Days are long and years are short

It's been a while since I posted hasn't it?!  I don't know why. I can speculate that we've been busy and when I have down time, I read or mindlessly check email and Facebook.  In between school, spring break, Kedzie going to the chiropractor twice a week, (an eight hour a week commitment), along with being a mother of four kids, I'm pretty full.  Full of stuff, full of blessings, full of love, full of life.  

I spent some time since posting missing my mom as well and focusing on the fact that Heavenly Father gives us trials to become better.  I must have really need to be strengthened and improved due to the trials that have occurred over the last three years or so.  Anyway, about a week ago, I simply needed my mom.  I was sad and missed her.  Nothing really could change it.  I would mope around the house and wonder why and then I would remember that I just needed to call my mom and I couldn't.   A lot of prayer and patience and I made it through the week.  I think that was spring break week as well.  It was a LONG week with four kids home!  Anyway, that's just a side note!

Here are some photographical highlights of what's been going on with us.  

Ethan and his buddies at their field trip to the aquarium. 

Kedzie in on of her contraptions at her chiropractor.

We are starting our garden in doors this year.  Everyone got a row to plant. 

Sixty boiled eggs later and a little kool-aid and we had colored eggs for Easter! 

We quite simply have too many shoes! 

The kids dog piling Kedzie!  They are all getting along and doing so well.  Things are really working out.  We'll know more about the status of our "family" in May.  Keep us in your prayers. 

Spring break highlight?! Casa Bonita with the Bair Family!  

Happy Easter!  One day I'll be able to show faces, but until then you'll have to enjoy the backside!!! Thanks  to Grandma Kathy for the cute Easter outfits.  

So, life continues on pretty quickly.  It's hard and wonderful.  I sound a little crazy I know, but it's just how it is.  I'm grateful for our blessings.  I'm grateful on some level for our challenges.  I'm truly and  deeply grateful for my life, my children and my husband.  I don't know what I would do without all three.  So, I can't ask for any more.  

Life is good! Love, EM