Sunday activities

Some Sundays we have peace and love.... but there are the other 99 that the kids want me to entertain them all day and to let them do activities that we have decided are not Sunday activities for us. This Sunday however I was getting ready and realized that the kids were very quiet. I went into the livingroom and found all the kids building with legos and getting along great. They did that for almost 3 hours and were sharing so amazingly the whole time. It was heaven on earth for three hours.... :)

Sarah the big sister

Sarah has become such a good helper and big sister. She is such a patient and loving babysitter. She is a HUGE help with Caleb when my short fuse has run out. :) I can't believe she is almost 10!

ST.PATTY'S DAY!

For breakfast I made these super cute rainbow pancakes that the kids LOVED and ask for them the next day too (i said no, too much prep)
For lunch we had green mac n' cheese. TOTALLY disgusting and hard to eat.....

But... for dinner we had little shamrock garlic rolls, Broccoli soup, sprite (thanks mom) and rainbow sherbet for dessert! It was wonderful!

The day was really fun and GREEN. All the kids dressed in green and for school we did a paper titled "If I found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow I would...." They had some pretty cute ideas and thought really hard about it. Sarah said she would save animals, give to charities, travel the world, and buy a city. Joseph said he would buy his mom and dad a mansion, and then buy himself a DS and some Pokemon games. Hannah said she would keep it safe and then she would buy fun things. Caleb said he would buy a dragon, a lightning mcqueen, and a night furry. Yeah for holidays!

The two little monsters....

These are my two little monsters... They are ALWAYS busy, noisy, and finding ways to bug everyone else. :) Next year we will all be in trouble. :)

Making smoothies

The kids are really into a smoothie mood lately. They can be found making smoothies almost everyday.

Joe is going to be 8 soon!

Joseph is turning 8 soon and we got to go to the Blue and Gold Banquet for the scouts. He was and is SOOO excited to turn 8 and to go into scouts!

The daddy...

These are two of the things you will see the daddy at this house do almost every day. He LOVES to snuggle the kids and I. And, he "gets" to study and read a lot for school.

Valentines Day

These are my pretty flowers from my cute husband on Valentines day! When we first got married I was working at Flower Patch, and really got tired of ROSES. So, he is always so good to get a beautiful mix of flowers. :)

For Valentines night we got a babysitter for the kids, bought them heart pizza and smore pizza, and then we went out to dinner. It was so nice to be ALONE and to talk and eat good food.

My little Mommy

This is how you will find Hannah at all hours of the day... She takes at LEAST 4 babies with her all through the house and wants so badly for me to let her take them with us on errands. :) Today she has 5 There is the huge "oldest daughter" then there is a sets of newborn twins in the carrier, and then another set of older twins that have their own carriers. :) AND... as you can see she is pregnant with another one "due in a couple months". :)
Jacob is Hannahs FAVORITE doll. Ever since he was "sturdy" enough for her to hold she has been his second mom. She gets him out of the crib (very interesting to watch), she feeds him bottles and babyfood, she plays with him off and on all day, and she is the first one to come to his rescue whenever he whines. :) (right now he weighs 23 lbs and she weighs 32 lbs)

my childrens lovely picture taking skills....

Hannah and Caleb LOVE to steal my phone and take picture of everything and anything..... here are some for this week. :)

Lock of love for me.... jealous Hannah :)

She had a sore around her mouth from licking her dry lips :)

So I decided it was time to donate my hair again.... I do this every two years. That way Shawn can enjoy my hair for a year "long" and I can get a new look every two years and also some little girl can feel pretty again. It ended up the shortest I have had my hair since I was 12, but I am learning to do it and it will be fine. Hannah was so jealous of my haircut that she had to cut hers so I cut it for her a few days later. It looks really cute on her and it is MUCH easier to keep looking nice on my "wild Hannah".

January 2011

This month we went to the capitol building with our homeschool buddies! It was so fun. The kids got to run around and find things in the capitol building to fill a BINGO card. It was just the right amount of "exposure" for our ages... It is so pretty and the kids kept asking me to take more pictures of them :)