Carson City Children's Museum (April 15th, 2009)

Top picture: Gabriel enjoyed figuring out with Daddy the amount of electricity we have in us. Gabriel had the most!! 

2 middle pictures: The kids had a blast playing in the pretend grocery store/resteraunt!!

last picture: Gabriel really like whatever you would call this! you moved some levers to keep the ball moving down to another level.

April 15th--Carson City Children's Musuem

Ross loved the dress up area where they had firemen dress up clothes and I had to wear a firemen's hat too!! Yes, the picture of Ross with a heavy set person behind him IS ME!! Yikes!! I gained 50 lbs with this pregnancy!! Anyway, the kids loved this musuem!! In the jail there was also a place that analyzed you figure print and told you what type of finger print you have. The kids that the jail cell was GREAT FUN!!

Annalina walking her Pony?!!! (April)

She is quite confident walking Sonja for how small she is and how BIG Sonja is!!!!

Super Mini-Vacation with Daddy . . . (April 8th, 2009)

After Brian flew in we spent the afternoon and night at a hotel in Reno so the kids could enjoy swimming with Daddy. They had a blast. Gabriel enjoyed shooting his water canon in Daddy's face many times!!

Daddy's Home!!!! (April 8th, 2009)

The day we have been waiting for for the last 7 months the return of Daddy to us!!! We got a special pass since Daddy was military and returning from a deployment and so we were able to meet him at the gate. 

The kids were THRILLED to have Daddy back and so was I. The kids were leery about letting him go back to work about a week and a half later!! They wanted to be sure he was returning to us!!!

Looking back over the path the Lord had us trod while he was gone it is emotional. There was so much that happened. In the end, He held our hands, wiped our tears, and gave us the energy to persevere. He has promised "I will never leave thee nor forsake thee" and He was faithful.

Carson Arrives

I am hoping to post pictures and write more later about Carson's birth and arrival. Annalina said having a baby was better than a doll because they are cuter than dolls. Gabriel and Ross when they walked into the hospital room asked me how I was feeling or doing. Each of them asked at different times it was very sweet. They are so thoughtful and love their mommy. Gabriel and Annalina were both disappointed I couldn't leave the hospital with them that night and I sure wish I could have too!!

I also just realized I haven't blogged about Brian coming home!!! Yikes, I am behind. We are so thankful to have him home with us. Being a complete family again is wonderful!!

The President and Prayer

I was watching the news a couple days ago and Ross again told me "That's Barak Obama" I agreed that it was and then I said "But he doesn't love God". Ross immediately said "We need to pray for him that he can love God".  Pretty amazing to think a 2 year old sees wisdom the that President of the United States doesn't!!