Mother's Day 2012

Some pictures from 2012 Mother's Day.

God Answers Children's Prayers

Waiting...

If you don't know me very well, you may not know that I am an animal person.

And more specifically, a dog person.

It seems that at least two of my children follow in my foot steps.

Caleb and Joshua have been asking for a dog for...well, a long time. 

Maybe two years.  Probably even longer than that.

I always told them that we'd "talk about it" once there were no more diapers in our house.

There are still diapers in our house.

And...

there is now a dog.

 When I told the boys yesterday that their dog was coming tomorrow (Tuesday),

they could not believe it!

Caleb kept saying, "Am I dreaming?!?  Tell me I'm not dreaming!"

Apparently, they'd only been praying for a dog for one week.

Really?

Just one week?

 Caleb trying to avoid "kisses" from Tucker.

Playing fetch with Tucker.

They can not get enough of Tucker!



An Easter craft

 This is a pretty easy Easter craft that you can do with younger children.

After searching Google pictures for Easter egg crafts with buttons, I came up with this idea.

I bought a package of foam Easter eggs and

a few rounds of pins with coloured heads at the Dollar Store.   

I already had some irridescent/translucent/shiny confetti type of decorations in my craft bucket that worked perfectly for this craft.

 And it was as simple as pushing the pin through the centre of the

confetti towards the centre of the foam egg.

No one was injured in the making of these beautiful creations.

And Caleb is 11

 Caleb got a street hockey stick for his birthday.

Hockey was the game of choice for the last 4 months.

Another view of the very delicious jello cake.

Natalee is 5!

 A pink basket for her bike!

 Toenails painted orange...Wyatt's too.

 Decorating cupcakes as flowers.

 Yumm!  Happy Birthday, Natalee!

 Another cake. Made out of jello.

Party with friends!

Wyatt

It always surprises me when a silent 3 year old ISN'T getting into trouble!

Checking out a Lego Ideas book.

"CHEEEESE!"

Potty seat on my head.

Diaper on my bum.

Sister's pink shoes on my feet.

Ready to go.



Valentine's Day

I do not like learning new things.  Not computer things, anyway.  I still need to find an easier way to transfer pictures from the camera to the computer, and upload them to my blog...

Above, our valentine's day cookie pizza.  So good!

 Valentine's Day Chex Mix for the kids.  Also very good!

We played some Valentine's Day games after supper.

We had a competition to see who could stack the most conversation hearts. 

The kids loved it!



Days 10 & 11

 January 10, 2012 was a perfect day for making a snowman.

The weather was incredibly mild (hi of +6 C) and the snow was sticky.

Snowman sculpture by Joshua.

(Child in the window - Natalee).

And the day after that, winter returns!



Day 7, 8 and 9

 Our 10-year-old Chef.

Too bad it's back to school today. 

He's been making lunch for the majority of our family this week.

Nothing fancy, but always delicious!

 Hockey hockey hockey...

I really don't mind doing laundry at all.

In fact, it's one of those jobs where you can do a whole lot of nothing while

the washing machine and dryer does all the work. 

I even like folding clean laundry. 

Except fitted sheets.  I can never get those just right.

What I don't like about washing the boys' bedding is all the stuffies in their beds!!

ETA: 43.  Joshua has 43 stuffies in his bed. 
And one sitting here on the computer waiting to be repaired.

Day 5 & Day 6 of Project 366

So it's actually Project 366.  February has 29 days this year. 

 Day 5 - Yesterday, the older 2 boys played Monopoly downstairs with Mike.

Andrew, Natalee, Wyatt and I played Monopoly Jr. upstairs.

After supper, we pulled out Apples to Apples Jr.

(new game the kids got for Christmas) and we had a lot of fun with that game.

Day 6 - SNOW!!!!

It's about time winter showed up!

Even though the weather is still very mild,

it feels a little more like winter now that the ground is white again.

It feels like ages since we've had a good ole blizzard.  I'm ready for one.

Day 3 & Day 4

 January 3rd - Joshua had 4 waffles for breakfast. 

I was so impressed that he cut them up by himself so nicely. 

Usually, he uses "tiger cutting." 

His term. 

Use your imagination.

January 4th - Today is one of the days that we do flyers. 

Caleb and Joshua spent two hours getting them ready. 

(It does not take me two hours to get them ready).

Day 2 (January 2, 2012)

Caleb teaching Joshua piano. 

There is so much I could write about this...

Day 1 of Project 365

I'll post more information later on Project 365, if there is any information that may be interesting, but I've committed myself to taking a picture every day this year.  Some may have stories, some may not.  I may post them every day or I may end up posting a weeks' worth of pictures at once.  We'll see how this goes. 

I got a new camera.  :)  I need to figure out the fastest way to upload them onto Blogger...

We had a family gathering today.  I was asked to bring a salad, and as I was tearing up the lettuce leaves, I remembered that I needed to bring two other things.  Mike had Andrew make a list since my memory is pathetic...and he was still working on printing out this list by the time I was done tearing up lettuce.  By the way, I did not forget the things I was worried about leaving behind.

I'm going to go find that list and take a picture of it...

Happy New Year!

Cookie Decorating

Yesterday, Joshua, Caleb, Wyatt and I iced and decorated the gingerbread boys.

I was surprised by how well Wyatt did. 

He had a lot of fun with the red and green M&M's.

Abvoe, some of the cookies Wyatt decorated.

Boys...

 Andrew has re-named himself.  "Zoo"

 "Caleb"

Caleb & Joshua made this very cool Santa and sleigh from Lego. 

Unfortunately, the youngest boy destroyed it. 

 Yay, a new Santa!

Joshua and his Mini-me.

Wyatt & Birthday Cakes

 My baby is now 3 years old!

And so, he got to enjoy birthday cake 3 times this past week!!

Birthday cake #1 above was supposed to be a hedgehog...but that failed,

so it ended up being a trifle.  Still yummy, but not so esthetically pleasing.

Wyatt didn't care.  It was still delicious.

(He looks hesitant because he was just waiting for the o.k. to blow out the candles.)

 Blowing out candles in his birthday pudding/cake (#2).

Wyatt totally had the whole birthday cake/singing/blowing out

candles routine down pat this year.

 All right, now THIS is a cake!!!

 Worth the wait! (Cake #3)

Wyatt's 3rd birthday was brought to you by...Sesame Street. 

The other children have liked Sesame Street, but Wyatt is by far the

most devoted SS fan in the family.