Easter

Not sure why the tears...but they are kind of funny!

Trying to wait patiently

The daddy's are helping out!

The kids love to feed to fish, ducks, and turtles

Homemade roller coaster (created by my dad)!

CJ teaching Cameron all about football

So peaceful! I love this picture!

We had a wonderful Easter! We were able to celebrate at my parents house again this year. Joining our family gathering this year was my best friend and her family (they just recently moved down here from Indiana). The kids had a blast. They were able to open a 2nd Easter basket from my parents, having an easter egg hunt, feeding the fish, ducks and turtles, decorating sugar cookies and of course just playing together!

Catch up....

So....it is now mid April and I have not blogged since beginning of February. Lots to catch up on. I will try my best to get back to blogging more regularly now. I am so far behind I think it will be easiest to start from now and go backwards in time....so here it goes.....

Visit with Friends!

Everyone was in line to get their tattoos : )

Cute buddies

Connor teaching Savannah how to play video games

Nightly hang out / movie time

They brought chairs and books over and made their own reading corner...it was so cute!

Having fun!

These 2 LOVE to wrestle....one of many times that Cameron was rolling off the air mattress!

The day after Christmas one of my best friends from high school and her family came to visit for the week. We had a blast as usual! All of our kiddos get along so well! The kids enjoyed playing at Monkey Joe's, wrestling, playing video games, and having nightly movies and sleep overs together. It has been great getting to see them! They have visited very frequently this past year so our kids have been able to grow pretty close even with us living hundreds of miles apart. And the best part is.....they are moving down to our city, actually our very neighborhood, this coming week! I am so excited!!!! Can't wait for them to get here!

Merry Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas again this year! Unfortunately, most of the pictures were taken on my mom's camera so I only had a few to upload from Christmas morning at our house! The "big" toy gifts from Santa this year were a Princess doll house and workbench. We were able to spend Christmas this year with my aunt and uncle from Oregon. It was so nice having them here! Hopefully, I will be able to upload more from my mom's camera another time.

Happy Birthday Jesus Party!

Sending Jesus his birthday balloons

Getting ready to send their balloons to Jesus

Savannah helping mommy set up for the party

Cameron hanging out with the boys

This is the 2nd year that we have hosted a "Happy Birthday Jesus Party". It is such a fun time and allows the children to remember the true meaning of Christmas. We had 17 children this year for our party. The kids did crafts, ate cupcakes, and sent balloons up to Jesus for his birthday! They had a great time! We plan to continue making this an annual tradition!

Christmas Part 1

We are fortunate to live within driving distance to most of our extended family. So a few weeks before Christmas we met up with some of my aunts, uncles, and cousins (and there kiddos) to celebrate. We had a great time chatting and letting the little ones play, make crafts, and eat popcorn while watching Polar Express. Although we don't get to see each other as often as we would like it is nice that all of our kiddos are still pretty close! It makes you very thankful to have been blessed with such a wonderful and loving family!

I'm Still Here

Still here....we have just extremely busy since before the holidays! I am going to try EXTRA hard to play catch up on here this week sometime. So please come back soon to see whats been going on in our household : )