What an amazing year it has been! We have been blessed beyond our imagination and continue to be in awe of our Lord with all the wonderful things that He has given us!
Our family continues to be doing wonderful! Dan and I are as busy as ever but enjoying our kids, our families, our friends, our church. Dan is a busy and amazing husband. I'm not sure how he balances all of his responsibilities but he does a tremendous job. He speaks usually 3 times a weekend at church and his week is filled with tons meetings, preparations for bible study, small groups, church and yet he still has enough energy to come and run around the house with Quinton, help hold and feed Rex and Myla and love and serve me. I am truly blessed to have such a great husband.
Our friend Justin Meyer took some family pictures for us before Christmas. He did a great job! Photographing kids is a difficult job. We had to use fruit snacks to get Quinn to smile normal instead of his squinty smile! You can take a look at all the pictures at Justin Meyer's website.
Quinton's first modeling picture!
Quinton never ceases to amaze us with his many smiles, giggles, new words and curly hair. He has continues to grow in his role as a big brother and makes us very proud with how well he has adjusted to such a huge change. He has new words daily and we have to be careful with what we say because he repeats everything! He has mastered saying and recognizing many colors, his favorite crayon color is black but he also is able to recognize and say pink, blue, purple, red, green, orange, and he knows yellow but it is a hard one to say. I'm not sure when kids normally learn things but I think he is pretty smart! He is also able to recognize and say his "special letter" Q!
He continues to be our little social butterfly. He adores his friends and will do just about ANYTHING if he knows that Leighton is coming over. He will wake up in the morning or from a nap and ask for one of his friends and I have to be the bearer of bad news and let him know that they are not coming over. He has a fantastic memory. I hope that as Rex and Myla get bigger he is as excited to play with them as he is his friends. He is so active, jumping, spinning, running, dancing and constantly keeping us on the go. As I have said before, we are looking forward to warmer weather! I'm not sure how I am going to be able to keep track of three movers come summer but I am thinking that we should invest in sunscreen because I have a feeling we will use a lot of it this summer!
Myla Jane was born fiesty and has stayed true to her role. She loves being held more than anything and will let you know if you're not paying attention to her. She is the strongest 10lb baby I have ever seen and loves looking around. She definitely adds some girlyness to our family. Myla successfully rolled over this past week and loves to practice standing. We are convinced that she will be walking in a month of two :)
Rex is patient and sweet. He always has a smile for me and loves being talked to one on one. He has tipped the scales at 15lbs, which is technically only in the 50% for a 4 month old but still seems so big to us. He quickly followed Miss Myla in rolling over this week. He did not want to be left behind. He is as handsome as ever and still has all his dark hair! I love right after a bath when his hair is all fluffy!
We enjoyed a fabulous week in Arkansas with my family. All of our kids were spoiled. Quinton constantly had someone to play with and Rex and Myla always had willing arms to hold them. Dan and I even went to see a movie while on vacation! It was so wonderful to get to spend a week relaxing and playing with our kids. We also enjoy our trips to Arkansas!
After Arkansas we hopped in the car and headed to Omaha for our annual Faithwalkers conference. Our church had around 500 people attend this year. I didn't get to listen to one session but enjoyed the fellowship and got to spend a lot of time around other moms and their kids. We had lots of time with my friend Christy and her boys Leighton (he is three days older than Quinton) and McCabe (6 months). It is always wonderful to get extended time with friends. Our kids did just about as great as they could have with all of us in one hotel room and being around tons of people. We were very proud of them. I got to put my new stroller to good use. The hotel was connected to the convention center where the conference was so we would put them all in the stroller and walk over every day. It was an encouraging four days for our family and our church!
I think that was have finally settled back into life at home. Trying to unpack almost two weeks worth of stuff while trying to take care of three little kids can take a while but we all have clean clothes and everything is put away. Now we are just enjoying the warmth of our house and waiting to come out of hibernation.
We hope that you all enjoyed your holidays. We have so much to be thankful for. We are a blessed family of five!
Justin also photographed all the Rude grandchildren. Last year there were six grandkids and this blessed family has added four more! Again, it is hard to photograph kids!
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