enjoyed a nice walk. Here is a picture Riley snaped during our picnic!

Fern enjoyed testing our new stroller, first by pushing, and then by riding! :)

Of course I had my traditional lemon cake with lemon frosting. MMMMM!! Thankfully Dan did not try burning the house down by putting enough candles on!!

And here is sweet Leili just being Leili! She makes noises all of the time, even when she sleeps and eats!! :)

Returning to Life...

...ever so slowly!

We went out on a little family excursion a little over a week ago... and it was SOOOO yummy! Blueberry picking!

Don't let this serious picker fool you, she ate more than what she put in her bucket!
Isn't she too cute!!

Dan and Leili did the most picking!

Jake and Fern were more into finding "hide-outs"! It was pretty warm in the sun and even I was wishing for a little shade!

Riley Loves to pick blueberries, and he actually put quite a few into the bucket!!

But of course Leili and I did plenty of sitting too! I don't get much done between nursing yet, but I enjoy cuddling with my babe! Here she is sporting her beautiful sun hat Aunt Mary brought her!

Here was Leili and my view from the wagon! Our hard working boys!

Look at our loot!! We froze most of our berries (9 cups), our next bunch we are hoping to make into jam! MMMMM!!!

Babymoon!

Hi all, thanks for the well wishes! We are doing well and just enjoying our babymoon! Here are a few more pictures to hold you over until I am blogging regularly again!

P.S. Leili is pronounced "Lay-Lee"!