Let it SNOW, Let it SNOW, Let it SNOW!!!

Sarah's 1st time in the snow!







our backyard!









Last week it started to snow and snow and snow some more! It is beautiful and we are really enjoying playing it it. Here are a few pictures of all the white stuff!!





To my family.. here are the answers before you ask. No I'm not driving in it much and when i did nothing good has come of it. No wildlife comes to ourback yard for me to shoot it and use the backyard as a freezer so dont ask little brother!! No i do not live in ALASKA and no we dont see the northern lights here. Yes it does get dark at 4:30pm. Yes school did close for 2 days but the Wal-Mart stayed open!! :)

Go ahead and cry about it....

Did you just tell me no?
Really.. you mean .. no


I Dont like it when you say No!



I'm gonna cry about it








Shelby was able to capture in pictures something that i will be able to use against Sarah for the rest of her life..lol
Here, for all to see, is my sweet little girl throwing a fit! Someone took something from her or Shelby told her nooo nooo, and this was the result!
I believe this is only a glimpse of things to come! LOL

Horses, Chickens and Dogs Oh my!

A few weekends ago we went to Papa and Nana's. it was a lot of fun for all of us. The little boys got to run around and play, chase the chickens and we all rode the horses. Here are a few pictures of the fun!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Sarah.. Health food junkie!!!

As most of you know, Sarah does not like sweet things. Up until now she made "yuckie" faces and would not eat any fruits or anything remotely sweet. That was until she discovered the OREO.. it was all down hill from there. Shelby captured her downward spiral into junkfood oblivion as it took place. Please view these photos at your own risk. They are ... real! We did not crop anything out.. what you are about to see are true and actual photo accounts of a junkfood junkie on a real binge!! Oh the horror!!!!

Shelby's Photography

Here is some of Shelby's latest works of art! Enjoy

Lets paint our sister!

The other day the boys were being creative with paper and paint. They were painting all kinds of amazing pictures. Some were so amazing I couldn't even tell you what they were!As they were busy painting pictures for daddy, I walked into the bedroom to make my bed and when I came back out they had taken their creativity off paper and were making their sister their new canvas! Jason had also painted himself blue and green, his favorite colors! He was very proud of his artwork!!! I had to just laugh! I told them how they should only paint on the paper and not each other and especially not their sister! These are wonderful times, wonderful memories! Kids truly are a gift from God! Enjoy the pictures! Jason painted the one that sorta looks like a dog. ( he is obviously the artistic one of the younger 3)

Jason's fun time in the bathroom!

It started out as a normal trip to the potty. You know the routine... get on the potty.. go and get out right? Well not for Jason!! He went in.. sat on the potty and then looked around and found the powder. That's when the fun began! As you can see from the pic's he had a wonderful time creating a canvas of white through out the bathroom. It was fun for him until I opened the door and the look on his face was nothing but Uhhh Ohhh! I just started laughing and me and Shelby started taking pictures! These are the moments that so much fun! I love my kids! There is never a dull moment!

Surgery for Justin

Last monday Justin had a
tonsllectomy. Our nurse
Lakay was great. She had
the horrid job of starting
his I V. She had a bit of
trouble because of the
new needles they
switched to. So he had to
be stuck 4 times. Even
through that he did really
good. He asked to get to
see them once they were
out and we even got to
take a picture! Here are all
the surgery day pictures
for your blogging
enjoyment. (sorry if you
get grossed out)

Sarah Ellen ... The prettiest little girl around

Yesterday we went to Sandpoint ID. to see the Samples. We had alot of fun and Angie got the camera out and worked her magic on Sarah. She is so good that i wont ever get pictures done anywhere else. Nobody can do what she does i tell ya.. she is the best!!! For those of you who dont know Angie, I have her website listed on my blog in favs. so you should check it out!!! The pictures that Im posting are the ones Shelby took with my new camera phone. She loved being in the stuido snapping pictures along with Angie. To see the ones from Superwoman Samples ..ya gotta go to her site:) Here are the pictures of my beautiful, sweet, amazing, wonderful baby girl!!

Fun with our food...

This was one of our family nights. This one was Shelby's idea. Larry held out a bunch of kitchen gadgets and the first one we touched we had to eat with. I got a spatula:) Larry got a wisk and it was alot of fun to watch him eat! Here are a few pictures of the fun we had!!! Enjoy!

Dawn VS Cascade = BIG MESS

Its Tuesday night ..we have had family devotions and are now enjoy a crazy game of chicken foot domino's, we are all laughing and being too loud but having a lot of fun. The game is over so we go into the kitchen to have dessert and there are bubbles streaming out of the dishwasher covering the floor. Shelby had substituted Dawn for Cascade (because we had just ran out of Cascade) She reasoned that they both wash dishes and just figured she could use both in the dishwasher. Of course i just figured that she KNEW that there was a reason I bought both. One to wash dishes in the sink and one for the dishwasher. I had never told her that Dawn was not made for the dishwasher so she just did what she thought was right and in the end we had a BIG laugh at her expense! I told her that it was for SURE going on the blog. ( you can only imagine how happy that made her!) Here are some pictures for ya... be sure to mention to Shelby that you saw her art work of bubbles on the blog:)

Swing Set....From God

As you can see we got a new swing set. It is AMAZING and we all love it! I had been praying for a swing set since last summer. Tina Marrow filled in for Mrs Rich during nursery one Sunday and while we were talking she said something about wanting to get rid of her swing set. I told her i would LOVE to buy it. After talking to Larry he said we could get it for the bargain price of 100$ but it couldnt come until all the snow was gone. Praise God the snow melted and the weather was nice for awhile and I called Tina and said we could finally pick it up .... while we were talking she said i could just have the swing set .. thats right! She GAVE it to us!!! It has been such a blessing! Its like having a park in my front yard! God is so good to us!

Sweet Sarah...3 months old

Can you believe that Sarah is already 3mths old? She is so sweet and beautiful. She is coo'ing and smiling all the time now! Here is a picture big sister Shelby took! Yep i know she looks just like me...lol

SPOONS

Tuesdays are our family game nights. Last week was our spoons tournament. You all know that i am pretty competitive but the kids totally put me to shame! Just take a look at these pictures and you'll see what I mean. It started out normal enough but after the first person got an S the game was ON and nobody wanted to be the looser! We had so much fun, laughing and cutting up! This was by far one of the most fun fulled family night yet! (I was not the one sliding across the table for a spoon this time...:)

Playing in the Snow

We have really been enjoying the snow. Wednesday we decided to build a snowman after getting a TON of snow the night before. On Tuesday night the kids played out in the back yard burying themselves in the snow. (CRAZY KIDS) Here are some pictures of all of us having lots of fun in the white stuff!