What !?!

This is what we did Saturday!  It was a BEAUTIFUL day!!

8 rows of onions

 Ahhhh, I LOVE planting a garden!

THEN we wake up to this.......!?!

*sigh* I guess it's not Spring just, yet.

Today is beautiful again with all the snow gone. :)  Happy Days!!!

I'm so excited....

What do you think of our blogs new look?  I just love it!!!  Thanks to my smart and helpful friend Janie who held my hand and showed me where to go.  I told her I wanted to "shake things up a bit" on our blog, so she helped me out.  Thanks, Janie!!! :)

I don't have any new pictures on the computer.  They are still all on the camera, but I will get them on here soon, but here's a smile for you.

**First an explanation:  We have been going on deputation for the school for AGES it seems.  Usually we go during the month of February each year, but with so many churches needing to reschedule for different reasons it has drawn it out a bit and we still aren't done with deputation for this year.**

So Owen was talking with one of his chums the other day and the "chum" said, "We saw Donald Duck on vacation.

Owen said, "We don't go on vacation, we only go on deputation."

:D

Life Marches On.....

Wow, can you believe it's March already?

Things are keeping busy at our house and this week we're starting revival - if you live in the area, we'd LOVE to have you join us each evening at 7.  We'll even share our pew with you. :D

None of these pictures have anything to do with revival, or anything other than just "life" at our house.

Enjoy!

 Buddies

 Ashlyn is always entertained

 She enjoys her swing with the dangling toys

 "Excuse me, were you speaking to me?"

 She has started looking at her hands

 

"I'm so talented, I can even smile with my paci in my mouth"

 

 "Okay, Mom, you can stop now"

 "I'll just ignore you"

 "Ooooh, there goes dad"

 "mmmmm, these look tasty."

 Our funny boys! 

(See that cut-out in Owen's hair? Yep, he was a proud barber that day)

 And silly girls

 Kristyn was twirling and got dizzy and stumbled into the corner of the piano - OUCH!!

 She wanted me to take a picture so Grandma could see. :)

One happy Daddy - a happy bunch of Kids!

For anyone that cares, I still can't get the private blog option working - I don't know, maybe there's too many names on the list that want to keep viewing it. (?)  I have no idea and I don't have any more time that I want to waste trying to figure it out, so we're just going to leave it public for now - unless one of my talented readers wants to walk me through it and help me figure it out. :)

As always we love hearing from you!  Have a lovely week.

Our Family......

Our family size grew last week!  We went from having ONLY five kids to having nine kids!

 We had a grand time ~ seriously!  Our play room (pictures coming soon, I promise) was a life saver and the beautiful weather was wonderful so they could enjoy the great outdoors.

On laundry day, I did the laundry and we dumped it onto the playroom floor and all gathered around it.  We made a pile of towels, socks and tights, undies and hang-up things. Then we went pile by pile until the job was done and it didn't take that long.  8 loads done in about 30 min.  I was SO proud of all of them!!!

Murphy also decided to visit and he took our fridge with him. : /  Not very thoughtful of him, was it?  So we asked the pastor if we could use the church bus and we headed out for the mall to shop for a fridge.  We found one at a Sears Outlet store, paid cash and have a great fridge sitting in our kitchen.

 The kids did great at the mall.  We had 3 in strollers, one in the sling and the others had a buddy to hold hands with.  I threatened them with their life if they even thought of letting go of their buddy's hand. :)  Not really!  They did SUPER.  My dad asked if I got any weird looks.  I told him I didn't know, because I didn't make eye contact with anyone. :D  Heehee - just kidding!  We got some kind comments.  We ignored the rest. :)

 One 7 year old, two 6 year olds, a 5, 4, 3, 2, 19month and 3 month old.  GREAT kids!!!

 Here's the Mom and Pops of the clan. :D

 Playdough time.

 Kara got to spend time with her favorite uncle and buddy. :D

Sweet kids!

I took them back home this morning, so now we're down to only our five again.  Our family seems small for some reason.  We are the MOST BLESSED parents and Aunt and Uncle in the world!!!!

As a side note, paper plates are my new best friend!!

:)

Happy Birthday, OWEN!!

Yesterday, Owen turned FIVE years old!  It's so hard to believe that our little man is that old already.  He said he wanted a construction cake for his birthday. So I tried my best to make his little dreams come true. :)

 Many thanks to Graham Crackers and Oreo's.

 See this really cool load coming out of the bucket into the dump truck?  Keith cut a Graham Cracker just the right size, I iced it and we dipped it in Oreo crumbs.  Turned out perfect. :D

 A neat card from Grandma and Papa.

 A DOLLAR!

 This is just what I wanted.

 The smile says it all.

 He is a good helper and most of the time a willing worker

 See his shirt?  He told me he wanted a birthday shirt (thanks for the idea, Janie).  So he designed it himself with scraps of material we already had.  We cut out the five and I sewed them on.  He loves it!

I told him Saturday:
"This is the LAST day that you're going to be four years old in your whole life."
He replied:
"Yeah!  I'm really gonna miss you and I know you will miss me, too."

Happy Birthday, Our Sweet Little Man!!!!!