Playing Catch Up!

I know I am way behind on my blogging... did anyone notice?  We have been really enjoying our summer!  We have made a trip out to Colorado to visit family, we have been spending a lot of hot days at the pool and we have been enjoying some fun times with friends.  Here are a few pictures from some of our recent going ons...

 Sydney turned 10 in June and Molly turned 5 in May!

 We did some fishing one Saturday night!  They all caught at least one!  

 It was a fun night, great family memories :)

 A fun morning at Wonderscope recently.  Gracie and Molly being "pet doctors"!

 Max turned 6 months old and is heading towards 7 months now and has a brand new haircut!

We had a super fun filled evening with friends and family celebrating the 4th of July!  

I feel like time is moving at warp speed, we are doing fun things but also enjoying some slow evenings.  We head to International Conference soon and are really looking forward to that!  

Happy Summer!!!

Five Wonderful Months

It has been the fastest 5 months of my life I think, but Max just turned 5 months old!

How can this be?

My baby is growing at lightening speed it seems!

 Max at 5 months, spends more time on his tummy now!  Constantly rolling himself over but can't yet roll back to his back.

 Me and my wonderful kiddos on Mother's Day! 

 Not the most flattering picture of the Mom but it will do :)

Max is eating cereal now, we were kind of off to a rough start but he is grabbing

 the spoon from me now, maybe just to chew on the spoon 

or maybe because he really likes the cereal, I am not sure!

We are wrapping up another school year which is hard to believe and looking forward to a really relaxing summer!  

How Time Flies

 My how time flies!!  We have been super busy around here.  Sydney and Gracie are playing soccer this Spring.  We are wrapping up school in a few weeks and looking forward to enjoying the summer break.  Max is growing like a weed and has decided to be my earliest teether with 2 teeth already!!

Wild and Crazy Max!!

We had a fun playdate with friends recently!  The girls played and played all day!

Our family at Easter.  We had a great visit at my Aunt's celebrating Easter!

Max, working on his egg hunting skills.

The girls and Max.

I hope you and your families are well :)  

Three Months of Fun

Max is 3 months old today!  I can hardly believe how fast he is growing.  I thought I would post a few pics of him recently.  

In other news, the girls are all on Spring Break this week, we don't have much planned but the weather is supposed to be beautiful this week so I am hoping to send them to the backyard... a lot :)

 One of my BFF's from college came for a visit to meet Max and we got to have a girl day of shopping together!

 Lovin' the Bumbo... sort of!

 Celebrating Nancy's 70th birthday with lots of friends!  This is a picture of all the kids at the party and they all love Nannie!!

Three months old with super crazy hair today!

I will try to post an update on the girls pretty soon!  Have a happy day!

Playing Catch Up

I know, I am way behind on keeping up with the blog (although i am not sure really how much it gets visited anymore but anyway... ).  I won't try and update on everything since Max was born but just thought I would add a few pictures :)

Max is 2 months old now and is a growing happy, healthy boy!  We are all so in love with him.  His sisters think he is pretty cool and will often hurry to get ready in the mornings so they can hold him before they leave for school.  He is starting to give us some sweet smiles and some "jabbering" now.  

 Max taking a snooze on his boppy.  I just love to watch him sleep, so peaceful!

 Max was baptized last Sunday.  It was a wonderful day and so thankful lots of family could join us to celebrate.

 A recent family picture from Max's baptism.

The girls and Max.  What you don't see is that we had to take a picture with each one of the girls getting a chance to hold him because they all had to have a turn :)

We are so blessed by this new addition to our family and are continually amazed by God's goodness to us!

Welcome Baby Max

We welcomed Max Alan VanHorn on Monday December 12th at 8:20 am!

He weighed 6lb 10oz and was 18.5 inches long!

He is such a cutie and we are enjoying him so very much!  God has truly blessed us this Christmas season with an extra special gift!

 I love this picture because you can see how huge Barry's smile is!  

 Here he is!  So happy to meet our little boy!

 Three other people who were anxiously waiting to meet this little guy... his big sisters!  

 A pretty great Christmas present!

 Snoozin'.  He is really good at that right now!

Welcome to the family Max!

Making Room for Baby

One of things we needed to do before our precious gift arrived was to make room for him!  Molly and Baby Max are sharing a room.  I took a picture of the 'before' and a few of the 'after.  We have never had a newborn in with a "big" kid, so hopefully it will work out okay!  

 Molly's room getting ready for a new paint job!

After:

 A fresh coat of paint called 'cabbage green'.  We had to pull out some good colors for both a boy and girl out of Molly's pink teapot bedding.  I used blues and lime greens for Max's bedding to tie it all together :)

I am still adding some things to the walls so they look a  little bare right now.

 Max's side of the room :)