The Past Few days...

It will take me a little bit on the birthday pictures...be patient...I want to make a cool movie and I am new at that...but, it will be cool. In the meantime...here is what's been going on around here the past few days. I am FINALLY over the stupid cold/sinus infection, whatever I had for 2 & 1/2 weeks! Yeah for me! Sam is done with his antibiotic and is back to his happy self...yeah for him and yeah for my ears! The kid has a set of lungs like you wouldn't believe!

Jakob and Rachel went to H2Oasis (an indoor water park) with Jacob and Isabelle for Jacob's birthday party on Saturday while the rest of us chilled out at home. I still felt horrible at that time and I didn't want Sam to go in the water since he still had the ear infection. When they returned Jakob left right away with my Dad to sit OUTSIDE at Walmart to sell popcorn for the Cub Scouts...Jakob still had WET hair & it was 25*! I have NO IDEA why Walmart does not let them sit inside like all the other locations they sell from!? Now that we FINALLY have a Target next to the Air Force Base I hope that next year his Pack sells from INSIDE that wonderful location!

Thank you Grandpa for sitting outside, in the freezing cold, for 2 hours with Jakob!!!! Grandpa has been wonderful at listening to Rachel do her nightly reading and then reads to her and Ben while I put Sam down, he has taken Jakob to hockey practice and Cub Scout meetings and Rachel to Ballet. The kids are enjoying showing off what they can do! And he has been able to have lots of quality time with little Samuel!

So here are a few of my favorite pics. from the past week...



Big Hug!

The munchkins with their friend Isabelle...

The munchkins with their friends Morgan and Hailey...

We love Build-A-Bear...
What are you looking at...

OK...so this is one of Sam's favorite toys right now...maybe he will be a doctor???

He will wear this for several hours...every time it falls off he works with it for a few minutes and manages to almost always get it back on by himself!

This is what happened when I tried to take it off so that I could feed him dinner...I'm not happy Mom!

On Monday while the 3 older ones were in school I took my Dad out for a short drive...Sam was not a willing participate so we had to cut it short. It was a bright, sunny day and the mountains were beautiful!

No more autumn leaves though...
The kids have been enjoying playing games with grandpa...

With Jakob... Chess is serious stuff...

With Ben...Chess is NOT so serious :-). He totally made up a game and was extremely animated about the whole thing...way too cute!!!


Enjoying story time...

Check out the rest of the pictures in the two added albums...