Stay Tuned......

Somewhere my camera is hiding with all of the great pics from our Fall Family Festival!!!! I know it's here somewhere. I have been looking for it for a couple of days. I'm sure one of the "3 and under crowd" found a great spot to hide it. So if all of a sudden you see pics from Halloween on here and it's way past, that's why.

Sigh, why are they so good at hiding things?????

Love That Smell!

This morning as Levi was getting ready for school, he was standing in front of his closet picking out his clothes. I walked past and he yells, "Don't ya love the smell of boys!" "Yep, clean ones!!" was my reply. He chuckled and then said, "I guess you only like the smell of Dad". Yep!

Boys do have such a distinct smell to them. There is nothing like a boy coming in from playing football in the mud and rain that drives me to the next room. Sweaty on a summer day will do the same thing. Why is it when my girls come in from the same activities, that they don't smell the same??? Wet, muddy football uniforms will cause me to hold my breath the entire time I'm getting them into the washer. And don't even get me started on their socks!!!!!

There is the sweet smell of boys that I do love. It's not as often that I get to enjoy it but I'll take what I can get. Just out of the shower with clean clothes and clean skin.....it's the best.

Pretty in Pink!

Just had to post this cute picture of Jasmine! When I saw this dress at the store, I had to have it! She looks like such a little doll. She is 3 months old and weighs 10 1/2 lbs.!!!! She is doing really well. She is starting to hold her head more steady and smiles more than any baby I have seen! I think she kind of likes us......or thinks we're all just really funny looking!

He should know better....

A couple of days ago, I was taking some pictures of Jasmine. Tanner comes in and peels off his shirt to show me a bruise in his armpit. I thought I could kind of, maybe see something. He asked me to take a picture of it so he could see it since he just knew for sure that there was something there. I'm sure it was a "wrestling with his older brother" injury and he wanted some proof that he really did get hurt.....I don't know, I think it's a guy thing.

Anyway, I showed him the picture on the computer and the first words out of his mouth were, "You're not going to put this on your blog are you????" Why Tanner, what a great idea! Showing your armpits on my blog is getting to be a regular occurrence!!!! Again, I'm pretty sure it's a guy thing.

There ya go Tanner!!!! Love ya kiddo!

It was bound to happen.....

"Am I in trouble??"

"I am super cute and she does have a hint of a smile on her face....."

A mess that will have to wait until later.....

I had one of the kids do some shredding for me a few weeks ago. It was a day they didn't have school and I was looking for ways to fill their day. They love to do it and actually did quite a bit that day. I had left a bag of shredded paper in the upstairs office because it wasn't quite full and I knew that we could put more in it at some later day. Every time I walked past the bag, I would think to myself, "You know it's only a matter of time before one of the little ones pulls every piece out of that bag and leaves it all over this room!!!" But that didn't stop me from bending over and putting it in a higher location. Yesterday in fact, I had a very distinct feeling that it would happen very soon.

This morning as we were getting ready to head out the door to get some last minute items for our party tonight, I could hear Isaiah upstairs laughing and having a great time....by himself. Finally I went up to get him as we were walking out the door. This is what I found! Couldn't blame him. It had sat there too long, just waiting for some little hands to fling it all over the room! Mission accomplished!!! Thanks Izzy.

Fun on a Tuesday afternoon!

Vanessa decorating her cookie.

Busy decorating!

YUM Levi!

Tanner's creation!

Oops! Missed getting Savannah's cookie....but look at that smile. Must have been good!

Vanessa's cookie!

Samantha's cookie was almost too beautiful to eat! Almost.

Ready, Set, Go!

He loves that slide!

We have a membership at Out Of This World Pizza. It's a new indoor play place. They have a couple of the big blow up slides/maze things as well as a huge tube/crawling through tunnels and slides and more tubes and slides play structure. I should have taken a picture!!! What was I thinking???? Anyway, there is a great play area for 5 and under complete with comfy couches for parents to sit on. Usually we go as a family and I sit, while holding the baby and Scott goes through the tubes, tunnels and slides with the kids.

Yesterday they were also doing cookie decorating so we made sure to add that to our schedule for the afternoon. The kids had a blast. After that Sabrina mentioned that she heard kids at school talking about "Free Taco Day" at Taco Bell. Well, of course we couldn't pass that up. So we went on through the drive-thru. The conversation went something like this:

Me: Hey, I heard you were having free taco day. Is that true?

Employee: Yes, it is.

Me: Well, I have 10 of us that would like a taco.

Employee: 10? Are you serious??

Me: I promise! I'm driving a 15 passenger van and it's full of kids!

Employee: Um, ok. Next window please!

Excited yells coming from the back of the bus: Wahoo, we get a free taco!!!!!

As we came to the window, the kind employee informed us that his manager told him that they could only give out a couple of tacos per car and that next time we would need to actually come inside to get them. "Oh sure, you bet! That's no problem", I told him. "But are you really sure your manager would rather have me bring my 10 bouncy, loud, rambunctious children inside? Perhaps he would just prefer to throw us the tacos through the drive-thru???"

No complaining here. I'll take free tacos however I can get 'em!!!!

How To Know When You Should Back Away From The Computer....

Isaiah was having a great time, crawling around, looking at things and singing his new favorite song, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. All of a sudden I knew he was done. He wanted me to move away from the computer and play with him. Smart boy, he found the button on top of the computer and gave it a push. Off went the computer! I looked down at him and this is what I saw! He was totally just leaning against the computer, singing his song. I don't really know for sure if he knew what he was doing or if he just got lucky. Either way, it was time to go play!