{Teacher's Choice Award}

Mr E brought home a Teacher's Choice Award on Friday for his improvement in math skills and making good choices! Way to go Mr E! :-)

P.S.-Mr E threw up on the bus the Monday before winter break and missed a day of school because of that....so that is why he doesn't have the Perfect Attendance.

{Perfect Attendance}

Thursday, Mr A came home with an award for Perfect Attendance! Way to go Mr A! :-)

P.S.- I would have taken a picture of him with it, but my camera is still being swanky....he was so cute and proud when he brought it home all crinkled to show me. :-)

{Picture of Little Mr}

a Here's the picture of Little Mr that I promised. :-) I was able to get my camera on for a few mins and took as many pictures as I could think of all at once....lol :-)

{Little Mr @ 10 Months Old}

Time flies by so fast when it comes to our babies growing up. I'm not just talking about infants either.....they all grow up so fast....and all the while wanting it to go even faster.
So, back to Little Mr. :-) He is already 10 months old today! So I thought I'd try something new...my camera has been really lame lately and not wanting to work, so I do not have many pictures from this last month, but I will get something on this post as soon as I can. :-) I thought that I would do a little update on him to let ya'll know kinda where he's at....cuz it's just darn cute! :-)

<3 Words: Mama, Dada, Tante, Good
<3 He just started clapping his hands....and he also just started shaking his head back and forth...and he'll put his hand to his mouth when he's shaking and make noises! Too cute! :-)
<3 He is standing by himself, and he'll stand in the middle of the room shaking a toy and playing, and sometimes he'll even take one step....but that's as far as he's gone now. :-)
<3 He is eating some solid foods, but he doesn't like baby foods...or to be fed...he wants to be able to put it in his mouth himself. :-)
<3 He's had his two bottom front teeth, and he just had his two top front teeth come in.
<3 When he started getting around it has been by what we call 'low crawling' on his forarms, and kicking his feet out....too funny....well, he started crawing on his hands and knees. lol
<3 We have been able to leave him with someone for a short time....well, I guess I have...lol...

{New Years Eve 2008}

Normally we don't do anything for New Years.....granted I've been alone for most of them. But I usually send the kids to bed like normal, and if I stay up I stay up....I don't try to or anything....just another night in my home.
This year The Mr also got to spend New Years Eve with us. :-) So we had a couple friends over....Kacy & Billy, and of course Amanda was here with us. Mr E and Mr A also ended up making it to midnight. And we really just had a great time hanging out with great people. :-)

{Amanda}

Amanda came to visit us for SEVEN DAYS!!! I wish it was longer.....but that's me being selfish! lol She's been over a couple times for the weekend already....and I always wanted those trips to be longer too. lol This time it WAS longer....and still....I want more! lol
We hung out and had a blast as usual. :-)

Can't wait for Spring Break! She'll be coming over for NINE DAYS! yay! And Anna has said that she is going to come over too.....and Serena for a few days too (now THAT'S someone I'd like to stay longer, and longer, and longer-but I'm not going to go into that right now)

Thank you Amanda for coming and hanging out with us!!! You know how much it meant to me!

{Merry Christmas 2008!}

This our boys Christmas Morning before we opened gifts. :-)

Okay, Okay, I know I haven't updated since before Christmas.....& I was doing so good too! I've really been out of sorts lately.....so just bare with me, and I'll let ya'll know how things have been going. :-)

Christmas was not what we were planning.....a little disappointed about that. I really wanted to see my family in California...and meet our newest member of our family...our niece Elizabeth. Oh well....can't change the way things turned out.
We did get to spend it with our family here though.....and we live so close this year! :-) That has been really nice. We went over to my parent's house for Christmas Eve. We had a wonderful dinner, and then opened presents. We came home to stay the night here and opened presents with the boys in the morning. Then we went over to my parent's house for brunch on Christmas Day and my Oma, and Tante Amalia joined us...and of course presents for them too. Then we spent the rest of the day at home just enjoying being together as a family this year. Not only are we living close to some of our family this year.....The Mr is also home with us this year, and THAT is something that I am very thankful for.

{Making Christmas Ornaments}

This year I wasn't able to find much of our Christmas stuff....I really don't know where it all went. So, I thought it would be fun to make our own ornaments using salt dough. I've made gifts with this in the past. And I have many fond memories growing up helping my Mom make ornaments at Christmas time for our tree. We used to paint them.....this year I tried coloring the dough....and I think they turned out really great! :-)

My boys hard at work! :-)





The end results! We let them dry for a few days....then tied ribbon through the holes, and hung them on our Christmas Tree. :-)

{Playing in the Snow with Daddy}

Elisha making snow balls to throw...

