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My Little Girl Is Growing Up!

My three kids all play together now...Noelle finds the boys' blocks fascinating and fun.





















She goes to find a new block to inspect...
















And she LOVES to splash too!
















She gets into the spirit of it at least as much as her brothers!





















This is how I found her yesterday when I came back from checking on the boys...It seemed really precarious, mostly because she was next to so many hard-bonk-able things, but she stayed steady the whole time. First time she's pulled herself to standing and stayed up!! *Sigh*

Pictures

These go back a couple weeks...more recent pictures and videos coming soon!















Forrest and David at the fair...

















Matthew, doing something with David; Miriam, and Bethany.

















Ryan takes a picture of me taking a picture of him.

















What a poser. At least this year he wasn't afraid of the fire truck.




















Timothy with his cotton-candy beard.

















Miriam playing with Noelle.
















Last Thursday and Friday, we got to see Holly and Bryan again briefly, at the end of their honeymoon. Here we are at breakfast, also with Tim, Heidi, and Hannah.





















David, having a little too much fun with Esther's stuff.
















Andrew, Matthew, Isaiah and Forrest playing MOHAA, Nathan playing Nintendo DS.



















Me & Noelle. What a little sweetheart she is.

Stuff

I've discovered anew that I like reading. Having not done it much in the last few years, I kind of forgot about the lure. But lately, since Noelle takes a while to put to sleep, I decided to try helping myself to be patient with her, and read while nursing her to sleep. The first book I read while doing that was Unexpected Journey. Then just today I finished Very Good, Jeeves! and am almost through A New Kind of Christian. It makes me feel like talking about more...and yet what I'm gleaning in the latter is still in its developing stage in my mind and although there are bits and pieces to talk about, I don't feel like I have the gist yet. I really like it so far though. It makes me really want to re-read Ancient-Future Faith again, but it's at Forrest's parents' house. Where we were just a couple weeks ago, but I thought they were still reading it. Found out afterwards that they probably were done with it...*sigh*.
On a different note, I found out tonight that if you brown the butter by accident while melting it to make beef gravy, it actually contributes positively to the gravy's flavor. I think I'll make it that way regularly now--only I'll brown the butter on purpose.
Pictures will be coming soon...

Last Weekend

As you all know, we went down to Nevada last weekend to go to Holly & Bryan's wedding! Everything went well (except I got sick Saturday night to Monday night); the wedding was lovely, and Bryan's family was very nice. Here are some pictures....

From the trip down:

David, asleep when we arrived at Tim & Heidi's to pick them up, and waited for Isaac & Heather, so we could have Timothy ride with them.















Noelle, awake early in the morning.















Sunrise in central Idaho, from a rest stop we were at for breakfast.
















Berry Enloe, being her normal bright-eyed self,














Noelle, napping in the afternoon,















and sunset along the last stretch of road to Fallon.















Friday:

This is a dress Mrs. Lester gave me, size 24 months, but when I saw it last week I realized I should not wait to try it on her. It fits just right!
















Holly & Bryan at the rehearsal dinner.



















Hailie, at the rehearsal, which was late enough that before it was time to leave,
Bryan & Holly were able to say, "Just twelve hours left!"




















Without meaning to, I caught Bryan making a funny face. He was in the middle of talking. To the left is Chris, one of his groomsmen.
















The Wedding Day!

As Heidi buttoned her up in the back, Holly looked over at her tired little sister-flowergirl, and said, "Hailie, I love you."




















Hailie is cheered up a bit by that.
















Married!! Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Dove. I didn't get any pictures from the wedding site, being myself one of the matrons of honour. This is at the reception site.




















The happy couple again.















Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Dove, and Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Dove.















Aww.















They make SUCH a cute couple!















Uncle Bryan opens a Dove chocolate for David.




















Later that day....Brother and Sister of the Bride, with David and Berry, fall asleep on the couch.

















And Thereafter:

Hailie holds her littlest born niece, Elbereth.















Dad & Mom have seven grandkids, in just four years! There is one more, unborn, but we didn't think of trying to get Heather's belly in the photo.















On Sunday evening Forrest's mom invited my parents & siblings, and Bryan's extended family over.















David (Bryan's future bro-in-law), Tim, and Forrest, in a game of croquet.















And I'll end the pictures how I started them--with David asleep in his carseat. This was on our way back home.

New Pictures, just not here

Okay, people, check out Forrest's blog for new pictures.

We've had a busy week...last Wednesday, Holly and Bryan came up for Meggan & Cristian's wedding. Thursday, Heather and I gave Holly a shower here, while Forrest, Bryan and Tim took our boys and Heather's boys on a hike at the Bowl & Pitcher. That evening we had a brief picnic and feeding of the ducks at Manito Park, and came back here for cupcakes. I started late that night on the flowers for Meggan's wedding, and with several interruptions (including a very important one called "sleep") finished them early Friday afternoon. Bryan and Holly went up to Gillette Lake to visit Grandpa & Grandma Workman, who were camping up there--because they won't be able to go to their wedding on the 9th. They came back later in the afternoon and all of us went to the Garland to watch Cars. It was a good movie, and very cute. The next morning (Saturday), we left the house about 6:30 to get up to Usk before 8 AM for the wedding. It was in a clearing in the woods and was cold and beautiful. Meggan and Cristian both loved the flowers, so I was very pleased. After the ceremony, we had coffee and doughnuts up above the wedding site, then headed into town for the reception at the Davenport Hotel. It was beautiful. The food and fellowship were both great.
Holly and Bryan flew out later that afternoon, so once we fed the boys, the kids went to bed and Forrest and I had a very relaxing evening and went to bed early. We had a wonderful visit, and it was fun to watch Holly and Bryan being all lovey-Dovey (pun intended), and now we're getting excited about going down for their wedding, coming up this Saturday. My bridesmaid dress is almost finished, and we get to pack tomorrow and head out at about 2 AM the morning of my birthday!
So that's part of why I haven't been posting very faithfully lately. Will try to do more after we get back next week, and hopefully you'll get to see lots of pictures from our time down there.