one big happy family

The latest family picture of us.

Sorry it is not bigger but I am having problems with putting on pictures right now, and this was the best I could do.

I love the beautiful yellow canola field in the back ground. Makes a great back drop.

My awesome 7 blessings

   My awesome 7 blessings here all in a row!  We are so truly blessed! And hoping God will give us more if it's His will!

baby # 7 coming soon!!

Just had to share these couple of pictures of baby belly and I , oh and Benjamin in my arms!! I just love my baby bellies, and my sweet little guys! And thought these two pictures took by 6 year old Sarah showed them both very well!! This baby belly # 7 is due in just 18 more days on May 4th!! So wish me luck in an easy and quick delivery!!

    I am enjoying the last bit of pregnancy with all it's wiggles, and kicks, and so on!!

pictuers of our spring so far

Well I managed to get some pictures on here this time. It was painful and slow process, but here we are. This is some of our spring happenings so far, and of the cold frame my husband built for me! We have plants coming up n there already! 

The snow keeps going down a little more each day!

a few sweet pictuers

 Our girls having fun on the trampoline! They can spend hours out there. Most of the time it is mounded with blankets too.

 Here is our family, all eight of us!! This was taken about a month ago.

What a sweet picture we all make!!  :)

Hope you enjoy. 
In Him,
Mae

Summer time kid and garden photos

 Husking corn.  Yep, the long awaited for corn is getting ready!!!  Our most loved summer vegtable!

 Cucumbers that we picked at my parents market garden.

 Benjamin and flowers!

 Sarah in my flower garden.

 Sarah holding green beans, and purple beans.

 My little ones by my flower tire.

 Close up on the cucumbers.

 My pretty bowl of beans, green, purple, and yellow!!

 Anna and her pretty pink Vitenam clothes

My Anna and the flowers!

I love summer time, and what a perfect time to get some great photos!!   Hope you enjoy!

summer time kids and animals ( photos )

 Sarah happily holding one of our newly acquired ducks. They are so friendly.

 Sarah and Anna with our cat.

 Sarah, Anna, and Benjamin with our momma cat who is very expecting. Soon we will have kittys!!

 Our six friendly and happy ducks. I have always believed that ducks smiled!!

 Enjoying our rabbit!

 Benjamin giving the rabbit hugs!!

 Our chicken bunch!  

 The girls having fun in the trees!

Clayton and Sarah holding a couple of the  ducks. The children sure love this new addition to our farm. 


Now altogether we have 48 chickens ( the other 64 are snugly in our freezer now ), 6 friendly ducks, one male giant daddy rabbit who needs a wife, and one very expectant momma cat .  Wished we had a milk cow too though. Yep, then our farm would be complete!!  :)

The garden is going good. We have lots of lettuce and onions ready to eat. The other vegetables  are coming along very well too. The weeds are unfortunately doing very well too though. So that means a constant job of weeding, and weeding, and weeding. I don't like a weedy garden!!

  So our summer so far finds all well and booming here. Busy and fun at the same time.
Thanking the Lord for all He provides.

In Him,
Mae

My Wish ( a repost )

As I gaze in to the eyes of my 4 month old baby girl, my heart over flows with love, wonderment, amazement. And I think oh can't she stay this way! I wish she would always be this sweet and perfect! This small, soft, and cuddly!! With those most adorable bluish eyes!

I wish she could always be this easily contented by me, that I could just hold her or nurse her and everything would be alright. I wish she would know no hurt, no disappointments, no sorrow, or sadness. Oh I wish she would always be this sweet, this precious , this pure!!

I wish she would always be my itty-bitty baby girl!!! She just oh so right the way she is, why does she have to grow!

But I know that is just wistful thinking and not an ounce practical ( but boy does it sound nice).

So instead I wish that my baby Anna will grow. I wish as she grows in body that she will also grow spiritually. As she grows strong and healthy in body and mind, I pray she will grow strong and healthy in the Lord.

I wish her beauty comes from her walk in the Lord. I pray she is so full of God's riches , and beauty ,and love: that she will literally shine and glow with beauty for HIM. I wish and pray that she will always remain this sweet, precious and pure!!

