Spring

"Sophia is my best friend..."
"So is Oma"  On a walk with "Oscar" the dog
I love how these are all in a line...a sign of Mom's OCD tendencies??  
Nathaniel on his 3rd Birthday...isn't this face just too sweet!
Katrina enjoying birthday delights...
Sweet hugs from 'Oma" Snow
Ah...do those eyes kill you? 
"I think Oscar the dog had a good idea!  I need some water too!"
At an all hall BBQ-the hair is spiked out due to static...

Mattea Dau...could she be any cuter?!!

spring break

ahhhh!!!! it is finally spring break for me as of 4pm today. after a day of meetings, class and more meetings, i got home, we packed up the kids and we shooby-doobied down to rubies to enjoy dinner out and a huge sundae to celebrate spring break. although i have 4 books to read and 3 to journal about...oh and i tiny 1 pg. paper....oh wait, three papers (one is a case study, how do you write a case study??!!) at least i have some time to be productive and get things done.

any one have access to a free cabin/beach house/house that is not in the vicinity of biola? sort of need to get off campus for a few days with the fam. do you have plans for easter/break? do you get a break?

anything else that is up with us...um...will is totally into trains right now. i just love watching him turn into a little boy although i miss my little babe. tomorrow marks his 2nd official hair cut...sigh...we get to go with my dear friend heather and her two cuties to boogaloo's in downtown fullerton. i love that place! what a way to kick off spring break, a lazy morning breakfast with the kids, downtown with friends and probably the park for lunch. i love it.

that's it for now. ry is watching lost while i stay out of the room...due to school i've (with great sadness) ditched lost for a few weeks so i need to get caught up before i can watch tonights episode.

rejoice my friends, as we celebrate the Risen King.
aly and the lows

photo booth fun

we are enjoying a lazy friday morning of pancakes and berries. em and i had some fun with my photo booth : ) maybe later i can convince will to sit still long enough to play too!

have a great weekend

purge!!

So, I have no idea where this energy is coming from (since ry has been on the couch all week with brochitis and a fever), but I have this sudden need to re-arrange and to purge! We got our two bedrooms repainted this week which has inspired me to literally tear our house and storage open and re-arrange. The kids room is done, the hall is almost done, our bedroom is next, the living room will stay the same (not much i can do here in terms of re-arrangement) but will have some new stuff on the walls to brighten it up a bit...i can't wait to attack our bedroom tonight!! i'll show photos soon. it will be a great idea to post photos too because I don't know that many of you or the family out of town who reads this really know what our home looks like since we live in a dormitory. We have a two bedroom with an office apartment and a little back yard. I love our home. it's quick to get cluttered, but warm, mostly peaceful and comfortable.

Many friends will be the happy recipients of my purging, which could not make me happier to bless them with our stuff (and to get rid of it too!!!!!) To those friends, i'll see you Saturday!! If I have anything left, i'll be having a garage sale soon at my in-laws house (since we technically do not have a garage). Do you even just get to a point that you look around and you realize just how much stuff you really have? This is what happened to me and now that most all things that will be kept is now contained in new baskets and boxes, it is now time to get it all out!! : ) sigh...yeah!

Much love to you all!
aly

photos

finally! here are some new photos

prayer and snowglobes

do you ever feel like a snowglobe? you feel calm...peaceful, just sitting boyant in your little world, then someone shakes it all up and everything around you feels disorienting? this is my life the past year...but really january on. not to go into too much detail because again i'm tired from being up with emily at 4am...i just want to ask for your prayer:

1) my dear friend dana had surgery today to remove potentially a cancerous mass from her thyroid. she has two kiddos (3 and 6) and are dear friends of ours. please pray that her tumor is not cancerous and if it is, that it was totally removed.

2) other dear friends of ours, andy collins-his 6 year old daughter, presli is having brain surgery tomorrow to remove or scrape (i' m not sure the exact terms) a spot on her brain that is causing numbness to spread over her body.

3) for our home to be well again-free from fever, bronchitis, ear infections...

and lastly that as we move into this busy season of school, juggling jobs, ministry, parenthood and marriage, we don't loose sight of our true identity-our true home-daughters and sons of God. if i am ever convinced of His presence, it's now-that in the midst of my snowglobe calm, or storm, he is the calm-consistent-never changing (praise Him for that!) presence in my life that is my rock, fortress-i will not be shaken.

thanks for reading. do you ever feel like your life is a snowglobe? find comfort-you are not alone.

an adventure indeed...

so...at 4pm yesterday, emily woke up with a 102 fever...went to bed...we checked in on her several times and she seems cooler. at 4am she woke up with a 105.2 temp!!! through it all, she was a champ! not lethargic (it takes quite a bit to couch this little diva) actually playing tea in the lukewarm tub the nurse told us to put her in and joined in with ryan and sang god of wonders! amazing. so, she was on the couch stripped down to her little undies while we waited for her temp to drop under her night night drinking water and singing to leapfrog's letter factory at 5am while ryan and i were semi asleep semi adrenalene rush trying to monitor her temp and watch the clock till our next phone call to the nurse. in a hour it went from 105 to 99. praise the lord. the rest of the day she slept, woke up...played...colored...laid...played...and now still at 99 degrees, she is asleep. sigh...

what an adventure. i hope to not repeat this one!

i said i'd post new photos, of which i have...but i'm too tired! i'll do it tomorrow.

please pray for our family that will doesn't get this crazy 8hr fever thing. we've been in the thick of getting brochitis and ear infections out of our systems.

off to the in-laws tomorrow..because facilities is painting our bedroom and the kids bedroom!!! yeah!!!

off to bed : )