Keeping Busy

May 6, 2014, at 10:54 pm | 1 comment

We are having so much fun with my parents here!  Every day when they wake up and go to sleep, the kids ask me how many more days Grammie and Grandpa get to stay.  It’s a dream come true for us all to have them here for a full week!

We are taking full advantage of having my dad here for this visit.  Just look at all he’s done for us in the past few days!

Early morning Bible study:

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Woodworking instruction:

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Computer tutorials:

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Home renovation projects:

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And of course, roughhousing:

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We’re keeping him busy!

Minion Mayhem

May 5, 2014, at 10:42 pm | 1 comment

For Jimmy’s birthday, we did a Spiderman/Despicable Me/Mama-was-too-disorganized-to-pick-a-coherent-theme, and it was so much fun!  Here’s the extent of my decorating:

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Paper masks provided all the fun and games we needed!

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Well, masks and a minion:

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How many men does it take to hang a minion?

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The kids were all enthusiastic minion-manglers:

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The merrily mangled minion:

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Jimmy and the cute Costco cake he’s been pining for all year:

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And since it didn’t even cross my mind to buy candles, we improvised.  It was a very sparkly event!

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And the gifts! Oh, the gifts!  Both sets of grandparents were very generous, so Jimmy was awash in more toys than you could shake a stick at.  Or shake a brother at:

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Including his very own “big boy bike” that he proceeded to expertly pedal around the house for the remainder of the evening:

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We all had a great time, especially the girls, since some of their favorite people were there!

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Hooray for celebrations filled with bright balloons, great friends, and kids who are growing up too fast!

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Hooray!

May 4, 2014, at 10:29 pm | 1 comment

Grammie and Grampa are here!

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I’m excited they were able to be here for Jimmy’s third birthday party.  Pictures to come!

Storm Drain

May 2, 2014, at 11:14 pm | Leave a comment

I can’t imagine a better morning activity than having my boys throw rocks in a storm drain.  They loved it!

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Computer Time

May 1, 2014, at 11:20 pm | Leave a comment

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