Thursday, March 5, 2015

Look how much she's grown...

Baby Amelia is growing so much.
We are trying to adjust to having new baby in our family. It seems like since she's come home, we've had never ending sicknesses going on. After the first week of her being home, Joseph got hand, foot, mouth virus from Nursery. :( We basically quarantined little Amelia in our bedroom the entire week. Then at the end of that week, Emma threw up all Saturday night. She had gone to two birthday parties and ate a whole lot of junk food and her little body doesn't do so well with too much junk food. She puked all night and Derek was up with her, cleaning her, cleaning her bedding, and comforting her. I felt so helpless in my room while I stayed with Amelia. Then a couple days later, Thomas had a fever. He was pretty lethargic and hot all day. Then the next day he snapped right back. 
Then last night I got hit pretty hard with the stomach bug. It seriously came out of no where in the middle of the day and I threw up all night long. It was pretty violent and miserable. I sure hope nothing gets  passed on to anyone else. I'm fine now and Amelia has been nursing so I'm hoping she's building some antibodies. :) 
Derek has been super dad/hubby during all of this. We look forward to getting a good nights sleep :)

We love our sweet little Amelia and are so grateful she has come into our family. 


 One week old
 She finally got her first bath at home at one week. And she loooooved it.
Two weeks old.
 Three weeks old!
 And sweet little four weeker. Look at that face. I could eat her up. And that night, she slept a whole four hours. It was beautiful and Mommy and Daddy were quite thrilled. :)




Wednesday, March 4, 2015

FHE- David and Goliath

The Story of David and Goliath...
 
Last Monday, we had a family home evening lesson on the story of David and Goliath. 
Derek sketched out this amazing Goliath the morning of and the kids were amazed how tall Goliath actually was. 
After talking about the story of Goliath, we talked about what may be some "Goliath's" that we may face in our lives and how do we face them like David. Emma did most of the input of experiences  standing for what is right and to have faith and courage in any "Goliath" situation. 
After the lesson, we let the kids use slings that I whipped up and they threw "stones"=marshmallows :) at Goliath. 
It's a great story. Can you believe Goliath was 9 feet tall? Good gravy.

 And then there are these cuties....