When raking leaves was fun....

This is fun. (You can tell by the amount of dirt on my face and the expression.)


Josie is practicing for her future career in modeling.


This is what it looks like to try not to laugh when you really want to be mad at your mother for taking your picture.



The raking of the leaves in order to do....


THIS!

Gouls and cuties

They would not stand still long enough to get a great photo!

It might have something to do with all the candy.

Dancing

Photos

This is Wayne after moving into his room (up 3 flights of stairs)!

This is the kids doing a color experiment!

Neat huh?

Waiting for Drama

I have hit a dry spell on blogging....but just wait. I start homeschooling next week, Richard starts teaching again and the following week Wayne moves out and goes to college. We will... have... drama. Can't you imagine? Pray that it is simple, funny drama, not major drama!

Kids in the Car

Riding in the car with three children crammed in the backseat behind you is no fun. We don't have one of those DVD players to occupy them. We brought toys galore and I even brought my laptop with movies to play (but that didn't work - it did work at home then we get the 3 kids off from home and it won't work). I just don't know how people traveled before electronics. We had music the kids liked playing, toys for each and they still fought over every thing. We put Jack in the middle to keep Parker and Josie separated because they usually fight worse, but this time Jack and Josie could not get along and when they did they were laughing hysterically and shrilly screaming. I suppose since that was the worst part of the trip, I should not complain.

July 4th

We enjoyed the day with Grandparents and swimming!

Oh yeah, and eating sundaes. Hope you had a Happy 4th!

I will never wear white again

The running joke at my house - besides the fact that I burn all bread (that's another post) - is that if a meal is good, then I will get it on my shirt somehow. Well, today we took the 2 little ones to the Mall just to get out of the house. Since it has been heat index of 110 or so the last few days we have not been able to go out and play so we needed to get out!!!! We walked around the book store, went to see the pets at the pet store and stopped to get ice cream. Well, Josie picked vanilla, Jack wanted cotton candy ice cream, Richard chose blue raspberry shave ice and I picked my all time favorite ice cream - Rocky Road. I should have picked vanilla, but then there is no way I would have gotten ice cream on my pretty white shirt. Vanilla is just not Good to me. But I would have spared the white shirt a huge stain.

By the way I think it was really funny that Richard looked like a 3 year old eating blue candy with his blue raspberry ice. His teeth were blue, his tongue was blue and his lips were blue!

Chances..........

Take a chance! Do something you have never done before this week: try something new, ask questions, or go see someone you have not seen in years. It expands your horizons and broadens your mind. It makes you able to see the differences in people and enables learning. Read a book with a child and you will learn something from that child that you never knew before – I know, I have 3 children under the age of 9 at my house. We always are learning something new, like “Mama, Jack put 12 DVDs in the TV and now it won’t work.” By the way, I learned that you can get 12 DVDs in the TV – you can also get them out and the TV will still work. So try something new, learn something new - just don’t put 12 DVDs in the TV!

Easter 2009

These guys had a great time egg hunting on Saturday at church with their friends.......

This is the best photo of all the one I took after church Sunday. The kids have discovered that they look silly in the pictures and think it is funny so the only one who did not look silly in any photo was Wayne!

Well, I would love to type more tonight, but have to finish Senior Thesis by tomorrow!