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Weren’t you just 1?

CalebHat-fullAs I sit here alone as you and your brothers nap… I look through old albums online & realize…

“Wow…. he really is 6″

I still remember when you were 1st born… I had just turned 21 and didn’t at all feel ready to become a mother…
I remember baby sitting other kids and thinking “I would never be a good mom…. this is not for me.”
but then you came into my life… and its as if the Lord gave me a new heart! The desire to to be a great mother to you was all I could think of. I wasn’t sure what I was doing…. I made lots of mistakes…

but despite my flaws I am so happy with the young man you are becoming.

You are such a joy!
You have your spats of loudness @ constantly annoy Taite :-) but regardless, any time I see your smile, I melt.

You fill my heart with joy and my eyes with tears when I think about how much I love you.

You are an incredible brother.
You aren’t ashamed to talk to anyone about Christ!! even at such a young age, without full understanding.. your child like faith is so amazing. Just the other day you were telling the man working on our kitchen all about heaven! What a testimony.

I remember when we named you we picked the name Caleb because it meant bold… our desire was to see you have a boldness in sharing Christ with others. To be unashamed and to go out into this world being a light!

I look forward to seeing you grow into an awesome and BOLD man of God.

I love you Caleb!

Heres a few old pics for fun memories :)

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Heres a picture I adore of you on your 1st birthday…
Feels like it was yesterday!

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now look at you :-)

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Super Swim Party

We decided this year to have Calebs birthday party at a pool.
We attended a birthday party at a pool a month before Caleb’s & we loved how well everyone played together. No need for lots of toys… or messes… the kids were so well entertained by the pool. Its just what I wanted for his party.

We had a great turn out and all went so well!
The weather was perfect!!

The only thing I would say that went kinda wrong :) was the pool was sortaaaa green haha.
My friend who was letting us use this pool told me around this time a year it turns green, they aren’t sure why… but they had the “pool man” come check the chemical levels, and he said all was ok.

As Taite said “Its just a little ALLLLEEE GEEEEE (algae)” :)

We had a great time. I hope everyone else did as well :-)

Heres a few pictures from the event…


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Heres a look at the wonderful cryptonite pool!

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Kelly & Brian being cute together at the pool

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My friend Lauries two boys (ages 10 and 7) remind me of Caleb & Taite together.

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Laurie got to soak up some Owen love :-)

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Jacob nursed Drew ;-)

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We enjoyed a very relaxed schedule. People were welcome to eat as they wanted.
Im not very good at “timelines” :-) so I figured that be better for everyone.

My other friend Kelly had some babywearing time with Drew (using my Kimz Kreation Sling)
& Laurie freed me up some by feeding Owen (I think she was getting a baby fix with him HAHA)

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Then… after we were all fed, and together, it was time to sing Happy Birthday.
Thank you to Micki who made Calebs cake! Isnt it fun?!
She also made it DAIRY and EGG FREE for us!
Kelly’s kids can’t have those things so we wanted to make sure
our Cake was safe for them to enjoy.

She gave me an easy alternative recipe to give Micki to use ;-) worked great and tasted good too.

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I love this next picture and the motion in it :) Check Taite out cheesing on the right side

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Caleb then got to open up presents!

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The Cheerio box my mom sent in the mail :-)
I thought it was funny, Caleb was like “I got cereal?”
Of course inside were his gifts.

We then enjoyed MORE pool time! (See no toys needed!)

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Heres Taite giving the thumbs up, see the water was JUST FINE green :-)

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Heres a photo of Kelly & Kelly with me :-)

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Laurie & I (with her husband droiding it in the BG)

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& lil Owen. He pretty much stayed with Laurie the entire time.

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I hope to post a “Caleb’s 6!!” post on his actual birthday (tomorrow).
But I wanted to share his special birthday day before we got to busy home schooling this week.

We are half way through the 1st home school day. Caleb is doing great! I will also post more about how his 1st day (or few days haha) went later on this week.

& to end… heres a funny story.

Kelly’s little boy Gabe (whos 2) had to use one of Owens cloth diaper covers as a swimmy diaper. He dirtied his disposable swimmy, so I let him use this. While Gabe was walking around he began to PEE in the diaper… and all of a sudden stopped… looking inside the diaper. At 1st I thought he was checking out his stuff HAHA, bu then we realized he was confused as to why his pee didnt absorb into anything, it just filled up the diaper like a big balloon. :-) He waddled over to his daddy… where his daddy then parted the side of the diaper around his leg, and a big POOL of pee flooded out! It was SO FUNNY! I wish I had gotten a video of all of it :-)

These pictures say it all though.


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Thanks again all those who came!
& if you’d like to see these pictures & more CLICK HERE for the flickr album.

