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Mom (by Nash, age 4)

babyvogeltanz — Sun, 13 May 2012 02:14:19 +0000

Nash’s drawing of me…his mom. I’m looking a little wide. Might need to hit the gym a little harder this week.

Nash’s teacher at the Mother’s Morning Out program he attends, did an interview with each child about their mom. I particularly like his answer to question #5. I guess this kid really knows me well!

I love being a mom. I love my kids. I love my life.

GRATEFUL.

Puddles.

babyvogeltanz — Wed, 09 May 2012 02:46:21 +0000

Let them jump in puddles and teach them to dance in the rain. Let them be kids. Somedays (okay, many days) I have to stop and remind myself this…and then have the camera close by to capture the pure joy of my kids just being kids.

Globetrotting…

babyvogeltanz — Sun, 06 May 2012 01:38:17 +0000

I love my globetrotting man…

Hurry home, babe!

Oh the adventures and stories! I’m grateful I get to do life with such an amazing man.

The kids and I…

babyvogeltanz — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:10:13 +0000

(L to R: Evyn, Xavier, Nash, Meyer, Charis, Isaiah)

The kids and I are spending the week in West Virginia visting my family while Bryson hops around Africa. My sister Olivia and her 3 little people also joined us for a few days. As usual, it has been pure chaos and pure fun. Nash and Xavier are inseparable! Meyer is happy as usual. Isaish has such red hair, I’m not sure where he came from. Charis is such a little mama. And Evyn is full of silliness as usual. Such fun days! Warning…I love taking pictures of these little people when they are all together, so there are A LOT of pictures!

Nash and Isaiah.

Livvy, Isaiah, and Charis

This one makes me laugh! Poor baby Isaiah!

Meyer loves running in the yard! She stayed up 2 hours past her bedtime last night just running around and rolling in the grass.

Nash and Xavier wrestling and playing. Such boys!

Toni’s Ice Cream…a Clarksburg staple.

“Xavier is my very best friend.” -Nash age 4

Fishing and catching frogs with Uncle Seth.

Baby Isaiah and Livvy…

Excellent running form, Nash.

Such a sweet face!

Girls.

Playing and running in the yard. JOY!

Laughter is good for the soul.

Baby Isaiah…check out that RED hair!!

Relaxing and eating s’mores

My favorite picture of the trip! The boys and their “adventure backpacks”. #memories.

Princess. No other title needed.

babyvogeltanz — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:46:47 +0000

Evyn has the look

Evyn loved celebrating her little friend Hadley at a princess party. The girls were adorable!

Hadley + Evyn

Evynn and sweet Nora

Little girls are so much fun…lots of drama…but so much fun!

Stone Mountain

babyvogeltanz — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:55:43 +0000

We had a fabulous family day at Stone Mountain this weekend. You wouldn’t know it by this picture, so you’ll just have to take my word for it. It was surprisingly fun!

silliness with daddy

more silliness

look...some smiles!

Meyer's mantra: "Everything is better with a snack in hand."

We even took in a 4-D movie. Nash loved it. Evyn hated it but looked good her in glasses. Meyer at a whole bag of popcorn by herself.

Thank you…

babyvogeltanz — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:04:50 +0000

Here is a beautiful video that Bryson helped create to say THANK YOU to all the students from Passion for giving $3.3 Million to fund projects fighting slavery around the globe. It is really powerful! Check it out and make sure you have a tissue handy…

WATCH THE THANK YOU VIDEO

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If you loved that song on the video, it’s called Sing Along by Christy Nockels. Amazing, right?! She just released an album called Into the Glorious and it is BEAUTIFUL. For real. It is so so amazing. The songs are so God breathed and full of Truth. It’s been on repeat for a week now and will be for some time! If you don’t have this album…GET ONE! Like, now. Really. Each song has so much depth and truth about it — it has encouraged my heart so much already. Christy recently wrote a cool blog post about how the song Sing Along came about. I love how the Lord is in all the details and was connecting her heart to what was already stirring in our hearts as we planned to make Freedom the focus of Passion 2012. Beautiful. Simply beautiful. CHRISTY’S BLOG POST

A few more…

babyvogeltanz — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 01:39:09 +0000

Passion City Church was outside on Easter, so the kids and I (along with our super awesome neighbors + their three kids) watched the service from the grassy lawn sitting on quilts and eating leftovers from the previous days picnic. It was perfect. My kind of Easter celebration! Here are a few pictures we snapped of the kids enjoying the service — playing in the dirt and grass while listening to and worshipping with Chris Tomlin, Christy Nockles, Matt Redman, and Kristian Stanfill lead worship….it doesn’t get more perfect than that!!

The boys, Cole & Nash, taking it all in...

Evyn playing in the dirt...being careful not to get too dirty in her Easter dress...

Evyn...just being Evyn.

Easter Picnic

babyvogeltanz — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:50:24 +0000

I love celebrating Easter. It’s my favorite holiday because you get to celebrate Jesus and not mess with the hustle bustle of shopping for gifts. It’s no pressure and just quality time with friends and family. Love it! I did feel bad on Easter morning when I realized I had not even put together Easter baskets for the kids! They didn’t even ask and honestly they didn’t need the candy so it was fine. Maybe next year — if I remember! I actually like that the easter bunny and gift filled baskets aren’t the focus on Easter morning around here and hope it’s always that way!

Here are some more pictures of our weekend celebrating Easter with family and friends. The weather could not have been more beautiful!!

table set for the easter picnic...

guys playing a serious game of corn hole

Nash has his "adventure bag" (not a purse!) ready for the Egg hunt

Kids ready for the egg hunt! Ready set go!

She looks innocent, but this girl is serious about a good hunt!

so cute.

Greatest day in history…

babyvogeltanz — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 01:20:40 +0000

Death is beaten! You have set us free!

I love Easter! I love celebrating Jesus! It was a great weekend around here. We had an amazing Good Friday service with our church family, then hosted an Easter picnic with some friends and family on Saturday, and finished off the weekend back at church celebrating Easter.

Here are a few pics of the little people in their Sunday best….

So much joy on Easter!! Thank you Jesus!!

love Meyer's laugh in this picture!

Meyer looks like a pink pilgrim in this dress! SOOOO southern. Once a year I subject my girls to these southern dresses that are so popular here in Atlanta. Smocked and all (so not my style — but cute on the girls) We had a hiccup with Evyn’s dress this year — I forgot to try it on her before Easter morning (oops.) and when I put it on her this morning you could see straight through it! So, we had a last minute dress change and she is actually wearing one of Meyer’s dresses (24 month size!) She looks beautiful in white (anything really!) so she pulls it off well and she didn’t have to rock the southern belle look like Meyer!

Meyer has such an exaggerated walk....feet out and arms all over the place. It's adorable.

she's the definition of a "toddler" when she walks. toddle toddle wobble.