Monday, January 26, 2009

It Isn't that hard, but it isn't easy

I am pretty much full time holding Emaleigh when I am at home. I do get breaks to run the laundry and cook dinners. So keeping this blog up hasn't been a piece of cake. Another complication that I let be an obstacle to me is that I don't ever know if I have a good photo to post and hate to post without. So today I am posting anyway. It is lunch, I have some time. The Force family is fully houseguest free now after having the pleasure to host Mima and Papa for the holiday extended. Mima went to the airport to join Papa in the jungle last Wednesday. She arrived at her temporary home in time that she and Dad could celebrate their 39th wedding anniversary together. We missed her immediatly, I think she misses us too. It was nice having extra hands around not to mention extra hugging arms. Mom will be back in May to help Amy and Jen with their newborns as has been the tradition with all the grandkids. Dad is hoping to come for a visit this summer too.

We had a full weekend in Converse and about. Friday night was coffeehouse night at our new church. Our new church, Journey Fellowship , is located right off of IH-35 across from Costco. We have really been loving this addition to our hectic weekly schedule. The church has a great program for the kids and Kevin and I can hear the message in the huge gathering place or we can go to the coffee house and get it on a screen while we comfortably sip coffee (decaf please) on a soft couch nursing Emaleigh if necessary. Needless to say we are really comfortable here. Addie and Lucas are loving it too. So we were excited about Coffee House Friday to get a chance to meet some folks and see if they were maybe going to open up the cool activity center for the kids to play. That was a big NO but Addie and Lucas had a great time coloring with Teddy and Brogan while Kev and I got to chat with a few other parents. There was live music and ofcourse plenty of coffee and cookies.

Saturday morning we got together as quick as a family with three little ones does to head to the Sears portrait studio. It was time. We had yet to do baby portraits of Emaleigh and she has already started to crawl. That fact combined with Ms. Addie's earache made the session rather difficult. But it's over and done with now and I think we got a few or a couple of cute shots. We may need to try again with a better photographer but I atleast have relieved that nagging sensation that I was somehow being unfair to the baby. She's so cute.

She kept crawling out of the shot to chase her daddy or Elmo. I did order prints to share and got the CD with all images as well. Check your mailbox for photos sometime before March.
Well the rest of the day was packed too. We spent a few hours at Mrs. Nelly's house. It was her 35th birthday and a good excuse for our kids to play together. She has a two story house so the big kids spent half of the time going up and down the stairs and the other half of the time playing on the trampoline out back. Neither of which managed to wear them down a bit. We left that hopping party and headed out to Grandpa's by 7 to see cousins Jessica and Kayla. They played there for another couple of hours before they begrudgingly went to bed at ten pm.
We winded down the weekend with Church on Sunday morning, lunch at On-The-Border and long naps for all followed by a family movie then bed time. It flew by and so did my lunch hour.

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