Mr A making snow balls also.....

Mr T eating the snow.....again.....lol

I went out and was driving Mom around to get some of her Christmas shopping done since it was snowing. The Mr was watching the boys.....Thank you My Love!....and he went outside with them to play in the snow. They ALL made snow angels, and The Mr sent me a pic of his on the phone, but I don't know how to get them off the phone yet. :-) But these are still cute pics of the boys that he took for me. :-)

{The Mr's Birthday Dinner}

For Birthday's we have the Birthday Person pick what we have for dinner. :-) The Mr's pick was soft tacos.....of course....this is his favorite meal. :-) We had Michael and Melissa over for dinner and then Billy and Kacy were able to join us for cake. Overall it was a nice quiet birthday that we got to enjoy with people we love.

Happy Birthday to You! Happy Birthday to You! Happy Birthday dear My Love, The Mr, Daddy!!! Happy Birthday to YOU!!!

{Happy 28th Birthday To The Mr!!!}

Today is Tommy's birthday.....I have seen other people on blogs write about their spouses on their birthdays.....and I really love the idea.....so here goes my try. :-)


I'm going to do a 28 reasons why I love you in our life. :-) In no specific order...



1. You are an amazing Husband to me

2. You are an awesome Father to our four boys

3. I love watching you wrestle with the boys

4. To watch you teach is an amazing sight...you're really good at it

5. I love that when there is a major decision to make for our family that you go to God and pray about it and do your best to make the best decision for our family

6. I love family movie nights

7. I love your input on my crafts and things I do around the house

8. I love that you encourage me in everything I want to do

9. You are so smart....I can't believe how much easier schooling is for you than me....I admire that

10. I love your smile

11. I love it when your smile reaches to your eyes even more :-)

12. I love it when we're able to fall asleep in each other's arms

13. I love curling up on the couch with you

14. Your sense of humor is something I enjoy-usually :-)

15. I love watching your face light up when you're talking about our children

16. Your face also lights up when you're talking about your bike....that's cute too :-)

17. You are more than willing to help with anything that I ask

18. When you put your mind to something there is no letting go

19. I love that even though we were young when we got married that you're determined to stay together

20. I am so proud of you for serving our country

21. I am grateful that you want to take care of our family

22. I love that family means so much to you

23. And that you would do anything we can to help support them if they need it

24. I love that as head of household you seriously take my opinion into consideration

25. I love that you encourage our boys to do that right thing and to be better people

26. I love that I want to be a better person with you

27. I love that you like to go to church as a family

28. I love that you like to eat together as a family even though it's hard with your work schedule


I love you My Love! Happy birthday! :-)

{Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer}

Today was SO cute.....Mr E had told me about a project he was doing at school. I'm sure if you've ever talked to kids, you kinda get part of the story or half of it.....in any event it's usually hard to figure out exactly what they are trying to get across. At least that's what it's like with our boys.....they will tell a story and then an adult will tell it.....and I'll be like "OH! THAT'S what they meant!" lol They are so cute! Anyways.....so Mr E......he brought home this beautiful wall hanging! And THANK YOU to the mom's that put in the time to do these for the kids!!! :-) I don't know if he drew the picture (he does love to draw and he's pretty good at it) It looks like the reindeer was traced, and then I can tell he did the background stuff. I do know he colored it in though. :-) And they transfered it to material, and then made a material frame for it. I think he even got to it the material for it.....which are angels....because I like them. :-) He is just TOO SWEET!!! :-) It was supposed to be a Christmas present he said, but he couldn't wait to give it to me. :-)

Thank you Mr E! I love it! :-)

{Playing in the Snow}

Since it snowed, the boys couldn't just stay inside where it was warm & cozy.....nope....they had to get all bundled up & go play in the cold. I am so greatful that I was able to simply take a few pictures & then shut the sliding glass door to watch them from there. :-)

Mr A getting ready to throw a snow ball at Mr E...

Mr E & Mr A gathering as much snow as they could find to try & make a snowman...

Mr T eating some snow...

{My Own Personal Edward}

{It Snowed!!!}

This is the view that we woke up to this morning. This was taken from our dinning room window.
Last night the boys and I went over to Oma & Opa's and Mom and I made some sugar cookies.....yummy....well it started to snow......I let the boys play in it a little bit while we were there.....and it just kept snowing. I thought it was about done when we got home and went to bed, but then we woke up and saw that it had snowed more. Very pretty....but I still think it's all icky..... :-)