On Friday, Jacob turned 3 months. It's hard to believe how fast it's gone by. He's such a sweet, good baby and our first one to sleep through the night before his first birthday! As you can see in the photos, the kids adore him too!
Monday, May 4, 2009
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Ben Loves Octopuses!
For a project for school in Ben's 1st grade class, he did research on octopuses and made a poster. I have to say that even though I dread anything involving being "crafty", we had so much fun working on it together! Growing up in London, things were pretty much just writing and maybe painting or drawing a picture. But I did have a recollection of using a certain kind of tissue paper where if you layer and glue pieces of them together, the colors bleed into each other. That was our ocean and then we had fun finding pictures of octupuses online and writing the information underneath each picture. I loved watching Ben get so creative and passionate about something. He used pipecleaners for seaweed and colored everything with his own patterns. He was so proud of himself and so we had to take a picture!
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Ben the Pitcher!
Well, Ben had the time of his life at his baseball game on Friday night when he got a great hit, and then his coach let him try pitching! He has been begging to do it all season and he finally got a chance! Last year he was in T-ball so this is a whole new world. Check out the concentration on his face. Now if I could just get that kind of focus from him when I ask him to clean his room!
Happy Easter!
Here are a few pictures we took at our Annual Easter Egg Hunt put on by our Church. There were literally thousands of eggs all over the ground and when those kids charged the field, it felt more like "Lord of the Flies" than a sweet Easter outing! But every one got plenty of candy, and it only took me a week to get all halves of plastic Easter eggs and half-eaten candy out of the bottom of our mini-van! But it was worth the fun we all had together!
Monday, April 27, 2009
Time to play Catch-Up!
Yes, I know it has been a while but it has been a crazy few months and I am sitting down for the first time ever to figure out how to do this! Mark has been the one doing it before but he has asked me to catch up for us and so if it doesn't look very good, it's because I'm still new to the blogging world! If you know me, you know that for the most part, computers and I have a hate-hate relationship! Then when you add in the beautiful weather we enjoy here, computer time pretty much stays in last place on my priority list...
So I've posted some pictures of the last few months and hopefully will do the rest of our catching up in the next few days...To be continued...
So I've posted some pictures of the last few months and hopefully will do the rest of our catching up in the next few days...To be continued...
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Jeff's Easter triumph!
Who needs easter eggs when your hair looks this cute?
"Mom, are you done taking my picture yet?"
Welcome Baby Jacob!
Jacob Henry Woodland was born on February 1st weighing 7 pounds 5 ounces. We are so happy that he has joined our family. He has made Heaven feel so close. From the moment we saw him, Mark and I have known that he has a special, peaceful spirit about him. He has been an angel and we have never had such a relaxed happy baby! And yes, we needed it. Three children in three and a half years feels like a marathon that you are having to sprint! But it is so joyful---spitup and all-- and when you look at these precious ones, you can only feel grateful for the miracle of life that God has given us! It is hard to believe that he has blessed us with four!
Woodland Clan minus Dad plus cousin Sydney
So here we all are at bedtime when Mark's sister Megan and her daughter Sydney (on the far left) were visiting while Mark was on a business trip!
Sunbeams Here We Come!
Sarah was very excited to be going to Primary with her big brother for the first time. For those of you who are wondering what I'm talking about, at our church before they are three years old, the children go to Nursery where they basically play. But then they go to what most would call Sunday School with the older children. The sunday school class for three year-olds is called Sunbeams.
Sunday Best
This was in January and of course Sarah doesn't have shoes on, but at least we got two of our children to stand still together long enough for a picture!
Jeff in his car "throne"
I just had to put this picture of Jeff in, even though it's from January because let's face it: He spends a lot of time in what Sarah has named his "car throne"!
Sarah's Preschool Christmas party
Okay so this is an old picture but I'm behind and don't want to skip some of these classic moments!
