For the past several years, at the beginning of each new school year, we take pictures of our "students".
Normally, we do this during the first week of school.
This year I was going to do it the second week of school just to make the first week a bit easier.
But I wanted to give the boys their hair cuts first.
And then the hair clippers broke.
And finally I got another one.
And then I lost my camera.
And then two days ago, I found it!
So as everyone was getting ready for church this morning and (thanks to the time change) we weren't running late this morning, we quickly snapped this year's pictures.
Timothy- age 16
Normally, we do this during the first week of school.
This year I was going to do it the second week of school just to make the first week a bit easier.
But I wanted to give the boys their hair cuts first.
And then the hair clippers broke.
And finally I got another one.
And then I lost my camera.
And then two days ago, I found it!
So as everyone was getting ready for church this morning and (thanks to the time change) we weren't running late this morning, we quickly snapped this year's pictures.
Timothy- age 16
Elijah- age 14
Rebekah- age 13
Benjamin- age 12
Abigail- age 11
Isaiah- age 10
Josiah- age 9
Noah- age 8
Susannah- age 7
Nehemiah- age 5 1/2
Eliseo- age 4
Samuel- age 3
Jaynee (Mommy)- age 39
10 students- grades 11th- Kindergarten
2 Preschoolers
Learning and growing together in the Lord.
And never a dull moment :-)
Your list of happenings to take a picture cracked me up. So familiar!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great group of "students" you have there!
I love looking at all the similarities and uniqueness of your children. So beautiful! Some look like they might belong there and others....well they look like bleached blonde cuties :-)
YOU look wonderful my dear friend. Silly as ever! I can hear you all chattering away even from waaay over here in the USA :-)
Hope your school year is going wonderfully. I know you're enjoying each moment.
~love and hugs~
~Cinnamon
They just spent all day Friday at the beach (last trip for the year) and with it being November and close to 100 degrees during the day still and LOTS of sun and LOTS of outside play, they are always so blond and tan. :)
DeleteI missss youuuu!!! I love chattering with you! Our school year is going well! Just enjoying every day with them all while they are all still under one roof.
I still have an email from forever ago from you that maybe I'll answer this week...I'm so bad at getting emails answered...but know I love it when you write, think of you often, pray for you, and can't wait to see you again!
Tell Grace hi for me and sending a big hug from Mexico to you all!
love,
Jaynee
Everyone looks great! Beautiful pictures. Glad you found your camera!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Nicole! I am so thankful I found my camera, too! It was given to me a couple years ago by some dear friends...such a generous, useful gift for which I'm so grateful!
DeleteWe used it to take pictures of the hurricane we had a few weeks ago. And then we couldn't find it. I checked everywhere. Then I did what I should have done right at the first (will I ever learn??)...I prayed. And asked a friend of mine to pray too. The very next day, I found it! I know it was from the Lord because a thought popped into my head that I'd never thought of before...
I just thought how everyone wore jackets when we went out to check out the storm. It wasn't cold at all, but the kids were excited to use their coats for the first time this year and I remember hanging them all up to dry after we got home. I thought that I'd never checked the coat pockets. And I found it in hubby's coat!
:)
Hi Lockwood Family
ReplyDeleteThis is my time posting a comment on your page everytime i come on your page when i see the school pictures of the kids, The kids have grown so much and so fast and some of your kids look so much a like , i have cousins it hard to belive that my one cousin is in 12th grade and other one that is just 6 years old and in the 1st grade they are not homeschooled but they live in usa i have about 17 cousins plus 6 other cousins that is a total of 23 half cousins when i mean half cousins the 17 cousins their grandmother and the 6 others cosuins their great grandmother use to watch me when i was 4 months old i know my half cousin for a long time one year you met the duggar family that is cool i got to met duggars at a book signing last year, i wish i can met your family and it hard to belive that my one cousin is goign to be 1 year old in 3 more days oh fun fact looking at that prayer card does one of the kids have a birthday on the 24th of july if so i have a birthday on the 24th of july to bye Lockwood Family.
-Brittani.b
Hi, Brittani, You do have a lot of cousins! My husband has a lot of cousins...I don't even know how many he has. And my children have oodles of cousins too... they have 44 first cousins (counting babies that will be soon)! It's always so much fun when we get together.
DeleteOur Josiah (age 9) was born July 24th. We were married on July 22nd, so it's always a special week around here then :)
God bless you!
that cool i wish i met your family if you does video chats are something with other family memeber or i can email your family i already did can Rebekah and Abigail and i be pen pals like writeing each other.
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Beka and Abi love writing letters. If you ever want to send them a letter, our address is
DeleteAPDO 8 Col. Centro
Cd. Insurgentes, BCS
CP23700 MEXICO :)
ok thanks you tell Rebekah and Abigail they are my favorite but your kids all my favorite they are all cute have cousin name rebecca but she stills diffrent and my teacher has a dautger named abigail that yea love the two names.
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how long does a letter get to your family just asking
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About 2 weeks
Deleteok im making the girls a name tag and im putting picture of me and three of my 23 cousins
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Beautiful family!
