Helping with Housework

Emily folding Nandy's kitchen towels

Caden putting folded kitchen towels up!

More folding . . .

Helped Nandy finish a whole load using
little sitting stool from Nana!

Putting towels where they go!

Hailey Hope

with mama @ Nandy's

Kissing, kissing, & kissing



Held by her handsome, Pops!

Elijah @ 5 Weeks

With his daddy

with mama

Beautiful face and skin!

Ready to be picked up. . .

Wondering why he hasn't been picked up yet . . .

Giving up on being picked up. Just kidding:) He
was picked up right away!


Being fed by mama at home while Nandy visited:)

Riding with Daddy

Waiting with Braxton . . .



Emily HAPPY bec/ Daddy is picking her up in the PT Cruiser!

Cellphone Pictures: Ones I took and some sent by others

Caden in his bedroom

I labeled every one of these but for some reason, even after two attempts, I cannot get them to show up.
1. Caden
2. Emily on way to church
3. Hailey Hope
4. Elijah James
5. Hailey
6. Hailey
7. Emily, Caden, & Hailey
8. Elijah: in background, Daddy is taking a very rare nap
9. Brandy & Hailey in Nandy's Kitchen
10. Elijah
11. Caden in his bedroom

Newest Grandbaby

Elijah James
4 lbs. 15 oz.
18 1/2 inches long
Born: February 17th, 2010

Our second to oldest son, Brandon and his wife, Laura had their first baby! It has taken me quite awhile to post the birth stories, I know. I just have to work with the time boxes as I open them:)

Here, finally is our newest BLESSING. I always marvel at the LOVE the LORD pours out with each new child. When I was pregnant with my second child (the daddy to this new grandbaby) ... I remember being so afraid I couldn't love another as I loved his older brother. How could love grow any bigger than what I already held?

The very moment that second son was born . . . God showed what a miracle HIS love is. It defies human boundaries and soars higher and more greatly than anything this earth grasps.

I loved him with a love JUST for him as I loved the brother before him.
It was the same with the next son, the first daughter and the youngest son and it has been the same with each of our four grand children. What somehow happens is ... well, in this inexplainable way: God gives a love for each child as if that child were the only one. They each have their span of love that grows more and more with every moment in time from the moment he or she is born.

Here, is our youngest grandlittle. . . may he leap off the banks in this world and jump in the waters of his Nandy's and Pop's love as his brave and beautiful cousins have!

Elijah James

Daddy and Mama



Looking through the nursery glass!









Papa & Elijah



Uncle Michael & his 1st nephew









With Daddy












Going home with Daddy & Mommy