Happy MLK Day!

I hope everyone has had a good day. Chad has been home this weekend! We have had a great time. It all ends tomorrow though. I have had some extra time while he has been here. Which is how I am able to do this posting tonight. He is now giving the boys their showers.

 

So as an update to my past week:

• Trying to get the last of the Christmas stuff down. (Almost finished)
•  Trip to the eye doctor after Ostin got a piece of hard plastic stuck in his eye overnight. (He's fine   now.  He only had a few superficial surface scratches. The amazing eye has wonderful self healing properties!)
•  Picked Chad up at the airport at midnight on Friday night. (Thank you Sarah for staying at the house with my sleeping angels. You can't see my sarcasm, but it's there.)
•  We got two miniature frogs on Saturday. (The kids love them. And I admit, I like them, too.)
•  We went downtown to the Museum of Contemporary Art on Sunday. (We had a great time. We will  go again.)
• Today was a nice lazy day.

  
And tomorrow we start back to school and Chad goes back to Virginia.  I hate to see the weekend end.

Broke Stuff

I used to sing the kids to sleep every night. I don't do that much anymore. They all go to sleep at different times and the time leading up to lights out for the older ones are spent reading. Tonight though Ostin asked if I could sing him the song about broken stuff. He had me stumped for a minute until I realized he wanted me to sing him Hush Little Baby. I will from now on call it the Broken Stuff Song.

Girl Cousins

Here is a picture of Caitlin and the girls. I thought this was such a cute picture of the three of them. Alyssa is smiling in almost all of the other pictures except this one. But Emilia is hardly smiling in any of the others and I really like her smile in this one.

 

Christmas Pictures

Here are the promised Christmas pictures from Georgia. We had lots of fun with the family.

Ostin being silly.

Caitlin

Christmas at Nana and Pappy's house.

Caitlin, Caleb, Ostin and Jackson.

Jackson

Christmas at Aunt Gale's house.

Ostin, Alyssa, Caitlin, Emilia, and Caleb(in back).

Emilia

Alyssa

Caleb with his peewee football that Aunt Gale got him. It was a big hit!

Late Post

Hi everyone! I hope you all had as good of a Christmas as we did. We went to Georgia to spend some of the holidays with family. Thank you to everyone who invited us into your homes. We had such a good time just being able to see everyone. I will be posting pictures soon, I promise.

Chad was able to spend quiet a bit of time with us for the holidays. He had to go back to Norfolk on Sunday, but he was able to spend Christmas day with us.We are already trying to see when he can come home again!

Again, I will be posting some Christmas pictures no later than the end of next week. And to all of our family, it was great seeing all of you. We don't get to see each other enough, so we really appreciate all of the effort you make to get together with us. Enjoy the rest of your holidays!

Gingerbread House

The kids and I made a gingerbread house this past weekend. I got the icing a little too runny as you can see. The kids had a lot of fun though. Can you tell which side of the house Mommy helped with?

PTA Night at Chick-fil-A

The night before Thanksgiving holiday the school had a fundraiser. It was a really easy one too. All we had to do was eat at Chick-fil-A during certain hours. It was very loud with kids running around, but not too crazy. As you can see from the pictures below, there was face painting available. We came straight home and washed it off, but it was fun while it lasted and the red did come out of all of the clothes!

Caitlin with her hearts. Could there be anything more girly?

Caleb had to have Falcon colors painted on his face.

And Ostin was Spider Man. The red got on everything before we got home. I was afraid of stains, but they did a good job of having washable paint.