Visiting Harker's

 Back in May we last minute decided to go up to Canada to see G-Ma and G-Pa Harker and my kids' only Harker cousins. The kids had a day or two off school for a holiday (Memorial day?) and Cory had work off so we headed up North. We knew that in a few months I would not feel like traveling later in my pregnancy so it was the perfect opportunity to get away to see family for a weekend.

The kids love their cousins! They enjoyed time with them........

Eating Ice cream

 Having BBQ's at a park

Lahna trying to be a big girl like cousin Danica

 Jonah loved helping Grampa George with Yard work, he felt so "Manly"

 The kids decided that the very unsafe old deck was a great place for a "fort" 

(the next trip up to Canada involved tearing that old deck down, the kids were a bit sad about losing their fort, but it was probably for the best)

 "fishing" at the local pond

The kids only caught a bunch of water bugs and a couple of tad poles but they were sure excited about their great catches.

I love this picture. Cory just chilling with cute Danica while she hopes to catch something.

It was a fun short week end I'm glad we got to go. It's the first time we've been up to his folks in years. While in Indiana it was just hard to make a trip up to Canada so we were more than excited to go back for a nice visit.
Cory took the two older kids back up to Canada the end of July, but I was not feeling like driving 8 hours so I stayed home with Lahna girl and we had a nice five days to ourselves. I don't have pictures from that, as Cory went with out a camera. He did take a few pictures on his phone that I may post on here later.

Staying afloat

I feel like I'm just treading water, just barely staying afloat in the seas of what is my life these days.
I feel terrible for my lack of Blogging. I really do love to do it, it just gets hard some times, like during these times of chaos. I promise to pick up and catch up on this blog but until then, it's one of "those" posts. Sorry.

I want to blog about everything that has happened and so much has. I want to blog about my thoughts because it feels good (therapeutic if you will) but right now is not the time, I wish it were, but it's not.

So what has happened, just for the record?

-The first week in April was spring break and we took a very long and fun trip to Utah/Idaho. We saw lots of family and some old friends, it was fun to just get away and see and visit with people we love.

-Eden turned 8 in March and was baptized April 14th. Many of her Aunties (my sisters) made it up here for the baptism, it was so special and she has such a sweet spirit I'm grateful for her example.

-At the end of April beginning of May we moved. Again. Yep, that's as exciting as it gets. I hate moving. We are still in the same area it's just that the owners of the wonderful/cute/amazing/perfect-for-our-family little country rental home we were in sold it and we were not the buyers so we had to move. It was hard and sad to leave that place. But we are grateful to find a good place in the same area.

-Lahna (my third) turned 2 on May 7th and I FORGOT her birthday. But so did Cory and my Parents and pretty much everyone else. The poor forgotten third child. But to justify my forgetfulness, I'M PREGNANT! And we were in the process of moving from the old rental to the new one AND I remembered later that evening and pulled off a "birthday celebration" at the last minute.She never even knew I forgot, but some day when she reads this blog post, she will know. Sorry Lulu we still love ya!

-I'm still pregnant and at just 24 weeks I feel like this is going to be the longest pregnancy of my life ((sigh)) I think I can, I think I can....... We had two ultra sounds and the first one the Doc said "It sure looks like a boy to me" and I agreed. Then the ultra sound Tech did the routine 20 week check and said "it sure looks like a girl to me." And I agreed with her too. And YES they are sure there is only ONE baby in there, not two. So this baby is sure going to be a Boy....or a Girl. They said they'll try and squeeze in another ultra sound with one of my appointments to check the gender but they can't schedule one as insurance won't cover it, but I think I'll be okay if we don't know for sure, but it would be nice to know, ya know?

-I hate unpacking. It takes forever! I feel so unmotivated to do it, especially when I feel huge and uncomfortable. People keep asking us "So do you feel like you are getting settled in yet?" and I say the same thing (to be polite) "Yeah, kinda" But what I really mean is "No not really and by the time we do feel and/or get settled in we'll have to move again so why bother settling in in the first place." But then I'd just sound like a grumpy crabby fat pregnant Debbie Downer, and I'd rather not sound grumpy or crabby or like Debbie Downer so I don't say it, but I will on here :)

-Besides being pregnant and hating unpacking....I had a good friend of mine from high school offer to take some maternity pictures for me, it was really fun! She did such a wonderful job and it is nice to have pictures of me pregnant even if I hate the way I look, it'll be nice to have them for posterity's sake. I also got food poisoning later that night (Darn Pizza Hut) I hate being sick but I think a bad case of food poisoning is THE WORST! And being pregnant makes it even worse. I seriously thought it was going to put me into labor.

