instafriday

wow. it's friday already.
i never say that.
this has been a weird week.
to say the least.

aj spent almost our entire time in kansas in the hospital.
he was there saturday morning until wednesday afternoon.
the whole thing was really surreal.
but we felt God's loving care for us the entire time.
we are so thankful for AJ's family who were so flexible and helped us with the kids and let me drive their car back and forth to the hospital all week.

while we were apart, i texted him lots of pictures of the kids.
like this sweetie of our ruby girl eating her breakfast.

oh sigh. her smile melts me.

lots of crafting happens at grandma's.

she is so good at finding fun craft projects for the boys to do.

they love it.

one morning i took the kids to the little park near AJ's parent's.

it was so quiet and peaceful. 

the boys love running up and sliding down the skateboard ramp.

avery would reach down and pull sawyer up to the top so he could slide down.
sweet brothers.

ruby really got going with crawling this week.
it's always amazing to see your baby crawl after months of them laying and sitting around.
it's exciting and not exciting at the same time. ;)

i love this picture.
it's real life and i am so happy to be the mama of these four.
just the way they are. 
i like them.

then this happened . . .

finley and sawyer petted and petted this sad little birdie.
it never opened it's eyes.
it looked like it was on the brink.
they really wanted to take it home.
sorry, boys.
then finley decided that ruby needed to see the bird and he pulled her over to it.
and ohmygosh she grabbed that thing up and had a death grip on it!
i was screaming hysterically because i do not handle emergency situations well. at. all.
finally it flapped it's wings enough that she let go.
praise be to Jesus that she did not stuff it in her mouth as she does everything else.
whew.
that was stressful.  ;)

we were all so, so ready for AJ to be home.
we got the word on wednesday afternoon that he could leave and it was all we could do to wait on the paper work to get finished so we could blow that popsicle stand.

yes, he grew quite the scruff being holed up in the hospital for five days.
pretty cute, i say. :)

the boys were so happy to have him back.
they didn't leave his side when he got home.

aj is doing so great and recovering really well.
we headed home yesterday with me driving the whole way.
and now i realize how spoiled i am.
since we've had kids, aj has driven the entirety of most road trips.
i've been spoiled by sitting there reading, playing with my phone & snoozing.
although the passenger does get the added bonus of having to deal with the kids.
so, pretty much either way you're exhausted by the end of a trip.

the highlight of this trip, besides getting to have all six of us together again, was my newfound discovery of dr. pepper slushies.
oh my word, where have they been all my life?
a little touch of Heaven in a cup, i do believe.

anyhow, we are all safe and sound back at home and looking forward to having a few days all together as a family.

i am so proud of my rock star husband who is such a trooper through all of this.

i am also so thankful that God held us in His hand this week, as He always does.

we have been reminded of how quickly things can change in your life.

we are so thankful for our loving Father who is constant and who is for us.

thankful.

happy friday, sweet friends!

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