Grillin' Out

One of our rare suppers outside - although they may become more frequent. Elijah loves for us to eat dinner outside. In the above picture, Elijah is introducing Levi to green beans dipped in ketchup.

Now Elijah's explaining to Levi why all of the green beans MUST be eaten.

And Melissa's thinking about how lucky she is that she doesn't have to eat green beans at all!

Until Levi decided that she just HAD to try a green bean dipped in ketchup. I don't think Missy liked it.

The Rocket Ship

It always amazes me how little it takes to occupy a child. Especially a boy. Levi was so excited to have an empty box to play in, and Elijah immediately turned it into a rocket ship. They blasted off and orbitted the living room until bedtime.

Levi sure does love his big brother...

Sweet Babies

I could just SQUEEZE them!!

Daddy Time

If only things were always this peaceful...

We LOVE Miss Audrey!

Every Tuesday and Thursday for the past several months, our favorite Miss Audrey has been coming over to help with the kids (mostly the babies) while I teach piano lessons. And as the weather's gotten nicer, Audrey has been so sweet to take the babies to their new favorite place: The Great Outdoors.

Makin' Messes

Levi LOVES to pull things out of the cabinets. He regularly goes behind me and undoes all the 'doing' I've done. But how CUTE is he??!!

My-lissy-lu's First Birthday

April 24, 2009

Melissa is one year old. We didn't know her a year ago - we didn't meet her until May 2. But we know she was a TINY little thing. She weighed 4 lbs, 11 oz at birth, and she's STILL a tiny little thing, only weighing about 13 lbs. She's a bright little light, helping us to see how miraculous each baby milestone is, and we're so thankful she's now a Lindegren.

We celebrated Missy's birthday with a party on April 25...

Easter

Today has been a GREAT day. This morning, we enjoyed an Easter celebration at church, and then accepted in invitation to have lunch and spend the afternoon with our friends, the Rawls, and several other families from church. We ate, played volleyball (at least, Jason did), passed babies around, caught worms (well, Elijah did), and took lots of pictures!

No, they're not all smiling at the same time, but they're all sitting on the same blanket!

Takin' a short break to wrestle

My chickadee, and my chickadude.

The Priss

I love this boy.

I think the look on my face says it all.

Gettin' sugar...

Daddy's Boy

The temporary Lindegren - Hunter, almost 3 months old

Melissa, giving all her sugar to Auntie Kelly and Uncle Rob

Some of My Favorite Photos...

I started this scrapbook a quarter of the way through 2009. Since I didn't blog those first couple months, I'm going to try to add a few photos from January, February and March here and there. Here's the first...

Valentine's Day 2009

Melissa's dress was hand-picked by Gramps, and she looked beautiful!!

My Sweet All-Boy Boy

Yesterday, Elijah and I were sitting outside talking about some things (well, I was talking - I think he was listening). It was one of those talks that started with lots of tears and arguing (on his part) and ended very sweetly. After our conversation, he noticed several boxes in our recycling bin. He got up, went over to the bin, and started pulling out the boxes. I almost stopped him - I just didn't want ANOTHER mess to clean up - but I chose to let him play. And I'm so glad I did! After messing around with the boxes for a minute or two, he said, "Mom, this is my shield (an open Krispy Kreme donut box), and these are my tools (an oatmeal box and capri sun box). I can throw this one(milk carton) and hit 'em (the enemy, I guess), and these are my punchers (Kleenex and Coke boxes - the Coke box fit nicely onto his arm)." He's such a boy - I never would have thought to turn all those recyclables into weapons.

And then he can be so sweet - climbing into my lap (all 56 pounds of him!) or cuddling his little brother...

My Scrapbook

Since it will probably be years before I actually sit down to create scrapbooks, I thought I'd give blogging a try. People blog for different reasons - I'm simply putting memories on 'paper'. There have been so many days that I've wished I had a place to write down some of the precious things (and even some of the hard things) that have happened during my day, and I'm terrible at journalling and keeping up with pieces of paper. This is my solution - a virtual scrapbook. So... I'll post lots of pictures of the kids (or as many as I have time to upload!) and write down some of my favorite moments, as I would in a scrapbook.