summer's end

Well summer's end may be upon us but we are eating up all of the last bit we can . We have had such a fun summer and trying to take advantage of everyday God has given up.

We spent today at the salato wildlife center in Frankfort, not far from out house. It fun and is full of lots of species that inhabit our state. I love this baby girl, I am still in shock she is almost one :(

And they just take my breath away...

We got to welcome miss Melody Balzer into our lives, so happy she is here!

Spend some time with amazing friends, even one far away :(

She cracks me up, all the time. What a little angel she is and full of it!

Love this face :) Thank goodness it's so cute :) She has decided that she like people but the only one she loves is mama, which is good until I have anything else in life to do :)

Wen to the fair, all six of us and had a blast!! Of course the bubble gum machine was a hit :)

I took Lily on a date to her first theater show. It was Cinderella and she did amazingly well :)

So we will try to play outside as much as possible, maybe visit a few more splash parks and then boy are we ready for fall!!! Just enjoying the present season of my life one day at a time :)

Revelation.

I had a little revelation tonight. Kyle is remodeling our bathroom. He is working on it every minute he can so that we can actually have our second toilet back :) Anyway, he was working right after dinner until just now, it's 10:30.That leaves me to get all the kids ready and in the bed. Usually I'm just in charge of the two babies and Kyle does the big kids. I did them all tonight. Well I was laying in bed reading to Henry. We read, then we sang and then he cuddled right up to me and we prayed then we sang one more song. As we were singing I had a weird thought cross my mind. I thought, "If I knew I was going to die sometime soon, then I would insist on putting the kids to bed and savoring that sweet time" and then I stopped. Really? Would it really take some kind of fatal diagnosis to get me excited about spending quality time with my kids instead of rushing through so I can sit on the couch? How sad. Hopefully in the future I can remember that those times are to be treasured regardless of how much of our future we know or not. Because no matter how long it last, these precious moments with our small children are already numbered and too short.