Update...

Just an update to let everyone know what's been going on here - Emily had her school's 2nd 9 weeks award ceremony today and she received awards for perfect attendance and for being on the principal's list (straight A's). I can't find my camera or I would be posting the pics from the ceremony. Maybe later...

Also, Chris is leaving on Feb 19th for 6 weeks to go to NCO (non commissioned officer) academy in Montgomery, Alabama. He has to go to this before he will be eligible to promote again. We still haven't heard about our next asssignment, but hopefully good news will be coming soon! We do know that no matter what we will be moving from here sometime between October and Dec of this year....to somewhere!

We have had someone that we know say that they are interested in buying our house as a rental property and letting us rent it until we move, so please pray about that. This is a MAJOR source of stress for me because until this came up I had no idea how we were going to sell this house. The market here has gone down drastically in the last 3 months and our house is now worth less that we paid for it 3 years ago. Which makes it hard to sell and pay realtor fees and everything else. Anyway, they say that God will give you even better than you ask for and since we were only asking to sell it (knowing we would have to shell out at least $5000 out of pocket to do so) and now this has come along, I would have to agree. But we will continue to pray about it and see what He brings.

When I find my camera I will post some pics of the kids sometime this weekend....maybe!

Halleluiah, Halleluiah, Halleluiah!!!

It is FINALLY Monday and school is back! I had my MOPS (mothers of preschoolers) meeting this morning, Emily is school and CJ and Jenna had preschool. All is right with the world! I LOVE my kids, but after an entire week at home together with nowhere to go and nothing to do (the whole town shut down with the weather) we were all ready for some time apart!

SNOW!!!

It started snowing this morning. It wasn't very heavy until after lunch time and then it really started coming down. The kids were chomping at the bit all day until I finally relented and let them go at it. I was trying to make them wait until 1. there was enough snow on the ground that they wouldn't tear up the yard and 2. Chris got home. But when CJ said "Momma I just want to go taste it on my tongue" I couldn't resist any more. They had a great time and Daddy did show up just in time! Of course shortly thereafter so did the rest of the neighborhood! We are supposed to get more snow tonight so maybe we will have more pics tommorrow! The kids were out of school yesterday for MLK day, today and probably tommorrow for snow and then Thursday and Friday were already scheduled off for teacher work days. Monday is a looooooooong way away!

Snow Angels or Grass Angels???

Can you see the snow flakes on his eyelashes? He could hardly see because they get getting all guncked up on his lashes........I wish I had that problem!

This is their 12 inch snowman that it took them about an hour to make!

Then they all came inside for a hot bath, some hot cocoa and a peanut butter graham cracker, Yummy!

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.(Joyce Maynard)

Get ready to laugh!

There is never a dull moment in our house. We are always laughing at something someone did or said. I love it! Just looking at these pictures will tell you why we have so many kids. We are truly blessed!

Sweet Baby Alaina

We have started feeding Alaina rice cereal - usually in the evening because I forget about it until then :) And I mix up about 3 ounces of it and feed her with a spoon until she gets tired of that ( or I get tired of it) and then I put it in a bottle and give her the rest. I just can't see pouring out all that "liquid gold". (you can also almost see my new haircut in this pic. yes, I chopped it off again!)

And as you can see, she really, REALLY likes it and it knocks her out.

Alaina's daddy did this to her. She is in Lucy's dog bed with Lucy's toys. Of course they are all new from Christmas. Chris was playing with her and thought this was hilarious. I would have to agree....hehehehe

The other kids????? Oh, yeah they are still around here.......we are ALL counting the minutes until school starts back on Monday!