I recently stumbled across a quote by Mother Teresa the other day that I love. It's called "Do it anyway".
“People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.”
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Mother Teresa
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/838305.Mother_Teresa
The A Team!
Aaron, Amanda, Adrian, Adam, Asa, Aidan and Ava
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Christmas Highlights!
This was Ava's second Christmas with us and boy did she catch on quick that this was a pretty special and exciting time. She learned all about the Christmas tree and of course, Santa. These words were added to her vocabulary and she used them a lot. She performed in the holiday concert and did amazing. She was animated, shaking the bells, yelling out the words she knew and dancing around. My heart was so proud. That's my girl! I'm in awe of this little girl who has overcome so much in her short life, opened her heart to a new, loud and big family, had two surgeries and started preschool all in one year! She teaches us all something new about life and love everyday. We are so lucky!
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| The magic of a snowglobe! |
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| Helping Mom decorate the tree! |
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| Aidan still loves to help too! The older boys grumbled about helping so I just let them watch and direct. Funny thing happened though- that night the tree fell over due to a new tree stand and not quite getting the tree in just right. Yep, fell right over and they were the ones to put it back up and put the decorations back on. Adam mentioned that this happened to make sure everyone had a part of decorating the tree....:-) |
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| Christmas Concert Night for the littles! |
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| Yes, we did love getting dressed up! Digging out a dress instead of pants, shirts and ties was pretty darn fun! |
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| There she is! Look at how big those kids are around her! |
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| Yeah, I know I'm cute... |
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| Mommy's favorite gift! A bitty baby!! |
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| Lots of snow and time for some snowshoeing! |
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| Ava taking the easy way |
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| Look at her go! Last year she wouldn't walk in the snow and this year she's rockin' snowshoes :-) |
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| Aidan- aka "King of the Mountain" |
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| Adam and Asa taking a rest, waiting for us slowpokes to catch up. |
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| A picture to bring in the New Year, may it be a happy and healthy one for everyone! |
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Searching for a name that captures her smile and strength!
Time to come up with another "A" name for our baby girl!! Any suggestions? Take a look at her picture in my previous post- what does she look like? Would love to hear your ideas!! I have a list, and some boys with some strong opinions but I want to know what you think!
Sunday, January 6, 2013
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