Piano Recital Video



1st song: Asleep In The Nest...by Greenleaf

2nd song: I've Got The Joy...by Cooke



Piano Recital

As I mentioned in my previous post, Lilly had a piano recital last night. She did such a GREAT job, as did her fellow piano students.  I was very impressed at how well they all performed and played their pieces from memory. We also enjoyed a pot luck before the recital with the other students and parents and over all had a very lovely evening.

The students that performed 

 

Lilly and her teacher Mrs. Christensen

 

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Olivia and Lilly posin' for the camera

 

My Sweeeet Baby Cakes! I just love this little guy :-)

A Whole Month?

Has it really been a whole month since my last post? Time sure flys by when you have little ones running and CRAWLING around! Yes you read that right, Samuel is crawling now. On Valentines day he started doing this belly hop thing and a few days later he had crawling down like a pro. He also has 6 teeth already and is working on 2 more! He is still very much attatched to me and LOVES taking a bath. He is growing sooo fast, I can't belive in 4 months he will be a year old.  Lilly and Olivia have taken to "mothering" him and sometimes argue over who's going to play with him. He definately doesn't mind and loves the attention.

Olivia has been busy learning the sounds each letter in alphabet makes and  an animal and song that go with each letter. She is working on memorizing Psalm 100 and has it all down except for the very last part of the last verse. She is also learning numbers and is very good at math and counting. She also is SO very funny and she's always saying very funny things. I have a growing list of funny things her and Lilly have said that I will post another day.

Lilly has a piano recital later on this evening, so hopefully I will be able to get some good pictures and videos to post. She has been doing very well with her piano lessons and her teacher says she has a good ear for music. She is almost finished with her paces for the year and has already finished reading the books we got her for Christmas. She loves to read and what I like very much is that she likes to read to Olivia. It is so sweet to see them sitting and enjoying a book together.

Chris has been busy as well with the outreach and jail ministry here in the Methow and Okanogan Valleys. We will be traveling to Maryland here soon as he is scheduled to preach at a church there. He has had several doctor appointments over his ankle and is still having alot of pain and swelling. Here recently he had  a steroid injection of some type and it seems to have made things worse. Way worse than it was before. He has an appointment with his doctor today, so hopefully they can figure out something to do to help.

So what have I been up to? Chris and I moved our house/bedrooms around, so I have been trying to settle on a paint color for a couple of the rooms. Chris got me a very early birthday present, a kindle! Those things are so neat! Since both of the girls have had growth spurts like crazy, I've been making them some culottes to wear this spring and summer. This week in particular, I've been busy getting us ready to go on a trip coming up soon to fly to TN to visit our family. I am SO excited about this trip and also very sad at the same time. Last month on the 18th,  my Memaw (grandmother) passed away so I'm very sad that I won't be able to see her when we get there. I am also not looking forward to the traveling part of the trip either. This will be the first time flying with 3 children and we thought it was hard with 1! But I think we have prepared plenty of things for them to do and hopefully we won't be the annoying family with crying children the whole flight :-/.

Last night I was up waaaaay too long and past my bedtime changing the look of my blog. I was bored with the way it looked and felt the need to spice things up a bit. I'm still not happy about the background and will probably change it....again. I went through so many different backgrounds and font's last night trying to find the ones I liked. So what do ya think of it the way it is? I think it's too dark and not too crazy aobut the font, I dunno. I don't have too much time to work on it, so it's going to have to stay this way for a little while.

Anyhow, since I really haven't been taking pictures lately and don't have new ones of the kiddos, I will leave you with some art the girls have drawn/painted on the easel that Lilly got for Christmas.

The Majors Family

What happens if you have a small body and huge head?

You fall over!

 Lilly hung these up to dry on the refrigerator.

Hopefully we won't need anything out of the refrigerator

for a while.

 Olivia drew this. She said this is her Daddy and he is so strong.

Glaucoma?!

I have had to wear glasses since the sixth grade, ugh. So I am very familiar with going in for an eye exam every year to every couple of years. Well, today I went in for a regular eye exam and to get contacts. Everything was going as usual, then the Dr. tells me my eye pressure is very high. Then I hear the word, glaucoma. I don't have glaucoma (thank you Lord!!!), but I am at high risk of getting it in the future. I don't know too much about it, besides it can cause blindness (I think). While I wait for my next appointment (in 4 months), I will surely be looking into it. I looked it up once today as soon as I got home and what I read made me kinda scared. As I sat here wondering if one day I will become blind or have to have some kind of eye surgery, I looked over at the calendar on the wall. Do you know what it said? At the bottom, it has a verse of scripture: 2 Samuel 22:33 God is my strength and power; and He maketh my way perfect. I thought, how silly I'm being. I was getting myself so worked up over what might one day happen. If it does or doesn't happen, God will be there giving me the strength to get through it. 

