The King has arrived!

The weather this weekend has been cold and rainy so the kids could not play outside. On Saturday, while I was putting Brennen to bed (JT is out of town), the other three decided to have a food fight in my carpeted living room. I came out of Brennen's room because I could hear all the shouting and there were raspberries ground into the carpet, smashed into their clothes and hair, ketchup all over the walls...Needless to say, I exploded on them. I think I managed to get through their thick skulls what a bad idea this was. Anyway, they were grounded on Sunday. No TV, video games, friends, etc. So they decided to break out the dress up and here we have King James. He told me he really likes being a king!

Lots to do, so little time!

We are putting a new roof on the house, so the kids are banished to the sandbox. It is so loud in the house, the dogs go crazy and the kids can't sleep!

James and Kellen enjoy their banishment!

Our new golf course opened today, so JT and I went out to test the course. It felt like we were playing in a hurricane (it was sooooooo windy-I think I got wind burn), but JT and I managed to put together a nice round.


After golf, we rushed home to pick up the kids and then turned right around out the door because Skylar had her vocal concert tonight.

Brennen and James did well sitting through the concert. I could not catch Kellen on camera because he would not sit still or be quiet.



The little pig herself!

A bad news day

You wouldn't know it from this picture, but I have not been feeling well these past couple of days. I have been waking up in the night again and I am refusing to drink anything. I do not like my mama's boobie anymore and I can barely tolerate a bottle. After a long, cranky day, mama took me into the doctor and guess what? Another double ear infection. This time they gave me two shots of antibiotics in the legs. Mama had never heard of this before so she was a little nervous. After she thought about it though, she thought it was much better than forcing medicine down my throat for two weeks. If I am not better in two weeks, they are going to have to put tubes in my ears. As this picture shows, even though I won't drink, I still love my sweet potatoes and blueberries (you can thank Kellen for the bad camera shot, he pulled on Mama's arm right as she was taking the picture)!

Kellen also had bad news today. He had his hearing and vision screened today and failed both tests. So now we have to take him to a specialist for each. I think his hearing is fine, he just has a little cold today, but we are a little worried about his eyes. Since Mama has such bad eyes and they got bad early in life, Mama is really worried that he is following in her footsteps. The worst thought....trying keep a pair of glasses on Kellen.

Game Day!

We played a lot of games today. It seems like we went through all of them one by one.

Brennen was a good little boy, playing with his toys while we played our games.

A Day at the Circus

Today I got to be a chaperon for Skylar's class to take them to the circus. We had so much fun together today. I got to ride on the school bus, play tag and duck, duck, goose at the park and then watch the circus show with the girls. (Of course, I just had my cell phone camera:()

Skylar with Caitlyn and Paityn

The three ring circus!


"Mommy, Kellen's washing his hair in the toilet." Truly, a comment you don't hear very often. I really don't know what the boy is thinking!

James had his friend, Ethan, over today. They played a lot of games and just had a fabulous time.

Look at how well I can sit now!

Brennen has started talking now. Before he used to just scream. Now he is starting to babble and make sounds. His favorite...da,da,da!

Burning off some energy

Thank goodness we are finally getting some good weather. The kids seem to have an insane amount of energy right now.

When the kids' energy level gets too high, I make them run 10 times around the deck. That usually leads them to stay outside and play thus burning off more energy and saving my house from falling down.

Kellen, I am pretty sure that is not how you play baseball. However, you do throw the ball well!