busy or not here I come

I have decided that since I haven’t scrap-booked in over 2 years and I haven’t videoed in about 5 years. That if I quit blogging completely then I will miss recording my family’s growth and change.

Soooo I am back. A little here and a little there. And I have some back tracking to do to make sure I catch it all.

AHHHHHHHHH! feels good to actually do this.

Here are some vacation shots from Eagle Crest. We loved our vacation and our quality time as a family plus one. Debby’s friend Molly who is one week older than her came along with us. (her mother talked me into my first epidural…one can only say GOD BLESS YOU, to a gift like that) Molly is a delight.

The only draw back was feeding everyone homemade chili and having them love it so much that they cleaned up the left-overs.

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Creative Liz

Charming that is what it is!

We drove over to St. Paul to watch Ben play a basketball game.

Elizabeth spent her time creating interesting creatures and giving them unique-never-been-heard-before names.

and she gave this one to me:

I felt sooo honored and greatful!!!!?!

she could have given me the one titled “The walking Teet”

Winter activity

Really enjoyed an adventuresome Sunday afternoon.

Took the dogs and four out of five kids on a Run? Jog! Walk.

Good soul food for this girl. They were troopers to. Tim said we logged somewhere close to 5 miles.

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Feeling Safe this morning!

Yup! Felt snug and protected walking into my kitchen this morning!!!

That GI JOE is my real American hero!

Kid quotes

A couple days ago I asked Lizzy how she KNEW dad and I loved her.

She was a little flustered, I could tell she wanted to give a good answers but had a slow brain moment. I let her off of the hook.

Today she brought the question back up.

After giving several great Hallmark style answers she said this…

“And I know that you and dad love me because you kept me, I mean you didn’t give me to one of those places that are like the dog pound for people. What are they called again.”

Charts and measures!

One of the things that we seem to do as a tradition is take every ones height and weight measurements at the end of the year. (Thank God I am in charge of this occasion because I’m a Mama-don’t-do-no-public-weight-in kind of leader!) I love this little piece of wall in my house.

And in order from least to greatest here they are:

Bringing up the rear is our very own beautiful DeborskiShe grew a total of 1 1/8ths inches and gained 12 lbs. Will she be tall like Grandma Teri or short like Grandma Viola? Hummmm…we shall see.

Next up weighting in a whole 13 lbs heavier is…Our happy little shepherd boy, he grew 1 1/4 inches since last December.

The middle of the pack or in third place is….drum roll please:our not-so-little drummer boy (For real, thanks to a new set of drums sitting upstairs) He grew 1 3/4 inches and gained 11 lbs.

And having put on 10 plumping pounds, 2nd place goes to:Elizabeth Angel Girl! She grew a crazy 2 inches.

SO for a MILLION dollars worth of clean laundry and socks is our first place winner Ben”Jamin” (cleaned by his own million dollar hands of course)!!!He grew 2 and 3/4 inches and gained only 6lbs….and the crowd goes wild. AHHHHHH!!!!!

 

 

Bring on the dangling earrings!

Liz’s ears have healed up enough to start changing them out.

She is living like a DIVA!

I think all us ladies should count the first day with dangling earrings as a major milestone.

Smiling mama!