Thank you Grandma Spence for sending us those calendar's every year!!!!

Home Sweet Home

We made it back home on Monday evening. It has taken a few days to get settled back in at home. It always surprises me how much work it is to get all of us unpacked and then get back into a routine. We had a great time visiting with the McDowell family, it was truly a great blessing to spend New Years with them. God is so good to us and gives us exactly what we need, when we need it! The drive was so beautiful, I took tons of pictures and it was hard to choose which ones to share in this post. So I picked a few....

On the road, leaving Okanogan

 The boys checking out Samuel

 On the road, leaving Oregon

 Gave the girls gum and Olivia got it stuck in her hair!

 With not many options and no peanut butter, we

decided to just cut it out. I thought she would be upset

but she was more ok with it than me, lol.

 Learning how to drive at 6 months :-)

Pictures over the past few days...

The day before Christmas Eve (friday), we went to Wenatchee. Wow was it busy! The girls were VERY tired on our drive home.

And here's the proof!

These poor children were so tired. They really did fall asleep like this. I woke Lilly up and got her to put her seat back a little bit because her neck would have really been hurting by the time we got home.

We spent Christmas Eve (saturday) at home, opening our gifts from friends, family and one another. We were very thankful to have recieved some games. We LOVE playing games! We also watched some Christmas movies and just had a nice relaxing day at home.

Chip being a chihuahua is always cold in the winter and anytime I have my electric blanket out he comes to snuggle. 

"Ahhh! Finally, I am warm!"

Then, Christmas Day (sunday), we headed over to Twisp and spent the morning/afternoon with two very dear ladies, Kimmie and Ruth. Chris had a great bible study for us on the birth of Jesus. The girls and Samuel behaved very well and I was able to hear the whole thing! We also sang some songs and Chris and Lilly played the piano for us.

Kimmie, Olivia and Lilly

 A very sharp/pointy icicle hanging off the office roof.

 Chris trying to prick his finger on the very sharp/pointy icicle, lol.

After we sang songs, I asked Chris and Lilly to play the song they played at the recital because I didn't get a great view. So here is Chris and Lilly playing the same song.

(In case you were wondering, at the end of the video I noticed I was

standing way too close to the heater)

It was such a beautiful drive over Loup Loup pass that morning. On the way home I had Chris pull over so I could take some pictures.

A view of the Methow Valley 

Look closely and you can see deer in the field. 

Deer tracks in the snow.

After we got home we got busy cooking our Christmas Dinner. We had a very tasty turkey with all the fixins. Here is something new I tried this year (pictured below). We paired this with some whole wheat Ritz crackers.

Holiday Feta Cheese Ball

I hope you all had a great Christmas! Now I must stop blogging and finish packing. We are taking a trip to Oregon to visit and spend New Years with some friends. What do you have planned for New Years?

Lilly's Christmas Recital

Here ia a video of Lilly playing at the Christmas Recital. Next time, I will definately try to get a better view.  They played at the Apple Springs retirement community this evening.

 Samuel is getting both of his two front

 bottom teeth in at the same time.

May God bless you and your family this Christmas!

Trip to O.H.

We got to Oak Harbor early yesterday evening. Belive it or not, we got here exactly when we wanted and planned on getting here. If you have ever traveled with 3 little ones and 2 dogs, you know how difficult it can be. It took us almost 6 hours to get to Oak Harbor from our house. I'm still surprised that we got here on time with all the snow on Stephens Pass and then the rain/traffic after that. We had plenty of time to relax and stretch out our legs before church and even have dinner! Thanks so much for dinner Sherri!  Brother Hower preached an excellent message and then there were great testimonies of how God is blessing in peoples lives. Then to top of a great night in God's house,  there was pie and fellowship with some much missed friends!

Also, I won the Family Daughter book giveaway that I posted about a couple days ago!!! How cool is that? I can't wait to read it.

Now some pictures....

"I can grab things with my hands now."

 "Now just to figure out how to grab things and

put them in my mouth at the same time."

 "Is this how you drink out of this thing?"

 Stevens Pass when we drove over it yesterday.

 Levi (the Vaughn's doggie)  checking out Samuel.

 On the blanket...

 Off the blanket, lol.

Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving!

My Sweet Lillian

Today, Lilly celebrated her 7th birthday! God has blessed us with such a sweet and loving little girl. I am so thankful for her and would like to share some pictures of her. I realized after I started looking through pictures this was not going to be a quick and easy post like I thought it was going to be. We have tons of pictures! So I tried to pick out some of my favorite. Now I must turn off this computer and get some sleep :). We leave first thing in the morning to Oak Harbor, to spend the week there for Thanksgiving.