Blessed to celebrate Mothers Day today!
Three amazing children who bring joy to my life every day! Thank you Lord for choosing me as their Mother!
The family of Christ has grown by one!
Bennett Nicholas was baptized today!
Griff went down to two wheels!
First try and he took right off. He has been grinning ear to ear ever since. Way to go Bud!
Thank to their cousins, we have a new love at our house. Pretty fun if I say so myself and they are just too cute to watch while playing.
I had the amazing opportunity to watch Parkers class lead chapel at his school today! AH-mazing! Praise songs started it all off and these kids not only knew all the words but they sang with passion. To hear all of those children sing songs about our Heavenly Father literally brought tears to my eyes. What more could you ask for?
The message was about the Fruits of the Spirit and each child was able to be part of a little “skit” to act out a particular fruit. 
In this next picture he is showing a picture he drew telling us he would show gentleness by petting a dog.
Parker we are so very proud of you! I only wish I could start my day with a child led chapel more often!
This is the game I played to help me decide which Easter egg hunt pictures to put on here. My children took part in Four of them and thought it would be a bit redundant to include them all. So the winner is…….
Easter has come to be one of my favorite Holidays. How can you not get excited about serving a RISEN savior?? Especially when you hear two of your children reciting parts of the Easter Story. From my Three year old…. “He is not here, He has risen, just as He said”
My nephew Noah was able to spend part of the weekend with us and boy oh boy did the three of them have some fun! They set up a Nascar track for their electric scooters. I bet they went around that track at least 20o times.
The pose was their idea may I add
And the cheering section….. Diva T
And of course Griff
Not just in personality but how they use things differently……
Take note on the necklace she is now obsessed with! If she is awake, she wants it on.
I don’t know why but there is something about your child learning to use a spoon that immediately shoots them out of the infant stage and right into toddlerhood. Bittersweet thing for me. Miss Tessa sure thinks she is hot stuff with this new talent!
Last week Griffin had take your pet to school day! He was sooo excited! I had the privilege to be class helper that day which was great as well. A bunch of kids just took pictures of their pets which was so cute to see. However, maybe 5 of them brought in their actual pets. Yup, one by one these gorgeous dogs come in. Big beautiful dogs that have about 15 kids ooohing and aaaahhhing over them. Showing off all their tricks. Sitting on command, high fives all around and even a little dancing. Next thing we know, it is Griffins turn…….
What is that you say???? You can see anything….
Wait for it… Wait for it…
There you go. Once the crowds part you can see our furless, hairless, mute little 2 inch fish named Flipper. No walking or exercise needed. Just feed him 4 little pebbles a day and if you miss two or three days in a row, he will be just fine. That’s our kind of pet folks. Though the kids did at least act like they really loved him.
We had a couple of the kids friends over last night and these buddies immediately headed outside for a little snow fun. Snowmobiling, sledding and golf cart rides.
A little hot cocoa for all
We finally had a chance to build Mr. Snowman today! 
Parker with his snowman buddies. He even picked out names… Frosty is on the right and Shelly ??? is on the left!
Today the world welcomed Bennett Nicholas Terpstra!
Three precious little girls welcome a brother and Two amazing people welcomed a son! Thank you Lord for another example of your unending love and gracious blessings!
7lb. 14oz. – 19in – 10:14am
This is what we have going on a daily basis…. Griffin and Tessa trying to destroy my house while Parker tries to clean and organize it.
We have Griffin trying to tie everything up which means I need untie it all before I can get in anything….
Tessa unloading the spice cabinet for the 53rd time that day….
Parker organizing the junk drawer…
Then I just had to add this last one. The teams come together for a little book time….
We had another first over here today. We decided to make some banana bread and Parker wanted to be in charge. So, now that he is able to read a lot of words I handed him the recipe and said go for it. Ahhh! Am I wasting a bunch of food right now or is this actually going to turn out? 
Success Folks! Can beat warm bread right out of the oven. Must say he was pretty proud as was I :)
