Wild Weekend

Last Saturday we had planned Jackson's 5th birthday party. It's hard to find a place to have his party where Morgan will be content, so we decided to do it at home. We rented an inflatable thing where they could jump and slide, and we rushed to paint the kitchen, clean the yard, etc. Well, early in the week the forecast was rain, but I kept hoping it would change. Finally Thursday night I conceded to the fact that it was going to rain Saturday. We gave Jackson the option of postponing it to this weekend or moving it to Burger King's indoor playground. He opted for Burger King, so I called and canceled the inflatable and typed up notes to send home with all of his friends. It worked out fine and he had a great time.

Jackson wanted a hunting and fishing cake, so he and I went out and bought the animals and the fishing gear and a guy that I work with did an awesome job of putting it all together.

Jackson got two new fishing poles from his PawPaw and MeMe. My camera died, so this is the only present picture I got.

After singing happy birthday to Jackson, his friends all chose something off of the cake to lick the icing off of.

My beautiful little girl.

The kids had fun playing.

We kept Morgan content by letting her watch The Price Is Right on the portable DVD player.

Then, Sunday Morning, we woke up to snow flurries. Jackson threw on his coat and boots and went outside. He said it was a miracle, but got upset that it wasn't enough to stay on the ground.

He tried to catch a few on his tongue.

You can see the flurries in his hair.
If you make the picture bigger, you can see the snow flurries.

We are still alive

It's been a long time, but I promise we're still here. With everyday life and sickness I can't seem to shake, things have been a little crazy. Jackson will be starting t-ball next week so we are excited about that and Lillian is so cute and happy most of the time. She can't seem to shake ear infections. Jackson and I currently have a stomach bug, so it's been a long day.

This is from Valentine's day.

This video is of Jackson playing with Lillian. Laughter is the best medicine.

He's leaving in a Toyota Yaris.....Don't Know When He'll Be Back Again

Jackson got these clippo blocks for Christmas and he built this airplane. He was very proud of it.

Micah being attacked by Morgan and Jackson was being silly.

The brothers.

Micah with mini-Micah and Lauren.

Heather wouldn't get in the sibling picture even though I caught her in the brothers picture.

Micah and Abby.

Micah and Lillian.

Last night everybody came over to eat and see Micah before he left for Utah. He and dad are driving out there and then dad is going to visit for about a week and fly back. They made it to St. Louis today and plan on driving to Wyoming tomorrow.

Merry Christmas and more

We had a good Christmas. The kids got way too much as usual. Now it's time to clean out the old to make room for the new. Last night we went to Mel and Ish's to play the Wii. It was quality time with Micah before he moves.

The boys enjoyed the football game.

Morgan chilled out in the floor watching The Price is Right on our portable DVD player(she loves game shows)

Bradley got Guitar Hero for Christmas. Mel, Micah and I played for awhile but I of course didn't take any pictures of that. My guitar playing skills got us booed off the stage a few times. This is Jackson pretending to play the drums.

Bradley and Lauren spent the night with Jackson Sunday. The boys are playing with Jackson's remote control Jeeps he got for Christmas. Morgan climbed up and sat in Lauren's lap in the Trail Hand which was an early present for all of us.

Jackson loved his spiderman mask and gloves from Christy. He and Bradley kept putting it on at the house and pretending to be robbers.

Micah giving Jackson the attention he is always seeking.

Cutie pie Lillian.

Jackson loves playing with Lee's parents' new puppy.

He also loved his four wheeler.

He had fun getting in this box.

Morgan cooperated and opened her presents for the most part.

This remote control truck didn't work unfortunately, but we exchanged it for a Jeep just as big.

Holiday Spectacular

Sunday night we went to a place near here that has a lot of lights (they advertise 10 thousand) and you can take wagon rides, roast marshmellows, and see Santa and other characters. It was neat, but Morgan didn't cooperate so we didn't stay long.

We roasted marshmellows but Jackson didn't really care for them, so I almost made myself sick eating most of them.

This is Rudolph. We saw Santa and the grinch, but we didn't stand in line to get our picture with them.

We had to get our picture with the big buck.

The trees were wrapped from top to bottom in lights.

Here's another shot. A lot of them didn't turn out.

Cousins

Ish and the kids came over last night to get a deer that Lee shot. I watched the kids while they took it to get it processed.

Cute cousins.

They both love their paci.

Lillian tried to eat Abby's hand.

Abby was facinated with Lillian's feet.

Lee's sister and her girls came over too and took turns holding Lillian.

Last Tuesday night, I went in Morgan's room to find blood all over the place. It took me a few hours to figure out where it had come from. As far as we can tell, Morgan cut her hand on a nail that was still in her wall from a shelf that used to hang there. It is a pretty deep cut but they didn't do stitches because we would have to put her to sleep. We've been putting liquid bandaid on it and hoping it will heal.

A decade

Flowers: $50.00

Dinner at The Old Mill: $50.00

2 Tickets to see Seven Pounds: $16.00

Diamond ring: $900.00

10 years of marriage and three beautiful children: priceless

Lee and I celebrated our 10th anniversary on Friday. I can't believe it's been 10 years!