Together At Last

In August my sister and I were able to spend a whole week together and what a blessing it was! First we took all of our kiddos up to my parents mountain house for a week. I love being in the mountains, I will take 70 degree weather in August any day.


These 3 were pretty much inseparable all week. I am amazed at how Ellie, although 2 years younger, can keep up with the big kids.






Caleb has a big job cut out for him being the only and oldest boy of all the grandkids but as you can see he handles it well, and treats these girls so kindly.

#1

When trying to find pictures for this post, I realized I don't have any of Lucy by herself and that is because she is always taking care of her younger sisters. She has a little mommy heart, which most of the time is super helpful and yet some times it turns into wanting to control every one and every situation. For the most part though, she really loves her sisters well. I am not sure what I am going to do with out her when she starts Preschool in a week. I love watching her little mind at work as she is learning and discovering new things every day. She has grown so much socially since returning to the States, and we are anxious to see how she will do going to a new school where she knows no one in her class. I think school will be the biggest cultural adjustment she has experienced thus far, so we are trying to prepare her well and praying for good transitions.







Lucy you are loved and adored by your family.

#2

I don't even have to type any words to describe this girl because you can tell everything about this little girl by her facial expressions. She is the definition of wearing her heart on her sleeve. These pictures show who she is perfectly: fun, energetic, entertaining, full of life, dancing girl. Only I don't have a picture of her completely melting down which would be the other spectrum of her. When this girl is happy she is ALL happy, and when she is sad she is ALL sad. I think this will make for some interesting teenage years :)







Ellie girl I hope you keep your passion for life for years to come. We love you.

#3

I will start with a update of this sweet little child, since she hardly ever gets time focused just on her. Recently the grandparents took the two bigs away for a week and I had 4 whole days alone with this little one, it was such a precious time to focus just on her. She is such a easy going baby and yet she has a lot of spunk. I am pretty sure she will be my baby who hits and bites kids in the nursery only because she won't take crap from anyone, especially not her big sisters. Everyone's #1 comment about her is how busy she is. She is into everything and can climb the stairs faster than I can run up them. I am not sure she will ever learn how to walk, just run. She has 2 teeth, can say she is so big, says dada, and points at anything and everything. She loves to eat anything that she can feed herself and pick up with her fingers. She won't sit still to drink her bottle I literally give it to her as she climbs all over me like a monkey. She loves to eat paper, toilet paper being her one of choice.







We love you Anna girl.

Back to Blogging

I am going to attempt to get back to blogging regularly. I have to confess that having 3 kids, and no longer living overseas where family were constantly bugging me for pics, has kind of made me unmotivated to blog. Really the only thing that keeps me going is my nagging sister (I love you!) and the fact that I am determined not to be the mom who has no pictures of her 3rd child (although Anna I am sorry but your baby book is going to be small). Plus I know that I still have friends overseas and therefore I am going to do my best to keep them updated with our life. I will leave you of the latest pictures of all 3, something that is hard to capture most days.

Aunt Curly

We had a great visit with Aunt Curly earlier this week and Anna loved getting to meet her.


She nicknamed Anna "pumpkin spice" which I think is very fitting both to her personality and to her hair color.


The girls kept her busy playing with her and competing for her attention. We love you Aunt Curly come back and visit soon.



And yes for all those who are wondering this is where my girls get their curls from.

Recent happenings

So what have you been up to you might ask that you have been so busy you have ignored the blog? Well here are just a few fun things we have been doing the past month:

Preparing our home. We have all the major stuff bought and the boxes unpacked but there are still many projects to do around the house. As you can tell we have some great helpers. Every Saturday we have been able to go Garage Sale hoping and have found some great finds.


Riding boats. You gotta find some ways to stay cool in the summer.


Playing in sprinklers in the back yard.


Cuddling with Grandparents, we are making up for some lost time here people.


Entertaining. This picture is from our young adult cookout at our house last weekend.


Hosting friends and Reconnecting. The Tippys, who we got to know in Honduras, came to visit us for a week. It was so much fun to have them in our home and show them a little piece of the South.



Play dates with friends. These are some of the first friends our girls made but sadly they are fellow missionaries and are preparing to leave for the field soon, making our time with them very short.

Hunts!

Well its been over a month since I blogged so heres my attempt to catch up a bit, even though I am not even sure I have any faithful blog followers after that long sabbatical.

We had the joy of spending some time with our beloved friends, The Hunts, while they were here in the US on furlow in May. It was so good to see them and to be able to vacation with them at Edisto Island.

Anna Hunt McCann, getting some love from her name sake and Foard.


As with always with the Hunts, we enjoyed eating well in our short time together.


The big kids loved playing together and could spend all day on the beach.


This is Foard muscle face and it is the cutest thing I have ever seen.


4 curly headed children all eating breakfast.


And a group shot!



It was great to be able to debrief a lot of my time in Honduras with a fellow missionary friend. We miss you Hunts and love you dearly.

Love.

I'm in love


with these sweet


little girls.

Beach

After our mountain getaway it was off to the beach. Our kids had a hard time grasping the idea of having to drive 4 hours to get to a beach and being able to spend the night there, since all their life the beach has been 15 minutes away. But once we got there it was more than worth it.


The girls dove right on in feeling right at home.


Even though the water was colder than we are used to it didn't seem to slow down the kids at all.


It was fun to get away just our family and Sean and I had some time to process and think before preparing to move into our new home.


We went out to dinner for Mother's Day and tried to get a picture but this was the best we could get.


New we are all vacationed out and ready to get to work in our new house!