Dancing Vincent

Here's a video of Vincent's latest hobby, dancing!

Vincent-boy is sitting up!

I've done a poor job of showing off my little man. Today while sitting on the floor we "discovered" he can sit up! Mind you, its not like we've been working with him or trying to get him to sit. Isabelle just plopped him down and we gasped! He can sit! Guess who's going to be getting lots of sitting practice now?

** I apologize for the fuzziness. I used my blackberry since it was the closest and I didn't want to lose the moment. And ignore all my jabbering. ;-) **

Anna reciting poetry

Here's Anna reciting her first poem of the year, George Washington by Stephen Vincent Benet. I had to record in 2 parts so that the file was small enough to download from my Blackberry. Enjoy!

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Part 2 :

Vincent Video

Video Announcement

I'm so behind in uploading pics and videos to my blog. In fact, I've got Christmas videos I still want to upload. Anyways, I thought I would start with one of the most recent. Its a video clip of when we told the kids (and my mom-in-law) that we are expecting baby boy.

Enjoy! The kids LOVE, LOVE, LOVE watching videos of themselves so I'll be uploading more in the future (because I've got too many on my phone!!)

National Healthcare Video

A funny must see video about National Healthcare!

H/T Michelle

Nashville Dominicans: Final Profession of Vows

Here's a beautiful video of final vows for several Nashville Dominicans, including Sr. Gianna (Aggie formerly known as Jen Junker). Sr. Gianna's conversion story is one of the most amazing stories I know.

Watching this video brought tears to my eyes and even a little bit of holy envy. Oh, to have such a beautiful and orderly life to just love God!!!!! I love being a mother and watching this video made me realize I yearn for more order and more time with my Lord in my chosen vocation.

I'm struggling with the order and discipline part. Today I read The Holy Twins: St. Benedict & St. Scholastica to the kids. I made a mental note to look up St. Benedict's rule. I really need to be more self disciplined with my time. My peace and joy are being robbed due to my own laziness. And also misunderstanding of where my joy should really come from - being a daughter of God and nothing else.

Anyways, enjoy this beautiful video!!!!! What beautiful brides of Christ!!

Final Profession of Vows, Nashville Dominicans, July 24, 2009 from patrick murphy-racey on Vimeo.

H/T Mary's Aggies

Girls Singing in Choir

I've been wanting to record the girls singing in the children's choir for a while now. I finally thought to record them during their practice BEFORE Mass this morning. Here they are singing my favorite, Panis Angelicus . The adult choir accompanies them. I love it when they sing this song.

*I wish I knew how to edit the width of the video. But, of course, I have no clue. So, I would like to note that Sophia is clipped out but would have appeared in the lower right corner. Isabelle (wearing a beige headband) appears on the left side. Anna is the last one on the right in the second row.*

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