I'm back . . .

Well, I took quite a break from blogging, but I'm gonna give it a shot again. After I lost the baby, it just took the wind out of my sails for a while. Just wasn't in the mood - but I'm bound and determined to "heal", so here I am again. I have documented memories - just not "publically" so I'll do my best to catch everyone back up to speed. Lots and lots has happened! I have taken back up scrapbooking again, so a lot of it has been documented there - I love pictures & I love the one evening a month that my mom & I escape to scrapbook, so it has really become a favorite thing of mine to do. She and I go once a month on a Friday night, and go to a local church to work on our scrapbooks - it's really a fun time. It's the one time each month that we get to catch up without kids climbing all over one, or both, of us. Adult conversation is such a blessing sometimes! :)

Not to be outdone, Tyler has discovered a new hobby as well. It's so nice that each of us now has something to allow us to "escape" every now and then. He has taken up bow hunting this season, and he loves it. He enjoys going with a great friend, Mike Green, and despite the fact that he has yet to see the "tirdy-pointer", he has enjoyed getting away for some guy-time. No deer yet, but I'm not giving up hope. He swears that he is hanging the antlers in our new home - but he has lost his mind! I keep reminding him that he will have A LOT of garage space that the big game heads will look great in! Some things I will compromise on, but this one - well . . . dream on!

The kids are all great. They are all very independent (I have no idea where they get that!), and are searching every day for a new way to express that independence. Tucker played peewee football this year for the first time! He was a head smaller than everyone else and had no idea what was going on out there, but he sure was fun to watch. The girls are getting so big - it's hard to believe that they are reading TO US now at bedtime instead of the other way around. Sometimes, I just wish I could hit the pause button - it seems that you don't even get a chance to fully embrace these stages before it is time to move to the next phase of life. They are already in FIRST grade - I have to stop for now, before I go getting all emotional and can't type anymore!

More to come later . . . I'll do my best, I promise! Thanks to all of you who haven't given up on me!