Happy Birthday, Silas!!

Happy 4th Birthday, Silas!!

Our precious Silas-boy turned 4 on Sunday!

We're so grateful to the Lord for Silas, he is such a special blessing in our home!! Our lives would not be the same without his smiles and hugs.

We love you!!

Muscle Man!

(Pictures and updates coming soon!!)

Philip!

We were thrilled to make it down to the Ansons to meet our newest family member-- Philip Anson!! I'll let the pictures speak for me, but I'm sure you'll all agree, he's the cutest little boy since Marcus was born!!
(And no, I'm NOT prejudiced!!)

Nana and Philip.

Aunt Phoebe.

Aunt Tabitha!

Aunt Esther.

Sleeping peacefully.

Uncle Silas and Pauly posing for a picture.

"Are we done with pictures?"

Bright Eyed Little Man.

So sweet.

Too, too, too Cute!!

Baby fingers.

Talk about one totally happy Auntie!!

Uncle Moses!!

Silas and Paul are best buds!!! They like to pretend they are police men with guns to protect the ladies. They miss Justice lots when he isn't there!!

Uncle Micah.

Aunt Charity helping Marcus with his socks.

Paul is very attached to his guns!

Aunt Charity is spending a week with the Anson to get to spend some more time with the boys!! I'm sure she is a big help to Lydia, but we sure miss her smile her at home!!

Uncle Silas was just thrilled to pieces-- he's an Uncle for the 4th time!!

Papa and Philip!

Such a precious baby!

He is just the sweetest thing ever!

Pauly sure knows how to make his Aunts and Uncles laugh!!

What a beautiful family!!! We love you!

Introducing.................

.........the 2008 cutest baby boy!!

Philip Anthony Anson

July 31st, 2008

We are so thankful to the Lord for this newest grandson/nephew, and his safe arrival. Mommy and son are doing great!!

For details, and more pictures of this totally adorable little man, go to;

http://www.ansonfarms.blogspot.com/

Happy Birthday, Marcus!!!

Today this adorable little fellow is 1 year old!!!!

Happy 1st Birthday, Marcus!!!

We Love You!!

Note--a post with pictures and updates coming soon!! :)

An Update on Silas.

It's been some time since we asked for prayer for Silas, and time for an update!

Our blessing boy has doing so much better!! For the week following our post, he continued to having more bruising, but now he has had no bruising or swelling for the past 10 days.

We are so grateful for all of you who have held Silas and our whole family in your prayers. We know that they made a difference!! We are so thankful to the Lord for taking care of Silas, preventing any major complications, and for Silas' swift healing.

In the video Silas says;

"I can Walk, Jesus gave me new skin, Thank-you for praying for me. Bye-Bye."

Happy Birthday, Silas!!

Our boy is Three!!!

Silas is a special delight in our lives- we are ever grateful to the Lord for sending us this precious little man!! Silas is a blessing in our home- quick to help, quick to make you laugh and quick to say thank-you. He has a cute little grin that is almost always on his face, it is a rare sight to see him grumpy!!

Silas loves being Uncle to his nephews. He is very careful to make sure the toys that are too little for the boys are put away, and generously shares his larger toys with them (Although it hasn't always been this way. When Paul was little, he was only allowed to be in the living room when he came to visit Papa and Nana. Lydia told Silas that if he had a toy he'd rather not share with Paul right then, to take it into the school-room. The next thing she knew the toy shelf was nearly empty and there was a huge pile of toys in the school room.)
Happy Birthday, Silas!!
We Love You!!

Silas's Lastest Cute Quote.

Last week we had Andrew and Rebecca up for a visit. Silas had a blast playing with Justice-- they are good buddies. Sunday morning Andrew brought Justice downstairs to play- Silas was already playing in the living room. When Silas saw Justice he rushed over to him and declared; "Justice, it's Uncle ME!!"

Our Little Man.

If you don't love pictures of cute little boys, just ignore this post and wait for the next one. I have a certain weakness for taking pictures of very cute little boys, and count myself quite blessed because I have an exceptionally cute one on hand nearly all the time!! :)

Always a smiling boy!!

Little Cowboy....

Big Sister and Little Brother!

Our next deer-hunter!! :)

Taking pictures......

Helping make breakfast!

Patiently waiting for his snack!

Blowing bubbles!


Can't do anything without his favorite hat and tie!! :)

Another favorite hat.......

And yet another hat!!

"Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate."

Psalms 127:3-5

Calves.

In the past two weeks we aquired two new animals here on the farm. Two rambunctious calves which we are raising for meat. They are still quite young and Moses and Micah greatly enjoy caring for them; Moses particularly as he has always been our cow enthusiast!! :)

We had quite a tough time in choosing names for them. Our youngest five were given the task of naming them, and they took it quite seriously! Charity and Phoebe maintained that they should be given very ordinary names; "Brownie", "Spotty" and "Tanny" were among their top suggestions. Moses and Micah however, viewed the situation entirely differently. In the end they managed to persuade the girls that they really did have better ideas when it came to naming calves.

We seem to be quite infatuated with the idea of giving animals people names. Our last two calves were 'Thomas' and 'James'. The names Moses and Micah picked are Andrew and Matthias; Andrew is the bigger one and Moses' charge, Matthias is the younger one and Micah's charge.
The boys are so faithful in feeding the calves each day and love nothing better then to take them out of their pens for a good long romp!

Silas LOVES both calves and it is a big highlight in his day to help the boys feed the calves!

Moses feeds Andrew.

Supper time for Matthias!

Moses and Andrew run off some energy.

A parting shot- Silas and Matthias.

Parsons Week-end!

This past week-end our family traveled down to Parsons to visit the Shepards. Seth and Noah were able to get off work and we traveled down on Friday afternoon. We had a wonderful time. The last time our whole family had been to Parsons together was 3 weeks before Justice was born! It had been too long!

-Happy Birthday, Justice!! (A couple months late!)-

Justice loved his present; and so did Nana!! :)

The only thing better then one Ulmer girl in the kitchen is two!!


"You see Justice, the forks go here, and spoons go here....."

The Grandpas shape hamburger patties for supper.

Aunt Esther blowing bubbles for her thrilled nephew!

The boys engage in 'friendly combat' with the air-soft pistols.

Enjoying a special breakfast on Resurection Day!!