Carlee now gets very upset if we go outside and she is not allowed to jump on the trampoline. (She says, “poh-leen” and points.) And Kennedy and Colby love to bounce her. That makes it pretty hard to get a picture of all the fun they have when she is crawling around up there.
Add comment March 8th, 2010
My friend Suzy tagged me. I get tagged a lot but usually the tagging involves very hard-core, thought-provoking and soul-bearing information all held in one blog post, so I usually don’t play along. But Suzy’s tag is to tell 5 things about myself. Sorry if you’ve tagged me in the past but I clearly felt very inadequate. I’m working on that. Maybe that should be #1?
1. I love chocolate chip cookies with no nuts. And anything tasty that resembles them, i.e. the Cookie Monster dessert at Cheddar’s or chocolate chip brownies.
2. I love working out. I’d do it every day if I could still spend time with my kids. And when the weather is nicer I will take the girls in my jogging stroller while I run. [And if I ate fewer chocolate chip cookies, I might not have to work out as much as I do.]
3. I love my house. One moth Suzy did a really cool series on her blog – 31 things she loves about her house. Don’t be offended if you see something like this on my blog soon. I’m just sayin.
4. I love my kids. I think you’ve seen evidence of this on my blog, but just wanted to reiterate it. They have made me evaluate how short and fleeting this life really is. And I promise you they are the best kids only because God made them that way.
5. I love my husband. These obviously aren’t in order of importance or he would be first, even above chocolate chip cookies. *gasp!* The day I married Kevin was the greatest day of my life, and I get to re-live that day every day as his wife. God did a great thing bringing us together – it could only have been His doing, and I know that no matter how hard things get, there is nothing that will tear us apart.
I think now I’m supposed to tag 5 people. Really I should be tagging whoever wants to play, but for sake of following the rules and overcoming my inadequacies, I tag Amanda, Leslie, Sara, Brandy, & Rachel. And no tag-backs! 
Add comment March 6th, 2010
The rug I ordered for the living room 6 weeks ago was backordered and just arrived today. [I'll take pics of the rug in the room soon.] The kids decided that while I was trying to get it opened, they should all make it a horse. Giddyup, rug.
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Colby said this when running by me today. My kids love chasing each other all around the house and today’s game was chasing with a spatula. I’m guessing to cook each other they would tickle each other with the spatula? I didn’t ever see the “cooking” going on. But not to worry, these cooking utensils really are for toy usage – I have my own for the kitchen for actual food consumption.
[If you look carefully you'll see Carlee crawling to be part of the game too. I had to stop the kids for this very posed picture with said spatula.]
Add comment March 1st, 2010
Colby’s school had I love Mommy day today. I brought him Chick-fil-A and he made me a cute necklace and we ate cupcakes and he sang me a song and he gave me these purple flowers and I loved I love Mommy day. What a great kid.
Add comment February 26th, 2010
Sometimes Colby gets to play games on my iPhone. Sometimes he’ll take pictures. Here is one from today.
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Colby played in his first career soccer game. Here’s the warm-up.
Part of the yelling section [er, "cheering"]
And, the paparazzi.
Add comment February 20th, 2010
Ok I took a bit of a hiatus… but instead of giving up, I’m going to jump back in. I’ve got some backlogged pictures, but I’ll catch up on those later.
This is my “Soccer Man”. This is Colby’s first year to play soccer, and today was his first game. This is him on the way to making his first goal. It was great, so exciting, I’m proud of my little dude. Not that I was keeping score or anything, but I think his team won something like 8 to 1. Whoop!
1 comment February 20th, 2010
The Hoovers came over for dinner tonight. Chris & Christine, Landon & Colton [Madison was at a tennis tournament.] A great way to end a very busy week.
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AlphaBits cereal rocks! [Colby did this and took the picture, with permission.]
1 comment February 18th, 2010
Kiddo swap was at our house tonight. This was by our back door, on the way out to the trampoline.
And, it was also Colby’s first soccer practice today. Check out Those shoes.
Add comment February 17th, 2010
Remember Kim who made snow? Today she was a buffalo. Apparently it’s catching.
I love Carlee’s face and eyes in this one.
1 comment February 16th, 2010
I went to see Dear John with some friends tonight. When I came back, I found this on my couch!
Colby didn’t look too worried. [And Kevin said his head got cold.]
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These are the yummy whole wheat cinnamon rolls Kevin and I made for the kids’ valentines breakfast today. This is the recipe.
And later in the afternoon I took Colby to a birthday party at Powersports. He didn’t stop moving the whole time and was upset when we had to leave. He definitely can’t wait to go back. I couldn’t get any pictures of him doing forward or backward rolls.
Add comment February 13th, 2010
We all had red cups today. Not planned; completely staged photo, nonetheless.
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