A few pictures of the kids

JMJ

Not many words today.  Just pictures.  The kids have found lots of wildlife here on our new property.  We only managed to get pictures of the turtle and the newt.  There have been lizards, foxes, bears, butterflies, wild rabbits, raccoons, deer, hummingbirds and opossums.

Can you believe that these two big boys mow the lawn?  We are so proud!  

 Want an unripened grape?  Me neither!  But Charlie sure likes to pick them!

Lucinda and the gang

I know.  I know.  It's been too long since I've posted.  Yeah, it's been 8 months.  I know!  It's been a very full eight months!  I'll try to write about the move and the old house and the kids and spiritual growth and the garden I wasn't going to plant sometime soon, but for now, here are the kids having fun in the back yard.  

What a blessed life we lead!

Charles Thomas, 6 mo. old

JMJ

Of course it has been six months since I've posted!  It wouldn't really be true to character for me if I posted more often than that, right?

Kids growing . . .

JMJ

Working with one hand here, but I wanted to share these photos of the kids.

Welcome Charles Thomas

JMJ

Introducing Charles Thomas Spiering.  Born February 19th at 6:26 pm.  8 lb. 12 oz.  All is well and we are so blessed to have him!  Our biggest concern is we won't be able to tell his baby pictures apart form the other children's because he looks just like them!  At least we won't lose him in a crowd of strangers, just his brothers and sisters.

Our midwife, Tierney Dovan of Marshall Midwifery is fabulous!  It is her hot-pink sleeve you see holding Charles out for all his older siblings to see for the first time.