Happy Birthday Tessa

May 1, 2003 one of the most beautiful babies were born, Tessa Claire Bagwell weighed 6 pounds 10 ounces, and was 18 1/2 inches long. She barely even cried, boy has she made up for that now. Every day is an adventure!

Happy Birthday tessa, you have grown up to be a beautiful stylish young woman!!

Get up!

The last couple of days, i have had a somewhat negative atitude, mind you i have good reasons, but at any rate i have been negative. I hate being that way, it makes me feel bad. Anyway a message, pastor preached a few weeks ago came back to me and it was about making a bad situation worse by making it about you and not going to God to ask for guidance and trying to fix everything yourself. Well, at least that's what i got out of it. Anyway he said "Get up" and that is just so fitting for my day, and it's almost 10 so really i'm about to go to sleep, but i want to get up, quit worrying about the negative and make the best of this life that i can. I want to feel like i've done good things, won people to christ, and make people i meet feel special. So anyway, i hope by writing this it's going to remind me to just get up and do it!

Another Day.....

Tessa, yet again another one of her famous get ups!!
And..... another......this one i think is quite creative for a 2 year old.
Gracie and Ella on game day, Gracie's getting ready for her baseball game and ella just thought she might cheer her on a little!

Hmmm...

Hmm... This kind of reminds me of the stepford children! We may have to rethink this pose next easter!! This is so totally fake!! They actually all almost cooperated except Tessa and she had to be eating a cookie just so we could get her in the line up.

Happy Easter

Easter is a time for hunting eggs and sister's deciding who has the most and which one's have the best candy!! Ella was pretty smart about her hunting, she would shake the eggs before putting them in her basket, and if she didn't like the looks of them she would throw them back down. On the other hand Tessa would only pick up the eggs that didn't have ANY dirt on them.
Ready, set, go!!! This was the quickest hunt ever, Easter and frost bite just don't mix.
Craig and Isaiah, just trying to get through the picture so they could make a mad dash for it and keep me happy!

Can we say Fashion??

I think Tessa will definately be some type of model or fashion designer when she grows up!! I mean she really comes up with these outfits herself!! And, by the way this is a little toned down. Today i made cupcakes for Emma's Birthday, and she opened the refrigerator, pulled up a chair and helped her self, there was no denying the frosting all over her face, she was so proud.

Mom

It's been over a year now since mom died, and for some reason today i just wanted to pick up the phone and call her. I just need to talk to her so bad, i have so many things i want to tell her. She was my confident, my advice giver, my make me face reality when i don't want to, my person i would call to whine to about the kids when i couldn't gain control, the one who said just bring them over for a couple of hours and take a break. Man i miss her!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMMA!!!

April 4, 1996, the most beautiful baby was born!!She had dark black hair, and lots of it and the prettiest, little face i had ever seen. Emma, you are the best and i am so proud of the person you have become. You are so smart and caring, and a friend to anyone. We love you Very much!!

Remembering the past 2 Easter's how they have grown!

Easter 2006
Easter 2005
These 2 pics are from 2005, and 2006. It is just amazing how they grow and change so quickly, just this morning on the way to school Gracie was arguing with emma and isaiah saying she is older than them, and the only reason they are bigger than her is because she would always sleep in my bed, so she wouldn't grow. We used to always tell her she would grow if she would stay in her bed, but it never worked. I guess ella and Tessa will never grow either!

In a nutshell

Ok here it is... I'm 30 years old, have 5 kids, 1 husband and a minivan (which by the way is completely full). We have a lot fun, a lot of whining, a LOT of accidents and tons of baseball games!!! But seriously it's great and i wouldn't trade it for anything!!