Merry Christmas!

BLESSED BEYOND WORDS!!

Jamison's baptism!

Our perfect prince :)

Jamison did great during the whole service and only let out a cry when he was immersed. He was completely nude and went in, he looked so cute!!

Johnny, Tim, me and Melissa with Jamison

God sure blessed us with another beautiful baby! Jamison was baptised on November 19th after the 5pm church service! He did great and our church does an amazing job making the whole service around the baptism. Tim's best friend Johnny is his Godfather and Tim's sister Melissa is the Godmother. We are so very fortunate to have both of them in our lives and Jamison is even more fortunate to have them as his Godparents!

Happy Halloween!!

Here's our crew :)

All of our first cousins got to go Trick-or-Treating together! How fun is that?

Pumpkin carving time!!

There's Tim's power saw for carving pumpkins! Nice, Huh? Although, those were the thickest pumpkins ever, so maybe he really needed it!

Welcome home Jamison Ryder!!

The night before I was induced!!

Here he is!! 7lbs 11oz and 20.5 inches long! I had to push for only 4 minutes!

My mom with her 9th Grandchild (8th boy)

Such a happy moment here! When he's born healthy and we are all doing great! My favorite moment when having a baby! I love this feeling :)

The kids came up to the hospital so excited to meet him! What a fun time! Cole had a few rough days adjusting, but seems to be settling in now! This would be the complete Shoskey family!!

This was right after walking in the door from the hospital! You can see the excitement in the kids! They were totally overwhelming to me, but I loved every minute of it!

Cole being a big brother!! He is a character and so sweet at the same time!

Big sister for the third time! I can't even describe how helpful and awesome she's been! Cole came to our room yesterday morning fully dressed. We asked him who got him dressed and he said...Mackie did!! She even put his Big Brother shirt on him! What an awesome awesome kid she is!

Jackson cares a lot more about this guy than we thought he would! He just always comes up to me and says, "Mommy, he's so cute!" Bless his sweet heart!

Happy boy and one proud Momma! Can't believe I have four healthy kids and I even got a ton of sleep last night! Thank God for that! I love my family!

Big Belly!

Here's a 38 week belly picture! Yes, I'm ready!

Cutest Picture :)

We had a babysitter last week and this is what we came home too! Not sure how they all suckered her into sleeping in the same bed, but how can you not love coming home to this!! The best!!

Jackson's first day of 4 year old Preschool

All the kiddies ready for Jack's first day!

Daddy and Jackson!

Jackson picked out his outfit all on his own! Of course his first choice was a Spiderman shirt, he did end up with something different! Yes, a Hawaiin shirt! He's doing great at school and can write his name all by himself. He doesn't love the idea of going to school in the morning, but loves it once he's there! We love you buddy!

First Day of Kindergarten!

Anthony and Mackie are even in the same class, how awesome to have your cousin in the same class!!

Getting on the bus for the first time with Bella as support behind her!

First day was a little rainy, but she was just as excited none the less!

Looking cute as can be and all ready to start all day Kindergarten :)

We had to go into Kindergarten for orientation. She's by her locker!


My Mackie grew up 10 years by going to kindergarten. She loves it so much and already has a group of friends. There are five girl kindergarteners in our neighborhood and they all seem to be quite the buddies. She's been in a month and has yet to say anything she doesn't like about it. She seems to have the best teacher and I am just so proud to see how awesome she's doing!

Jackson's 4 years old

Jackson turned four at the end of August, but once again time has gotten away from me. He had just the boy cousins come to a little play place on his birthday since we weren't able to get together with my side. Then we went to Tim's parents and celebrated with them at their house. He's growing up so big and we just love the little boy he's turning into. He's just a mini-Tim in every way possible. I can not believe the similarities in personality with those two!

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Mackie became a Junior Ranger and took her badge and patch to school for show and Tell today.

The most beautiful beach in the entire world...I'm convinced! We floated the Platte River and ended up floating into Lake Michigan! Simply stunning!

Is he not the cutest thing ever??

And he is just as cute!! I just love those boys :)

Our floats before we went down the Platte River. Not real fast, but the kids loved it and Cole napped through most of it. Great time! Grandma and Grandpa Shoskey bought the floats for the kids for Christmas...just a little early so we could use them. They were great!

We went into Frankfort to check it out. We were able to walk down a long pier (which made me really nervous) and the water was as clear blue as the ocean! It was beautiful, we even could see large Salmon swimming below!

Our beautiful little girl :)

Heading back down the pier!

Jackson loved gathering sticks and large logs for our campfires at the campground!

We went Blueberry picking with Tim's parents. The bushes hadn't been pruned much, so it was like walking under a big tunnel. The blueberries were amazing and we are still enjoying them now. This is by far my favorite fruit to pick! Love them!

Cole ate far more than was in his bucket. In fact, I'm quite certain that his bucket was empty by the end!

Here it is! Our new (used) camper! We sure have made a lot of memories in it already! It's awesome! We even had a mouse join us for a few minutes! Mackie didn't like that at all!

Sleeping Bear Dunes! We went twice in fact. Jackson couldn't stop running up and down them. He just thought this was awesome, so did I! Mackie climbed to the top about 4 times.

Here it is, we stayed at the Platte River National Campground for 6 nights. What an awesome place. We will definitely be going back! Above is our trip in a nutshell with pictures! It probably is the most beautiful place I've ever been! We are so excited about our new camper and I really think we will be going on so many different vacations because of it. It was just so amazing to have Tim off work for an entire week! I sure could get used to that!

Summer Family Vacation

In reverse (sorry), this is how our summer trip went!

This is how our vacation ended!

Family picture at the Falls.

Cute kids.

Looking at the Upper Falls!

We decided on a whim on my birthday to drive up to Taquamenon Falls and check it out. What an awesome place and a great decision. You could actually go under the lower Falls and Mackie was such a trooper, did it in her clothes with Tim. I did it to, but I'll spare you those pictures! Here's Tim explaining to Mack what's about to happen!
And here they go......

And they did it!!

Mackie lost a shoe on the way out and they were laughing so hard! It was so cute!

Look at me everyone, I did it! She was so proud!

Eating lunch by the Mackinaw Bridge!

A family picture with the bridge behind us before we went swimming!

Coley and me in the cabin.

Here's our cabin!

Here's our campsite, the cabin was much nicer on the inside than the out!

We just got back from a fabulous summer vacation! We started off at Mill Creek Campground in Mackinaw City where we rented a cabin with no running water. We have been camping many times in the past, but I will never do that again, it was terrible! We headed to Mackinac Island on Friday for the day and rode around the island. I am happy to admit that at 7 months pregnant, I made it around the island with two children sleeping in the trailer behind me! Those pictures are all on Tim's phone, so let's hope he downloads them and I can get them on her!

On Saturday, we celebrated my birthday and the kids were so excited to give me my presents!! Mackie picked out all my pretty things, lip gloss, nail polish, and two pair of earrings. It was so sweet. We went down to the bridge for lunch and to hang out and swim. On a whim we decided to go to Taquamenon Falls for the day and what an awesome awesome day that was as you can see from the pictures. It ended up with dinner at the Brewery at the Falls with the whole restaurant singing Happy Birthday to me!

We finished the trip by heading to Otsego Lake and hanging out there for the day! Lots and lots of memories!!