Avery's First Time Coloring Easter Eggs

Saturday Morning Cartoons with a Bag of Fruit Loops..!?

Learning is Fun!

St. John's ChurchPatrick Henry delivering his

"Give me Liberty or Give me Death" speech. Gavin asked me if he could build St. John's Church out of Legos as his school work for the day. I said he could as long as he wrote a report to go along with it.

(The report is almost finished.)

The Real Reason for the Play-Pen...

...To protect the cat!

Family Trivial Pursuit

We played Family Trivial Pursuit, tonight. Half way through I had to grab the camera because Trevor was cracking me up!

He is such a character!

This is Trevor's brain.

(Which is fully grown by the age of six, by the way.)

This is Trevor's brain on Trivial Pursuit.

I don't know what this is. "Wonder Twins unite!?"Huh?Hmmm...YOU answer!We won!

Great Wolf Lodge

We were blessed with a Great Wolf gift card for Christmas from some wonderful friends! We all enjoyed it, and each other, so much! Here are a few of my favorite pictures. The boys' room.All of my boys! (It took Avery a little while to get used to it all.)This was one of Avery's favorite things.Trevor and GavinMy favorite! Floating on the water, snuggling my baby, listening to him sing to me! I could have done that all day!Avery took a two hour nap in his stroller on the second day!

Avery's other favorite thing...climbing up and down this yellow thing. Ha!

Water Park? Check. Arcade? Check. Ice Cream? Check! Check!

Second Attempt at a Christmas Picture

I tried posing them nicely on the stairs, but they ended up in a pile at the bottom.

Our First Attempt at a Christmas Picture

Not bad, but I think we'll keep trying.Avery at church.

Avery worshipping at church, yesterday.

I can't figure out how to rotate these videos, but they were too cute not to post. They're really short, too.

Scrunchy Face

Avery is so funny!

Christmas Decorations

Avery seeing the tree and stockings for the first time. Avery's Nativity

The Big Boys' tree in their room.

The Big Boy's Nativity.

Finished!

I took this picture of Avery because he was cracking me up with his crazy nap hair, scratched eye, bruised forehead, and rashy chin! I thought it would be a really funny photo...but he's still so darned cute!

Fall Fest

Nana and Trevor's Grand Day Out

My mom spent the day with Trevor, yesterday, and wrote about it on her blog. Please go check it out. ("Diana"; link on the right.) I love how she captured Trevor's sweet personality in her narrative! He is such a precious heart! Thank you, Mom

Author Unknown

I am your constant companion,

I am your greatest helper or your heaviest burden.

I will push you onward or drag you down to failure.

I am your command.

Half of the tasks that you do you might just as well

turn over to me and I will do them quickly and correctly.

I am easily managed,

you must merely be firm with me.

Show me exactly how you want something done;

after a few lessons I will do it automatically.

I am the servant of all great people and

alas of all failures as well.

Those who are great I have made great,

those who are failures I have made failures.

I am not a machine, but I work with all the precision

of a machine, plus the intelligence of a person.

Now you may run me for profit or

you may run me for ruin.

It makes no difference to me.

Take me, train me, be firm with me,

and I will lay the world at your feet.

Be easy with me and I will destroy you.

Who am I? I am called Habit.

I just read this in Financial Peace, by Dave Ramsey.

Very profound!

Iron Girl

Before...During...After... I ran the Iron Girl 5K, yesterday! It was so fun and I was so proud of myself for doing it and achieving my goal of running the entire thing! Granted, I was running so slow there were little 6 year old girls and walkers passing me, but I didn't care. I did what I had to to keep on running! This was the 3rd race/run I've ever done, but the first one I've done by myself. Kim and some of her friends that were planning on doing it were not able to, at the last minute. I had already registered and I really wanted to do it, anyway. It took quite a bit of planning... Bryan had to work, Gavin had his first baseball game, and Trevor had his first soccer game! Thankfully, I was able to recruit the help of my mom and my in-laws. My mom drove me down there, held my stuff, and cheered me on. (I told her that if she didn't go with me, I wasn't going to do it! Ha!) Linda spent the night Friday night, in order to be with the kids in the early morning, and John took Gavin to his baseball game! The last piece of the puzzle is that I was able to hook up with Susie and her friends, so I didn't feel quite so alone. It was a great (exhausting) day! Thank you to everyone who made this day possible for me!

My Beautiful Baby Boy!

Happy Birthday, Gavin!

This is what Gavin wore the day after his birthday party...ALL of his presents! What a nut. On his birthday, I took him to Walmart to spend a gift card and some birthday money. He was so excited to be able to get one of the BIG Lego sets that he has always wanted (but no one has ever wanted to pay for)! It took him two days to put it together. He's so happy!