Instagram Recap { May }

Welcome to my monthly Instagram Recap!  These pictures tend to fill in the blanks when I don't pick up the big girl camera to capture some of those everyday moments.  Check out the corresponding picture with the number and click on the underlined link to get more of the story.

1. Welcome to Instagram.  My precious Janessa 'reading' a Bible story.
2. Yawn! How we were all feeling after a crazy night.
3. Apparently Mother Nature thought our house should be brown instead of yellow.  One crazy thunderstorm.
4. Laundry Day with a sweet little helper!
5. Sometimes you turn around to an unexpected sight. 
6. While driving home in the rain Zeke asked if I could turn off the music so we could listen to the rain.  It made me think of Psalm 46:10 "Be still and know that I am God." and how (awe)some His creation is!
7. Precious smiles from my little guys.  He absolutely melts my heart!
8. Someone got a haircut!
9. Father and son fighting the blowing rain to trench out the yard.  Just another thunderstorm passing through again.
10. Date Night/ Date Morning thanks to our wonderful friends, the Josts, who came to visit us and blessed us with a night out!
11. Finished with an MRI for a 10 cm mass on my liver.
12.  Praise the Lord for His complete healing!
13. First mini vacation as a family of six!
14. Enjoying the Bismarck Zoo.
15. All snuggled in their beds at the hotel.
16. Yummy shakes at Krolls Diner.
17. Spent a beautiful day at Ft. Lincoln as a family!
18. A little girl who is head over heals for her brother.  The more kids you have the more the little ones get loved on!

 



 

Memorial Day Weekend Part 3 { the Park }

If you missed the first part of our mini weekend trip to Bismarck, you can check out Part 1 here when we headed to the Zoo and then Part 2 when we headed to Ft. Lincoln for the day. 

On our way home Monday we decided to stop and let the kids play in the park and eat a picnic lunch before our drive home.  A lot of our parks around Minot are still trying to get to a somewhat usable state since our 2011 flood , so it was a lot of fun to run around a lush green park for the morning!  I also tried to get a head shot of each of the kids.  Stay tuned for 'outtakes' if you think my kids allow me to get great pictures of them all the time.  That would be far from the truth.  And although it was too bright for Elijah to open his eyes and after much persuasion and bribing Janessa, I did get a few great shots.

Memorial Day Weekend Part 2 { Ft. Lincoln }

If you missed part 1 of our first mini vacation as a family of 6 you can check it out here.  We decided to head to the great town of Bismarck, ND for Memorial Day weekend this year.  We headed out early Saturday morning and spent the day at the Bismarck Zoo. 

Sunday dawned a beautiful warm and sunny day so we decided to check out Fort Lincoln.  We had been there once before a few years ago and thought the kids would enjoy checking the place out.  It's beautiful and open with plenty of space to run and play.  The day was perfect enjoying the scenery and having fun as a family.