Spring Has Sprung

Well spring is here and we are all so excited. Things will be getting a lot busier as now we have Callah, Emily and Ian all starting to play sports. They are all excited as it has been a while since the older ones have played and Ian's first time. This is our picture from Easter. The baby is my wonderful neice Brylee. The kids wanted her in our family picture so here she is.
We have decided that we are going to try and homeschool the kids in the fall. I have been thinking about it for a few years now and have been looking at programs. We are trying to get into a virtual academy with K12. So hopefully I can get more organized and we can all have fun learning together.

Ian turned 6 years old in March. It is hard to believe that he is that old already. He is looking forward to playing t-ball soon. Charlie is helping out on his team and Eddie(his uncle) is the coach. We were lucky enough to get all the cousins on the same team to help out the grandparents and then some of our friends. Ian is a little nervous but he has a killer arm that we are hoping to get trained.lol
Happy Late Birthday on the Blog Ian.


Well Charlie and I are actually going on a vacation in a couple of weeks. It will be the first without kids in quite a few years. We are going to the beach to relax. Thanks to his mom for coming and watching the kids. Well I will try to blog about sports, birthday and trips soon.

The New Scene

Wow it has been a while since my last post. Alot has happened in the Sechrist family. We are now living in Virgina. We love it except for all the stinking wintry weather. We loved the first snow as the kids had not really seen snow that they remembered anyway. We got about 8-10 inches and they liked playing in it until they got cold. They built their first snowman and had their first snowball fight. Then we went sledding at Charlie's dads. So we did enjoy it.
As for any new updates we are all surviving. We are getting more settled in every day. We had a great Christmas and it was nice to not have too far to go. The kids are enjoying school and Charlie had a nice birthday. We are now planning on Ian's upcoming birthday. Well I will make more of an effort. Love you guys.

The End of the Year

Ok well to day the least I have not done well keeping my blog updated. To be honest I doubt that too many have noticed. We have had a full year with school, jobs, kids and life. The kids are all growing up so fast that it is hard to believe we have a 9,8,7,5,3 and 1. We have survived Halloween, Thanksgiving and now moving closer to Christmas. They are all excited with the impending gifts they will or hope to receive. We are also in the process of moving. We are moving back to Virgina. Charlie took a job in September in hopes of moving to North Carolina. In the middle of his training the company offered him a promotion as a District Manager for them in Virginia. We have decided to move to Martinsville area where we once live to be closer to family. It would more ideal to go a little farther north but we feel like this is the best spot. So we are looking forward to being around all the cousins, grandparents, family and friends. So once again near a Christmas we are in the process of moving. It is no fun to move and especially not with 6 kids at Christmas. Well i will try to do better at the first of the year. Until then we wish everyone a MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Our Summer

Ok well to say the least I have not been on top of updating this. I am not sure how many of you even look at it actually. However I like to do it most of the time. Well this summer has flown by for our family. The kids will be starting school on Monday. Yep August 3rd we will officially have a 4th, 3rd,1st and Kindergarten. It is so hard to believe that the kids are that old. I guess that makes us offically old.
Well we had the wonderful opportunity to go to the beach will all Charlie's brothers and sister and their families. It was a great experiecnce and we enjoyed it so much. We had 28 people there and we all got along and that was great being that there were 14 kids. The weather was great. We had no rainy days and only a couple stormy nights. It was nice to sleep with the sound of the ocean. I sometimes think it would be nice to hear it all the time however I guess then I would get used to it and it would not sound the same.
The kids also got the opportunity to spend a week with Charlie's mom Granny Carol. She took them to Chuck E Cheese about 3 times and did many things with them. They had a great time there and are now looking forward to Papa Charles and Granny Laura come to see them so that they can go fishing. They have wanted to go fishing forever however Charlie nor I are fishing people. We live on top of the lake and have only been out one time on it in the 4 years that we lived here. Then we only fished that time for like 10 minutes and gave up.
Well we also have a new name for Nathan. He has renamed himself to actually 2 different names. He is either Nathan Blues Cafe or Little Charlie. He likes to call me Mama Bear and Charlie Daddy Bear. He calls everyone bear. So that is funny and cute. I tell you he is a cutey.
Well this is a glimpse of our summer. We leave to go tomorrow to go to a family reunion for Charlie's moms family. We look forward to seeing everyone. Who knows what the future holds for our family but we are hanging in there and loving each other.