Wednesday, September 23, 2009

New Way to Post!

My smarty pants husband just figured out this new way to post on our blog so I’m trying it out.  I can make posts much faster because I don’t have to upload pictures—and it shows me the post as I am making it.  If you want to know how to do it, um….talk to Jack.  I just know that I can do it and it’s pretty cool!  So, here’s a few recent random pics of events lately from in and around our house for good measure.

 

Here’s Conner pondering scripture in his leisure hours—we’re so proud.

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Logan recently chose to be baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  The tradition in our family after baptism is for that child to go with Mom and Dad to the temple and do a little photo shoot at that special place.  Then I put some pictures of that child’s baptism and the temple pics up in his room to help remind him of the next covenants he will make some day.  He loves all the extra attention and visiting there with us.  And he’s a cutie to boot!

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These are some friends and Sunny at Logan’s party a few days after his birthday.  Slip and slides, water guns and balloons, a tramp with water and little pool kept them all pretty well entertained—and mostly outside—heh heh heh.  (That’s a sneaky laugh in case it didn’t come off right in print by the way.)  It was a fun day!

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Here’s our little beauty at the Whiting family reunion this year.  Note to self—no white onesies in the future.

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My first decorative cake was fun and easy to make for our princess Sunny and her bowling birthday party friends.  I would definitely recommend a bowling party to anyone who wants an easy, fun and affordable way to give the kiddos a good time.:)

 

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And here’s a few more of our wonderful new baby boy.  He’s doing well and is very healthy, and he’s letting us sleep quite a bit at night.  However, during the day the little guy has been having some tummy troubles with gassiness.  We have tried several formulas, but I was able to go to a GI doctor today and get another formula that will hopefully help him more.  So far so good—he has had a lot less gas and taken really great naps.  Hopefully it continues to work well for this sweet little baby.

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Brothers

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This last pic is of Conner modeling Angie’s new invention.  She had to invent something for her class and she made this with the help of her very talented Aunt Kari.  It is a baby bob and is to help babies stay safely in place while they sleep or relax—it also has a pillow and little pockets to hold things like binkies.  Pretty cute huh?  Should we get a patent?

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Well that was so easy I just might start blogging a bit more often!

Thursday, September 17, 2009

MIRACLES HAPPEN

And we have .....dun du dunnn...FIVE miracles in our family now! Would you like to meet the latest miracle to join us????? I wouldn't be very surprized if you did--
His name is Conner Arick. He was born on August 11 and weighed a whopping 6 lbs. and 14 oz. We were priveledged to take this precious baby home only two days after he came into the world. Why did we wait to share this news you ask? Well, sometimes in the world of adoption you have to wait a little while until things are permanent. Because miracles really DID happen in this instance we felt very strongly that things would work out and the placement would be final. However, we just thought it would be nicer to say, "We have a new baby!" than, "We have a new baby with us and in thirty days we will know for sure if he will always be with us!" so we opted to wait. And now we can officially say (as of today) that Conner will be a member of the Whiting clan. And we feel SO VERY BLESSED.
Man--look at these other beatiful siblings he will get to grow up with--I'll say it again--WE ARE BLESSED. This last month Jack and I have found ourselves saying a lot to each other that we don't know WHY we have been so richly blessed to have five great kiddos, but we know we HAVE been.

In case you are wondering, Ella is definitely enjoying being a big sister....


A LOT.



We feel so full--our van is full, our table is full, our closets are all full, our schedule is full, and our hearts are full. We feel gratitude and love for this new blessing and eternal gratitude to our wonderful birth family.

*Thank you to my beautiful and talented niece Alexandra for taking these fantastic photos!*