Long time, no blog....

Well, here it is two days after Thanksgiving and it's been another LONG time! :) Will I ever have time to keep up with my blog like I'd like to? Probably. In about 20 more years. But for now I am cherishing every moment I can with my precious family and little ones. In the past month we've had school plays, funerals, sings, dinners, mission meetings, you know, all the things that keep a pastors wife busy! (what ELSE would I do with my time?!?) Today was suppose to be an enjoyable day at home, putting up Christmas decorations, enjoying each others company, but the stomach bug decided to share the holidays with us. So, its just a dark, lazy day, spent with blankets and buckets.... Wouldn't trade this glamorous life for the world! Will post pics soon of all the latest happenings! Love you all!

Why I haven't posted in a while.... :)

So, again, It has been a good while since my last post! SO much has happened in the last few months! My oldest son turned NINE! Where did the years go?! Seems like we just brought him home! He is such a big boy now... he got a Red Ryder BB gun for his birthday, (Just like Ralphie's!) and you would have thought we gave him the moon! He just started third grade and is doing so well! He's had a little trouble getting use to the homework load, but it amazes me how much he's learned and just how smart he is! He's so creative and imaginative, he's such a blessing to me!

So, on to the second reason I haven't posted in a bit - Baby Micah was born on August 11!! He weighed 7 lbs and was 19 inches long. I had such a hard pregnancy with him, the last couple of months were really rough. I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes, and polyhydramnios, which is an excess amount of amniotic fluid. It can cause particularly strong braxton-hicks contractions, and it's pretty much the most uncomfortable I have ever been! But as always, it was so worth it! He is the most precious little baby - so sweet and cuddly! He looks so much like Bailey did when he was born! It's been fun having another newborn in the house! The girls are just crazy over him, he is going to be a VERY loved little boy! Seeing as how this is probably our last one, I am trying to enjoy every waking minute with him!

Psalm 127 King James Version 1Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. 2It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep. 3Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. 4As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. 5Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

Summertime!

SUMMERTIME is in full swing! It has FLOWN by! It's been such a wonderful opportunity to enjoy the joys of the season! Making memories... some of the most precious memories of my childhood are from summertimes 25 years ago.

GOD blesses us in so many ways during the summer season! Today HE is sending much needed rain for our dry, thirsty gardens.

Spending time with friends and family always comes with summer activities ~ holidays, cookouts, etc. We still have cookouts at my grandparents house with my dad's side of the family, even though my grandparents have passed away. Sometimes, tradition is a wonderful thing! This past July 4th, we had fun doing old fashioned pictures..... :) What a crew! Yes, I am the hugely pregnant one on the end under the window!

New beginnings, fresh blooms, results of labor in the garden, skinned knees, lightening bugs, chiggers, trips to the pond, fresh vegetables and berries ~ these are the things that summer brings to mind for me.

Here is my littlest darling, fishing in the same pond that I fished in when I was little, the same one that my Dad fished in when he was young.... the same place my cousins and I would all pile on the back of the tractor and trailer and ride to, holding on for dear life and dodging briers all the way.

There is nothing more precious than MEMORIES. We are creating a bushel of them this wonderful and blessed summer!

Photo shoot with the girls :)

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Spring is here!

Finally! We are able to get outside and play! After such a long and cooped up winter, the kids are thrilled to be outside. We are working on our yard, purchasing a new wooden swingset for the kids, and building a new playground. It's the season for sandboxes, bubbles, sidewalk chalk, and slip and slides! It's been so much fun working on the yard with Darius. Dad even came up and helped with his tractor, smoothing out the side yard.

The cows have been put back out to pasture, which thrills Selah to no end. Here she is watching them come down the hill behind our house and yelling at them. Adah is convinced that all the "baby cows" are hers. Thanks, papaw. :)

The apple trees are blooming! We hope to do better this year than last with the apple and peach trees - they started off really good but something happened - bugs or something and all the fruit died. We'll see what happens this year!

I love the simple joys spring brings; making wishes on dandelions, everything turning from the boring grays and browns to a sweet smelling green, with pinks, purples, and yellows thrown in by God for some extra pops of color. :)

Bailey helping daddy with the tractor, moving dirt. That little guy can really drive! I'm so thankful for the things this spring has brought us. We've been so blessed. We found out a couple of days ago that we're having another boy! No names picked out yet.

Well, its off to more organizing, cleaning, and enjoying this wonderful season! Hope you all have a wonderful day!

On the move

Spring has sprung here at the Walker house! I am finally feeling better and getting more productive! I suppose I've been "nesting" all morning, I've had the urge to re-arrange and move stuff... (sorry, dear!) We are working on our flower gardens, we got some stone to build small retaining walls to replace the landscaping timbers. Bailey's playing Upward soccer and loving it! He's on a team with his little buddy and they are so cute! The girls just turned 2 and 4 and are wild as boars! :) They had a nice pink birthday party and were blessed to have wonderful friends to celebrate with. Today ends spring break for Roane county - the weather has been absolutely wonderful all week until today! Papaw and Bailey are out hunting for mushrooms at the moment - I hope we get enough to dehydrate some this year! Most of my seedlings I started indoors have died (my thumb is SOOO not green!) But I'll just start them again outdoors when the weather breaks. One week till we find out if our little peanut is a boy or girl.. then we can start really planning!! So things sure have been hoppin' here... hope all is well with all of you! :)

Simplicity?

Do the words "simplify" and "new baby" even BELONG in the same sentence? That was my goal for the year 2010 - to purge and simplify. Get rid of all the clutter that is daily bogging me down. I planned to have a bigger garden, can more, freeze more, learn more about baking bread, and hopefully cut down on our grocery bill even more this year. Well. I really should learn that all of this ridiculous planning is not necessarily going to guarantee results. It would be nice, though. :) The past two months I've been to sick to do anything but dream of what I would LIKE to be doing. Oh I have plenty more ideas now for my raised bed gardens, container gardens, landscaping, and organizing since I've had all this time to look at blogs, etc! :) Hopefully soon some of these symptoms will subside and I can get on with at least some of my plans for the year. Today is an absolutely gorgeous day - the temps are suppose to be near 50 and the sun is shining! Maybe we can get some of the yard cleaned up today... maybe. :)