November

It has been a very long time since my last post. I apologize!

We've had an incredibly busy two months. In August we bought a lot. We sold our house in November and are now homeless! We have been working on houseplans and are actually closing today on our construction loan. Hopefully soon we will be seeing some things happening on our lot! It's exciting and very scary at the same time.

The kids have adjusted well to our home change. In fact, they are getting spoiled rotten by all of the attention from Papa, Mimi & Nana!

Here are some November pictures. Thanks for checking in!

Happy Halloween!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

October Days with Carter

Drinking from a sippy cup

Pulled himself up for the first time...now the rail must go up and the mattress go down!

Jogging is exhausting!

What a handsome little boy!

October Days with Hannah

Hannah & Snow White

Hannah & her BFF Annalise

Hannah & Annalise making crafts

Happy Birthday Annalise


I should hire Hannah to decorate our new house. She has great taste!

Hannah in the tub of bubbles

Hey mom, Jenny's face was feeling a little dry.

Hannah & Karissa

Great Grandparents

Hannah and Carter are very lucky to have 3 great grandparents that love them dearly (as well as 3 grandparents that spoil them rotten). Here are some recent pictures with the great grandparents.

The kidos and Roe Roe


The kidos and Grandma Verna


with Grandma Verna and Papaw John


where oh where does the Englert sense of humor come from???


Carter and Papaw


Happy Birthday Roe Roe


Happy Birthday Mimi

LPCF Picnic

The LPCF hosted its 3rd Annual Picnic earlier this month. I must admit, it was nice not having to be responsible for the entire event. The weather held out, barely, so it ended up being a nice day.

The kids had lots of inflatables on which to play. The pastalaya made by Jason and Mr. Brent was delicious. The best part of that is that we have gallons left over. (Only half of the rsvp's showed up due to the weather). The kids enjoyed indoor activities as well as face painting by Jackie & Brad.

It is amazing to see these kids and to know all they have been through and yet they are so happy and full of life. I am reminded of how blessed we are to have Hannah and what am awesome God we have. I look forward to it again next year!

Here are some pics.


Hannah going through the obstacle course






The race is on. Who will win?






Hannah and Marin jump

Sweet little Harrison!

Group Photo

Annual Heart Balloon Release

September Days

Time is flying and I don't like it! It seemed when Hannah was little, time stood still. I can remember anxiously waiting for her to be 4 1/2 months to have her second surgery, because she would be "safer" after having her Glenn. That time went by so slowly....

Well, Hannah is now nearly 4 1/2 years and the past 4 years have gone in the blink of an eye. Carter is already 8 months old and doing so much!

Hannah has begun Pre-K 4 and is doing very well. They are learning to write the letters and numbers. She no longer cries when I drop her off, which is bittersweet. I don't want her to cry, but it make me cry that she no longer feels she "needs" me like she did. She is content going to school and playing with her BFF Annalise. Annalise happens to be in her dance class, which has made bringing her to dancing much better too. Last year I had to sit in the class, every class, every week... What a big girl she is now. If only time could freeze in this moment.

Carter just turned 8 months and is such a big boy. He now weighs 18 pounds, which is huge in comparison to Hannah who only weighed 17 pounds at 1 year. He has been sitting up for the past month and is pretty steady. Every now and then he tilts over and can't catch himself. He will also go from laying down to sitting. He is trying to crawl and is actually beginning to scoot on his tummy and pull with his arms. This just started this week. It's a very slow "Army Crawl", but I know soon he is going to take off. He will get on his knees and hands, but doesn't know how to move his hands to travel. When all else fails, he'll roll onto his back and scoot to where he wants to go.

This morning we noticed a slit in his bottom gum where a tooth will soon appear. We are excited! Hannah didn't get her first tooth until she was 11 months. He is less and less interested in the bottle, so I hope this will help with eating real food. He did eat smashed bananas for the first time this week and he loves Baby Mum Mum's. However, the stage 3 chunky food makes him gag.

Here are some pics from this month. We hope you enjoy.