Treasuring the blessings, one by one...

Monday, July 08, 2013


Well, we had the slowest spring of all time. The only flowers to be seen were the bought ones sitting in a vase on my shoe shelf. But we still found ways to TREASURE April! Enjoy. :)

Played play dough in a sunbeam.
Strengthened the legs so perhaps she'll walk before she's five. (Balfours!)
Made cute faces for the camera.
Practiced grabbing our rib cages.
Used the infamous "hold hands till you love each other" time out. Heeheee! Worked like a charm.
Brothers. There are no replacements.



Gloria remained simply glorious at 9 months old! I just can't enjoy her babyhood enough!




Loudly yelled "Cheese" many times. 
Tried this new cookie recipe twice. Ate many of them myself. 
Josh's preschool growing experiment gave us hope on our windowsill.
Woke up goofy.



Enjoyed those bought flowers for all they were worth!
Whoot! Had a nice day! Made some 'soup' to celebrate!
Wore splash pants and rubber boots and shovelled stuff.
Wiped boat loads of boogers.
Saw Josh come back to life on his favourite invention of all time - the bike! 
Bought some pillows n' things to spruce up the living room. :) Colour = joy!!
Read books with goggles on.
Wore mean monster masks....
...and acted really mean. And scary.
Well, kinda scary.
Got gift cards from unknown generous people to our favourite coffee shop!
Enjoyed more sunbeam action...inside.



Drummed a little.

Had some snacks.  In the special spot to have snacks.


Captured some beauty.

And handsomeness.
Had some (very rare) brother-sister violence-free bonding moments



Took Ellie on her (very late) birthday date!...
...to buy a bike (did we mention spring was late?) :)
Checked out the new Boston Pizza in town.
Enjoyed every minute!

Ate blue jello. :)
Had (many, many) family wrestling matches.
Dressed up a little for the occasion.
Made awesome faces.
Survived Celebrated the late spring with an indoor picnic.
Practiced being an elf.
Went on trip to Indiana with just Gloria!! SO SPECIAL!!

Got put to bed by Bapa...
...and Nana (little piece of heaven on earth).

And lastly - was SUPER thankful to the Lord for another month to treasure!

1 comment:

CAndruman said...

Loved reading this! Such great pictures! Sounds like you guys had a VERY fun April! :) My favorite thing from this post: "hold hands til you love each other." Gonna have to try that one when they're older and fighting. :)