Brighten Your Day...

...by going to see these pics by Aunt Nancy!!!


I love you Minki ~ thanks for taking these!!!

Love,
ML

Wordless Wednesday

(yes, that is what you think it is. aunt 'nanshee' took one for the team)

First Food

I seriously don't know where to start, so I am going to work my way through my camera & these are the first memories I captured with it. Well other than a few other shots that are very dark & just bad (but you don't want to see those)

So, here is the first time we fed the boys rice cereal. You can tell they weren't fans of it, but now... OH.MY.GOODNESS. I fix them one giant bowl of rice cereal plus two containers of baby food and they eat it all.

Boys are so different than girls, and one way of telling that is how they eat. Harper was nothing like this. It would take her 3-4 meals to finish one container of baby food. She is still a nibbler. Every now and then she will eat a gigantic meal, but usually we have to coax her to eat with some sort of 'surprise' at the end of her meal! The other morning she woke up, sat down to eat some eggs picked up her fork, and paused. She looked at me with her bright honey brown eyes and with all sincerity (while nodding her head) asked, "cookie after eggs?" hahaha...guess I will have to work on that. These boys won't have any trouble eating. I wish there was a way I could start stocking up on food now for when they are teenagers!!! I can only imagine!

haha... Warner (middle) is like.. what is happening? I'm not too sure about this!


We now have their highchairs on the ground. They just took up too much room on the table, so now they sit all lined up (see below). They get so frustrated b/c by the time brother #3 is being fed brother #1 is screaming for more. My pulse races & I sweat when I feed them because it takes lots of concentration! ha ha! I'm getting much better, but they are somewhat demanding little fellas!

Warner not too sure of the taste!

Mav with the majority of it on his bib.

Crews just wondering when it will all be over! haha!

Feeding time with Daddy:

double time!! He's awesome!

Macky thinks Daddy is soooo funny!!!

yumm

hey, give me some of what you got

clean up!

Edited to add: To get these shots from above I climbed up onto our island counter. While I was up there Harper looks at me and says, "Mommy!! Sit Down!!" Hey, at least the lessons on standing up in her highchair are sticking! :-)

Love to all,
ML

We're Baaaack!

I have no idea where to begin. It has been a wonderful couple of months.

We are pretty much settled in our new house & are able to stretch out! So nice! Here is a picture of our cozy abode in the snow...

We had a great Thanksgiving (the day after we moved) and a crazy Christmas & New Years.

I think we have had visitors every weekend since, but it has been fun!

I am going to try to update with pictures, but I got a new camera (my surprise Christmas present from Chris!!!), and today when I went to download pictures I had taken 714. HOLY MOLY!!!! So, I have to go through them & figure out what is internet worthy.

The boys turned 6 months on the 16th & Harper will be two this month. I've been planning her party & I am sooo excited...can't wait to show pictures!

Warner, Maverick, Crews

Anyway, let me try to gather my thoughts and write a post that isn't like a ping pong ball. Oh well, guess you have to start somewhere. So, here are some pictures because I know that is what you all really want :-)

Harper Grace

Warner

Crews

Maverick

The Blantons on Christmas Eve Eve :-)

Love to all,
ML

(aaaaahhhh it feels good to be back)

Moving!

We have so much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving!

We have 4 healthy kiddos

and

we are moving into a new house!!!

It was completely the Lord.

Today we are in the middle of a jumbled house but I am completely chilled out about it! Thank you Jesus!

Movers are here packing stuff up & we move tomorrow. We are having Thanksgiving at our house & I am so excited this year's celebration!!!

Also, I just wanted to let you know that I am taking a blogging break for a while. (Seems like I've already started it - haha). I will still be *twittering*, but we are going to go primative for a while... no TV, no internet! Crazy!!!

We will see how long it will last... hahah. I will be back eventually. I think. So, I hope that all of you have a Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, & Happy 2010!!! I will be thinking of and praying for you, all of my readers - especially those of you who have had a difficult time conceiving children. I know the heaviness of your heart, and I pray that this blog has been an encouragement to you. God is faithful. He hears your heart's desire. Make Him first in your life. Seek Him with all of your heart. He is good and loves you so much.

Thank you all for reading this blog and for commenting. I hope to make this blog into a book one day and give it to my children so they can see God's faithfulness, as well as, what great people are out there praying for them!

Love you all,
Mary Lindsey

Must get back to packing!

Go Look At These!!!

Want to see some precious pictures? Go HERE

By the way...

Happy Halloween. Did we dress up? Well, if you count...

...Harper staying in her pj's all day being almost completely covered in chocolate...

...Chris dressing like a crazy Georgia Tech fan (for the good reason that he went to the GT game)

...Me wearing my new apron & donning Persian Melon (like the 1940's house wife I am & in memory of my Mama Dot)

...And the boys acting like complete maniacs because it is a full moon & they are adjusting to new 4 hour schedule...

then yes we dressed up!!!! And ate pumpkin chocolate chip pakes (pancakes) for breakfast AND dinner

...it was quite the fun day... maybe next year we will even carve a pumpkin! I know... we're wild.

(And in other news... the boys slept through the night with out a peep from ANY of them last night. First time. It was delightful, but after my body tasted so much sleep... it only wanted more. Sheesh. Maybe I'll get some more tonight - hopefully!!! But won't gain an extra hour since babies don't turn back their clocks. Oh well. )

This Man of Mine

I just adore him so...

(note the baby's face... haha)

I am so blessed to be his wifey.