Since I haven't been able to post for a while, I'm backing up a little bit...

This is my awesome birthday cake picked out by my awesome daughter (isn't it so girly?) :) It was DELICIOUS too! (from Meijer!) ;)

I WISH I had a picture of what my boys did to... I mean FOR me at the VBS closing programs for my birthday. They made me go up front and had everyone sing Happy Birthday. It really was very sweet (though embarrassing).

Isaac and Kyle getting to know their counselor, Adam. (not the most flattering pic of Adam, though - sorry... but hey, when ya got an itch, man...) --- but I just loved their faces as they're looking at him.

They're going to have so much FUN this week!!!

Another pic of the cuties (and they LOVE being called "cuties")! ;)

Oh, you two are soooo funny!

I just love this picture...

Two VERY cute boys at Scioto Hills Camp. Isaac, I know you really DO miss me! ;)

Thank you, baby boy. :)

Okay, okay... I'm posting some old pics just to avoid the dreaded chanting. ;) Here's Benja-boo "helping" to unload the dishwasher. He's such a great little helper!!! ;)

Let's seeee... what can I get into???

Going back to check on Daddy's progress...

This is what happens when Ben helps Daddy w/ the remodel... he emerges from the room w/ a long piece of carpet tied around him.

Oh - he thought he was SOOO funny wearing that piece of carpet!! He toddled around w/ it for a very long time just grinning and laughing.

Awww... Kate, you're so cute. (but you're getting so big!) :(

(I think I've figured it out!! - posting on this computer, that is)

This is Kate and Mommy getting ready to go to her "Mother's Day Tea" for pre-school. It was soooo sweet!!

Aww, Bre - you take great pics. THANK YOU for sharing (well... letting me steal...) ;)

Bre titled this one "texting while driving - what a great babysitter." But I'd like to draw attention to the wheels of the golf cart... I don't think it was made for QUITE this many heathens!!

Ben, LOOK at Bre when she's taking a picture...

Craziness!!!

Aaahhhh -- NEW PICTURES!!! Thank you, Bre! (I stole them from her Facebook page) ;)

This is a night that Todd and I had to go out to dinner w/ friends (darn) ;) and I'd already planned for a couple boys to sleep over. Soooo... we enlisted Bre and Kari to babysit together. There were a LOT of kids. Look at Kari's face. :)

Btw, the little girl on the left is a neighbor who came over to join the chaos - she didn't sleep over. ;)

OH my goodness - so sad! :(

Sending up prayers for Steven Curtis Chapman and his family...

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20201819,00.html

Hab. 3:19

He has made my feet like hinds' feet, and makes me walk on MY high places.

"God will cause us to walk on OUR high places... not on someone else's. So often we glance at others and their high places look so much better than ours. They have it made. Their families seem so all-together, their children so well-behaved, their marriages so peaceful, their ministries and work so ideal. But..."

He makes me walk on MY high places.

"Walk confidently on YOUR high places. Trust Him... thank Him..."

(portions from As Silver Refined by Kay Arthur)

This was taken in fall '03. First day of school... Sam to 1st grade, Isaac to Kdg. And Kate is about Ben's age. Man, it seems like so long ago!!!

Back when we 'only' had four :)

Another priceless picture...

I'm still stuck on my desktop since my laptop is dying (which also holds the last several years of photos! PRAY that I can get them off before it completely dies). So here are some "oldies but goodies"... enjoy! :)

Here's my bathing beauty at about 21 months old. I love how she's looking down - like she's critiquing her body. Yeah -- welcome to being a girl, honey... you'll probably never be completely happy w/ your body so just get over it now. :)

(update: Wed., 4-23-08... Kate noticed this picture today and blurted, "Oh, I look fat there." What'd I tell ya? That IS what she was thinking when I took the picture 4 years ago. I KNEW it!) ;)

On a lighter note...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crQ7Y2alDxI&feature=related

(the sad thing is - I can see my boys inventing a game like "Dodge Brick" ... ahhh, boys... )

And this one is for my mom, the AI fan...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfs3BJZxKkc&feature=related

Something to think about...

"God is a feeling experience, not a believing experience; and if your religion is a believing experience... if God, for you, is still about a belief, then it's not truly God." - Oprah

(is that scary or what?!)

And Jesus said "you are the light of the world"... did you know that's not about being a light in the dark? being a testimony? being a witness for Him? That verse is "you are the consciousness, the light in which the world is seen"... it's about the universal light, the light of our consciousness... WE are the light... WE are gods.

Oh my goodness -- so scary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW4LLwkgmqA

My laptop is dying - it has a virus - so I'm on the desktop and have VERY limited picture choices. Since I never did a "tribute" for Isaac's bday, here's a little taste of what it WOULD be if I COULD do it. My cute little boy.... he's about 7 in this picture...