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STROY TIME....LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE, I THINK.

Present from my love on V-Day......caffiene. He knows the way to my heart :)

Groundhog?? Chloe's school project....or Mr Hanky?

Boys w/ thier muscles

Eva is 5 mo old!!!

I can't believe my Eva boo is 5 mo old! She is such a doll. So sweet and has the cutest pudgiest legs, arms and cheeks ever! I'm compeletly head-over-heels about her!

Eva can roll over from tummy to back and back to tummy. She recognizes all her siblings and smiles whenever they are around her. She is starting to get mommy leaving her-itis. She likes to rock herself while people are holding her (which I find really interesting and funny. None of my other kids have done this). She sometimes sucks on her bottom lip to put herself to sleep. Luke has gotten her to laugh a couple times by jumping up and down and yelling, but besides that, she doesn't bust a gut very often. She is my most bald and pudgy baby and I have an urge to constantly kiss her cute little cheeks. Saying she is well loved around here is an understatement!

Our Babies

Besides home improvement, and home schooling, these two take the rest of my time! Zach has defeintly hit that "terrible two" stage! I remember the other boys hit it early too. Lots of screaming, lots of testing the "naughty" limit. Oh man, he's super cute, but some days I wish he were 3 already....a little more independent and a little better at comunicating, and a little more self-controlled! Good thing he's so darn cute and gives lots of sweet kisses!

My sweet Eva boo (about 5 mo here) She's such an angel!

You'll notice we have ALOT of pictures of Zach in the highchair. As much as I'm against little kids watching too much tv, and against "cooping" little kids up, we have had to keep him here alot for his own safety lately! He can get out of an playpen and is as quick as a whip! He gets into EVERYTHING, dispises kid toys, and only seems to enjoy destroying adult things! He usually breaks, spills, gets into, or colors on about 10 things/day.....and that's with us trying to keep him pinned! Today John found that he had gotten into the cupboard and dug 6 of thoses whopper easter eggs out of his mouth! 6!!! Oh heavens, pray for safety!

Yes, we have to keep him tied in the highchair when we're watching family movies, or we'll be constantly chasing him. Actually I think this was story time.

Another highchair picture....

Evaboo and Luke :)

"I'm free....."!

Both asleep! Ahhhh peace!

My sweet Eva boo!

Probably got into the chocolate chips.

5 mo old! I can't believe it! Sooooo cute!

Home Improvement

Well, we've been doing alot of kitchen reno lately! You can see it on http://www.blah2beautiful.blogspot.com/

Here is the Lukester helping us with the built in pull-out drawers we made.

Field Trip to the Crehst Museaum

The nice thing about homeschooling is that you can take field trips anytime you want. We went to the Crehst Museaum the other day. It's a great little museaum and if you purchase a family pass there, you can get into about 200 other space/sience centers around the country for free (good deal in my opinion, but than again, we like to travel and would probably get good use out of this).

Um, I'm wondering if Joel will ever grow out of this weird face phase??

The Babies

Most days I feel like we still have 2 babies, and I guess we do. Sometimes I wonder if they'll ever be another night of sleep that is uninterupted. But I know that day will eventually come and then I'll miss having these cute little babies....well, I'll miss their cute faces. I don't think I'll miss all of this baby stuff.

 OK, yes, I totally need to figure out how to flip these, but is this not the CUTEST face you've ever seen?! I just have to kiss her cheecks all the time.

Hmmm, so I obviously haven't figured out how to rotate the pics with the new blogger settings yet?? oh well, you get the idea. Chloe and he art behind her at her school (Three Rivers Home Link) art show. What a cutie. I just love her.

Oh, the things you'll do for a football game!

No cable = few channels and poor reception.

 So, what's a guy to do when he needs to watch his football game that comes in on a channel with poor reception?

 Get the biggest atena in the house and find a large peice of aluminum on it!

 and hook it to the only TV in the house where the channel will come in even poorly.

I really got quite a kick out of this!

Who Had My Camara?!

 We have had some naughty little kids playing with the camara lately, and it has led to some screen issues! I would love to drop a grand on a new camara, but I don't think that's in the cards, so these kids are going to have to keep their grubby little hands off it! Who are the real offenders of camara snatching:

Culprit #1:

Yes! I've found him with it many times! Caught red handed!

Luke...he already broke 2 camaras, so he pretty much stays away from it now.

Culprit #2:  I've seen her sneaking with the camara quite often lately!

There are other things (such as pictures) that make it quite obvious she is an involved party.

It is quite funny to look over all the pictures though! (all pictures above courtesy of the kids).

New Years and P90X

Here's the end of the New Year's pics. I don't know quite how to do this new blogger layout. Joel showing his railroads.  

 Suz and I gettin' fit for the New Year. We actually started the week after Christmas....I think. No sugar, meat, wheat, or high fat dairy and we have worked out ALOT more often. Suz has even signed up for a month of Hot Yoga in downtown Kenn. So, it's been about a month and we've only had a few slips. Zach is doing it with us in the picture...pretty cute!

New Years!

You think you had a wild New Years? Ours was one of the best! A SERIOUSLY GOOD games of Monopoly! Lots of good food and fun kids!

Unfortuantly, the next morning we finished the games and lots of tears unsued. Hopefully, Monopoly will be less emotional as the years go by.

 Zach had to be strapped in the high chair, in order to keep our house undestroyed!

 This is win they weren't a threat of loosing to one another. Still taking happy pictures.

 Eva boo.

Happy Febuary

Hello everyone! It's been WAY too long since I've updated this!!! Probably one of the longest breaks in my blog history! I've been working on the house more and blogging about that at http://www.blah2beautiful.blogspot.com/ , if you want to see :)  Here's a great picture of Eva boo. She's 4 mo old now and is quite a cutie! Oh we just love her! Sister Suz has been at our place for about a month now. We're greatly enjoying that! and besides that I'm trying to squash some of my social schedule in order to quit overwhelming myself with so much to do :)  That's about it. House, Church stuff, Homeschool and life in general has been keeping us BUSY!