The promised added pictures!

I am a terrible  photographer with an ancient camera, so I am slightly intimidated by the amazing photos most people use to blog.  I'm just here to show you a piece of our lives, which, as you can tell, largely revolves around Elisabeth.  These are just some recent classic moments in her life. 

Having purse and cellphone, will travel!

It made me smile to think that most of the moments captured involve reading. 

Grandpa Jackman and Aunt Carol stopped over before Christmas, and for the first time, E. really made up with Grandpa.  He was eating it up with a spoon, believe you me!

 One of E.'s first words was "Bible." (sounds more like "bubble.")  She has her own New Testament which she loves to carry around.  The other evening at a family gathering, a lot of kids were playing with a ball.  Being hopelessly outnumbered and helplessly small, E. hastened to her diaper bag to grab what was hers and hers alone.  Brandishing her sword, the Word of God, she advanced to the fray, preaching the Gospel. 

I was thankful to find her learning wisdom from this book a friend lent us.  Now, if only her mama could implement more of the principles, we would be well on our way!

 This has been a ritual since she started eating at the table.  Chris misses out on so many poignant moments in E.'s life, but she loves him dearly.

If I feel the urge from time to time, I may just add some things I'm learning about mothering and managing our home.  I so enjoy reading what others are writing online, and I'm amazed by the transparency many share from their hearts.  It's hard for me to go public with things that are terribly personal, particularly when I realize perfect strangers might read them.  But, then again, a stranger is apt to be more forgiving than someone who knows me well!

We'll see what happens!

Another quarterly installment!

I'm back to experimenting with this blog again.  I do that every few months or so!  It's especially important now that I gave out our new address to all our friends!  Below you will find some shots of our precious Elisabeth with her first ponytails.  Can you find them???? 

Late this fall we went fishing for the first time (officially---with our own rod) with Grandma Jackman.  I was anxious to try filleting for the first time.  Grandma caught lots of fish, and I caught all of one.  E. wasn't sure what to think of it all, but she gingerly touched a few of the fish.  I enjoyed filleting more than fishing.  It's taken me a long time to get to this point, but loving to eat fish as I do, I knew I needed to learn how to do the "dirty" work.

 And of course, cooking applesauce is always a necessary fall duty.  E. is turning into quite a mama's helper.  She spends very little time playing with her toys at this stage of her life.  Now it is most meaningful to her to spend time helping me with all my duties.  It is astonishing to me how she is catching on simply by watching.



I'm going to try to post more pictures very soon.  I think I'm learning the hang of how to do it on this old dinosaur computer.  Fortunately, I have discovered how to copy pictures straight to a CD, from which I can pick and choose on an online photo editor.  I don't like to bog down this poor machine with lots of pictures, much less a photo-editing program.  How thankful I am for highspeed internet. 

These pictures aren't in any particular order, since  I'm still trying to figure out how to get them on here! It's been a while since I even attempted to blog, but I thought I could surely figure out how to add a FEW pictures.  Here are just some random shots from the summer months!

Elisabeth loves to drag blankets, or bathrobes, around.  She calls them "nine-nites" and cuddles with then all around the house, at any time of the day. 

Apparently I wasn't reading her signals clearly enough, so when I turned around from my work in the kitchen and discovered this, I decided she was ready for a nap.

This is her first success at getting into adult footwear.  Pardon the lack of skirt.  She was getting ready for Sunday dinner and we didn't want her getting her jumper dirty.

Daddy doesn't very often get to rock E. to sleep anymore, so we had to capture the moment.

On Labor Day, Chris and his dad dug around the front porch to lay some tiling pipe.  We've been getting  a little water in the basement, so this was the endeavor to fix the problem.

It was pretty chilly that day.  I bundled E. up and sent her outside with the ball to play on the porch.  I was watching Chris from the other end of the porch, and when I turned around, here E was, holding onto the stair rails, going down the steps.  I was incredulous, since I've tried over and over to get her to go down by herself.  She had to had a bigger reason to do it though.  She was headed after her ball that had floated down the steps.

This summer we were privileged to visit some family back in Pennsylvania.  Here E is with Jonathan Bradford.  They are 6 months apart in age.  The other cousins had a ball pulling them around in the wagon, as well as manufacturing additional seats  (board across the sides.)

Uncle Fain has been here doing some painting, and he enjoyed decorating E with masking tape he'd peeled off the door.  What was really funny was when he gave her a ball of used masking tape.  Ever seen a cat with tape on it's back?  That tells you what E acted like.

Elisabeth wanted to help me load the dishwasher (or unload it, as the case may be.)

We didn't get any good pictures of Elisabeth on her birthday, so this is the best shot we  got! 

Starting a new blog!

Chris and I have finally gotten high-speed internet, so I thought I'd try doing some blogging again!  It seems like an easy way to keep everyone updated on our whereabouts and whatabouts!  Here are some recent shots of us.

Our little Elisabeth--6 1/2 months old!




 She delights our hearts so much!

Our happy family!



This is a typical scene where Chris works. . . .

And us on our honeymoon. . .

Chris loves to go four-wheeling. . .this is him with his brother and dad a couple summers ago.

This is the garden I helped Mom Jackman tend a couple years ago!  I'm starting to get anxious for spring again.  Last year being "great with child" I didn't do any gardening, but I'm getting awfully antsy to get my fingers in the soil again this year.  And we still have snow on the ground. :-)