This is Taylor on top of his brother Elijah! Taylor at 8 months and Elijah at 2 1/2 years old!

It's been awhile! But what can I say I have been one busy mom! Abby and Gwyn are in school and Elijah is also in school but he has classes all over the place! I feel like I live in my car having to run around everywhere. I just feel bad for Taylor! Good thing he has been good for me! Nate has been home for a few weeks and it has been great having him back!Finally I can stop having to mow the lawn and take the trash out! I am so grateful for a great husband who is so good to me and the kids! Things have been going great for Elijah! He has been talking for about 5 weeks! I love it! He high five classes are working great for him! His teacher and speech therapist are in love with him 1They tell me ever day how much fun his is and how great it is to work with a kid that has Autism who is doing so well so fast! I hope it keeps going in that direction! Abby and Gwyn are enjoying being in the same class again this year. It's nice that the class is smaller so they get more time with the teachers! I just hope the teachers don't get mad that Gwyn keeps stealing books from class! I keep telling her that this is not OK, but she still brings home a few each week and I keep sending them back! Cute girl! I sure do love her! I had my sister Cassie and her family up here last weekend for a few days and we ended up going to this museum for subs that is way cool! When we went inside there was this painting on the wall that was a mermaid that was a guy and Gwyn said look dad it's a Jesus mermaid! Nate was like yes I guess it does look like Jesus! How cute!

It's my first day without Nate and so far it's just fine! I know by the end of the week it will start to get hard and I will miss him like crazy! The kids are already missing him! They keeping asking when daddy is coming home from work! How sad! I know that I will have to have lots of patients with the kids to be able to make it without Nate for the next 2 months!

Elijah is growing up so fast! He decided that the dryer was a great place to hide! It scared me when I was not able to find him for about 30 min. Finally I heard something form the Laundry room and there he was giggling! Nathan and I have been taking Elijah to speech therapy the last 8 months and we noticed that it was not doing much to help him so we decided to have him evaluated to see if something else was going on. He first meet with this great Doctor who helps kids that are Elijah age and see if anything might be going on and he decided that we should see a child sociologist. The child sociologist did a test on Elijah for about 2 hours and told me that he has a minor case of Autism. Scary I know, but this Doctor gave me some hope! He told be that if Nathan and I get him the help he needs he will be just fine by the time he is 5 or 6 years old! He said the best thing to do is get early intervention with children that have Autism because it gives them a better chance of helping them!

It was Abby and Gwyn's birthday in April, but I wanted you to see how cute the cupcakes are that I made for them! I worked on those almost all day! Nate and I decorated the entire great room with balloons and streamers and princess stuff! When the girls woke up they were so excited! I can't believe that they are 4! It was just yesterday that they were born so small and cute!

This waterfall was amazing!The name of this waterfall is Marymere. It is close to Forks which most people have heard of because of the book Twilight! What a beautiful place! The kids loved it!