Where does the time go?

Boy, it has been awhile since I posted last. So sorry! I just do not know where the days go. I think that as we get older time just seems to fly by. Don't you remember as a child how very slowly time seemed to pass, especially if you were waiting for your birthday or Christmas? Well now when I read a sign as I pass through town that says there are only 50 days till Christmas it causes me to shudder. Of course now it isn't even 50. Oh well, we should just be thankful for each and every day that the Good Lord gives us with our families. Anyway, I digress. I wanted to post a few pictures on here for you of things we have been up to lately.


B#2 got her braces off on the 4th of November. FINALLY!!! She also had an email from our local high school asking if she would be interested in teaching Spinning(fiber spinning that is) to the after school program. We are still waiting to hear about the particulars of it before we commit to it.

Dearest Daddy had a birthday on the same day that B#2 got her braces off. What a busy day that was. Instead of being able to relax with us for the day he had to be working on burying the pipe that carries us our water. Pretty important work there! We are so blessed with a fun and faithful daddy who gets up super early, while we all still snooze, to go to work to provide for us. We are so thankful for him!

B#5 had a birthday on the 31st of October. It is so nice having a child's birthday on that day. It gives us a really great reason to not have to celebrate the secular day of Halloween. He got a huge KNEX set, a headlamp and some much needed rain boots.

For B#5's birthday, we went to a Children's Museum. Here are the girls on "The Big Chair". B#6 wasn't too happy about being up there but once she got to playing at the museum all was fine. She convinced me to go down the huge, swirly slide. Boy was it dark in there.

B#1 generously offered to backpack the baby for me while we were at the Children's Museum. The baby loves the backpack enough to fall asleep while he is in there. Thank goodness for big strong guys in the family(oh and B#3 too) who can pack that little chub around.

Here is Dad inside a bubble.

Isn't he just a cutey? Baby(B#8) has grown so much in the last couple of weeks. He is crawling everywhere, getting in to everything and has started pulling up on furniture already. He is starting to creep along the furniture a little too. I am hoping that he does not follow in Biggest Brother's footsteps and be walking by 10 months but it wouldn't surprise me.

And then there is B#7 who is the ham of all of them. Not a day goes by without him doing something hilarious. As B#2 often says "Having a two year old is such fun".