Molly and Snow

IT has been a while since I posted anything. I have tried a few times and the server has been down, so I was finally able to get these uploaded. Here are the kids playing with Molly. She is about 4 months old. Lissie..
She loves to jump, and here she is with Brigs...
and chasing Alex.
Well we have been getting lots of snow. It sounds like everyone else is getting the cold weather too. It snowed 3 times the week this picture was taken. Crazy.

Oh and by the way, for those of you who were wondering, the dog is our neighbors dog. They let the kids play with her in the backyard for a bit.

A Little Reunion Family Night

The reason we got together at this time. It was great to see Ellen. She has been a great friend to me over my life, most especially during my teenage years. So it was great to see her.
The kids posing for pictures.
We had a fabulous dinner and then family night and then just chatted for a bit. Marianne, Naomi, Allistar, Bruce, Mark, Ellen. The Hilton family are also some friends from growing up. Marianne was one of my teachers at church for a couple of years. They have a great and cute family. I unfortunately wasn't able to capture all of the kids in photos.
Ellen doing pictures and setting up. Eleanore next to her.

These are the kids hanging out. Isabelle, Eleanore, Alex, Noami and Allistar.
These two had fun playing together, Lissie and Eleanore.
The men folk talking.
The kids played the piano for us. They are all pretty good. Naomi was fun to watch. She was very dramatic. Allistar is really good. Henry was there but he must have run off with my boys to play. Connor was there for a little bit. It was a great evening and fun to see everyone and hear about their lives. Good times...

Easter's come and gone already!

Despite the earliness of Easter this year, we were able to throw in a little bit of stuff.
We colored eggs.
More eggs.
We hid and found the eggs. There was no way that we were going to fight the crowds we did last year at the park. In fact they said there were more there this year than last. This was fun.
Here's one in the SNOW!
In the bushes.

Finding jelly beans and baskets.
Yeah pink peeps!
Here we go.
Where are the jelly beans?
Nice little stash.

We hope all of you had a great Easter. Ours was nice.

Volcano

The boys, especially Alex, have really been into volcanoes. They saw something on it and remembered a lot. Many of their games talk about volcanoes and lava. So we decided to make our own. This is starting out., before we addded paper mache.
This is after the paper mache and we are painting.
This is the explosion. We did it when the boys had some friends over. They loved it.
This is after we did a few explosions. I couldn't get Brigham to get in the picture. The boys (and Lissie, sort of) kept talking about it. It was fun.
This is signing up for kindergarten. I didn't have a hard time getting Brigham to stay in the picture this time. He kept wanting his picture taken.

Happy Birthday Lisa!!

So I don't have any updated pictures to put here, but I'll put a couple that I do have. (I guess I could take it from your blog). This is Lisa when she was little, with me. Do I know which is which? No.
This is one of her with the family when it was small and we were little. Do I know who is who in this picture? Well I know which is Mom and which is Dad.
Here's Lisa with Elisabeth.

I thought I'd do this to say Happpy Birthday, since she does this for everyone, and I think its nice. I'm pretty slow to get things up, but Happy Birthday.
Lisa is...
1. Kind and thoughtful, she always is calling to say hi and see what's going on.
2. Very organized and clean, she had to put up with me when I was in high school. :)
3. Smart and has her Masters, hopefully someday I can get mine. She knows lots about education and loves to learn new things. I don't know if I always want to learn as much as she does.
4. Strong in doing what's right, and has worked really hard to do this. She has gone through a lot but has truely become amazing.
5. Very opinionated, which is always fun to listen to. It sometimes surprises me, but she knows a lot of about things.
6. A great aunt (unfortunately not able to see all the nieces and nephews as she likes). She always tries really hard to do something for their birthdays, but she'll even talk to my kids on the phone, when they want to talk.
7. Understanding of others, and tries to understand where they come from before she jumps to conclusions. Understanding of me. She is my best friend, besides Mark. She know a lot about me and we've been through lots together.
8. She is athletic and she tries to keep in shape.
9. She is diligent in what she's asked to do.
10. She is pretty :).
11. She is a good wife, and I'm glad she found a great husband!

and so much more... We love you (aunt) Lisa.

ABCs of Us

Julie tagged me and these are my responses

A: Attached or Single? What's single?
B: Best Friends? Mark and vice versa for him
C: Cake or Pie? lemon meringue pie. Mark... if its sweet
D: Day of Choice: Saturday
E: Essential Items: good food
F: Favorite Color: blue, green
G: Gummy bears of Worms? bears.
H: Hometown?I'm from Woburn and Mark from West Jordan.
I: Indulgence(s): Candy especially fruity and chewy
J: January or July? July, no snow and vacation time.
K: Kids? 2 almost 3 boys and one girl
L: Life is incomplete without: my kids and hubby
M: Marriage Date? 12-16-00.
N: Number of Siblings? Me-3 brothers and 6 sisters. Mark-2 sisters and 5 brothers.
O: Oranges or Apples? apples
P: Phobias or Fears? dark
Q: Quotes? Keep on smilin'!
R: Reasons to smile? happy kids, or when they do something nice
S: Season? Fall.
T: Tag three friends: mom, lisa s, nicole a
U: Unknown facts about me: Mark isn't a big talker, even though he is very outgoing. I can't think of anything right now
V: Very Favorite Store: The kids prefer WalMart because there are toys
W: Worst habit? not putting the keys back, though i'm getting better, mark pacing things
X:....AleX
Y: You favorite food? candy
Z: Zodiac: pisces

Here you go...

We have finally been able to post the carpet. Here is Alex standing on the onld carpet down in the basement. He likes to run on this. We are saving this stuff (which is okay) to put in part of the playroom, where its leaked a couple times. This is the family room. The best angle I could get. You can't see the new curtains in here in this photo. You'll also have to bear with me because we haven't finished putting everything back together. We still have a couple of touch ups to do.

This is the kitchen. Just the painting, obviously no carpet here.
This is the hallway.
This is the living/entry room. Needs to be finished decorating.
Brigham chilling in the closet.
Lissie wanted to go in next. They love the new carpet. We are definately more careful. Our house doesn't have that old house smell, but rather the new carpet smell, which is kind of nice. Its nice. So that is what it looks like. This bottom picture you can tell the color of it a little better. It is the same for all the rooms, if you can't tell. If you are curious, well here you are.