Candles of Firecrackers?

You would think she would be so happy to be receiving her birthday cake for her 2nd birthday?

But no.... she was terrified!!

Why?

Well... just a few days before we were lighting little things like these in our driveway for the 4th of July and they exploded... Our sweet little 2yr. old thought these were firecrackers too, poor thing. I'd be terrified too if someone lit those and shoved them in my face!

It took a while but she finally warmed up to the candles and realized these we not going to explode :)

Manna From Heaven

I could hear my 5yr. old boy fumbling around in the kitchen and humming to himself. I peeked around the corner to see what he was up to. He had found a bag of hamburger buns and was carefully drizzling honey on the bread. He looked up to see me standing there watching him and proudly said, "look mommy! I'm making manna."

Bottle Addict

No this was not a planned pose. We just often find her this way, hidden in a corner, sneaking two bottles at once!

June Highlights

For choir this past June the kids did a performace called, "Annie Meets Newsies". It was my kids first real performance in anything and they did a fantastic job!!!

This next picture is of my sister holding her little boy and my little girl.




This my dad with my youngest daughter. He let her try on his glasses.

These were some fun action shots I took of my oldest boy.

Cornstarch and water.... soooo fun... and sooo messy!

My littlest one is already finding out how much fun it is to dress up!

Pictures From April and May

These are just some of my favorite pictures from the months of April and May this year.....

My daughter is so creative, she loves to make paper dolls and accessories. She could play for ours with just paper, scissors and marker

My son was pretending this was an airplane. I would push him around on his "airplane" and he would flap the wings like a bird and giggle adorably. So fun!

Just turned around the corner and found her like this.... these are the adventures I have with a two yr. old :)

When my girls hear music playing, they have an irresistable urge to dress up and dance!

...and this one often has an irresistable urge to make crazy faces :0

I love this picture for some reason... I guess it portrays her personality so well.

Of course we had birthdays to celebrate this summer.

I just love my son's face in this picture. He is so animated. There is truly never a dull moment.

And who can resist a face like this????

.....maybe this face will intimidate you?

Again... I turned around and found her like this.

Check Out My Bling

My 4 yr. old made this "Cheese-it" necklace for me. How do ya like my bling?
(The scotch tape holding the yarn together makes a nice additionl, don't you think? ) :)

Fun House

You know that old saying about kids being so crazy they are "climbing the walls"... well that happens very literally in my home. One of these days I think it would be cool to design our home with indoor slides, ladders and tunnels in random places.... of course maybe I wouldn't appreciate a home like that when I'm 80.. ha ha ha.