366 Laughs- January 31st 2016

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Cousins!  This was before they left to go home.  Christopher and Gregory are only a few months apart.  They will both be baptized this year.


Silly boys.


Girl cousins!  Ilyena is right between Liberty and Juliana.



And my baby girl will be 2 in one more day!  She's been saying "yay!" and maybe "cake!" to prepare.  She can show you 2 fingers, too.

366 Laughs- January 19th 2016

1/19/16

We got snowed in tonight.  (Roads were just slick enough to call off church activities for the evening.)

We stayed in and watched Harry Potter.


Emilie with her owls.



Ginny and Jules with water bottles.

366 Laughs- January 18th 2016

1/18/16

Juliana actually fell asleep during the day...


And Nathanael playing with Ginny.

366 Laughs- January 11th 2016

1/11/16

Closeup of my beautiful happy half-Sith.  (Star Wars)


Closeup of my beautiful, bemused baby girl.



Picture of a story my beautiful 3 year old daughter was telling me about how we were all together but she was dreaming about rocks.  I love our hair.


Just missing Liberty, of my 4 daughters.  We'll catch her another day.

366 Laughs- January 6th 2016

1/6/16

I love my family.
Here's Juliana, snuggled up with a crocodile from the zoo she bought with birthday money last spring, and a big crocodile from Amazon she bought this week with Christmas money, reading the Enormous Crocodile (by Roald Dahl) with Benjamin (Tom's favorite book.)

Love it.  Oh, their names are Chomper and Snappy.



Ginny figured out these little Klip Klop princesses on horses (Liberty has one from last Christmas) just days before Christmas.  They are fun, they ride down little ramps with a little clip clop noise and motion.  Santa found it at a VERY good price and when Ginny got the hang of it, I was thrilled. (Moms have insider info, you know.)  Here she is playing away.  Her big brothers and sisters ALSO have a blast with these.



And then just a lovely photogenic Christopher for you.  As you can see, those front teeth are FINALLY coming in.

366 Laughs- January 5th 2016

1/5/16

We had a fun surprise from my sister today!
A package!  With really cool CTR necklaces for the little girls.  (Jules is scared to get hers dirty... still can't get her to wear it.  We'll keep trying.)

And a family puzzle!

Emilie was taking pictures of me opening it.  I don't always look that thrilled at my kids holding a camera, but it's the only way anyone ever sees pictures of me.

Christopher wanted a picture, too.


Samuel has out grown his Cub Scout shirt but only has 2 weeks left before he turns 11 and moves on to Boy Scouts.  So... I sewed  his Webelos badge onto a Scout shirt and we can change it very easily in 2 weeks!


Doesn't he look grown up?  This is my first Texas baby, all grown up and ready for Boy Scouts!


Oh, and Liberty wearing her necklace.  :)  Crazy hair in braids but coming out... haha.

366 Laughs: January 4th 2016

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Benjamin needs the Pizza Hut anthem and flag in the background here.  He strikes a great dramatic pose, doesn't he?

Another angle.

Complete with my clean laundry.

Ginny is singing about the joys of chocolate kisses and hugs.  The flash is bright.



We caught you drinking the Koolaid.

366 Laughs- January 3rd, 2016

1/3/16

Juliana is my 9th Sunbeam!  Sunbeams are the youngest ones in Primary, a sort of Sunday School for kids from 3 to 12.  She graduated from Nursery, for children from 18 months to 3 years.

She was so proud and excited!

366 Laughs- January 2nd, 2016

1/2/16

Tonight our laughs came from decorating cookies that we've needed to make since Christmas when Tom got his ABC (already been chewed) cookie cutters.  Here's a recap:



So since our Kitchenaid is still out of commission, I picked up some clearance Christmas cookie icing (say that 3 times fast) at Target and one color was red... lots of bloody dismemberment, apparently.



But there was a lot of creativity, too.  It was fun.  Benjamin even did some after he got home from work and before heading to bed.  Which we are all doing early as we start 8 am church tomorrow!


BYU!  He made a "Y" out of white sprinkles.

I love the happy fish.  Those feet have problems.

Yay!  Cookies!  Yeah, she didn't understand decorating quite yet.

She was very careful with her decorating.

Samuel is having fun.

Timothy did a lot with gore...


Emilie's zombie... Tom was more meticulous.


Liberty decorating a butterfly.  The rest got scary.

That's where those feet came from.

Nathanael autographed his first few.  I guess they're collector's editions.

365 Joys- December 24th 2015

12/24/15

Christmas Eve!


We had the Sister missionaries over for dinner, so Benjamin was entertaining his little sisters as we got everything ready.

Just some cool kids.







Christmas Eve Pajamas!





Ginny REALLY loved her new Frozen princess nightgown.










Our manger was filled with straw, thanks to secret acts of service between members of our family.




Merry Christmas to you and yours!

365 Joys- December 20th 2015

12/20/15

Just a montage of cute Ginny poses this morning ready for church.  I love that she's finally getting enough hair... typical for my kids, especially the girls!








Random Juliana picture insertion.


Back to Ginny.