Happy Birthday Levi!

Levi is three years old! What happened to my baby? Of course he recieved a 'CARS' car for his birthday. Just in case we didn't have enough cars already.

Yum!

He's three! And his cake was really easy, I love the power of a mother's suggestion. Funfetti cake in a 9x13 pan with chocolate frosting and those yucky royal frosting decorations. So be it.

Also, we had the stomach flu raging through our house this past week. Poor Levi got hit the hardest. But on Saturday I told him that he had to get better otherwise he couldn't have his birthday on Sunday. Saturday morning was the last time he threw-up. He was a man on a mission!

Belated First Day of School

I realize that it is the end of September and the children have been going to school for 7 weeks, but cut me some slack...it hasn't gotten any less busy having only two children at home with me. Miles-2nd Grade

Corbin-3rd Grade
(don't ask about the dopey look, I have no idea)

Ella-marie-Kindergarden star

The kids all love their teachers and are really happy to not be at home and bored all day. Trust me, they told me that. And at home it is still just as loud and there is just as much fighting between the two that are left. There must be a Murphy's law about that...

July Pictures!

Here are some pictures from July. I tried to put some more on, but my computer wouldn't let me. But here are some fun ones.

Shaving with Dad

Levi is practically grown up. Shaving already? I suspect that poor Levi is going to have as hard of a time growing anything on his face as Spencer does.

Hunter thinks it is so fun to have shaving cream ALL over your face!

May the Force be with you!

My little Jedi warriors at a Star Wars party this week. I can only hope that all of them want to be Jedis for Halloween as well, killing two birds with one stone on these costumes.

Miles lost his first tooth this week as well. I didn't realize that it's been such an exciting week. And if you'll note, you can see the tears streaming down his face...and I haven't even pulled it yet.

There you go, toothless!

Miles' belated birthday...

Oops, I forgot to blog about Miles' birthday before we went camping this last week. So here we go, better late than never...

Miles chose Pina Colada Pie with toasted coconut for his "birthday cake". I can't believe that Miles is seven! He's gotten a lot taller this past year, even though he's still not caught up with Corbin. That is his goal in life...be taller than Corbin! A lofty goal, but a good one.Miles recieved various sundry bug catching items for his birthday presents. Note the awesome multi-pocketed explorer vest that Spencer and I made for him. It has all sorts of pockets, loops, clips, and snaps for all of the bug equipment he also recieved. My only rule is...bugs have to stay outside!

Happy Hunter Birthday!

Hunter had his 4th birthday last week. There were some days that I was happy that he was going to survive to his 4th year...but he's doing a lot better now. Those threes are killer!

Hunter chose green cupcakes with chocolate frosting and funny circle sprinkles. And just so you know, there were 4 candles lit when I brought it in...someone got a tad bit excited! In fact, for every line we sang of "Happy Birthday", he blew out another candle. I guess we should just be thankful that there were four lines and four candles, it all worked out in the end. Definately happy and excited!

Yum Yum!

I had to take a picture of the green cupcakes. They turned out REALLY GREEN!! Hunter was in green heaven!

Atlanta Temple Trip

We had the opportunity to drive down to Atlanta, Georgia and go to the Atlanta Georgia Temple open house. We took our friends the Muncys and boy was it an adventure. Here are our happy campers, at the beginning of the trip. It was a LOOONNNNGGGG drive!

Here is the temple lit up at night. And please note the swirling turmoil in the clouds overhead.

This is a really cute picture. Corbin is growing up.

Here is right after we finished touring the temple, and right before the tornado warning the sent us right back into the temple. But really, there was no safer place to be than the temple. Spiritually and physically.

The children really enjoyed visiting the temple and hopefully they'll remember this for a long time and remember how they felt inside.

Or at least remember wearing the booties over their shoes (which is all I remember when I was a little girl).

I'm really thankful that we had this opportunity and that we had a chance to take the Muncys down with us to. It was an amazing experience!

March Fun!

I realize that it isn't March, and I apologize. I just couldn't manage to get some of these pictures loaded onto our computer. But I just thought I'd share some of my faves from the month.

This, in case you can't tell, is an apron made out of blue jeans. Spencer needed a work apron for working on instruments (apparently some are notorious for getting nice pants greasy!). I also made sure that there were LOTS of pockets for various sundry items. Including, but not inclusive to, corks, screwdrivers, hammers, picks, rags, tuning thingamagiggers, dobobs, whatchamacallits, ets. The children helped me pick out the multiple colors for putting the pockets on. I mean really, this is a rad apron and very manly, and I think that there couldn't possibly anything like it anywhere in the world.

Here's Levi on our front porch. I included this picture because of our beautiful magnolia tree in the background. Spring is so wonderful!

My kids love spinach! Can you tell?
I think that look on Levi's face is becoming his norm "say cheese" face. And no matter what I say or do, that's the face he makes for the camera.

Somehow they got the brilliant idea to put little balls in their shirts. Some are definately funnier looking than others, but they're all real cute. I mean, really strong looking!