Her Favorite Way to Spend a Saturday

Together

Taken by Morgan

Love how she captured this.

3 months

Rescued

I love my boy, Aaron, but there are moments when he can really get me...I'll let you fill in the blank.  This morning was one of them.  He was up at 5:15 and chipper as can be.  He's not exactly a church mouse and his antics quickly began waking up the rest of the kids.  I was in tears a 5:51.  4 kids were awake and Steve had to leave for work.  (Though my kids do get up early, today was an unusual day for it to be that early!)
I was very happy to see an e-mail from my dad who had off work last minute today.  I had asked him the other day if he could try to spend some time with Aaron this week.  I was relieved that today was the day.  Here's my happy boy getting ready bright and early for a day with Grandpa.

Chaos

Oops

I keep forgetting that I have yet to post my pictures from our family Christmas when my brother and his family was in.  So here they are, almost 2 months later!

Grandpa's homemade slide.  It comes out every few months and the kids love it

Relaxing by the tree

Just realized that the quality of the rest of these pics is terrible.  I took them with my sis-in-law's camera and for whatever reason I lost something in the transfer.  Oh well, here they all are anyway!!

Little Drew was not wanting to cooperate for the group shot!

Greta was thrilled with her new Strawberry Shortcake dress.

Greta was thrilled with her "piddo" (that's how she says it) pet from Grandma.  She has slept with it every night since.  

Little Tongue

Catching Flakes

Valentine's Day

This was the 4th or 5th (can't remember) year that we held a Valentine's party with some other homeschool friends.  I was considering not doing it this year with all the craziness of having a new baby, but I don't think my girls would have let me say no. :)  I was happy to do it and they did a lot of the work anyway.

I didn't get too many pictures of our actual party, it was too crazy!

Claudia captured this on Sat. evening.  Steve was gone to Pittsburg for the weekend to preach and we spent the evening doing prep.  Muti-tasking, holding the baby, and doing Valentines!

I took this picture on Monday morning.  Claudia is quite the little helper/organizer.  She made this list completely on her own.  And yes, she did complete it!!

Our handsome little Valentine man

Look, Mom, I actually did something crafty!!!

And it turned out cute!

All the kids

Aaron made this Valentine in church.  I love it!!

Out of the Mouths...

This was how Greta communicated to me that she had:

1. Clogged the toilet.
2. Tried to plunge it.
3. Was unsuccessful at the plunge and flushed and flooded the bathroom.

"Mom, I went potty and pee pee is shooting EVERYWHERE!!"

Love that Face

Poor Josiah is blurry, but I love this one of Aaron.  It's tough to get a real smile out of him.  Here it is.

Living Room Limbo

Helpful?

This was what I got when I asked Greta to put away the 24 pack of toilet paper.

Sweatsuit

Bones

Not sure how I acquired 3 skeleton shirts.