Day 31

A treat - Strawberry shortcake...well, what's left of it. YUM!!

Day 30

Girls night out - Red Robin and a movie

Day 29

Blake getting the mail. We didn't get our mail yesterday. So much for the USPS motto of..."through rain, through snow, through sleet or hail....." Didn't work too well for them yesterday.

Day 28

SNOW DAY

Day 27

I was gonna post a picture of the snow, but then decided to post this one. Plus, the one of the snow is just that...snow. I didn't take my kids out in it today. Maybe tomorrow. Skip-bo is a game that three out of five children can play, and the other two usually sit very close-by when we play. Everyone LOVES it.

Day 26

This was taken before he got his tooth fixed today at the dentist. I think his tooth still looks the same, so I'm not too sure what they did to make it look better. The after picture will be on my other blog. I do however, love that fact that if you look really, really close you can see left over breakfast (cheesy egg) on the left side of his face. He must have been saving that for later! He does love CHEESY EGGS!

Day 25

Makenna is two-timing in the nursery. First, Liam....now Anderson!

Day 24

Cute, huh?

Day 23

Mindy was the first person I ever played the Wii with. It's actually who I discovered how fun the Wii is with. She got one for Christmas along with the Wii FIT (so cool too!). We went over today to Wii it up!!!!

(Picture taken by Luke Alma. Check out my other blog for more Wii experiences!)

Day 22

This is from the crappy day of homeschooling that we had this past week. If you read my other blog, then you've read all about it, so I'm not gonna go on about it. But....please note a few things. (1) Look who's still working. (2) Look what time it is. (3) And look at who's on the table and grinning at that.

Day 21

We went to Toot's with Amy and her kids. We got our favorite table. It's a huge table in the back corner of the restaurant with a small arcade back there. We get to sit and chat while the kids play. Who-hoo!! (Oh, and by the way...this is the first time we've been to Toot's together in MONTHS!)

Day 20

This is what the kids and I are addicted to right now....the BIGGEST LOSER. We watch it every week cheering on the people. And the boys get very attached to some of the people. Jakeb was very, very upset when Jerry got voted off last week. And Blake was upset this week.

Day 19

If you read my other blog, you'll know that one of my favorite high school teachers, Mr. Geer, died last week. Today is the day of his funeral, and altough I can't be there in person, I'd like to remember him this day.

Day 18

The 18th would have been my Dad's 63rd birthday, so I only felt it was right to give him the picture for the day. (No one ever said it had to be a brand new picture.) He was the best Dad ever. You know they say it gets easier after a loved one dies, but I disagree. You continually miss them every day, and if you have kids, I think it's even harder because you think of all the things your loved one could be doing with your kids, and it just causes extreme sadness. I miss you, Daddy!

Day 17

See, I told you there would be another day to take pictures of Blake playing basketball. This picture is him shooting the ball. (See the ball in the upper left side of the picture.) He played so well today.

Day 16

This sweet couple are the Floyd's. Mrs. Floyd makes the best steaks in the entire world. Her other food is just as good, but her steaks are my favorite. And she knows it. She actually makes Eric and I two steaks each (hee-hee!), not to mention the rest of the feast she makes us. I can't even begin to tell you how excited I get when I find out we've been invited over there. I mean seriously, what could be better.....excellent food, excellent company, and no kids? Who-heee!!!

Day 15

our feast at LaRosa's

Day 14

my little cleaning girl

Day 13

Look who got into the markers while all of her brothers were coloring right next to her. I guess this is what I deserve when I leave the room for a minute. Oh, and the reason the picture was taken in the bathroom was not because I was about to wash her face off, it's because it was the only place where she would let me take her picture. She was wallowing on the floor moments before. I figured if she could see how silly she looked, then she might let me take a picture.

Day 12 A and B

So hugging has obviously been Makenna's thing lately, and most of the boys love to hug her too. I had fully taken my camera to take a picture of Blake playing basketball for my 365 picture, but then this happened. How could I pass this one up? It's pretty sweet, huh? Blake will have other basketball games, right?

So the question is...Should this be my picture for yesterday or the one below???...because it's a pretty good one too.

Check out what I found in Luke's pocket...all in his words

Number strip - for a guessing number game.

Dice - to predict a roll....(I guess kinda like gambling.)

Broken green light saber - to be an invisible guy fighting Count Dooku

Count Dooku - to play with the invisible guy

Feather - found in his down jacket...played with until a little girl took it, blew it, and then lost it.