Random April Happenings

I love to look at pictures.  I love to go back to older times and reminisce or feel the story of those who have passed.  That's partly why I still keep up my little blog.  It's like my own picture journal of life at it's best.  When I first started blogging I would choose a couple pictures of the many I had taken, thinking I would put the others in a scrap book, but I never did.  I have gradually started adding more and more pictures to my blog.  I love this new change and when I look back in a few years I will be reminded of the good times.  I sometimes wish I could go backwards in my blog and start from the beginning, when I was a kid and keep record of my memories, but I can't.  Maybe one day I will go back and write down everything I can remember.  Maybe one day I will scan all pictures of my youth and start a new blog, but for now this is what I can give and this is what I have time for.

I love being a mom.  It has been full of worry, stress, tiredness, exhaustion, and at times I feel like I'm the worst mom in the world.  But in the end I think of how happy I have been, how proud I've been, and how full it has made my heart and life.  I love being a mom.

I just adore that messy hair.

And I adore those messy faces.

Cars.  Everywhere, cars.

They get lined up daily, taken from one place in the house to another.  They follow me wherever I go, along with the smiles and chatter of this little boy.

I have a shadow.  He's three and he goes wherever I go.  When I'm trying to study he draws on my homework.  I love to look at my sheets of homework when I'm studying for a test and see the little scribbling marks of the "snakes" drawn by my handsome little boy.  It helps keep things in perspective.

I wanted some pictures of Dalin before his baptism and took him to a park to snap a few.  I should have picked a spot that didn't have a small river running through it.  He had a hard time concentrating and although I did get a few good shots of this handsome boy he mostly wanted to play with his brothers in the water.

Of course this little guy here couldn't be left out a good picture taking.  He loves to have his picture taken.

And then there's this sweet little thing.  He just loves to be outside.