Oriole

We've had lots of visitors at the hummingbird feeder.  We've managed to capture one... that is on film digital.

Marigold and the Cat

How to torture love a cat by Marigold

Water Park Fun

 Knowing the most generous people on the planet, we were given some free passes to a water park.

Feast of the Blessed Trinity

O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his counsellor?
Or who hath first given to him, and recompense shall be made him?
For of him, and by him, and in him, are all things: to him be glory for ever. Amen.
Romans 11:33-36

So often we are sour and bitter, angry and sad over our lives, yet as people of Faith we must know that all things, no matter how bitter and sad, are all part of the wisdom and knowledge of God... for *our* greater holiness.  God merely wants to make saints of us and no matter what He presents to us, it is not necessarily because "we deserve it" but because He wants us to be saints, to be with Him one day in Heaven.  So even amidst tears we merely say: "Deo Gratias!" and accept all things because it is from His wisdom and knowledge and for His greater honor and glory!  Praise be God in His Infinite Goodness and Mercy!

Baby News

# 12

Kili

Born today , May 14 @ 9:13am

6# 14oz

19-1/2" long

He is soooooooooooooooooooo cute!

He was my 1st c-section due placenta previa. All went very well. I'm just very groggy from the pain meds (has taken me over an hour to type this much)... and I'm very sore... and hungry!

  

Beautiful Baby Alex

UPDATE:  Please pray for the family. Baby Alex passed away today, May 5th.  We now have a  St. Alex to adore God in a most perfect way, but how heavy our human hearts are.

 Thank you to all those who prayed for my friend's delivery of her beautiful little baby boy, Alex John who has Trisomy 18.  I was blessed to get to go up to the hospital to visit.  As you can see from the picture he is so very darling!

And has alot of hair!  He weighed in at 5 pounds 4 ounces and 18-1/2 inches long.  Please continue to pray for Baby Alex and his beautiful family, they are such a beautiful witness of what it is to be truly pro-life and faith-filled.... and joyful at the same time.

How often people make the poor choice to terminate life based on the imperfections of the human body (among other selfish reasons).  What they deny themselves is love and the intercession of God to bring Grace down to the family.  But here we have a beautiful example of the faithful love of the family, the way God intended it to be.

Baby Alex was baptized and confirmed.  Please also remember our faithful and dedicated priest who was able to be there for any number of hours!

Mass with the Bishop and Science Fair

 We were blessed to have a lovely Mass with our Bishop to end our formal homeschooling year of activities. It began with a presentation of flowers to our Lady.


We had an awesome group of altar boys that did a fantastic job.

 Following the Mass, the Bishop enrolled those who wished to be enrolled in the brown scapular.  We were down to Bilbo for his enrollment.

 Following the Mass there was a year-end science fair.  Sam did an awesome project making some 10 windmills to study... umm... something-over-my-head.  I asked why he didn't bring a scale model of his project to which both Aragorn and Sam laughed at me and said this was the scale model.  Oh.

 The children present had a great time trying to spin it fast enough to light a lightbulb.

 Frodo did a project on bees and their swarming and hiving activities.


The project by a young lady cracked me up... have been at the "old campus" in college I learned to be an expert toilet plunger.  (no that was not my degree!)

 Ok, I was so disappointed I was hasty and got a nice blurry picture as this was so precious of the teenage brother carrying his baby sister in a pack.  Don't you love that?

 This is why I hesitate to send my husband to pick up anything that involves food.  We had planned a nice shrimp newburg dinner to which he brought home, also, some baby octopus. I know some people who perhaps might salivate at the sight of cooked octopus, but I had to pass on this delicacy.  Expectant women do get some say in what they are capable of eating at any given moment!!

 We've had some very lovely spring days lately and the tulips budded... and bloomed....

 There was a sheep shearing done last night to which this is the before picture.....

 And this is the after picture.  So... if anyone knows what to do with some very thick, very heavy, very, lanolin-y sheep wool, better make a comment quickly.  Anyone know how to clean it?!