Spring

I can't believe my last post was about Christmas and here we are four months later! A lot has happened. I'm almost 20 weeks pregnant with our fourth little one. It's been so fun to recently be able to consistently feel this sweet one move. Seth just started feeling the baby kick too! It's such a comfort and I treasure each kick. I pray the Lord will continue to bless this pregnancy and we will be able to meet this precious baby mid-September. This time we won't know whether this little one is a boy or a girl until that time, we're excited to have the surprise!

Life has been crazy, but I feel like I've started to be able to get back into somewhat of a routine after feeling sick and tired a lot of my first trimester. Landon and Olivia are growing so fast, I sometimes wish I could just pause time and enjoy them longer at each stage, but time just keeps going. Landon will be four in ten days. I can hardly believe it! He is becoming more and more independent, and being able to help around the house. He just learned how to swing all by himself and is out on the swing almost every chance he can get. Olivia wants to do everything Landon is doing. She loves to read books, especially Good Night Moon, "Goodbye Moon" as she calls it :)

We have been enjoying spending time with Seth's aunt Donna. She was diagnosed with ALS last summer and came to live with his parents here in Tulsa back in November. She has such a joyful spirit through this all and we love her so much. Pray for her if you think of it. She is now bed-ridden but is able to communicate via iPad, but it is getting more difficult for her.

We had an eventful month of March as we had termites, rotted wood under the toilet, reconstruction in the bathroom (that we are still doing... cant't wait to get our toilet back in there!) and two sets of visitors. I'm so glad our visitors weren't deterred by our construction mess - we had so much fun! First, my sister, two good friends, my sweet niece and my friend's two boys came to visit. They did so much work while they were here, it was so sweet of them! We redid my fireplace which totally makes my living room look like a new place! They also helped paint our bathroom which was also in desperate need of attention. I so appreciate such good family and friends and it was so sweet to spend time with them as I don't see them often enough.

Our next set of visitors was my brother, Alan, sister-in-law Lauren, and darling nieces Nora, Gillian, and Aubrey. The kids had a blast playing with each other and we even got to celebrate Nora's 6th birthday together. I so appreciated Lauren's help with picking out tile and ideas for decorating. We had such a great time together and sweet memories were made.

We had a nice Easter this year. The kids had a blast Easter egg hunting. They also loved learning about the resurrection story using the Resurrection Eggs.

Enjoying this spring and looking forward to this summer :)