Friday, May 7, 2010

Eva's Birthday & Baptism and Mother's Day Gifts


My beautiful birthday girl!





Eva wanted to do her own decorations for her party so she drew flowers and laid them out on the tables. She did an excellent job!


We gave our mother's they Mother's Day presents early so they wouldn't buy one of their own! We gave them copies of our church's new cookbook. They both loved them.

Eva received a customized lock box from Grandpa Jerry and Grandma Sherry! She wanted a place to put things that could be locked (to keep her sisters out!) and they made her one from an old wine box. It's great and she loves it!


Eva wanted to make her own cupcakes for her birthday party. She wanted a flower theme so she decorated the tops to look like flowers and used her favorite colors--green and blue.

Getting ready to blow out her candle!


New shoes from Papa and Nana Smith.

New color pencils (because she loves to draw!) and a new flower notepad with pen from her sisters.

Papa and Nana Carmichael gave her a stationary set. She loves it and has already used the stationary for her thank you notes!

She got this great shirt from Papa and Nana Carmichael as well!


Uncle Jim, Aunt Amy, and Madalynn gave her $10!



The Inglerights gave her a bag filled with all sorts of goodies!


It was great that Chad was able to baptize Eva! She wanted to be baptized the day after her birthday because she wanted her spiritual birthday and her birthday to be close together. Her best friend was also baptized the same day. They are growing up so much!


Uncle Doug and Aunt Charity gave Eva a new Bible for her baptism and Papa and Nana Smith gave her a book of Bible word games (which she absolutely loves doing!).

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Just some Fun Misc. Pictures!


7 Beautiful Girls!


Eva & Martha


Allyn, Dara, & Sabra


Sabra, Cora, Jaina, Eva


Martha


Jaina


Hava is 3 months old!


Hava


Sabra is 5!


Martha is 2!


Jaina is 2!


I made this dress for Sabra's birthday.


Jaina thinking inside the box!


My silly girls!


Martha

Such love!


Jaina


Hava


Cora

Dedicating Hava to the Lord

As we have done with each of our girls, we formally dedicated Hava to the Lord during the church service on February 28, 2010. We take seriously our "job" from God to raise Hava to know, love, honor and worship Him. We appreciate all prayers in helping us achieve this goal, not only with Hava, but with all our children.








This beautiful gown was made by a very dear friend, Dorcas Chupp.




Martha & Jaina are Two!

We celebrated Martha's and Jaina's second birthdays on Feb. 28th with family and friends. A good time was had by all!


The Pooh cakes I made for them.


Jaina getting ready to blow out her candles!


Martha waiting for us to finish singing so she can blow out her candles!


Toy sets they received from Jake, Michelle, and Logan.


Martha & Jaina both received garden sets and bubbles from Uncle Jim, Aunt Amy and Madalynn


They received matching dresses from Papa and Nana Carmichael. They love these dresses and wear them whenever they are clean!


They received new water cups from Papa & Nana Smith and here Jaina is sharing with Martha!


Shirts that "Grandpa" Jerry and "Grandma" Sherry sent from Nevada.


They had fun playing in the gift bag one of their presents came in!

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Crashed Computer

Our computer crashed on Friday evening. I was going to post recent pictures and pictures from Martha's and Jaina's birthday on Saturday. The computer is at a friend's and he is seeing if he can fix it. Please join with us in prayer that it can be fixed and we don't lose any of the pictures and/or documents that we need. I haven't backed up the pictures since Hava has been born because of being busy so I really hope we can at least save those.

I will try to post pictures as soon as I get the computer back!

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

There's No Place Like Home

I found this very funny/interesting blog entry about home birth and just had to share it. It definitely is very true and accurate way to view it.