Weekend busyness

yes, I know I am the only one blinking

This weekend we had family visiting in anticipation of the engagement,

The kids love it when they visit.  These are Isabella's "flip flops" for her lips.  For some reason lip gloss kept translating into flip flops.

This picture is to show how human my children are . . . . . notice Titus' face.  He was feeling more than a little peeved with his sister.  I didn't take this picture on purpose Isabella just happened to set him off right when I was taking it.

My little fixer Caleb!!  This was a broken DVD player from our garage.  Caleb decided he could fix it and we were more than happy to have it be a learning experience.  In all honesty we were not anticipating it working perfectly when he got done with it but he fixed it and now it is :)

Whew, we are so wiped out.  My boys actually said on the way to church, " Mom, I think we need some recovery time today . . . ."   I agree.  

Vanessa is getting married!

I have written about Clayton and Vanessa ( Stephen's sister) here before, and how we have been so blessed to have the privilege of watching their relationship unfold.  Yesterday Clayton asked her to marry him.  We could not be happier with the match.


                              Congratulations!!

Little Bits of Randomness

I went fabric shopping!  These are for more burp clothes. 

Isabella and Titus paddling "boats".

Bailey and Titus were having a pretend battle.  This was Titus right after Bailey shot him.

When I called him for something a minute later he picked up his head and said, " no mama, I can't come I am too dead".

Camping 2

Camping!  And it went even better than last time . . . . including better footwear ;)

We went with friends of ours.  They have three little boys and this was a little boys paradise.  My four oldest and their two oldest were gone most of the time; exploring, hunting squirrels, tracking, and getting as dirty as five little boys and one little girl could get. 

The boys especially liked the hunting.  It was a serious expedition , you know.

All of our little ones but Hadassah watching . . . .

the papas.

Can you spot Caleb?

There he is.

As the evening drew near Isabella told me she had to go potty.  As we were climbing the hill to her potty spot she asked me to carry her because, " I am fascinating!"  Hmm  . . . " Honey what do you think that means?" 
" It means I am tired." 
" Oh, where did you hear that?"
" Oh no where, I just made it up.  People that fascinate are fascinating and that means tired."

No, I did not tell her the real meaning yet.  I was too busy enjoying hers.

Very tired little critters. . . .except that they didn't all sleep.  See the little gap between the two little ones in the back, that is where I was supposed to sleep.  They both wanted to be as close as possible to me so if I lifted my head to talk to one of the kids they would meet in the middle and I suddenly had no place to sleep.  In case you are wondering where Stephen sleeps - he sleeps across the threshold of the tent.  We have sleep walkers and don't want to wake up to a missing boy.

We can't wait to go again :)