Piano Recital again...

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Boys piano recital 2014

video test- Autumn 3 weeks

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This is just a video of Autumn at three weeks.  So glad I took this, her little squeaks are so precious...

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Big brothers

The boys will kill me when they find out I posted these pictures, but I just have to remember this.  Andrew and Austin are such good brothers! They have loved Autumn from the second they found out I was pregnant... And even though they hate it when I try to sneak a picture of them loving on her, I have managed to capture a few...

Spring is coming

I had to take the dog out this morning. Ugh. Just threw the snowboots on that are sitting by the front door, still in PJ pants and a sweatshirt.  He's so distracted by everything, if he would just concentrate and do his business I could go back inside...

I heard the geese, too, and finally looked up.  They were so high up, it was like a pencil line drawn in the sky... Over and over and over... And over...

I have never in my life seen so many geese, so high up, all in V formation... The line stretched as far as you could see in both direction, and just kept going as they flew north.  I ran inside to tell the kids to come look, and it still kept going... Thousands of geese.

It was amazing.

So glad I took the dog out.

Winter.

I like winter.  I know that sounds like crazy talk after the last couple days of snow and record breaking cold.  I realize most people are fed up with winter.  I argue this with Randy quite often... He would be happy to live in Texas or Arizona... But I can't imagine life without the seasons.  To me, they are all necessary...you can't appreciate any one of them without the others.

Here we are in winter, the world is black and white.  I love how the trees look with snow stuck to their bare branches.  Everything is simple.  We slow down.  You have to in the cold and snow... Sometimes you are forced to by closed roads, businesses and schools.  Mother Nature presses pause on our busy life, and there's no way around it.  

Take a breath and make a pot of chilli, or soup, or stew... One of the  deliciously warm foods that just hit the spot when it's cold out.  How about a mug of hot cocoa, hot apple cider, or coffee...there's something about warming yourself from the inside out.

Winter has no mosquitoes, flies or humidity.  Without winter we would have no maple syrup!

Winter cold makes a summer day feel warmer.  Winter drab makes the leaves and grass of Spring greener.  I like the contrast. Don't wish away winter.  Wishing away winter won't stop it from happening.  It just stops you from enjoying the beauty in it.

Baptism

Sunday was Autumn's baptism.  We asked Randy's brother Jason and my sister Lauren to be Godparents.  When Austin was born, they were only 16 and 18... Too young to take the roll.  So both the third-borns are now Godparents to our third-born!  Another fact all three have in common that we enjoy telling is that all three were born in years that the Cardinals played in the World Series...but lost ('85, '87, '13) :(

The weather was not very cooperative, but we were blessed to have our family make it up despite that.

   

Movin' right along...

We're into our second month already!  I spend most hours of the day with Autumn, so I don't see her growing right before my eyes until I look back at pictures.  I started taking monthly pictures, and it's amazing how much bigger she looks in one month!  At her two month check up she was 11 lbs and 21 1/2 inches long...

                  

       

  

Some other pictures of Autumn...