HAPPY BIRTHDAY AARON!

Baby boy is officially a toddler today - sniff, sniff! I cannot believe it has been one year since he's been here! We all love him so, especially his big brothers! They are his heroes and favorite playmates!

 

Aaron, on his birthday, 4/19/12



 

 

mommy & daddy love

 

getting to go home

 

2 months

 

1 year

 

 

 

2 months - little cowpoke

 

 

1 year - cowboys can't be still!

 

you're a walker! you've been walking for about 3 weeks!

 

sweet guy!

 

mommy's new man - 2 months

lay still with my monkey? you're crazy mommy!

 

 

You weigh 20 lbs 9 ozs and are 29 inches long. You have 5 teeth (two bottom, three top). You say "dadadada" and "mamama" but you don't use them to identify us you just babble them. You like to laugh and clap to direct attention to yourself.  You've got the silliest fake laugh - it's so funny! You love to be outside and you have a 6th sense about when someone is eating junk food (you come running!). You eat a lot of food and are always begging for food if anyone else is eating and you are not.

 

You are not really a fan of being away from mommy but you are getting better!  You are a MESS maker!! You love Klenex and toilet paper. You put everything in your mouth (like all babies do!).

 

You have been the biggest trooper in dealing with our crazy schedule! We seem to always be in the car on our way to somewhere and you eat most of your meals in your carseat! You roll with it quite well.

 

Your favorite time of day is 3 o'clock when the boys get home! That is your naptime but you have to stay up for a few minutes to play and giggle with them!

 

WE LOVE YOU SO MUCH AARON RYAN (AKA AARON GAGA) BROWN!! Couldn't imagine life without you!

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

These Days . . .

These days I'm a baseball mama & coach's wife more than any other title I answer to and it's been crazy busy but I'm loving this time with my family.

 

Ryan is coaching Conner's tball team and Mason's machine pitch team! Conner had his first set of games this weekend.

 

My little Panther! Go #12!

 

 

Ballpark Baby

 

Love these memories of older brothers playing and cheering

 

Ryan & Conner

 

Playing Catcher - I think he's bored! :)

 

 

Off to the farm - Aaron loves his Papa!

 

two peas in a pod 

 

look at me go!

 

my little country boy

 

Mason is determined to build a pond in our backyard!

 

Spring time Saturday evenings

 

love

 

beauty

 

 

BBQ beans for supper!

 

 

I'm loving these days with my boys, but pieces of me misses the fellowship of small groups at church during the week and pieces of me yearns for the days that I can pack my bags and head out into the mission field . . . but then I'm reminded that these are the people God has given me and they are my mission field. They are the souls I'm to win. And when the Great Commission told me to GO it didn't say I had to go far and so for now I'm satisfied to GO to the ballpark and to GO to ball practice and to GO to the grocery story because you never know what God has in store for the day!

 

The days are long but the years are short and I'm intending to make the most of them! Love my family!

 

And lest anyone think we are smiley all the time lots of our days have been spent whining about going to ball practice, staying up too late and waking up too grumpy, missing our home, and spending 10th anniversaries eating casseroles and going to bed early!

 

And funny story - the boys were playing Kingdoms (made up game) and Ryan & Mason were the kings and Aaron & Conner were the knights and I thought I'd at least get to be Princess, Queen, or Damsel in Distress but when the time came to assign my role I was told I was the Cook! :) No romance here!



Joy That's Unspeakable

Spring break was awesome! The boys were loving being home and staying up late and playing ball and having sleepovers and getting dirty! You don't need many words - today pictures will do!

 

 

Palm Sunday Egg Hunt

Mason - red jacket, Conner - blue jacket

please take note that they have Easter baskets (you'll need to remember this!)

 

 

My middle joy

 

My baby joy getting blown away

 

My big joy

thankful for God's protection from this poisonous snake

that was coiled up and ready to strike my Mason.

he saw the white of the inside of its mouth and knew he

needed to run fast to Papa!

 

dirty joy - future snake wrangler? I hope not!

 

joyful brother love -

after they dug a hole in my front yard to bury the snake

 

egg dyeing joy

 



 

rainy day joy

 

driving under the water joy

 

can you still call it backroading if its your road?

 

Easter Egg Hunt when mama forgets our baskets joy!

 

baby joy - Love!

 

a little storm damage won't stop my joy!

 

mud puddle + boys = JOY

 

X 2

 

if we ride side by side I'll get more muddy joy

 

Thankful on Easter Sunday for so much JOY!

 

 

Have you heard this song? It was pretty much all I could do not to fall on my face in worship of my King. I hit my knees, unashamed, I shouted for joy, unashamed.

 

JOY - its unspeakable!