-Kids update: Eden is ready to be done with second grade. She loves it but I can tell they are both eager for the summer break coming up (I hate that school here goes until mid June!) Jonah is finally asking to go to school in the mornings (he has half day k-g in the afternoon) he'll say he's bored and wants to go to school, and I think that is a good thing since next year he'll be going all day in first grade. Everyday Lahna asks "Where's Eden go? Where's Jonah go?" and I tell her the same thing "to school Lahna" she's ready for summer break too!



I'm sure there is more that has happened since I last posted but I can't remember it all, my brain doesn't do that when I'm pregnant. But this will have to do until I find time to update with pictures. I really want to put up pics of our Spring break and of Eden's Baptism and my maternity pictures,,,,,,soon, I promise soon I'll catch up. (or maybe I'll just keeping making that promise until after this baby comes).

Eden's Baptism

 A while back I posted a "Birthday post" for Eden's birthday that was in March. I mentioned in that post that she chose to be baptized a Member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Well in our congregation (Stake, as we call it) they do group baptisms for all the kids that turned 8 in the last month that chose to be baptized, and have it on the same day at the beginning of the month. They have one spiritual meeting with a musical number or two and a speaker or two and then they all take their turn to go to the Font and be baptized individually.

It was such a good experience for all of our family. She is the oldest Grand Child on both sides and so she gets to be the first to do all these "big" steps in life. She gets to kind of lead by example. It was a big event and my family came to town. I had four of my siblings make it to town for this big event.

The meeting was so nice. I volunteered my sisters and I to do a musical number for the meeting (I'm sure they loved that :) and then Cory was able to baptize her.

This is her Baptism dress, isn't it a Beauty?!

 

 My sweet little sister Whitney offered to make her dress for her and it turned out perfect!  My older sister Angela (the one who spoils my children) got her an American girl doll as her gift to her for this big occasion and my sister Whit made a matching dress for her Doll. 

My oldest Sister Wendy made a BEAUTIFUL quilt for Eden that turned out perfect for her bed. My Mother made her a scripture case and Cory and I bought her, her first set of Scriptures.  Her Auntie Kim and uncle Tyler got her a cute Hello Kitty swim suit that she loved! She was spoiled just a little bit :)

Now for more pictures....

Proud Parents before her baptism,

With Daddy, who was about baptized her in her actual baptism dress that sh would wear in the water(it's also made by my Mother and I think I actually wore that when I was eight).

 She was able to be baptized on the same day as one of her Best friends Mackenzie

 Our little family, this picture actually turned out pretty good!

 Proud Parents after

 Grandma and Grandpa

 Me with my sweet 1st born Child, I love her!

 The whole gang that could come! 

(Pay not attention to Jonah grabbing himself and Lahna sticking her finger up her nose....children!)

Spring break fun

At the beginning of April the kids had spring break and so Cory took off work and we headed to Utah and then planned to stop through Rexburg, ID for the Easter weekend and be with my sister for a couple of days before heading back up to Washington.

We just needed to get out of town, we were ready for a break. The whole week of the kids' spring break here, in Washington was going to be terrible weather! I knew we could not stick around for a crappy cold, wet, snowing spring break. Thankfully Utah and Idaho had better weather, a lot better, with nice warm temperatures and with sunshine (and a little bit of snow one day but still it warmed up quickly after that...)

We went down the weekend of Conference and stayed with Cory's Brother Quinn. We had never seen their "new" house (which they bought a couple of years ago) and even though his wife Kristen was out of town we were excited to have a couple nights stay with him in SLC. The kids really enjoyed his crawl space under his house, it was a kids dream place for a hide-out/fort. We were able to see some good friends of ours from Indy that now live in the area, it was fun to catch up and see how they were doing.

