Quadruple the Fun! ~ Part 2 ~ Valerie!

Can't believe it's been 17 years!!!!

 

 

 

We love having a special, individual day to celebrate each of the quadruplets!

Recently, we celebrated VALERIE HOPE!!

Here are a few pictures of her growing up! 

 As most of you know, she's been crazy about babies from the very beginning!

 

 

When she was little,

this love of nurturing babies,

often carried over to our first Labrador, Annie, as well!

 

As she has grown-up,

 her love for babies has grown into a love for all children,

particularly orphans. 

And what's really cool,

as it turns out,

God has provided a way for her to use her love for Labradors,

to help fund her passion for orphan care! : -)

Sure love seeing how God is always at work,

bringing to pass His good purposes and plans for each of us!

Glory be to God!  

 

General Tso and orange chicken dinner

Special French toast breakfast!

Apple brownies!

Happy 17th Birthday, Valerie!

We are so grateful for you,

and love watching all the good things God

is doing in and through you!

You are pure joy to us!!!

First Days of October!

We've had a full first few days of October!

with some fun "firsts" and a couple extra-special big events in our family!

 

 

Since moving here 9 years ago,

we have been very blessed with using Costco car canopies for our "barns,"

both to house the farm animals and their hay.

They've really worked great . . .most of the time . . .

except for the times when the roofs and sides have ripped and/or been blown away!

(And the kids haven't particularly enjoyed moving hay in the middle of the night. ;-)   

So, in the back of their minds, the girls have always had this

 romantic notion of having a "real" barn one day! :-)

Well, after nine years of waiting and saving,

Victoria and Caroline just purchased a real metal "barn!"

They even chose barn red for the color!

After Daddy, Kyle and the girls did lots of prep work for the foundation,

it was put up by three men (in the rain) in only four hours! 

  

Woo hoo!

What a big day!

 

Then, another huge milestone for Kyle arrived in a couple big boxes!

After three or more years in the works,

Kyle holds in his hand one of the copies of his published book,

 Crossroads of the Other World!

Hooray! 

You can find out more about it at:

Extraordinary Existence

and

 Warriors for the Light

Brielle was given her very first doll baby today,
by a very special friend! (pictured below ;-)
 

 

Thanks so much, Carolyn for a wonderful day together!

 

We also had a wonderful mid-week visit at the home of some new friends we met at the home school kick-off picnic that invited our family and another family over for dinner! 

They were very brave . . . and very hospitable!

It was a big group and very enjoyable!

 We had lots of fun, food and fellowship!

What a blessing!

We hope to do these get-together more often!

 

Valerie was very excited about receiving her long-anticipated, special-ordered copy
of SCC's new album!  And she's counting down the hours to his concert tomorrow night!

 

~We also praise the Lord for another

great check-up

in Seattle for Richie this week! ~