Caleb is…

SUCH A GOOD BIG BROTHER!

He adores Owen…


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I look forward to seeing their relationship grow :-)
& see the personality differences between Caleb, Taite & Owen.
They are all SO different. Even as a baby, Owen has different personality traits than his brothers did at this age.
So fun :-) well.. maybe minus his refusal of the pacifier HAHA, but we’re getting through that.

Shirt #2 Reveal – oo… and Kitchen REVEAL!!

IMG_0021Ok… SO I was going to wait longer to post these reveals, but I just had to now.

As you can see to the right, this is the AFTER shot of yesterdays BEFORE dress . I wanted to get a “cuter photo” of myself in the after, since my hair looks so rough and I had no make up, but I figured this would work fine.

What I did was gathered the front into a pleat towards the chest.
I also had to take in the skirt part a good bit, it was HUGE.
I then used the top portion of the dress to make straps.
And then added a tie to the sides that allow me to wrap the garment up some. You can actually pull it to the back if you want or front (like I have shown here) – Over all this came out ok. It isnt as comfortable as my last creation... but not to shabby either :-)

So! Since you all got a glimpse of the kitchen yesterday, I thought you may as well see the ENTIRE PICTURE today.

Im going to be posting a few BEFORE photos of the kitchen as well.

Heres a before of our cabinets in our old kitchen.

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The master plan I had when we talked about having the kitchen re-done, was to totally knock those cabinets out. I had this vision in my head that if those were out of here, the room would just open up!!

So heres my before/after sink photo…


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As you can see in the before I had VERY little room between the counter/stove area. My before sink also was only 6 inches deep… it was very shallow and made it difficult to wash bigger pots and pans. I actually would have to wash my CROCK POT outside with the water hose before… because it was just to hard to clean inside.

I now have a wonderful composite granite sink!! (Got the inspiration from my friend Kate – who just got a new sink herself)


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I also got a TALLER faucet… allowing me a lot more move room when washing dishes. ALTHOUGH with this new kitchen I acquired a dish washer!! I haven’t had a dish washer since our 1st yr of marriage, so almost 8 years now! – A dish washer is incredible to have with so many kids… It will make clean up a breeze when we invite people over as well.

I did however buy a new dish strainer (From the dollar store! woo!), for when I wash bottles and smaller loads of dishes.

My sink is now 9 inches deep!!! Ohhhhhhh how nice it is!
I can fit Owen in it for bath time if I want :-)

The counter tops I got in a lighter color… I was a lil hesitant about this, I wasnt sure how that look together… but with a combination of the grays in the floor and slight grays in the counter top design, it honestly looks really nice together!


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Heres a before/after KITCHEN TABLE view…

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We want to eventually get a different table… but for now I dont mind the current one we have. Our current table was my parents. Its very sturdy!!

As you can tell we did end up keeping the paneling on the walls. I could of gotten them to cover it with sheet rock…. but for some reason I like the idea of a textured wall… and I thought the paneled look painted would look awesome with the plainer cabinets.

I …. WAS RIGHT :-) and LOVE how the walls turned out.

The color btw is called “OCEAN FOG” – It is by COLORPLACE, aka the walmart brand paint. (semi gloss too)

Heres another before/after picture from a different angle…


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We did end up incorporating the coffee rack shelf unit my dad made us.
I loved the design of it & of course it had special meaning since my dad made it himself…

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We also kept the POT RACK my dad made me.
I love the easy accessibility of it… and even though we have room now to store pots in a cabinet… to me it looks rustic and unique hanging up on the wall. Its almost like “decor” for the room :-) in a usable kinda way.

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Heres another before/after pic…
This is of the former pantry wall… and the wall we had in the kitchen that had ZERO cabinets.


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It now has a FULL WALL OF CABINETS!

I LOVE all the extra counter space.

Our former pantry (also made by my dad) is being used in our SCHOOL ROOM as storage. Since we have all the extra cabinets, we didn’t need a pantry any more.

I am so thankful to our church family that agreed to renovate this kitchen for us!
I cannot even express the joy I have to now have a nice kitchen…
It has been my dream for years to actually enjoy cooking a meal for my family without the stress of so little space.
& now I can!

I believe the Lord used these past 3 years while in the smaller kitchen, to really humble me… and help me learn to be content with what I have… & has also helped me realize how BLESSED we are…

Also a big thank you to Bobby who did all this hard work!!! He was amazing! – Our boys after Bobby got broken into our family hehe, would wake up and ask “So when does Mr. Bobby get here?” :-) I told Bobby last night on facebook that he’d have to drop in every now and then to visit.

He was a joy to work with and we are so thankful for all his hard work.

And for fun, heres one more before/after shot :-)

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You can see these and a few more pictures of the kitchen HERE

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