We spent one day on Temple grounds, which the kinds have never been to. They loved seeing the Temple up close and looking around the Visitors Center. We also let them take a tour of the Conference Center with us, which they thought was cool to see where Conference is held and how HUGE it actually is. Cory and I have been to the Conference Center twice when were first Married so it was fun to tell the kids we had been there and to show them around with the help of a very nice and patient tour guide, who most likely was a Grandma who has grand kids and was so understanding of our kids' crazy, inattentive, wild behavior. Jonah and Lahna kept pushing the alarm button in the elevator which would not just ring inside the elevators but you could hear it through the whole building, crazy kids! The kids also thought it was pretty cool to be on top of a big building and that it had plants/trees on top of it too. Cory and I wished we could have taken the whole guided tour to look at all the cool/beautiful Art work but we knew that 25 minutes of that was WAY too long for our kids to suffer through so we just did a short quick tour for the kids sake, it worked out perfect.

Some good friends of ours moved to Colorado but were in the SLC area that same week we were there. We were close with them and Eden still considers Myleigh to be one of best friends from Indy. Jonah also missed his friend William and so we met up with them at a park on a very nice sunny day and they got to play with some old friends, it was so fun to see them. Now they are trying to convince us to move to Colorado, if they can find us a job we'll move there ;)

Then we went down to Provo to stay with my sisters. Auntie Angela has her house there in Provo where Auntie Allie pays rent and lives there with her. The kids were so excited to finally see Angela's house. We had lots of fun, we hiked, we played at a park in their neighborhood where Auntie Allie taught Jonah boy how to swing a bat and hit a soft ball, he was in heaven. It is always a fun time with Aunt Angela and Aunt Allie.


And that about sums up our spring break in Utah.

It may sound like boring work but I love it because I love them

It's almost spring break for the kids, Hallelujah! They are driving me crazy and I think they just need a break! I need a break but with them being home from school it just means I don't get a spring break. I think they are just feeling cooped up and have spring fever. Although by the look of the weather around us lately it doesn't really look and/or feel like it is Spring here (except for all the rain). We are ready for some SUN and a "vacation".

We are going to Utah for part of our Spring break and I have lots of stuff to get done, clean house, the-never-ending-laundry, bathrooms, make phone calls, plan fun activities, pack bags for 5 people.....the list goes on and on....and on....so I thought since I feel overwhelmed I'm going to stall and blog :) That's what I do when I feel overwhelmed, I stall and when I stall I blog :) But I can justify it, it's a good thing to do, it's what I consider my journaling so it's good.

I'm not very eloquent in putting my thoughts into words, sentences, paragraphs like other people but I have thoughts and I'm going to try to express them in my way.....

Often I feel looked down upon by "the world" because all I "do" is stay at home. In my heart I know it's what I was meant to do. I know it is really what I love, I do, I love being a Mother. And it doesn't matter how many times I hear a General Authority or Prophet of the Lord talk about the importance of mothers, I can still feel the worlds judgements, not that I care what the world thinks or that it effects what I do, but I feel it nonetheless. Though in my heart I know it's a good thing to want to be with my children and the right choice for ME and MY family, I still feel.....looked down upon, like I'm less of a "Woman" because I don't work outside the home.

Some times my mind tries to tell me things like "Well, so-and-so is a Mom AND works/goes to school (fill in the blank)" or my mind says "Is driving kids around all day, buying/making/preparing food for them all day, wiping bums all day, really that important that I have to be the one doing it?" and there are other thoughts similar to these that pop into my head on a daily basis, some times on hard days they pop into my head multiple times a day. Please tell me I'm not alone here? If you don't I'm gonna feel a bit guilty :/

When People ask "So, do you just stay at home all day with your kids" I wish I could say "YES!" with less of the "I'm sorry, is that bad? but yes I do" tone. Ya know? That word "JUST" really gets to me when people say it that way, and I know what most people mean by it and it's harmless really but it can some times sound like the "well staying home for your kids isn't all that much work so there's bound to be something else you do, right?" tone and THAT bothers me.

I know I should not let it get me down, but some times it "gets" to me and I feel like saying "WELL, I'd LOVE to go back to school or go to work or have a really time consuming awesome hobby (like traveling the world) but I feel strongly about being here for my kids at this time in their young lives and I can JUST stay at home so I do! It's not easy on our pocket book, but we make it work and we feel good about it so....what's it to ya!?" But I don't say that, I usually say "Yep!" and sigh and invisibly rolls my eyes and try to remind myself it doesn't matter what they think I know in my heart it's what I need to be doing. But why does it have to be hard for my brain and my heart to connect and make me feel so confidant in MY choices for MY family that I could answer those questions confidently with no doubts or fears trying to sneak their way in?

