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Ok...so I can't seem to upload photos! How frustrating!! I will try again later but I was really going to do something on here today and NOW it won't let me. 
I guess I will just write something then....hmmm....

Mother's Day
Since that just happened yesterday, I will write on that. First, Justin brought home supper Saturday night-very good.Then I got to sleep in and even tho' J slept on my head part of the morning it was still nice. Breakfast was made for me, we got to church on time, I got a rose at church, had a yummy lunch, Justin washed the dishes (and there were a lot!), relaxed w/ the family during the afternoon and at the end had yummy ice cream w/ lots of yummy toppings. A very good day!

I want to say how much my Mom means to me~ she is such a hard worker and so patient! She loves the Lord, prays for us girls and our families, plays w/ the grandkids even when she has been teaching little munchkins all day and I am just super blessed to have her as my mom! She is retiring this year from teaching~she has had so many roles/positions as a teacher and I know she has positively influenced so many young lives over the past 30+ years! Thanks Mom for being so great! :o)

My Grandma L~she is our last Grandma on this side of heaven (thankful that the other 3 are in heaven). She is small and gray haired but she is a little spitball underneath all of that sweetness and quiet voice. I think she passed her stubbornness down through my Mom to Candi and Nessa and skipped me but Jacki did get a touch! :o) She was a great example of how to love and serve your husband~my Grandpa was well taken care of and she always did it w/ a smile.

My Sister Candace has been such a wonderful support to me as a mom~we have become closer as we both have had children and she has listened to many of my woes as a mom. She always has good advice and she is doing a super job raising her 2 little blessings! And she is a great Auntie too!

My sis Nessa is going to be a GREAT MOM! So excited to have another babe in the family!!! And she has two incredibly smart and beautiful older sisters that have so much good advice for her so please ask us anytime Nessa!

And Jacki is a great Auntie too! She does such a good job taking the kids to the pet store, parks, and entertaining them while I am shopping! :o)

Now for my Mother-in-law Sharon...I am truly lucky to have her as my MIL. She also loves the Lord and prays for us all which is such a blessing. She raised a fine man in my husband and I am so thankful for all the hard work, energy, love, tears and everything that went into raising my man. It was all worth it and I thank you for sticking it out w/ him! :o) She is also a wonderful Grammie and I enjoy seeing her craft w/ M and play w/ our boys. Thanks for loving us all!

Jonathan's wife, Laura, is also doing a great job raising their son. It has been fun talking "baby" with her these last 2 years and I always appreciated her watching M when she was young. You are doing a terrific job raising T and I am glad you are my SIL!

I also have a lot of wonderful friends that are super moms and I appreciate all the love and hard work they are putting into their children's lives. I hope everyone had a great Mother's Day and know your job is so important!!

Cereal Blow-out

 This is the second time he has grabbed a full bag of cereal and dumped it all out. First at my parents and now at our house! At least this time he tried to help clean up~by sweeping and eating a couple off the floor!  :o)

Been a little awhile...again...

So it has been awhile since I posted on here again...I have the usual excuses and I think since we don't have a little baby anymore the kids don't seem to change as much so I take less pictures.  I could tell funny stories about them every day or talk how great they are but I think you all already know that ! :o)

Here a few pictures I have taken tho'.

M likes to dress J on Sunday mornings-it does help get us to church maybe 5 minutes late rather than 10! :o)

 

Just a picture of the bros cheesing

Hmmm... so what's been up with us...

Justin got a job promotion (so proud of him..he deserved and he is great at his job) and has been busy buying/selling stuff on the internet. And anticipating getting out in nature and controlling certain pests.

I recently started working out early in the morning w/ some other moms and boy, am I out of shape (the first time, I was honestly about to pass out)! A trainer leads us through about 20 minutes of different exercises and it is tough! But I am glad these gals got this going and asked me to do it...a lot easier having to do it w/ others. And has anyone entered any giveaways yet? Since I posted about that so long ago, I have won about 5 more things! My winning seems to go in cycles, I will win a couple and then nothing and then when I'm about to give up and never enter one again, I win! So you all should give it a try!

The kids are loving that spring is here! J is especially-he is always bringing me his shoes and saying "go". He also always seem to hurting himself and getting bruises. I am kind of thinking I don't want him in sports 'cause I know he will get hurt!! :o)
 M is still loving school. I am able to help w/ "centers" once a month so that has been fun to see her in that environment and kind of get to know her friends. And going there always make me feel like I am pretty cool, all the kids come up and say hi, I get a few hugs and one little boy even drew me a picture the other day and then later came by and told me he liked me!
Fin loves learning...he has learned a lot from M and she likes to teach him things too. The boys do play pretty well together -they love to wrestle and sit on each other. Glad they can do that w/ each other!

Bear hug!

 J was being so sweet hugging this bear and patting its back. I couldn't quite get the sweet, clear picture I wanted so here a couple I took!

And here is F bear hugging his bro!

M's bday!

I decided to be brave (and M kept asking) and invite her entire class over for a b-day party~all 17 of them!  Thankfully, only8 ( 6 of them boys-very busy ones!!) could make it and the bank has a community room I could use for the party. It was a lot of fun: she got some nice presents, ate cake, played some games and just had fun! The party was only 2 hours but I ran out of things to do after about 45 minutes!!! Thankfully again, my friend Deidre was there and helped me organize the chaos and find things to keep them all occupied! We survived and it was fun to see her w/ her friends and get to know some them better too!

Enjoying cake

He had so much fun being w/ all the big kids!

Her cake! She wanted blue and pink frosting so both the boys and girls would get a good color!

The girls

Deidre helping w/ the present chaos!

Yay presents!!

Celebrating her b-day at home w/ cupcakes!

F was her helper!

Just pictures of these two goofy guys in the snow!

She's 6!

She came into the world 6 years ago today with the softest little cry. She surprised her parents with all that dark hair, big eyes that took all her surroundings in right away, and the sweetness of being her

. We are blessed to call her our daughter!

Christmas Pics Finally (or at least a few!)

Papa helping J open a present.

 It was very nice to have Grammie and Grandpa come down here for the week of Christmas~we had a great time w/ them. M and Grammie got quite a bit of crafting in and all the kids and Papa went sledding one afternoon. We had such a fun time w/ them!

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Papa and his annual almond M&M's!

M made us this nice picture frame at school!

We had fun at J & L's house.

Uncle J found a very pretty and big Christmas tree!!

Cowboy M opening a fun craft!

J & T had fun in this tunnel together

Playing the tunnel dum

Someone got a sled!!

Trying to figure out the craft!

We were able to go to Billings at the end of the week to see my family. Didn't get enough pictures but captured these 2 princesses wearing their matching dresses!