Ten Years Ago

Ten years ago Ryan and I started are life together officially!  It has been far from easy but the hard work has paid off.  We are truly the only person that know the other best.  Looking back at the last ten years, friends and co-workers have come and gone but we are the only one that has been there for each other since the beginning.  With all the life struggles and hard times Ryan and I have recently faced, it has been such a great experience to walk in the ways of the Lord together knowing that God brought us together and that He is the only reason we are still together. I feel so blessed to have a man that loves me even on the days that I am not worthy.  Being married at young age is definitely hard, but celebrating your ten year anniversary at 30 sure feels like an accomplishment!

On a less mushy note, here is a picture of Ryan and I from our wedding.  My first thought when writing this post was I need to get on the computer and find that picture, oh wait I need the old flash drive out of the safe so I can find that picture.. Oh wait...I actually have to go dig through boxes of old paper photos and scan that picture!  so no judgement on the quality  :)

Photo updates

So I heard from several of you that some of the pictures/videos were not working.  I know the video links do not show when you get the email update, but if you go to the actual website http://www.pocketsandlittlesis.blogger.com/ you should be able to see the videos. 

This past week though there was a huge problem with the account and I somehow ereased over 1000 pictures with a single click. There weren't gone for good as they were still on my computer, but the website couldn't recognize them so I had to reload all the pictures again. 

With that said, I am sorry up front, but I didn't not re-link ALL the pictures from the last year.  Instead I just corrected the pictures and videos from the last week or so.  If there was a particular picture you were looking for, please let me know and I can send it your way. 

Again, I am sorry!!!! I have learned my lesson and won't be ereasing pictures in this manner ever again!

Video of Pockets

Cranial Tech

Well Adalynn is still in her helmet as you can tell. 

We started this journey back in March and when we went for the evaluation then the OT said that on average, most kids wear helments 3 months, but older kids sometimes go more like 4 months. 

We are one of those older children! With that Ryan and I had prepared to go the whole time of 4 months just so we wouldn't get our hopes up.  Since the only way a child makes progress with a helmet is if their head circumfrence increases older kids grow less so the changes are slower.  The helmet does not push against the high points but rather guiding any growth into the low points or flat spots.  With Little Sis the first three visits (6 weeks) she didn't grow at all.  Her head shape did change a little, but not really anything significant.  Since then it has been a week of growth and then nothing. 

Last visit marked our 3 month mark since actually wearing the helmet and luckily she had grown again which was good news.  Now we are are the tail end and have only mild differences.  I asked the OT how much longer though so that we could book flights and such and she said 4-6 weeks at least so apparently we still have a while to go.  I will keep you all updated as we get closer.

 In the meantime, here are some pics from our last visit. 
Holly picked me us up at the airport and so we got to hang out with her daughter while we were at Cranial Tech.  Crazy how close in age these girls

We went to the mall playground to kill a few hours between flights.

Both Holly and I tried to get a picture of both girls together, but they were like magnets and completly repelled from each other no matter how hard we tired.

Thanks to all you wonderful ladies that have helped me and Little Sis out these last few months with driving us around.  We greatly appreciate it!

Having fun at home.

Getting Plugged IN!!!

We are finally starting to get plugged in and connected! We have been so blessed to find a great Gospel Community through are church.  This is a group picture of almost the entire group.  There are three couples missing and 6 kids missing too. 

We meet once a week to share a meal and discuss the sermon as it relates to daily living.  The only sad thing about this group though is that almost half the group will be moving this summer! It just happens to be a transitional group.  Most of the families are either teachers or just finished college of some sort so they are looking for jobs in their field.  I guess that might happen alot in a college town.  Anyways we feel so blessed to be connected with each and everyone of these family even if it was just for a short time!

Not only do we have GC once a week as a whole, most Friday we have playgroup for whoever can make it.  This week since it was 105 degrees, we had a splash day. 

We played in the pool and sprinklers.  

The girls blew bubbles and boys shot them down with their water guns!

Then there is nothing like a movie to settle down to while the mom's made lunch.

William's Birthday

We had a great party for William's 4th birthday this year. Out of all the option we gave him, he chose to have a party at Clay Cafe which is a paint your own pottery studio. It actually was GREAT!

William got to pick out the paint colors but each child got to pick out their own object to paint

Here is Milo

Alex

and Spencer

And the birthday boy with his Lion

I can NOT believe this sweet thing is 4 years old!! He is the most awesome kid in the universe.

Here is the last picture of his cake.