Update Time!

Well,  Olivia and Zeke went home this week.  We miss them already :-(  It is a little quieter around here.  We had lots and lots of fun.  We had a movie night, went swimming and blew up coke bottles and mentos.  It was very fun and very messy lol!  It was nice having a girl around for a little while to talk girl stuff about :-)

Kaleb, Jase, Mark and I are going to be getting ready to drive to Colorado next weekend.  The car is already cleaned out.  I just need to get the oil changed and everything checked before we go.  Then it's lots of packing!  I'm very excited to get to go see my family, but very sad to be away from the boys for so long.  They have never been away from me that long before and I sure am going to miss them.

I guess that's about it for now.  I know I need to get a more exciting life lol :-)

Off to school!

Well, this is whats been going on this week :-)  Zeke and Livi get to spend the WHOLE week with us!  We are all very excited.  This morning was the first morning to get 5 kids up and ready for school.  It was supprisingly calm.  After 3 outfit changes, 1 "but daaaad, all the kids wear these clothes", missing keys, alarm clocks not going off early enough and almost missing one bus....they all made it to school!  There are always lessons to be learned in everything.  By the end of the week Mike and I will be pros at this :-)

On another note, I got my new desk in the mail.  It came in 3, 70lbs. boxes!   I, being the most impatient person that I am, decided I needed no help and could put the desk together totally on my own.  Nevermind the fact that the directions said it was a two person job and you must wear safety glasses to put it together.  Did I pay any attention?  Of course not!  It took two days to accomplish this.  Hindsight, I should have waited for Mike.  However, I did accomplish it on my own!  I only had to take two things apart that I screwed on wrong.  The hardest part was building the hutch in the living room, then trying to carry the ackward 70lbs. thing down a narrow hallway to my office and then hoist it ontop of the desk.  Did I do it?  YES!  Now it has been 2 days since this adventure and my back is reminding me how foolish lack of patience can be sometimes :-)

A bit of exciting news!  Mark has decided he is ready to use the potty!  OMG, does this mean I am nearing the end of diaper changes...the best gift EVER!  He has been doing awesome for the last 4 days.  Only 4 accidents!  He even told me in the middle of playing that he needed to go...so impressive!  We are all very proud of him and this big boy choice he has made...GO MARK!

Well, I guess that catches us up to the key points so far... :-)

Disney on Ice!

Kaleb, Jase, Mark and I got to go see Disney on Ice this weekend.  It was so much fun.  The boys couldn't believe that they saw Lightning McQueen for real!  My favorite part was Tinker Bell :-)  It was a lot of fun spending time with my little princes.  They were such gentlemen taking me around to see the princess stuff before the show.  Kaleb said, ummm where are all the princes?  Lol.  We really enjoyed getting to see Worlds of Fantasy.  It was such a treat :-)

Happy birthday little brother :-)

Yesterday would have been my brothers 14th birthday.  He would have been so so big.  I can only imagine all the things he would be interested in doing if he was still with us.  I imagine he would like a lot of the same things as my boys.  I miss him so very much, but I know he is in heaven watching over me and my family.  Today, I think about him and all the things I can do to make my little brother proud.  We love and miss you Jacob.  Happy Birthday little brother :-)


Some people only dream of angels; we held one in our arms.




Remembering Jacob


March 8 - 9, 1996


Our Angel: http://sids-network.org/fp/jacob.htm

Please feel free to read Jacob's story.  It makes my family happy to remember Jacob and even though we may cry, we love to talk about him!

Big snow 2010

Marks birthday bike!

Marky is.....3!

Well, my little boy is 3.  I can't believe it.  It seems like just yesterday I was holding that tiny little baby.  He was so sweet.  Now he is getting bigger amd loving every minute of it.  We had Marks party on Sat.  He had all his cousins and Aunts and Uncle there.  He had is Grandpa Butler and his Nana there too!  It was so much fun :-)

Some of Marks favorite things at 3 are:

Food: Pop Tarts

Show:  Diago or Scooby doo

Toy: T-Ball set

Activity:  Playing outside with his brothers!

Mark is so much fun.  I'm so lucky I was blessed with this sweet little boy.  I just love him so much!