Happy 3rd Birthday Tirzah

Our sweet little Tia turned 3 a few weeks ago.

 Here she is at 3 months

and only a few days old

she was our only thumb sucker

and now here she is always asking, "I'm big right Mom?"

A new tradition of ours is for Daddy to stay home on birthdays and do something as a family, so we went hiking to explore and enjoy God's creation.

And now for her favorite part of the whole day...cake!!!

We love you Tirzah! Happy Birthday!!!

We continue to pray that you will grow to be a godly woman who loves God above all and finds joy in serving others.

To the lake

Out to the lake with some friends, almost didn't go because of possible rain, but sure glad we did

Victoria's first time!

My lovely sister and her little boy Zachary

 Dirty and enjoying every minute  

Tia, Silas, Eric, and Michael

You can't catch me!!!

Strawberry picking

1 Box of 20 quarts worth...all being frozen for smoothies

First you pick a strawberry, doesn't matter if its red or not...

Then make sure you take the stem off, it doesn't taste so good, believe me I've tried it...

then try to push the whole strawberry in your mouth at once, delicious!

Vacation Highlights

A Ghost crab we covered with sand...there were so many of these, we walked out on the beach at night and they would be scurrying everywhere.

Ezra must have been eating sand by the look of his chin

Beautiful pool time

Kids keeping a safe distance from this ghost crab.

Boys and their trucks

Asher and Gabriel 

Asher playing peek-a-boo

Love this shot of Grayden

Nellie, Tia, and McKenna

Here is a hermit crab...found this book, "Pagoo" by Holling C Holling, looking forward to reading it to the kids...great story written from the perspective of a hermit crab.

Asher had no idea what the water was all about until this happened a few times...he would crawl as fast as his little knees could go straight down into the breaking waves.

2 years apart but they look like twins, Tirzah and Asher

Paul, Phil, Ed, Ellen, Dave, and Steve

Cattails along our nature reserve walk

Dragon flies of all colors there, blue, green, orange, brown

Banana spider...God's creation is amazing

Butterfly bush blossoms

Lookout for from the nature reserve

A great game for the kids, big plate full of whipped cream with a cherry hiding underneath and you need to find the cherry.
Lovely grin Lucas!

Silas doesn't want to let any of that cream go to waste

Beautiful sunset from the very top deck of the house

Shifrah and Tia

Grandpa and Silas starting to create a kings palace

Roof and all