I have my moments though where I think "This is tough work, it would be WAY easier to just go to work all day and come home to happy kids and put them to bed and do the same thing the next day." But then I have those moments where I'm like "This is why I do this, THIS is what it's all about and I wouldn't miss it for the world!" Moments, I love those moments. I have on most days those moments where there are those "gifts" my kids give me, they aren't physical gifts but gifts of love, joy, learning, spiritual gifts that only kids can give to a Mother and only if the Mother pays close attention to what she is receiving from her Children. I don't know how to explain them but I think any Mother knows what I'm talking about. I have days where I'm sure I don't pay enough attention to my kids and opportunities/gifts go unnoticed, but for the most part I look for them, I need them some times to just get through each day.

A couple of days ago I was reading a chain of emails from an old, good, friend of mine from college. She's one of those friends that we don't keep in touch that well over the last 10 years and our lives are quite different from one another, but when we do reconnect we feel the same about each other and it feels like, though things have changed our friendship has not. I love those friends and I have a few of them and I love that I can just pick up where we left off and reconnect. Anyway I was reading through this chain of emails back and forth between us which were spread out over a couple years time and in this latest one we hadn't kept in touch very well and we both really didn't know what the other was up to or what was new in their lives. So I asked her what was new with her and she responded and then asked me what was new with me and my family and I responded to her, but I remember thinking "Wow, I don't have any exciting things I do to tell her about, and is she really interested in hearing about my stay at home job?" I thought "Should I even try to make it sound glamorous?" Because as most moms know it is not glamorous at all, most days. I remember thinking for just a moment "well I don't have much to update her on because I do the same thing I did seven years ago and that is just stay at home." I caught myself repeating what others say to me, "just". So I decided to have a better attitude about what I did and be proud and tell her about it with confidence, so I did.

I reread my response and it just struck me......My heart yelled "Be proud of who you are, what you do and why you do it!" and as I read my response I cried because my heart and brain finally connected and I felt overwhelmed with this sense of confidence and pure joy in my roll as, not just a Mother, but as A stay at Home Mother.

Here is what I wrote:
"About me/us:
I have three kids now (I like to take it slow, none of this 18 months apart stuff for me ;) my oldest Eden, whom you've met, is already seven and in second grade. It blows my mind that next year she'll be eight and be able to choose to be baptized! My boy, Jonah, is now five and in K-G, he is a funny kid, and by funny I mean strange :)But we love him. And my sweet baby girl Lahna (pronounced law-nuh) is 16 months old and we are on the count down until she can enter the amazing world of NURSERY! She's wild and crazy and cute and funny! And by cute, I mean GORGEOUS and by funny, I mean hilarious! She makes me jealous daily of her beautiful blue eyes and long LONG eye lashes and it doesn't take much from her to get the whole house laughing, we sure love having her around. So as you can guess my days are spent caring for these amazing little people. I do the usual cook, clean, entertain, chauffeur, play, love, clean clean clean....for these kiddos. It may sound like boring work but I love it because I love them. I'm not as crafty as some home-makers but I try and I make my home, just that, a home but most importantly We and make the kids feel loved and that is home enough for anyone."

I broke down at the part where I said "It may sound like boring work but I love it because I love them!" It hit me at that moment that THAT is why I do it, I love them so much that I want to sacrifice my wants for their needs. I forgot that I could do that. That I could love someone, or little people and a husband in my case, so much that I would sacrifice anything that I would want, for them. How selfish of me to forget the importance of what I do, how silly of me to "get down" when I feel like less of a Woman because of what others think. WHO CARES, what other things, who cares!? I know a few people who really care (my husband, my parents, most important My Father in Heaven) and they are the ones supporting me and loving me and encouraging me in this roll I play, and for them I am thankful!

So I thought I need to say something in my brain that connects to my heart when I get that "just" question asked to me. I thought I need to say to myself I don't "just" stay at home, I GET to stay at home to be the Mother I want to be. I don't need to feel judged nor judge others for being different in what we chose to do. For some it is a choice to do other things on top of being a Mother, and that is okay! For others it is not a choice and they must work or go to school to help the family and that is okay too! So I need to remember to be grateful that I "get" to stay home, I get to have that as a choice option in my life, and I am thankful that I can.