I pray that when she is hurt or wronged that she will know how to respond back with love and forgiveness. And when sorrows, disappointments, and sadness comes her way, that she will find her strength in God to keep going, and that He will fill her up with JOY.

I pray she will shine with love and joy! When others see her , they see God living in her. I pray that her only desire in life will be to live for HIS Glory only! And that she will grow in to a  strong woman for God. I pray she will have a love for truth.

I pray that I will be every bit the mom she needs me to be, to be that good godly example for her to follow. But I wish that she goes way beyond what I do or what I know! I wish that she will search the Scriptures for her own for the truth and not just take what we say. That she will keep growing and growing in the Lord and will keep getting closer and closer to HIM. That her faith will be strong and unwavering.

So sweet baby Anna I love you just the way you are , but I know there is so much more for you, and that God's plan for you goes way beyond baby hood.

So keep on growing baby of mine!!

That is my greatest and deepest wish!! ( this goes for all your siblings too of course)

Love, mom
 

Above was a post from 2010 when our second little girl, Anna, ( our 5th child) was just 4 months old.
Just yesterday this same sweet gal turned 3 years old. In celebration, I thought re posting this would be neat!
My desire for her is still the same. And of course for all our children. My greatest desire and pray for them is that they love God with all their hearts, minds, and souls. That they love the truth. And that they would make God the center of their lives. That is my greatest wish, and is the focus of all my parenting efforts.
In Him,
Mae

 

Our first snow fall ( pictuers)

 Our first snow fall for winter 2012-2013!! 

 So we were surprised with an early snow fall this winter! And the kids are most delighted!!

 Lots of fun in the snow when they are dressed warmly.  Above is our big Ben!!! ( i know he looks girly!)

 Pulling out the skies already though there is hardly enough snow, but if they stay on the grass it should not scrape up thier skiies..

 I am sure this snow will melt off yet before our winter really begins though. I wasn't quite ready for winter just this soon. I was hoping to have a longer fall season.

 These kids are in for a awesomely fun winter I think!!!

Looking forward to a nice winter here. Lots of vegys canned and in freeezer, and  lots of firewood cut to keep the house warm, so we should be ready to snuggel on in here for the winter!!

In Him,
Mae
 

Our family picture

 Our wonderful family!! Don't we make a good pictuer!? Will be fun when we even have more children for a pictuer down the road on day, the Lord willing. If He so blesses us we long to have more!! :)

Just mommy and the kids here in this pictuer. Oh what fun they are!! So nice when one is not so busy that you can truely enjoy and have fun with them!  Most certainly they are the best blessings ever!!


Well life has been so busy here of late.  At the moment finds me in the middel of making dill pickels,( which are packed in the jars and waiting on the vineger mix to come to a boil ) then it is on to corn. Bunches of corn to husk, and then boil in a large pot, and cut off cob to bag and freezze. It is alot of doings, but once it is all said and done, and snuggely in my freeezzer how wonderful it will be!! So thankful to God for abundance of vegtables to be able to put up for my family.  We need to be ever so thankful for all that God provides, and do our part to preserve and put it up for families.

So since live is extra busy at the moment I do not have much time for blogging. But this busy time will be over before we know it, and we will be back to school once again, and time for posting here as well too I hope!! :)
 But until then,
In Him,
Mae

Gardening pic.s in Alberta

 These pictures were took of us picking vegetables in my mom and dad's market garden.  Above is a pic. of Sarah and I picking cucumbers. Well she is eating and I am picking!

 Nathan looking to see how far he has already picked in the cucumber patch. ( and Sarah eating her cucumber! )

 Hanging out by the corn and cucumber patch. ( Sam, Anna, & Benjamin )

 My this is a heavy bucket of cucumbers!!  But you can do it Sam!!

 Sitting out side by the clothes line shelling peas.

 Grandpa washing and sorting cucumbers.

 Preparing the cucumbers for sale. It is quite the process for sure.

 Sam being silly with a cucumber by the corn patch.

My big boys shelling peas and eating pop-corn! I guess this is what you call a pea-shelling party!

Hope you enjoyed the pictures of our Alberta garden pic.s. The growing season is short here, but the days are very long so everything seems to fairly boom here.  Which makes summer time  a very busy time!

Until next time,
In Him,
Mae