#abbycrowley

Dear diary,

My two daughters, Elianna and Fiona, share a bedroom. They are twins and share everything on their request. Recently they started having nightmares and started thinking their was a monster under their bed. We used the monsterspray, Abby remembered when she was scared years ago and also used it one night for the girls. Abby is such a sweet older sister.

My youngest celebrated his birthday. He is already four years old! I can't believe I won't be having childeren at home anymore. They grow up so fast! Gabriel is such a selfassured young boy. He always knows what he wants.

Since we had two birthday's short after eachother, and it had been a while, we made a new familyphoto.

We made two different ones. We had a hard time getting our teenagers, Abby and Beau in a good position. But we managed to get some cute photo's. I'm so thankful with my family. But deep down, I still have some babyfever left. I hope we get one more some day.

Love, Juanna

Dear diary,

My baby is already one year old. Denver and I might not try for another baby so I'm just sooking in all the moments with my youngest.

He is already such a handsome young boy. And he knows what he wants. I need to learn him that he doesn't trow a fit whenever he doesn't get his way. His father has such a soft spot for his youngest son. He spends a lot of time playing with Gabriel. So sweet to see them together.

With all those birthday's, we wanted a new familyphoto.

We have such a cutie little family. The childeren in order are: Abby, Beau, Christina, Elianna, Fiona and Gabriel. They are 11, 9, 7, 4 and 1 years old. We are so thankful and feel so blessed.

Love, Juanna

Dear diary,

My eldest is already so big and old. She is really getting good at cooking. She is almost 16 years old right now. I never ask her to take on a chore like cooking but she does so herself. Ofcourse I do it the maintime but she likes to do it sometimes too. Like this morning. My sweet daughter.

Fiona had a friend over. She is also a niece of us, Hannah Sestari. She is the daughter of my sister Joelle. Joelle, Julie and I where all pregnant at the same time. I got twin girls, and Joelle and Julie both had girls too. It's so nice to see them growing up together.

Sometimes I do feel a bit sad for Hannah and Gloria (Julie's daughter). They have so many little siblings while my twins only have one. My twins can play all day while Hannah and Gloria help out their mothers. Hannah has five, soon six, younger siblings while Gloria has six, soon seven, younger siblings. And Gloria is the oldest while Hannah has two older siblings. So I feel sad the most for Gloria.

Abby is really getting into that teenage fase. She is working on staying active and slim and making sure she has a nice teint. I let her do so. As long as she behaves herself Denver and I are okay with it.

Elianna and I had a moment together playing the violin. All my childeren are great at playing instruments and I just love playing together with them.

Dear diary,

It's still winter but here in Sulani you almost don't notice that. The other day was such a warm day. Denver grilled some bananas, we all enjoyed a fun day in the water. So thankful to live here!

I watched Christina while Denver took Abby and Beau into deeper water. After that I got my moment of rest in the sun while Denver played with the childeren making sandcastle's. He is such a fun dad!

Although Beau loves to play in the water and on the monkeybars, he has a soft side to him. He also loves to make crafts inside. I let him do that, Abby loves to play outside on the monkeybars like him so why not let Beau make crafts inside. As long as they don't argue I'm a happy mother.

We had a nice new years eve with our family. We all swom till we couldn't and then sat in front of the tv till it was midnight. We loved seeing the fireworks on the beach. The new year will bring lot's of new things, like our fourth baby, birthday's, maybe weddings from my brothers or sisters, or more nephew's or nieces.

Dear diary,

We are living just a quiet normal life here. I'm so thankful for that. We are enjoying our childeren. Our daughters are very fond of eachother, so sweet to see. Denver is buzy with his sermons for church and ofcourse his visits to different people from our church who need special attention. We are very pleased with our community here in Sulani.

Abby is really into her crafts corner but also started to play the piano. We reguarly play together, me on the violin and Abby on the piano. I love spending time with my childeren like this. Playing with them, whether it is music or toys.

Abby does have some nightmares from time to time. Denver figured a little spray with lavender would do the trick to scare away the 'monsters' that Abby dreamed of. And it worked, she slept much better after that. My mother would never do this, she just said to us that monster didn't excist, that was that. I'm so glad Denver learned this trick from his mother and we can use that with Abby.

Dear diary,

My youngest is already a toddler! Time sure does fly by but I love every minute of it. And I'm kind off looking forward to having Christina play more with her older brother and sister. I think that will be so cute to watch.

Denver and I are still preventing since we don't want the childeren to close together. In the beginning I was a bit uncomfertable with it but by now I'm used to it. I'm loving the freedom it gives us and I can focus on my childeren so much more then my mother ever could on us, my siblings and me.

We made a new familyphoto with our three childeren. I has been two years since the last one so it was about time.

And all the other times we are just enjoying where we live, on the beach, surrounded by water. Can't you tell I'm so incredible happy?

Love, Juanna

Dear diary,

We always enjoy weekends eventhow that's the time Denver has to work. He has to preach at the sundayservice in church. I can't always join him because of our little childeren but I try to.

Weekends also means that Abby can relax from school and we have lot's of time together.

Beau build his own sandcastle in the sand unter my supervision. While Abby played in the monkeybars. When I was younger, my parents never let Janine, my older sister, play at the monkeybars even thow she wanted that really badly. I always feeled sorry for her but kind of understood my parents not wanting us girls to play wild. Seeing my own daughter loving the monkeybars I couldn't ask her to stop playing on them. Denver was surprised when I asked his opion about it. Ofcourse she could play on the monkeybars.

We also had a swim together in our new swimwear. It's still quite modest compared to most people but at the same time a little bit cooler then the swimwear we had. Abby loves it and we had a blast swimming together while Beau and Christina already laid in bed.

Dear diary,

Denver and I decided (AN: Denver did, not Juanna) that we where going for another baby. We feel so blessed with our current two but would love to add another little one to the bunch. Beau, our youngest, celebrated his first birthday a couple months ago so their will be 2 or more years between Beau and a possible new baby. So far we didn't have much luck. Sadly.

My sister, thow, had much more luck with getting pregnant. A bit to much luck I think. Her baby, a boy, Sam, is just six months old and she already told me she is expecting again! The baby will be here around the time Sam will turn 1 year old. Joelle will be following my mothers footsteps. So far, none of her daughters is following her footsteps.

Johanna is having fertility issues. She has four childeren but her youngest are already 5 years old.

Janine has five childeren but I suspect she is preventing between the childeren too. Her youngest is a year and a half. And between the youngest and the twins is almost 3 years. Janine isn't pregnant as far as I know so there will be more then two years between her youngest and the baby if she has another one.

Then there is me, I have two and Denver and I consiously are preventing between baby's to not have them close together.

After me is Jadyn, well, she got one baby out of wedlock. Emma is already four years old and I heard that Jadyn is in college. I haven't heard anything about another guy or baby.

Then their is Joelle, that's the one who is following my mom with having childeren close together.

Julie is already 18 years old but not in a relationship. Then there are Jenelle, Jocelyne and Jessica but their are all too young. Like 15, 14 and 10 years old.

For now, we are just really enjoying Abby and Beau. My precious toddlers who sometimes drive me nuts.