I'm not gonna lie there are days where I say "Never mind this is too hard, can I change my mind? Can I go to work?" But more times I say "Thank Heavens I can do this for my family".

I'll just end with one last thing I liked about what I said in my email...

"I'm not as crafty as some home-makers but I try and I make my home, just that, a home but most importantly We and make the kids feel loved and that is home enough for anyone."

I'm grateful I get to make my home a home for my husband and kids, it's not easy but I'm grateful for my roll.

The not-so-forgotten-third-child

I am the third child in my family of seven kids. Would I consider myself "forgotten"? Well, not as forgotten as the 7th right ;)
No, I'm kidding. BUT I will say it's easy to forget to "record" your kids as often, as more of them come along. I have two million and two pictures and videos of Eden as a baby/child, about a million of Jonah and about half of that of my baby girl. For some reason life gets busier with more kids and the camera gets left in it's case all too often.
BUT
Even if I have half as many pictures of this crazy, cute little girl I have just as many stories and memories that I want to record of her at this age, as I did of my other kids at this age. So here is my Not-so-forgotten-third-child post just for her!

Lahna is 22 months old and thinks she is two. She has learned to throw fits long ago but has perfected them these days. She loves to talk and has learned to love the word "no" and tries her best to use it on me, and when it doesn't work that's where the fits come in, ahh don't you just love two year old children?

I do love her. Even with all her orneriness she is hilariously entertaining!

It's a dinner time ritual in our house to have a little music on in the background while we eat and talk as a Family. Usually dinners end up with us cracking up at our silly Lulu while she either dances in her seat and/or depending on the song, she will "rock on". All you have to say to this girl is "Rock on Lahna!" and this is the face she makes as she nods her head up and down to the music as if she were a "rocker". It's hilarious! We have yet to get a real good picture of her "rock on" face, this is as close as it gets. And of course when the video camera comes out she won't do it at all.

Here are her First piggy tails. My poor baby girls are always so bald. She's finally getting more hair enough to "do it" and it's getting darker, she was such a Blondie in the summer but now it's more like Jonah's color. She hates to get her hair done "pretty" so I rarely do it because it's not worth the fight, to me anyway. That's how it goes with the third kid, right?

Speaking of hair, she hates my hair. She can some times be a snugly little girl and will want to lay her head down on my shoulders or chest. Since my hair is long (a few inches past my shoulders) she gets mad at me and won't lay her head down until my hair is off my chest/shoulder area. She'll yell "Nooo, you hayuh you hayuh!" As she violently shoves my hair over my shoulders and out of her way. I don't know why I think it's so funny, but I laugh every time. I tell Cory it's because she's jealous and wish she had long hair too ;)

This girl has an obsession with putting things on her legs. For example: Any hair tie she finds lying around the house, she immediately sits down and begins to shove it on one or both of her legs, or if she finds anything that looks like it has a hole big enough to put her legs through, she will find a way to make it fit. Once we found a hair tie around her upper thigh in the morning after changing her morning diaper with a hair clip on it, apparently she put it on just before bed the night before and we didn't see it and she slept with it on the whole night, it left a nice red mark on her leg for a day or two. She LOVES putting her brother and sisters underwear on over whatever she is wearing, she will sport that outfit all day if I'd let her, even out to the store, but I put a stop when it comes to going out in public like that. Here she is sporting Jonah boys underwear over her jammies, cute! Could be the newest fashion statement, ha ha! I need to get this girl some leg-warmers she'd probably love them and at least they are back in style now and safer than hair ties cutting off her circulation.

(this is her "show me a cute face" pose)

She is my "little helper". She loves to "help" when I'm cooking or baking (which sadly has not been a lot lately), but usually she just wants to watch and then lick the beaters or burn herself on the stove or oven, very helpful indeed.

Helping me make a pie, I did not use her mashed up pie crust for the pie. It was more like play dough to her.

Being the third child, you usually get more "picked on" and she has really learned how to "tattle" on her brother and sister, okay mostly her brother since he is the one that picks on her the most. It's funny to watch as she comes running to me sobbing and babbling on and on in audibly about what just happened to her. It usually sounds like "wah wah wah uh Jonah wah wah wah uh hurt me" I tell her to calm down and then say "now tell me what happened" it comes out the same way "wah wah wah uh Jonah wah wah uh hurt me" I can't help but laugh it's funny and sad at the same time.


