On October 9th we got our family pictures done. It is always a challenge every year to get the clothes together, get everyone dresses and prepared, I am so glad we did it but I am also so glad it is over and done for one more year. I wanted to post this one of my kids last year, it was taken right after Makayla was born and is still one of my all time favorites.
This year I was lucky enough to get an equally nice picture of the three of them. Thank you Rachelle for capturing my family. You have continued to be such an amazing and faithful friend.
Here are my blessings, my gifts from God, the reason I work so hard, my joy, my delight my greatest accomplishments....Matthew 10, Mason 6, and Makayla 1.
Matthew ~ you make me laugh! You make me want to be a "cool" mom. You have grown up into this young man while I wasn't looking. I feel like I missed something, like one day I turned and there you were almost as tall as me. Thank you for your sense of humor, for loving me, for helping me with Mason and Makayla, thank you for being you, for being smart and witty. You challenge me to be a better mom and I love you in the deepest parts of my heart. You are my first born and with that title comes a special bond that only you and I share. I am so grateful that God intusted me with you! I am honored to be your mom and to call you my son!!
Mason ~ how in the world did you get so cute? Sometimes your cute face and silly gestures just amaze me. You are truly one of a kind. Your sensitive spirit always makes my eyes tear up. Your compassion for people and creatures cause me to look at you in wonder! Your love for the outdoors and desire to explore life is contagious! You and I have become park buddies, what an amazing memory I will cherish forever. Thank you for your hugs, for wanting to snuggle me, for always desiring to be close to me. I just love that about you. A night doesn't go by that you are not begging Daddy or I to snuggle you. I know that those nights will slowly fade one day, but for now I am going to cherish them. You have been a blessing since the day you were born. I love you sweet boy!
Makayla ~ what a gift, a daughter all my own. Walking through the store the other day I was carrying you, as we were walking I was kissing your head and I caught myself say out loud "You are so cute and you are all MINE!" Sometimes I still don't believe it. My mom always use to say "A son is a son till he takes a wife but a daughter is a daughter for the rest of her life" I am so thrilled that you are mine and you will be mine for the rest of my life. I can only hope and pray that our relationship grows into something beautiful and wonderful. You have been nothing short of a true blessing to all of us. You make us laugh, you make us sit and stare at your cuteness and you have brought pink into our house. The days are sometimes long, but the years are oh so short. I promise to cherish every moment with you and to give you everything in life that I wanted as a little girl.
