Vacation in Wisconsin Dells

Lunch time & SkipBo

Addison, Layla, Ava & Julia playing dolls

Nick, Keira & Christian talking by the camp fire.

Salsa & Chips for Jeremy, Corbin, Christian & Brody

Jellystone Vacation in Wisconsin Dells

Roasting chicken, spinache & asiago cheese brats! See my 6mo pregnant belly!

Alex the firewood chopper extrordinaire!

Aubrey & Mom on the cabin porch swing!

What did you do on your vacation? We played dolls & duck duck goose around the sewer post! Stinky but fun!

Corbin's favorite past time was throwing rocks in the road and getting as dusty as possible. The funny thing is it didn't change his hair color or his skin color.

Girls watching a movie in our RV.

Guilty Update

As I started this blog I thought it would make life easier with staying in touch and getting down some of those things that I never take the time to do since I am not a scrap booker. Well...I am not a blogger either. Although I love to read them and get updated with my far off family I really stink at being motivated to do this. I don't have time amidst all the laundry, dr appts, cleaning, laundry, dishes, laundry, playing with the kids, laundry, diaper changes, meal prep, church, laundry, grocery shopping, errands...did I mention LAUNDRY? So, if you follow my blog I apologize but I don't like taking time from my kids to do this so you'll have to be happy with my once in awhile posts. And I just realized how much time I spend cleaning rather than playing with my kids-that will have to be remedied.

Anyway, here is a quick update since my last post. I had my birthday (no biggie). We went to St. Louis for 6 days and saw the zoo, science center, Grant's Farm, Anheuser-Busch Brewery tour, the arch, Purina Farms, took a Riverboat tour, swam in the RV park pool and lived to tell about it all. I think I got it all. Then, we had VBS where I helped lead the music & was given the head MC job for it all-totally fun! Next came Sage's 8th birthday...HOLY SMOKES! He's so great. I think he will always love animals. He has such a tender heart and is really starting to understand foreshadowing of movies, books, etc. He and Grandma Glenna have read through all the Narnia books this winter/spring and he LOVES them and can tell you all about them if asked or not. He has enough energy for 6 kids and doesn't stop moving even when he's sleeping. Jeremy and I also celebrated our 11th anniversary by going on the Boone Scenic Vally Railroad Dinner Train. A 1950's style ride that takes 2 hours through very nice scenery and over a 150 foot tall bridge. (Aubrey would have hated that bridge!) That's it. Short and sweet.

Camping weekend

We went to Nerstrand Big Woods to camp on the way to Kiera Ryann's "bath"atism. We hiked for about 2 hours but the rain was putting a damper on our activities.

Gpa Bill's Birthday present

For Gpa Bill's birthday we used some clay to mold things that reminded us of him and then we painted them when they dried. Sage made a caterpillar because Gpa brought a huge caterpillar with spikes on his back to our house. Brody made a frog. Julia made a dragonfly. Corbin was asleep so mommy made a cannon for him to paint later because he likes to shoot the pop guns with gpa and popguns were too hard to make. Here's the pictures. Brody even painted his head orange... thank goodness he's bald! Much easier to clean a bald head.

Julia said...

Julia has very distinct reasons why she won't get married.

#1 She's not getting married cause you have to go to the hospital...to have a baby and she won't go to the hospital.

#2 She's not getting married cause she's going to be a kid forever and live with daddy & I cause she's not having kids, not gonna be a grandma & DEFINITELY not gonna be an old lady! She will live her whole life as a kid and die a kid.

Most fun March moment!

Some of you may or may not know that it is my dream to one day go back to school to become a midwife. Aubrey has given me the joy twice now of using my nursing skills at the labor & birth of her daughters. I love it when she sets her birthing schedule around my availability...kidding. I arrived for an hour of catching up chit chat and then we got down to business. Kiera Ryann was delivered at 150pm weighing 7#11oz & 21" long. It never ceases to amaze me, no matter how many births I attend, & I pray it never does.