Isaac is 5!

Isaac, you have reached the old age of 5!!!

What a fun year it has been with you!  I thank the Lord everyday to be your Mom.  You are so thoughtful and loving to all around you.

You are always very concerned with people's feelings and you are a wonderful listener.

I really enjoy watching you with your bother Josh.  You two are awesome friends and you really care about him and his happiness, (even though you like to push his buttons).  You guys can play for hours with each other and your imaginations are endless.

You love to go to primary and I am grateful to be able to watch you in there and see your smile.

You try your best to do what is right and you are always full of sweet comments and love for everyone.

You idolize your big brother Ben!!  You look to him for reassurance and you will copy anything he does.

You love to go to preschool and are learning so much!!  I have a really hard time thinking about you going to kindergarten this year.  Both Josh and I will be lost without having you around.

I feel so every blessed to have you in my life and love watching you grow into a sweet little boy and look forward everyday to see what we will do together and what hilarious thing you will say.

I love you with all my heart!!!

Josh!

A big huge Happy Birthday to my ever so sweet Josh!  Ca't believe that he is 4!  Where have the years gone.

I have a really hard time watching him grow up, and I think it is because he is my last.  I find myself looking at everything he does with a little sadnesses because I know that everything he does is a last for me.  The last to do preschool, the last to learn to ride a bike, the last to do nursery!!  That was a big one for Greg and I!!  We are officially done with nursery at church.....never to have a child in there!  I never thought I would see the day!

It was really fun to see Josh come into primary and be a "big kid".....I just got called to work in the primary with the 6yr. and love it to death......so I get to see Josh and Isaac in there and that alone is worth it.  I love looking over at them and having them give me a wink or a thumbs up.

Josh is in preschool and is finally enjoying it.  I was thinking I was going to have to pull him out because he was getting sick ALL the time.  Hoping now that we are back that he wont get sick.

If you had asked me 5 years ago if I was going to have another kid I would have said no with a little hesitation only because Isaac was so much younger than Sarah.  But having another exactly 1 year after Isaac.....NO WAY!!!

It has been a true testimony builder for me that Heavenly Father knows me soooo much better than I know myself.  He knew I needed Josh and I am reminded of that daily.

Josh is there to help me laugh more, be more gentle, to talk more softly, and to cuddle more.

Each one of my children help teach me and are beautiful reminders to me of the things I am capable of doing and becoming.  I think that is one of the greatest gifts of being a mother.

I am eternally grateful for my Josh and all my kids!!

Happy Birthday Josh!!!