Noah Needs Surgery:(

There is no picture post here, to spare you the details; however, little Noah has a hernia. We brought him in today, due to some enlargement of his...um....jewels- or one I should say. Sure enough, he has a hernia and will go to the urologist tomorrow. We are praying that he will have a smooth corrective surgery. His manhood will not be affected and he is still all boy. At one point, I thought perhaps his all boy crazy phase was extra testosterone or something, but really only fluid from his abdomen is sneaking into where it shouldn't be and the fluid door needs to be corrected. No alternatives to surgery and we are in good hands. He's got the whole world in His hands...

Spring Break and Spring Fever

Spring break for the girls last week. It was cold and wet with rain most the week...nice...time...to spend indoors... snuggled up with a baby and a cat...could life be better? Kalu is such a great pet for us all!

OOUUHHH! I just love my new princess towel and the cute fuzzibunz is getting smaller on me! Thanks Natalie! Don't I look adorable! Your purple towel is so awesome, Mom might try stealing it!

Spring fever...what a great excuse to donate 10 inches. Thanks to prenatal vitamins, the hair grows quick! What fun with a little burgandy and blonde? Only problem is the blend may look like pink in a good light, but girls just wanna have fun, so no harm there! Enjoying not having to detangle Naomi's little fingers from my hair.

Clearly the Laura Ingalls hair gone Wilder wasn't doing anything for this momma.

favorite new pics...

i just love this pic...the little bunny ears over grandpa's hands.

naomi and cousin zachariah...aren't they cute!!


"okay just don't touch the swing, don't don't don't...

when it's said and done, nothin' says it better than

a fresh basket of folded diapers!

the shirt says it all...ha ha!

are we going?

Is Adams words to me. When I ask him to move the lunch bags by the door since he just took them out of the fridge. He counts on his hands to try and figure it out when I then ask him how much time he has. Frustrated, he quietly blurts, "a long time, I know!" Oh what will the good Lord have in store for Adam come a few years? Or any of our kids for that matter. A wise woman of some excellent young adults said how graetful she is to not have to do it on her own and knowing that wasn't to do with her. And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28 Doesn't get more reassuring than that, Amen! There was a house down the block and we can see it from the top of our hill in our porch. It foreclosed (and was snatched up,) I said that would be great and the boys could live there. At ten I could call down there and be like, "who has the red car, it's lights out, or time for your friends to leave..." seriously! Only God knows and halleluia we trust him!!

Naomi Naomi beautiful girl

Each of my babies, including Lexi, have had their own songs. This is hers:
Naomi, Naomi, beautiful girl. Naomi, Naomi, beautiful girl. Na-Oh- Mi beautiful, Na-Oh-Mi beautiful girl. Naomi, Naomi, beautiful girl...

She is the cutest thing in the world!

Lunches

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In between these posts here I have made 2 school lunches, half the work this week. isd742 has off this week so the girls get some momma time. Then the boys get their 842? break the week before Easter, which I seem to prefer, but the last March week and start of next month. I want to take them to the Mall of America lego place or something for a mom date. They missed out this weekend and that was part of the deal too. We are so blessed to have PCA services and they stayed back and did stuff at home. Adam made some excellent lemon bars too! On Saturday Luke drove 11 happy people to the airport for a flight to Florida. We met up at Ikea. If you can't take all your kids in one vehicle don't count on having some lavish relaxing wander through Ikea. I forgot you had to be potty trained for their free hour of child care. Then why do they have to have the big window for all the fun and then send me on my way with my (advanced, wink/wink) active 2 year old?!?!

Difficulty to blog!

Due to life...it just seems there is a difficulty to blog! I guess getting a chance to "blog" takes more time than I have! It is worth it, especially when I see such candid moments. Here Noah, I am sure is trying to teach these kids a thing or two. There still are a couple peices that were...left behind. You'd think a travel version would be less peices! Naomi is sporting her super cute bow.















Unfortunately, I do not know what was on television! We are not big tv watchers, but something caught their eyes. Then again, David- my darling, watched a full two hours of batman in spanish once! Few part story here. Or many more within, I should say. First of all, at the time santa existed. We blew the cover this year, as Luke decided it was lying to the kids and didn't want to partake in the worldy wow of commercialism. Granted I still stuffed stockings and... got credit...woo hoo. Like how laim is the chant by a couple kids..."thank you santa," while looking dreamy into the sky. I don't remember feeling tricked when I realized there was no santa- I was just like, "where are the presents?" or, "that's all?" even though I knew that was all because I had snuck into the bags in a locked office to raid and see what everyone was getting. I am sure none of my kids will be searching for their presents. Not yet anyhow. Noah is searching my closet for a long lost treasure because Luke made the mistake of letting him in on the closet bin of gifts and that. Went to walmart for a few garage sale bins and they had 10-30$ toys for 2 and 3$! Of course that is my favorite birthday and Christmas shopping stop! Anyhow...how many stories was that? So way back when, I came into my old bedroom where the vcr was playing some movie I scored for a buck or two (like no wonder...) but here it was batman in spanish. So I said to the boys, amazed that they wouldn't have said anything by the 20 minutes into the movie, "oh wow, santa must have thought you knew spanish, David! That's funny!" About 10 or 20 minutes later, Adam came and I asked if he was done watching the show, "well I just don't understand what they are saying and, ahhgg I don't even know what they mean!!! (clearly agitated:) Gosh I love my boys!! So David watched the entire movie is spanish though. So here is why blogging is so much work, there are little little word descriptions to my life. So in the pic, Noah is like, hey getting some recliner on and I wish he could learn to pull his ear under the hats:) You wouldn't know it, but Luke is actually holding a bundle of joy there. Or semi-content at any given moment we should say.

Of course, it turned into an ordeal when Libby realized she had been bunny eared. By the time they recovered, the time had too and there was no chance for a nice sissy pic when we met grandpa and grandma at mexican village a while back.

The other funny thing is that I wish I always had my camera, why Noah let on to the presents is because that is where Luke made the appropriate exit from with his new helmet. Noah is a total boy and would often, prior to playing imaginary sports- would slap his face, crunch his eyebrows and say in a growly whisper, "helmet, helmet." So we wanted to get him a helmet, but they were like 30$. Found one for speedracer for 6$ and snatched it up. Luke is such a daddy warbucks he wanted to see or be apart of the extacticy (is that a word, Eva?, my grammar coach) and so he had to give it to him. Best pic ever is on my cell phone, Luke wearing the helmet at the BK drive through, gosh I love that man!! So life as you have it does not allow much dilly dally on the computer- and with picture and programs my luck seems to run out with technology all too often!