We sure do love our spunky little almost-two-year-old. We can't get enough of the silly quirky things she does on a daily basis. I tell my Mom the reason she is alive on a daily basis is because she is so cute, on top of her orneriness, and it's a good thing too it really does save her life ;) (mostly kidding CPS please let us keep our kid!)
We love you lulu you are not forgotten!

Happy Birthday sweet Girl

***********I wrote this post the day before Eden's birthday so I would remember to post her "Birthday Post" on the blog even if the day got crazy busy, well I still forgot! It's only two days after her actual birthday, oops.****************


My sweet sweet Eden Girl is Eight years old Today. I cannot believe eight years ago she came into my life and made me a Mother for the first time, for that she will always have a special place in my heart. It doesn't seem possible that it was that long ago we brought her home from the Hospital and realized she would change us forever! They grow up too quickly.

We love our Eden girl. From the time she could smile, laugh and bat her eyes she has been showing off her full personality to the world. At just a few months old she would bat her eyes at any stranger willing to ooh and aww over her, she knew she was beautiful and wanted to show it off, she loved attention! She learned to "flirt" with any man in any store or public area before she was six months old, it was almost a joke how she favored the Men so much, and it worried us a bit :) Her first crush was when she was just a year and a half old on the Bag Boy at the local grocery store, who looked as if he were fifteen years old, Oh our boy crazy Eden Girl.

Then we watched as she turned into our spunky little toddler and became our little comedian, wanting to make everyone smile and laugh, no matter how silly she had to look, she'd do it for a laugh. In preschool the kids loved her because she was just so "crazy" and silly. She was oh so "drama" but at that age it's entertaining! At three she was so mad at me she said "You're ruining my life" as she was quoting a Barbie movie, oh Drama!

Now, she is blossoming more and more and she is starting to be so "grown up" in a way. She is more reserved than I thought she'd be at this age, she still likes the boys and chases them on the play ground occasionally. She does like to make people laugh still (mostly her little sister) but keeps it low key, the attention doesn't always have to be on her any more. She loves to have lots of friends and tries hard to be kind to everyone, she really is turning into a sweet heart. It's funny to watch how your kids' personalities change over time, as the grow from phase to phase of their childhood. I love that she keeps bits of her "old or young personality" as she comes into a "New" one.

This year she is Eight, like I said, and she has chosen to be baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, this is the religion my husband and I are baptized members of and this is where we take our children to church every Sunday. Not only do our children learn about The Church on Sundays but we try our best to teach them Church principles at home, as we try and live our religion. In the church any worthy person who is Eight years of age or older may be baptized and confirmed a Member of this Church. I grew up in the church and was baptized at the age of Eight and so was my husband, but We wanted Eden to make the choice for herself. So we talked a lot about it as 2012 came along and we did a couple of Family Home Evenings (as they are called in the Church) to help her learn more what it is to be baptized and why we (her Dad and I) chose to be baptized. Then she went to a church meeting for all the children turning eight that year, and their parents to help them see what it would be like when/if they were baptized. After that meeting we asked her "So Eden, do you think getting baptized when you turn eight is something you would want to do?" before I could finish the sentence she said excitedly "Oh I've already decided I DO want to get baptized!"

I can hardly describe how I felt when I heard our sweet and innocent child have such great Faith and know that this is what she wanted to do. It's one of those moments as a parent where you think "Okay so we are doing something right, we aren't so bad at this after all." It's more than just being proud Parents it's this over whelming sense of....Joy.....it's almost like your kids give you a glimpse of Heaven in moments like this, it's just a pure and sweet feeling. We are so proud of her!

I love that she is our Oldest and she is such a good older sister to her siblings. She has her moments of being bossy (of course) or rude to her brother but she has soft heart under it all. She feels bad if she treats her brother wrong. It's fun and interesting to watch her grow and learn and make such grown up choices in her life at this age and though, to me she seems so "old" (because she is my oldest) she is still so young and has her whole life ahead of her. I love how she is such a good example to, not only her siblings, but to me and her Daddy.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EDEN GIRL! WE LOVE YOU!