I took some pictures of my office last night and thought I would share them with you.  As most of you know, I am doing my extra work in my shed/office. 

It has been cold her in Lake Stevens, (I can say that now because we just got annexed and are no longer Everett.) but my children and I have installed some insulation to make the office a tad bit warmer.

We are about half way there with the ceiling just about finished and on wall done, but I can already feel the difference.

I also (as you can see in the photo) have purchased a couple heaters and am keeping a bit warmer than before!)

Below are some pictures of Elisha helping me put up insulation.

With the help of the boys (who I didn’t get pictures of) and Elisha, the shed is much better and I can now do work a whole lot more comfortably.

Monday the 7th of December, the kids had a Band/Choir Concert, and man they did good.

Isaiah played his Saxophone in the intermediate group, and he played his trombone in the beginners group.

Gabriel played his trumpet in the intermediate group.

Elisha sang in the choir and played her flute in the beginners group.

Lastly but not least, little Hosanna sang her little heart out in her choir group.  I don’t have very good photos though.  We were not allowed to use flash during the concert, and I was trying out a new setting on my camera, which I didn’t find out until later, wasn’t very groovy, but I have a couple pictures for you to view. 

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Wednesday, September 30th 2009, my son, Titus Brodie Silva was born.  He weighed in at 7 pounds and 2 ounces.  He was 20 inches long and very handsome!  The Lord sure did bless us!  Titus Brodie was born at 1:17 am in the morning after 5 hours of labor.  Nancy Spencer, our midwife, delivered Titus.  She has delivered the last 4 of our babies.  She is awesome and I am so glad to have her delivering our babies.

To the right is a picture of Titus right after the birth.  You can also see Hosanna in the picture at the top.  She was supposed to call out the sex of the baby, but was so sleepy that we could not wake her up to do her job.

We are very thankful that Titus is here.  It was very different this time.  Titus is our 7th, but he has definitely been different.

It all started September 29th at 12:30pm.  Grace had an appointment at Nancy’s for a check up.  While at Nancy’s office, Grace started to “Leak” as she says.  In actuality, her water was beginning to leak.  When it started, it wasn’t much, but by the time Grace stopped by CRISTA on her way home, she was leaking so bad that she created a puddle in the CRISTA parking lot.

After a potty break, Grace and the family headed home and I started to pack up my stuff to go home too.

When I got home, I found Mrs. Spurling and her daughter Hannah had already arrived.  Mrs. Spurling had said she would come and help with the delivery while her daughter would take care of the kids.  Mrs. Spurling is practicing to be a doula so she was going to be in the bedroom for delivery.

I called Nancy after I got home and she said she would arrive at our house around 7:30pm.  At this point Grace wasn’t having any contractions, but Nancy said that since her water had broken that it was important to have the baby that night.

At around 7:45 Nancy arrived and shortly after that she broke my wife’s other water sack.  (note: women have two and sometimes three water sacks.  Pretty neat huh.?)  Once the water was broken, Grace started to have contractions.  The contractions were pretty far apart at 5 minutes.

Grace had a hard time with this delivery because her contractions never got closer than 5 minutes apart.  Fortunately Nancy had everything under control and soon we had a bouncing baby boy!  We were also very excited because the baby was born in September.  We already have an October birthday, so it was extra special that Titus was born in September.  We now have birthdays in September, October, November, December, January, February, March, and June.  (that also includes Momma and my birthdays.)

The other AWESOME thing was that Mrs. Spurling and her daughter Hannah cooked us both eggs and toast, with fresh tomatoes.  It was awesome.  I know I already said that, but I really want everyone to know that they were such a great blessing to us.  I just pray that the Lord will bless them ten times more than they blessed us.  (that will be hard, but nothing is impossible with God)

Thank you Mrs. Spurling and Hannah!  Also thank you Nancy Spencer for being our midwife, but most important, thank you Lord for taking such good care of us.  We love you and thank you so much for Titus and our friends.

Below are some more pictures of the Titus birthing action.

Elisha was there for the birth.  She was a blessing to have around.  She sure does love Titus, and Momma.

And this is our sweetheart Jubilee, who was VERY excited about holding her new little brother.  She isn’t the baby anymore, but at least she seems happy still.

Well that is it for today.  It took me a day to get this posted just because life has been so busy.

I hope you all enjoy the pictures.  I will send out emails, and post here in the near future when I get all the pictures up in our Silva~Moose picture album.

Today was a great day.  I love working in the yard and I love working with my kids.  Today we continued our work on the front yard box.  Originally it had Juniper bushes covering the whole thing.  This summer we have managed to get rid of all the Juniper bushes and have planted Dahlias, and are working on tilling the ground and getting it ready for grass.

It’s about bedtime, but I wanted to go outside and take some pictures of our work before bed.  Specially because the kids did so much good work.

And of course I couldn’t get pictures without getting my kids in the shots too.  Elisha and Isaiah were the only ones that went out with me.  Gabriel was reading in his bed.

Well, goodnight now.

This morning Jubilee was running around the house with a curtain rod in her hand charging Mommy and me.

She was having a blast, laughing out loud as we tried to escape her little spear like pokes.  I had to take a picture, and since I wanted to mess a little with Photoshop, I decided to doctor it up a little bit.

Here is my Little Amazon Girl!