Catching up, and 3 months old!

Well, Hello! It's been quiet here.... life with 5 littles has kept me busier, mostly with just little blips of time for computer related things. Hence, I've kept up better with my Facebook account than I have with this little section of the blogosphere. (If you send me a friend request, just let me know you're coming from my blog... I generally don't friend people I don't recognize as being my "real life" friends ;-) )

We had a wonderful few holiday months with family, with Thanksgiving and Christmas to celebrate. Over Thanksgiving weekend, my family took the opportunity to try to get some family photos for the year.

Clay and Hannah 

(they're expecting their first little one sometime in July!!)

Philip and Noah

My Mama-dear

Darbyshire's, Franseen's, Johnson's, Weathers', and Banister's

Josh, Heather, Noah, Mercy and Philip

Dad, Mom, Matt, David, Josiah, and Esther

Andrew and Stephanie

Josh and Heather

Between a blessed whirlwind of Thanksgiving and Christmas festivities, Stephanie and I got together for a little maternity photoshoot, where we captured these:

And then, just a few days before Christmas, we all got a gloriously precious little gift!

Titus Valor Darbyshire

December 22, 2011

Stephanie and her baby boy blessing

Talk about kissable cuteness!!!

In all the glorious busyness of life, I blinked and now our little Kaitlyn Joy is 3 months old!!! She's got quite a few little nicknames... Katie, Kaitin, Katie-Joy, Katie-baby... each and every one of us are head over heels in love with her, and she has truly brought so much Joy into our lives! There is nothing that brings an extra dose of sweetness and peace to a home as a new baby. (That doesn't mean that we're not more busy than before... just that the busyness is infused with an extra sweetness and peace. *wink*)

Kaitlyn has been my easiest, happiest baby thus far - and I have been so grateful that God chose to bless us with her at this point in our lives. Motherhood is not for wimps, and I think God knew I needed a little dose of encouragement to keep pressing on.

So far, I've had two thumb-suckers.... Jeanna and William. I'm pretty well sure that Kaitlyn's going to joing their ranks. She's always sucking on something - her fingers, pacifier, anything. She grabbed the lights from our little photoshoot and stuffed them in her mouth, sucking away. 

When I pulled them away from her, she (in her usually humorous form) began 'talking at' me.

I hope this finds each and every one of you happy, well, and rejoicing in the many daily blessings which God has given you. It is my prayer that God will draw each of us closer to Him, and give us a deeper passion to follow Him as He leads us through this new year.

The Isaac Weathers Family

2011