Lincoln's party

Sweet pokeball cupcakes

Blessed

I looked out the window and really I'm very blessed.

Desperate

Whitney doesn't like me mowing the lawn but I really wanted to avoid cleaning the kitchen... So we compromised.

#6

Here's the first picture of baby number 6. We had our first appointment today.  The baby has a good heart beat.  They gave me the due date December 12.

Toothless

Hannah lost both of her front teeth on the same day!

Nice high heels

Lily's been earning these high heels by being nice.  That's one of her biggest struggles but she finally earned them!

Spring Excitement

Rachel has a bird nest by her window.  Every year a bird well lay eggs.  This year we got to see the babies!  I think they will survive well in the wild since they seemed to handle a two story fall fine.

Home Depot Workshop

These workshops are awesome.  They are free and the kids love them!  We appreciate Home Depot's generosity.  I don't know if the kids like the projects or snacks better.

Spring Break

Joe had to work during spring break so we tried to spruce up the week with play dates and library activities like this.

#6 things you probably shouldn't bring to the doctor

I am a, "Yeah,  I can squeeze that in, " junkie.  I was over ambitious in my scheduling of a movie and getting lab work done. I don't know if the other waiting room guests loved us:)

Cousin Book Group

We thought we could use some culture so we joined Deanna's cousin book group.  Today we read the literary masterpiece,  "Have you seen my Potty?"

Oh what do you do when it's 65 degrees?

If it's the first time that spring, you bust out the swimsuits and water of course!

So nice

Thank you Walmart for having a kid accessible sink.  It's always hard holding one baby and trying to hoist a toddler up to the sink.

Point Mother Nature

It was wind storm versus our house and the wind storm won.  We're in the middle of filing a claim. We're still trying to figure how to get siding down from the tree

Beautiful Park Day

On president's day we enjoyed the beautiful day at they park while Joe worked on the floor.  Poor Joe.

New Floor

We had to fix our damaged linoleum kitchen floor so we got this vinyl,  plank click lock flooring.  The Lowe's man said we could do it by ourselves no problem.  Lies. After much time and frustration it is done.  Joe is a patient man.

Valentine's Day

I really enjoyed Valentine's Day this year.  The kids worked really hard to make thoughtful presents for each person in the family so they were especially excited.  This was also the first time Whitney got excited for a present (princess hair stuff)  so that was fun.

For our date we did a Bob Ross at home painting.  Our trees weren't as happy as Bob's. 

Science Fair District

Rachel's science fair project advanced to District level.  Go Rachel!

In the picture below she is being judged.

Bathroom Time

Someday when I shut the bathroom door the kids won't think they're dying.

Project ocd

I love a good project.  I usually go overboard on them and this project was no exception.  For a Relief Society activity we made sacrament reverence books that had pictured of Jesus and stories.  I made about seventy with some help.  Lily took this picture.

Lily

Lily loves grandpa and is so excited he's coming to visit in May.  She made him a packing list.  She tells me she's going to marry grandpa.  She tells me grandma can marry Uncle Kevin. Below is a picture of her brushed hair.  The brushed part doesn't happen very often.  I wanted to post this so I remember her pretty hair. 

Vegetables

Rachel was having blood sugar issues and passed out in class.  I went searching for answers and was referred to Dr.  Fuhrmann's book Eat for Health by Joe's sister Jenny.  We've changed our diet and Rachel is doing a lot better.  I've historically been an unadventurous vegetable hater.  This picture shows all the vegetables I cut up for a meal.  Joe had to cut the mushrooms because they still gross me out:).

100 Days of School

They kids celebrated100 days of school and Lincoln's teacher said they could dress up like they were100 years old.  This is grey haired Lincoln.

Snow Day

We've had a wonderfully mild winter,  but we did get one snow day so they took advantage of the inch and a half of snow and went sledding.

Big girl Whitney

Whitney has started to want to be a big kid.  Her attempts to copy them are pretty cute.  She's playing Wii Just Dance here and wiggling her little booty.  Joe plays toothbrush monster at bedtime and Whitney will try to have him smell her breath like the big kids so he won't get her.  Below is a picture of Joe  traumatizing Whitney with an emoji pillow.

Whitney and Lily playtime

Lily and Whitney at the park and playing