My hairbows

After spending a rediculous amount of money on hairbows for my girls, I decided to make them myself. I really have no experience making bows, but I thought "How hard could it be?". I bought a few different types of ribbon to begin experimenting with. Here are the ones I've made so far, in order of creation. The pink and brown one is my favorite one so far!

I know, I know, I know. I'm a slacker!

It has been a long time since I've updated here. I haven't been able to find much computer time except for talking to my JJJ's. I can't even think of everything that's happened since I posted.

• I've been on a mission to lose all the pregnancy weight that has piled up after having all these kids. In the past couple months I've lost 30 pounds and I'm crazy proud of myself. Big thanks go out to my JJJ girls for keeping me motivated.


• Add and Aiden started school a couple weeks ago and they are loving it. I'd never imagine they'd get so much homework in first grade and kindergarten, but they don't seem to mind.


• For Labor Day Weekend, we took the kids to Spring Mill State Park to have a fun day. We went to the Gus Grissom(astronaut)Memorial and nature center, had a picnic, played at the park, played in the creek, and walked through the old Pioneer Village where the early settlers of the area lived. I think the kids' favorite part was playing in the creek. It is a creek that runs out of the caves so the water was freezing cold, but they didn't seem to mind. I felt like my feet were gonna freeze and fall off for the first few minutes, but then I got used to it. Ellianna made a new friend while playing in the creek. His mom said he will be 2 years old next month. I guess she likes the older boys. He was sharing his water cups with her. I guess she wanted to tell him thank you, so she gave him a big wet kiss right on the lips. I dunno if he didn't like it, or if he was just playing around with her, but a minute later he dumped his water cup right on her head. She didn't care, but his mom freaked out about it. They played together for about 15 minutes and she cried when he had to leave. It was so sweet. By the time we left, we were all totally exhausted and the kids slept the whole way home. It was fun for me to bring my kids to Spring Mill State Park because I went there atleast twice a year when I was a kid. I'm hoping they'll grow up to love it as much as I always did. Here is a pic of Ellianna playing in the creek with her new friend. I'll upload more pics when I can.
  

Editing to add more pics:
This is a family pic I took by putting the camera on a wooden beam and setting the timer. It was a little off center, but oh well!

T-Ball champs!!!

Well, the season was over a while ago but I forgot to post this. My son's team remained undefeated and won the championship. We're so proud of him. Here's a pic of his team after they got their trophies. My son is in the back row, second from the left.

My little cheerleader boy

I was busy doing dishes this afternoon and I hear my oldest daughter say "Hey! Look Mommy!" I turn around to find my precious little boy dressed up in her Barbie cheerleader outfit. He was fine with it until I grabbed my camera and then he got all embarrassed. It was too cute not to share. This was him whining "MOMMMM" when I got the camera out.

Fart Bubbles

I totally forgot to tell everyone about this. I posted the pic on BBC but not on here. Ellianna was swimming in her little pool while the big kids were playing on the slip-n-slide. She farts a couple times, and by the second fart she's trying to figure out where the bubbles are coming from. She lifted up her leg and was looking down trying to figure it out. It was hilarious! The other kids had to run over and find out what was going on because I was laughing so hard. I'm sure this'll be an embarrasing picture for her when she gets older.

Big boy and his baby bear!

Here is a pic I just had to share of Ethan with his bear that he calls his "baby". He got his "baby" around the time my belly started getting big with my last pregnancy and he has slept with it every night since. It is a little brown teddy bear dressed up in a pumpkin outfit. I just recently started trying out black and white pics. I love pictures of sleeping kids!!!

Catch up again

Thanks to my faithful reader Pauline for reminding me to update this crazy thing!

Oh gosh... let's see what we have been up to. Warning: These are not in order. I'm just going through my photobucket!

1. We were flooded out of our house for about a week. Our house didn't get any water in it, but our road was completely covered. We've lived here long enough to know when the water is getting too high and we left early enough not to get stuck here. I'm so thankful that my grandma has enough room for the 6 of us to stay! Here is a pic of the sky before it started storming again!!! We were already flooded out and then the next day it rained again.

2. My neice had her 9th birthday party. It was a luau theme and the kids loved it. Here is a pic of Aiden doing the limbo. He was making the funniest faces.



3. We drove down to the river a couple miles from where I live to check out the water levels before we got totally flooded and there was a cool face carved into a tree stump. Ethan just had to have his picture taken with it. He asked me if he could touch his nose. It was so funny.



4. We went to a local event called "Safe Night". It is basically an event they have for kids to teach them about being drug-free and things like that. They had a lot of fun games and things for the kids to do. They even had an area that had live baby bunnies, chicks, and ducks for the kids to hold. My boys really didn't want to hold any, but Addy loved holding them. Especially the baby ducky! She was begging to take one home, but thankfully the lady said that they are only for playing with there. She must have kids of her own. She saved me from having to tell her no and breaking her heart.




5. Ellianna has been doing great with her potty training. After her bath today, I actually let her run around the house in just panties. She just turned one year old this month so she didn't actually have any of her own to wear, but big sister's worked just fine. It's crazy that the same pair of panties will fit a 6 yr old and a 1 yr old. She was so proud of her big girl panties and kept going over to the mirror to check it out.



6. My son's team won their final t-ball game of the season last night. They are undefeated!! WOO HOO! They start the tournament next week. I hope they win the tournament too. He scored 2 runs last night and was so proud of himself. The final score was 20-10.

I'm sure there is more that has been happening, but I haven't uploaded the pics yet. I guess I'll just have to update again soon. Well, for all of you that have stuck it out and read this whole post, please leave me a comment so I know I'm not just talking to myself.