Walkin' Macy!

Riley wanted to practice for when she gets a new puppy (when she's potty trained), so she decided to walk Macy after Mace was already good and tired so she didn't put up much of a fight.

Another Beautiful Video

Since I don't have access to my own photos right now, I will once again direct you to Katie's blog. She posted a beautiful video of the pictures from Brynn and Rowan's baptism with a song written and song by the music director at our church. Go get you kleenex, Linda, you're gonna need it!

Belated Mom's Day Wish

I didn't get on the computer at all yesterday, as one of my friends said on her facebook page, it wasn't exactly the "hallmark" greeting card kinda day, but I'm so thankful to be a mom anyway! And I wanted to say a huge thanks to my own Mom, GodMom and Grandma as well as to Josh's mom, grandma and God mom.

P.S. if you want to see a VERY cool mom tribute video, go to my sister Katie's Blog, the Bartsch Beat (on the right).

Awwwwww

What more can I say...just a cute picture. Brynn 4 months, Rowan 2.5 months.

TIGF

Wow! All I can say is we have GREAT family and friends! Getting our house ready to sell is a huge project, especially with a toddler and a baby. It's amazing how many projects you don't think about until it's time to make it market ready, too. I have to say a huge thanks to my parents for letting us crash here and watching the kids while we work, to Josh's Aunt and Mom for TOTALLY re-landscaping our yard and gardens, to our neighbor, Laurie for watching Roo and Row a few times too, and to everyone who has helped or plans to come out this weekend and help. It's been amazing how many people have helped us get our house almost there! My mom always says "It takes a villiage..." Thank you Villiage! We love you!

AHS Walkers, Start Your Engines

Here we are getting ready to go on the walk. We meet in our traditional spot half way up the hill to the shelter and as soon as we have our group together, we're off. We don't wait for the official walk to start because it gets way too crowded and we have enough chaos trying to keep everyone together! Brynn was in her third outfit of the morning before we even left for the walk. One blow-out, one puke. Thank goodness for cousins the same size, this is Rowan's backup outfit:)

AHS Walk in Pieces

Ok, I'm going to continue posts from the AHS walk that was this past Saturday throughout the month of May, mostly to space out pictures with photos because I'm not sure how much access to my Mac I will have in the next few weeks as we get the house ready to move and I don't have a lot of computer time.

Here is the first set of pics to showcase that this year we had to do things a little differently with 6 kids and 3 dogs in our family alone, not to mention my friend Jenny, her toddler, hubby, dog and "inside baby" too. It was a smaller group this year with some of our normal walkers being pregnant or working this weekend, but it was still fun.

I understand some of the normal "exotics" we see like the monkey and the parrots, were there, but we didn't see them or any other crazy animals this year. Maybe it was too windy for some animals? Rowan certainly didn't like that much. He cried a good part of the walk. We did see some bunnies that I will post later that Bennett thought would make a good lunch, but more to come on that. Here's the wagon and double stroller crew! We also had to switch riders often and feed babies along the way so it was a lot of stop and go action!