Favorite Foto Friday!

Hello friends,

This weeks theme for FFF is "Sleeping Angels" and I had such a hard time choosing which pictures to post! I have so many precious "sleeping" pictures of all of my angels. But these are my favorites . . . and boy do they bring back some memories! But most of all they fill my heart with love and they make me miss Jacob so very much!

Sleeping Angels


This is Kyle when he was 8 months old. I just love a sleeping baby with their bottom in the air!

This is Jacob & Brandon when they were 3 years old. We were on vacation and they had to sleep on the floor together. This is how we found them the next morning. So, so sweet!

This is Jacob, Daddy, Kyle & Devin. We were in the hospital with Jacob and they were sleeping on an air mattress on the floor. Brandon and I were sleeping together in the bed. Jacob always found comfort in all of us sleeping together! Oh, how I love my guys!

The next picture makes me cry everytime I see it. This is Kyle & Jacob. We were in NYC at the Ronald McDonald House and Jacob was having major lung surgery the next morning. Kyle was so worried about him - and slept with his arm around him the entire night. And I just love how Jacob is snuggling his blanket. That blanket was always with him and was definitely his comfort item. Of course his brothers were a "comfort item" too and I thank God each day for ALL of my boys. This is such a special picture!

Okay, so they aren't asleep yet - but I love this picture! This is another one from the Ronald McDonald House and the boys loved sleeping together on the floor.

And our sleeping princess - who loves her ELMO!!

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I do love having pictures of my kids. I think pictures mean even more to me after losing Jacob. Pictures are all that I have of Jacob and it is the only way I get to see him now - and they are just priceless to me - worth more than all the money in the world! So I am a little picture crazy - but I don't regret it for a minute. However, the last 2 times we took Allie to the portrait studio to have professional pictures done - I wasn't overly happy with them. Allie just didn't light up with smiles and she was way too distracted in the studio. So we bought a white and black king size sheet and tried taking some pictures ourselves at home. It worked great - and that's how we got the pictures in the Valentine's post below. I even ordered some 8x10 prints from Shutterfly and they were beautiful and much cheaper . . . We may never visit a portrait studio again! :)

Here are some other favorite photos from the week as we played around with the backgrounds! The tutu is one that my mom had bought shortly after Allie came home - in the hopes of her wearing it for Valentine's Day. Thankfully it fit and was Tutu cute!

The one below is one of my all-time favorites!

And this one is hilarious!! Allie is such a copycat and will mimic anything. If you raise your eyebrows, then she raises hers. If you cover your ears, then she covers hers. Well, her brothers made a wrinkle-nose face and this is what Allie did! I'm so glad I got a picture of it. I can't help but to laugh everytime I look at it - and of course the boys thought it was too funny! They love making faces at her to see if she will do it back.

And just some sweet faces of Allie that I zoomed in on - because it wasn't good of all of the boys! It never fails that one of them has their eyes closed.

It has been a bad week for illnesses in our house. Brandon had a nasty bug and missed 3 days of school fighting high fevers, aches and chills. I think he probably had the flu. Of course he had to share that bug with Kyle who also missed 3 days of school with the exact same symptoms. They haven't been this sick in a long time - they were pitiful. It hasn't been a fun couple of days . . . no one told me I should have gone to nursing school before being a MOM! ;) Everyone is finally back in school today and feeling better. And I am still praying that Allie and Devin don't get it!

Ending with a scripture that is just perfect for my sleeping angels!

"In peace I will lie down and sleep, for you alone, O Lord, will keep me safe."
Psalm 4:8

Peace to all,