Happy St. Patrick's Day

It has long been tradition that leprechauns visit schools on St. Patrick's Day morning and cause chaos amongst the classrooms. Aiden had first hand experience with this tradition this year. In his classroom leprechauns came and threw toys all over his classroom, turned tables over, and caused mass confusion. He was so excited to tell us all about it!

The Many Faces of Taylor

Taylor Grace is my sassy, sweet, fun loving precious little girl. She is sweet and sour. She makes me laugh and makes me take deep breaths. She make me sigh. She makes my heart ache because she is so sweet and so passionate about everything. I can't wait to see what God has in store for her.

Let the Birthdays Begin Again

During birthday season it is not uncommon for our family to have more than one birthday party a day. The year Aiden was born there were several 2006 babies. Ranen, Cash, Nena,Aiden, Clark, and Fox all were born in the span of a couple of months (mostly in April). This was just the ones born in 06! Every year we know birthday season has begun with Ranen's birthday. Last year and this year seem to be the age of super heroes. Ranen celebrated in style with a transformer birthday. The boys played games, hit some stuff, and generally had a good time being boys.....Taylor helped with the cupcakes....

Mr. Chris lead a game of hide some transformer related item and the other teams goes and finds it. I think there was a better name but that was just the gist of it...

I caught Ms. Sandra in a picture! She is so pretty. So may times mommies are so busy taking the pictures that they are rarely caught in them...

The 2006 boys....Cash, Ranen, Fox, Aiden, and Clark....

The 2006 boys and sweet Nena- the only girl- guess she will have her pick ;-)

Aiden hittin stuff (the pinata)....
Sweet Taylor Grace- this of course is after she "helped with the cupcakes...

After Ranen's we rushed home, napped, and prepared for Lennon's birthday! She had an Irish party complete with green punch and Irish step dancing with miss Britney. Taylor was completely enthralled with her and made me want to rush down and sign her up for dance...maybe next year...

Happy Birthday Sweet Lennon! We love you!

Oh sweet babies...

Love is in the air

I am pretty lame when it comes to Valentine's Day. I love my husband and like the idea of having a reason to do something nice for one another but I HATE, HATE the stress of trying to find just the perfect thing to do or buy on this day. So this year we did dinner the night before with kids. I am at the point in my life where going from point A to point B can be stressful if not done the correct way. So we beat the crowds, and the day of hung out with our friends, made cookies, and played with the culdesac gang.

The kids preparing to make cookies...
The finished product...
Taylor "cleans" up... The cookies were finished I PROMISE...

We are in the age of funny faces can you tell?

So sweet...
The Besties...

The culdesac gang! Happy Valentines Day!!!

Lexi Lu is 15!

I remember vividly being 15 years old and going to Atlanta to meet my sweet cousin Alexa. She is so special to me and I love every single inch of her. She is so very special to me and I would do anything in the world for her. So now this February 15 years later Alexa or Lexi Lou Who as I have always called her turned the big 1-5! We had a family party for her and enjoyed some time together. The kids love NeNe gorgeous and Lexi and really who could blame them....

A New Summers....

On January 28,2011, my little brother and sweet sister in law had their first little baby boy. Jacob Michael Summers came via c-section. I worked that morning and was so upset that I had to miss the momentous occasion. We rushed to the hospital as soon as I grabbed the kids that afternoon. Taylor and Aiden had been on baby watch for days and were so excited to meet their new cousin. Cody and Melanie got zero sleep the night before but you could not tell because of how happy they were. Jacob is a sweet little man and I love him from the tip of his nose to the top of his toes!

Park Time

January brought us the first glimpse of nice weather, or at least a taste of it for the weekend, but hey I'll take it. We decided to take the kids to the park. After the usual play equipment time, Mark and I took the kids on a walk through the woods on the nature trail. Growing up here I knew that there was a train track that I thought the kids would enjoy. The boys RAN through the woods and Taylor and I made our way their together. Let me tell you this was a boys dream complete with rocks, stickers, and even tar. Aiden and Mark climbed to the op of the track first and then Taylor and I eventually followed. We spent a good hour climbing, throwing rocks, and laughing. By the time we left Aidens hands and pants were covered in tar. Oh well....

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever!

I am telling you what folks, we were busy this Christmas! Aiden had a christmas performance one evening at school. He was an angel if you couldn't tell...which is why he is wearing garland on his head. Now, we were a little nervous for Aiden this time. At his Thanksgiving play he clammed up and did not sing one word to one song. He didn't even move his lips! When we asked him about it later he told us that there were too many people and he didn't like them clapping. This time the play was in the evening and every child's entire family was there! I was right up there with all the crazy's too! I had the camera in one hand and the video camera in the other. I was one proud mama and was not about to miss one single thing. There were so many people that I ended up in the front, on the floor. But to our surprise Aiden smiled, sang, and even did the occasional hand motion. His one nervous tick was that he pulled on his shirt collar the entire time. I kept telling him hands off! Other than that the whole thing was very sweet!

Taylor got to hang out with her buddy Kyle while big sis Tori sang in the play too!

He's really singing!
Sweet Angel!
Pulling on his stinkin' collar!
This is when he entered. He was so happy and cheerful

This was before the play. So sweet and loving...

Gingerbread Party

One of my favorite things at Christmas time is making "gingerbread" houses. I usually do this with my class but just wasn't in the mood this year. Our wonderful friends The Walworth's opened up their home to host ALL of the craziness! The bigger kids were able to construct houses but the smaller ones (aiden and taylor) basically painted some frosting on a cracker and added some candy. What do they care?

Just a peek at the craziness! When all of the cookies were eaten, and the candy was finally put away, the kiddos snuggled close to enjoy a holiday cartoon. I think this time it was a christmas carol.

Aiden, Cash, Nena, Ranen, Clark, Libby.

Here are some more fun pictures from the night...