Merry Christmas Love, Megows

This Christmas season is going GREAT!

I am so in love with our little family of 6.

We decided to make a little video website this year instead of sending out cards.

Something different and unique....

Enjoy by clicking

Here.

Church Christmas Party

This year Seth and I put on the Christmas party at our church.

It was so great and fun!!!

The first part of the party is eating, everyone brings a dish and it's a pot luck type thing.

The fellowship was fun, but tough with no tables set up for the kids, I kept thinking my kids were going to make a  huge huge mess!

There was an area set up for families to have their family portraits made

{we rocked ours!}

 

Anyways, let's get this party started:

 I welcomed out Seth

He was escorted in, hahaha

Seth gave out little special awards to various people in the church

 

doesn't he look like he is in his element :)

he had so much fun!! and was so hilarious!

 

it was a family centered event, and there was entertainment for all ages

The children's church sang a cute little song for the audience

 

there were costume characters that came out and brought candy to the little kiddos :)

 

 

playing some reindeer games ;)

I LOVE this picture, our church is so awesome!

 

It was such a fun way to celebrate Christmas with our church family.

I am so proud of Seth for all the hard work he put forth.

Now we are focusing on Christmas Sunday (I'm in charge), it's going to be so so awesome!!

Friends

I love that my kids are such great friends!

I encourage it a whole whole bunch!

I like to speak into their lives daily that they will stay this close and value their friendships for a long, long time

 

The other day we were talking about "friends" in the Bible and about how we are all friends.

I had each of them take a turn standing up in the room while the rest of us said what it is we like about them and why they are special to us and our friend. 

 It was very dear to my heart.

Here were their responses:

1st Stevie stood up....

Neela says:  Stevie is my friend because we always play Angry Birds together and she lets me be the bad pig.(ha!)

Also, she always makes me water to drink when we are eating. (she does have a servant heart for sure).

Titus says:  (I prompted the whole "Stevie is my friend because....") and he said, i phone, work, play

(she works the iphone for him so he can play it)

I said:  I love Stevie because she is kind, loves to please, gives some awesome hugs, and full of joy!

Next Neela stood up...

Stevie:  Neela is my friend because we love each other so much and I always want her to be around.

Titus:  (again the prompting,,) all he would say is EAT! haha, she does like to eat :)

Me:  I love Neela because she has such a love for baby animals, she is very quick to forgive, she always makes me laugh, and she is a great bed buddy :)

Then Titus stood up...

(oh my girls just poured into him!)

Stevie:  Titus is my friend because he always waits on us girls to get in the car first, he is really fun to play with, and he dances so funny!

Neela:  I like Titus because he makes me happy and not scared, Titus is funny, Titus eats candy from the parade with me!

Me:  I love Titus because he has taught me so much about life and about Faith!  He's my baby boy, an awesome worshiper, he enjoys holding my hand,  and very funny!

Lastly, it was my turn to stand up..

those kids have some big 'ol hearts!!!

Stevie:  I love my mommy because she is my best friend, she is so so pretty, she always holds me and I just love her love her love her so!

Neela:  I love mommy because she lets me watch movies with her, she holds me in bed really good, and she feeds me.

Titus:  (prompting) because "crickets chirped for a long time" hahaha

then he said, eat eat, gabba! (pretty much sums him up)!

My kids fill my love tank pretty full!  I am so so blessed to be able to stay home (mostly, I work one day a week)  and pour into them daily!  I have the greatest job in the whole world!!!!

Thank you Jesus for these precious gifts!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Olive is 10 Months

Little Olive Hope is 10 months old!

She is seriously growing CUTER by the minute!!!!

 

One of my favorite parts about her is that she is a DADDY'S GIRL!!!

Her face lights up when she sees him! It's the sweetest thing ever :)

My big girls have always been Mommy's girls, so it's fun to see something different.

 

she LOVES to pull up and cruise all around!

 

she is so happy and always smiling! 

 

She plays the role of "little sister" well, as in her favorite toy is her brother's car!

I want to cry and smile all at the same time.

She looks so grown up here!

 

getting a shot of her and I together :)

 

and for a laugh:

 

I didn't even notice the cats until I was editing the pics! so so funny.

So Happy 10 months Olive! 

AND

Happy 3rd Litter Yucky!!  

hahaha

Kitties!

We are in Heaven with these little baby kitties.

They will be ready to go soon, so we are enjoying them as much as possible while we can :)

Neela INSISTS on a kitty in her bed at night.

We go in there an hour after she has fallen asleep and rescue the poor thing.

 

Big girl LOVES baby animals so so much besides her blonde wavy hair, it's the BIGGEST way that she is like her mama!

cuddling, watching Christmas movies

Buddy is loving the little kitties too.

He is getting better about not holding them by the neck.

and being more gentle with them,,he's all boy though, so.....

Even little Olive gets in on the kitty loving!

 

Olive likes the big cats too!

(dumb blogger, messing up my pic!)

Stevie is still pretty much a die hard Yucky fan! 

She likes the kitties okay, but she prefers holding Yucky.  It's really sweet how loyal she is to her kitty.

The kitties will be ready to go in about a week.  We are holding onto one for a friend until January and I believe we will have "baby tommy" (the bob tail kitten) until closer to Christmas until Seth's parents come to get her.

So technically we have 7 cats right now! It's not too crazy though, because the kitties are always in our master bathroom unless one of the kids are holding them :)

P.S. Yucky has an appointment Dec 8th to get fixed :(  I know it's what is best for her, but I love having little baby animals (and so does Neela Grace)!

Fun Christmas Weekend

Megows know how to celebrate Christmas (lots of Christmas festivities of course)!

This past weekend in pics

We were riding through down town to a thrift store and ran into Santa :)

He  was soooo kind and sweet, best I've ever seen! and he LOVED our large family,,he said it over and over! Some people almost seem disgusted by big families (crazy to me, but), so it was a nice change to have someone so accepting and loving!

 

While we were down town we visited the little area that had the pups from the Humane Society and 

Neela Grace fell in love with a few pups (multiple times, ha!).  

She had a straight up meltdown when we left, Seth said one lady even cried and said, "I will buy her a dog!"

We were laughing so hard (great parents, huh?) :)

We ate some Wendy's then headed home for some afternoon naps.

Also, Seth took the girls to the store (sometimes they don't nap on the weekends, they get Daddy time), to buy supplies to go in gift bags we are putting together for some kids up at the hospital.  Our girls were happy to give, and give cheerfully.

After naps we hit up the Christmas parade.

{if you look closely, you can see our first "house" in the background, it's the green one}

We love that house and we like driving by it and feeling all nostalgic.

It was so so cool! I loved the floats that lit up with Christmas lights.

The kids were pretty much all about the candy.

Even if it was candy they didn't like (peppermints), there was just something about having candy THROWN 

at you to get you pumped :)

 

Sunday we served in church nursery, ate lunch with our church family, naps, then took an afternoon stroll to deliver some Poinsettias to our sweet Granny Amy, who lives a few blocks down.

Called it a day early and put the kids down early, and I headed out to spend time with my super awesome, spirit filled, funny, pretty, super friend LIZ!!!!!  I could seriously live with her! She's so so great!

  We had a blast!!!!!! Repeat, please.