ReplyDeleteLove the beautiful family pictures! Such a nice family!
ReplyDeleteLoved them all! So fun to see all your faces again. And to see how your children have GROWN since we saw you. :)
ReplyDeleteYours are growing so much, too! I can't wait to see you again! And meet Ethan! He's so precious! Sweet babies! I would do it all over again if I could! The Lord is so good!
DeleteLove and miss you sooooooooooo much my friend! I have written you many, many times in my head. That means I think of you a lot :)
I'll write you in real life sometime soon.
love,
Jaynee
Amy---I used to read and LOVE your blog, before it went private. I don't know exactly "how" private you want it to be now, but we have alot in common and I'd love to follow along, if you're open to that.
DeleteIt's funny how we can feel as if we know someone dearly, when in reality, they have no clue who we are....ahh, the mysteries of a technology filled world. :)
BEAUTIFUL and joyful family!!! Love it. Never a dull moment for sure, haha.
ReplyDeleteSo, how do you keep all those books on the shelves without little ones tearing them off? I tried it once, but I gave up!!! :)
Love you,
Jessica
Jessica!!!!!!!!! Ha! Well, for the first time in 16 years, we are out of the "baby" stage (sniff, sniff...but content, thankful and enjoying the "bigger" stage) :). I spent many hours I'm sure picking up books from the floor with the littles. I use to have the bottom shelves empty with just toys in them. Most of the children couldn't read back then, so books were more exciting when used as building blocks (as far as my boys were concerned :) ). Now I have a lower shelf with all the little kid books (for Samuel, Eliseo and Nehemiah) and that's always a bit messy, but the other shelves stay pretty much in place. I reorder them every now and then when I'm bored with nothing to do but eat bon bons and drink lemonade...Oh, that's way my book shelves are so dusty!! :)
DeleteLove and miss you, my friend!!! I'll write you soon, too! I still have your email in my inbox (blush)...
Keep caring for your hubby and sweet babies and home as unto the Lord! He is so faithful and good and gives so much joy in serving!
love,
Jaynee
:) Bon Bons huh? I knew it!!!! You are too funny.
ReplyDeleteOkay, well I guess I will keep throwing books in baskets for now. Thank you for sharing. I have learned much from you and appreciate your willingness to share your life and heart.
I was just talking with CHad the other day about you guys and how you guys are true missionaries. So thankful for your family, even though we have yet to meet.
Take care way over there!!!
Love,
Jessica
Jaynee!!! You have a 16 year old. Sigh. Wasn't he just a little boy? I can handle my girls getting "older", but my boys are going to be hard.
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad you found your camera. I can't imagine WHY you lost it----perhaps it was buried under the bon-bons? :)
Love you!
He was just a little boy!! And those days that use to seem so long when they were all young now seem to be going by so fast. It is bitter/sweet...missing that stage when they were all my "babies" yet loving seeing them grow into young men and woman excited to see how the Lord will use each one of them.
ReplyDeleteYes! That explains why my lens is so sticky! :) You just made me hungry! For chocolate :) Love you, too!
Adorable, crazy-looking, happy family! We enjoyed being in your home church recently... then I was able to meet your sister at Shadow Mountain. Now I feel like I practically know you. :-)
ReplyDeleteJolene!! Yes! A couple weeks ago, we got home from church earlier than normal and I said to the kids, "Let's log on to Shasta Baptist's service to see if we can see Grandma at the organ", and I saw your hubby in the pulpit and then you came up to share your testimony and then I called my mom's cell phone (hoping that she did NOT have it on during church) to tell her to tell you hi from me :-)
DeleteAnd then this weekend, I was talking to Julee and she told me she met you! And I'm soooo jealous! :) But sooo happy that we practically know each other :-)
May the Lord continue to bless you as your serve Him!
Love you much!
I was on two different blogs Sunday night and could see your picture on their side bar, but could not find the post! Finally it came through :). All the kids have grown so much in a year!!! Glad you found your camera before the grew even more!! We miss you all so much!
ReplyDeleteHi! Ha ha...yes, it normally takes me a while to get a post ready to publish...I upload a picture here, another one there, write a bit here, write a bit there as I have time...Well, after I'd just put on that first picture, I somehow hit publish. It took me another day before the post was really there.
ReplyDeleteWe miss you soooo much too! Time to start school :)
Jaynee,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed seeing the pictures very much. I love following your blog and hearing about your family.
Blessings to you,
Cathy
Thank you, Cathy :) The Lord is so faithful and good!
ReplyDeleteYes, He sure is!!
DeleteHi Lockwood family,
ReplyDeleteI will get the letter mailed to maybe on monday because i was busy last night with my cousin brilynn's 1st birthday party i cant belive she is one now time has gone by so fast tell Rebekah and Abigail that i said hi and i won't forget the letter to send them.
-brittani
Haha! I LOVE the last picture!!! I can't believe how much the kids have grown! I still expected to see a little baby in the picture!
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