I have been pleasantly surprised

I mentioned last Thursday that today marks five years since we found out that our Emma Grace had died.

I have been ten shades of nervous/sad/occasionally weepy about today.

For me, five years seems like a big deal for some reason.

I know that our little girl {and our other children} are up in Heaven.

That they are healthy and happy.

As Adison said the other evening, "Maybe they are in Heaven playing soccer with Jesus."

I like that idea.

I still had some trepidation about today, up until I woke up this morning.

I am happy to report that today has been anything but sad.

While I have thought about our dear girl, I cannot help but think how blessed I am.

I have 9 children.

Yes, 2/3 of them do not live on the Earth with me, but 9 blessings none the less.

{I don't have a good lead in to today's going on's so can we just pretend that I do? Thanks!}

I was excited to spend my day with my three little cupcakes today.

Adison was home, so we had to do some celebrating.

What better was to celebrate and be happy than by going on a special outing with my girls?

We headed over to an art museum that has an art lab for kids.

{I think I wrote about it before, but am not sure, if this is repetitive I apologize.}

Anyways, I had taken the little girls, but today was a first for Adison.

She is really creative and artisitc so I knew that she would have a blast.

Getting ready to head out.

They had this cool/weird/odd bird nest/house/thingy outside the museum.

The kids had fun playing hide and go seek in it.

One cute little bird.

Another cute little bird.

Abby had a blast playing at the light table.

The big girls doing some water painting.

Adison said that hers was a storm.

It was good y'all.

I think that Abby's favorite was the little sand box.

She spent the majority of her time there.

I was impressed with Adison's attention to detail and focus.

Ainsley had so much fun painting, she completed two of them.

Today has been a good day.

How has yours been?

P.S. I watched The King's Speech last night.

Oh my goodness, I LOVED it!

{Also, if you are unaware, Colin Firth is in it, sigh.}