Tire Swing

Papa put up the tire swing last night. It will be better in the backyard as it is away from the road. The little kiddies were having fun on it last night. Jeanie came down dressed this morning and asked, "If I get all ready, can I go out on the tire swing?" (The novelty of something new.) Abo also got up bright and early this morning and wanted to go swing. I asked him if he was going home tomorrow. He shook his head and put up five fingers and said "this many days". Then he changed his mind and put up all ten fingers and said "no, this many days". Wishful thinking.

Jennifer's 30!!! (almost)

We celebrated Jennifer's 30th birthday a week early. I told everyone to find "a piece of junk" as a joke gift. The funny thing is.....she actually loved everything! I forgot to take a picture of the lovely junk. Just enjoying the grandkiddies. The weather has been awesome so they are loving it outside. Jen is going to be in for a rude awakening once she returns home. Even Carter is at the door with his shoes in his hands.

Girls, girls, girls, girls....

When I see a picture like this, I understand why people often tell me "all your kids look alike!" (Molly 13, Gretchen 15, Heidi 18, Kaitlin 15) So far my goal to take more pictures with a blog hasn't happened yet. I just look through everyone's albums for one. This is from Heidi's.

Jen and I went to the Curdy Road garage sale this morning. Two hours later..............Jen was pumped as usual with her finds. I did find a few things there myself. We then hit a few in Brighton and finally finished at about 2:30 and had lunch at Amer's. I didn't get a whole lot but did find a few things. Jen and I are good garage sale partners. She usually wasn't interested in what I bought and I most definately wasn't interested in her finds!!! It was a fun day. The "twinners" stayed home and watched her kiddies. Jen, Mark, Amanda, Wade, Larissa and Brad are out junk picking at this moment. Anxious to see all the stuff I didn't miss!!!

They're Here!!!

The Josephson's arrived about 8:15 this morning. About 5 minutes before Danny and Jeanie were to go on the bus. So....they decided this would be the day they skipped school to play with their niece and nephews. They are all outside on this beautiful day. The second picture is Nikayda trying to tie her shoes. I cropped out all the shoes (and Jeanie's beautiful gold ones from the Halloween bag) but when I downloaded it to this blog it came uncropped!! Jen and I will rest today for our marathon garage saling tomorrow and HER junk picking.

Only Molly

I'm not exactly sure what that first picture is but the second one she set the camera up on a little table and took it because she said she wanted to see what she looked like when she made that face because you can't see it in the mirror. Look......Danny can touch his nose with his tongue! Not sure who took that picture. You bloggers with the darling little kids are lucky to have such cute subject matter!!!! I just may have to take a page from Michelle's book and find some oldies but goodies when they were cute little subject matter!!!

Jeanie Christinie

I'm not too sure what is happening in this picture. (The kids take lots of pictures around here.) And I'm pretty sure she didn't wear this get up to school. The big girls are quite mortified some days when Jeanie walks in the door. "She wore THAT to school?" I guess I am getting "old". I really don't care much what she wears. Some days I raise my eyes and question if she's sure she wants to wear "that". She told me that whenever she wears clothes that I pick out, no one says anything. But when she picks out her own outfits, Miss Luann always tells her she likes her outfit. Hmmmmm.......When you older girls went to school I use to CURL your hair and put those beautiful poofy bows in it. Now I ask Jeanie if she brushed her hair and believe her.