Tears of Joy

As I looked at the pictures I just cried. I cried with gratitude to my God, for giving me such a beautiful (not only to look at :) family, I cried to see how big they are, and I cried with joy that my Mom was able to capture OUR family just like we really are. I stared at each of my sweet girls faces and was amazed that it was them! Exactly their personalities and sweet temperaments. I hope you enjoy them as I much as I did, and will continue to!
Thank you mom so much! Love you

The pictures are on my mom's blog. Have a look!
http://pjkphotography.xanga.com/

My brother in law and neice and nephew will be here later today for a visit. I am very excited. My brother in law is coming in to take a test with the fire department here, and is bringing the kiddos along. I am sad my sister is not coming, but i think it will be some really good one on one time with my nephew and neice.

SO, I am going to go grocerie shopping, and pick up this crazy house.
Blessing on you today!

Visit from Mom and Dad

My parents came for a visit during spring break and had such a blessed time. It was short, but we managed to cram lots of time into those 3 days. We ran the roads one day, but the rest of the time was just good living room play time, and watching the girls perform their plays, and sitting in lap times!

Mom also had a chance to take some photos of our little family. I am so excited. I had a vision of what I wanted for my living room wall, and she just captured exactly that. Cant wait to show you all how they turned out. I am so glad my family came! It was a blessing to have them. Here is a peak into our week.

Mom made Lexi a quilt for her birthday, and she LOVED it. She has been bringing it through the house wherever she goes (this made Grammy a little nervous I think, but we have been working on keeping it off the floor :)  It is a perfect expression of LEXI!

The three little pigs and the little bad wolf :)

 

     

We made "pel-mainee"  a russian dumpling in broth. OOOH, it was so good. Then one morning, mom made "blinee",like a crepe, for breakfast. YUMMO!

As you can see we had a fantastic visit!

Lessons

One of those things I always wanted to do when I was little was ballet, or gymnastics. We found out that the community center was giving classes for children's ages for real inexpensive, and signed the three girls up. My little day care girls are going with us, so that has been fun too. That is a whole lot of little girls in tutus!

 

Lexi is the one doing gymnastics. She is so flexible anyway, so it is a lot of fun to watch her learn hand stands, and cart wheels!

Cluster blogging :)

So my mother in law pointed out something today that I had not noticed about myself. I cluster blog! LOL I get caught up, and then take a nice long break. SO... here I am again to catch up and hopefully get ahead.

The truth is I love to "blog". It's like scrapbooking without all of the expensive embellishments. I love writing down my thoughts about my precious family. I love taking pictures most, and telling you all why they are special to ME!! I take a picture, and I am thinking of a caption to go with it. Either for my scrapbook or for my blog. Problem is, I am so behind I cant fit all of those thoughts into the few blogs that I put up here. So I suppose a summary is necessary for the last month.

Things have been peaceful and every day life just goes on. Everyday life is good! Here is a peak (a piece) into our little life!

 

Sour cream handed

Andi's painting and our first tulip!

  

Great friends come for a visit, and play days! 

Skating together!! What a sweet Daddy

My little MONET'S

 

The girls and I have been learning about Claude Monet in school. I say "the girls and I" because I have truly enjoyed learning with them. It has been very intriguing to me to learn about different artist lives, and work. This week I had the girls study "Monet's Water Lilies" and paint it themselves.

One thing I had to do that was so hard was show them how, and give them an idea of how to search for the colors, but then leave the room. They amazed me at their ability to see the right colors, and mix them, and still keep the painting "impressionist" style.

This is what they came up with

Jenna's

 

Alexis'

My Big Girl

We had a great weekend. It was Lexi's birthday on Saturday, so we started the fun family celebration on Friday night. Lexi has been asking for a while if she could get her ears pierced and was very excited when her Daddy gave her permission to have them done for her birthday, so that is the first thing we did on Friday night.

(on the phone with Pa Paw)

We started Saturday morning off with phone calls from family, and a big pile of Waffles! YUM!

Then the girls and I had a tea party!

After Daddy got up from his morning of sleeping (he worked all night) we went as a family to roller skate. We had SO much fun. It was neat for Justin and I to skate with our little bunch in between us. It brought back so many memories of the days while we were dating. We used to roller blade all the time together. It was neat to watch our girls, and hold hands and laugh about those fun times. It was a GREAT day.

   

Then today at our little bible study we had a birthday cake for her. (Luke what do you think of our cake making skills? Nothing compared to your football cake of course :)) She wanted a fairy cake, and we put our heads together and came up with this. It was a blast. One day I will venture outside of a pan cake, but I need some more practice!