Weekend in the Mountains

Jamie's camera has been gone for a few weeks. One of us got dust on the actual camera lens inside and neither of us know how to clean it out properly. Luckily the Geek Squad takes care of that but has to send it off to get it done. It came back just in time for us to go to the mountains for a gorgeous weekend. All 5 kiddos were there (usually one of the big boys are missing ~ it's rare to have all 5 up there). Jamie had been up there all week turkey hunting and getting things done. It was a great weekend and just keeps reminding us how much we love it there and want to move there. Hopefully some day....



Since there are so many, I'm going to make the rest of these thumbnails so please click on them for the larger version.



The boys were playing football and told Jenna she couldn't play...

Happy Easter 2009!

Happy Easter! Dad, Mom and Boo came over today for linner, as Jasmine was calling it. I cooked. Oma and Jasmine made deviled eggs and then everyone ate. We watched golf, which honestly isn't as comletely and utterly boring as I thought. We had strawberry shortcakes, which Oma and Opa brought. YUMMY! Oma even found CHOCOLATE sponge cakes. Are you kidding me? I thought I died and went to heaven. The kids wrestled Uncle Boo. It was a fun day.

The only pictures I got were of 4 of the 5 coloring eggs last night. James was at his mom's. Here's the fun!

Finally made the girls' blankets

The girls picked out some polar fleece material MONTHS ago for me to make them some blankets. I finally dragged the sewing machine up from the basement so I could make them. You know ~ a nice warm, polar fleece blanket just in time for it to warm up outside! Go me! Oh well. Better late than never. The girls LOVE them. They are so dang soft. I personally want one. Jacob wants a camo one (surprise! surprise!) and thankfully JoAnn's has the polar fleece in camo. Oh and a sale to boot! YAY! He'll be getting one soon.

Jenna's blanket



Jasmine's blanket

Wacky Wednesday at Jacob's Preschool

Jacob's preschool had Wacky Wednesday today. They were allowed to wear their jammies to school, their clothes inside out, a funny hat, really anything goes as long as it was safe. They had wacky waffles for snack. They had all sorts of fun.

Jacob wore his new spring jammies to school. Jenna, of course, left hers on as well. I forgot to get a picture of the two of them in their pajamas. I'll get one later with them both in their new pajamas.

They also painted their faces and hands if they wanted. Jacob requested spiders.

Jacob is amazing!

You show this boy something once and he just does it. He's amazing. I realize blowing bubbles aren't listed on any milestone charts or anything but for my kids, it's a big deal. It's an even bigger deal when your 9 year old brother can't blow them yet.

Check this boy out!

Bribing Daddy

This weekend, we will be going to the mountains. First time since Thanksgiving! Oh we are itching to go! Well Jamie is off of work Friday and Saturday so Jamie, Jacob and Jenna are leaving Thursday when he gets home from work. The other kids and I will follow on Friday after Jazzi and James get out of school (which of course this week, they have this fun activity AFTER school for being good and they will be home almost two hours after they normally would be).

Jamie was joking with Jenna today that she couldn't go with him anymore and the conversation went something like this....

Jamie: Jenna, you can't go to the mountains with me and Jacob anymore.
Jenna: Why Daddy?

Jamie: Because you were a bad girl today. (which she actually was)

Jenna: But I'm good now.

Jamie: Sorry. You have to wait and go with Mommy.

Jenna: I'll buy you gum if I go with you Daddy.

Well needless to say, she's going with Daddy. She was anyway but now he gets gum too! Ha ha.

Picture Frame Craft Time

I was in Michael's craft store ~ one of my favorite stores....if only I coul get everything I wanted. Oh the baskets alone! Oh wait, back to the story. I was in Michael's getting some things to make a gift for our friends. I was in the wood section where you can get plaques, shapes, letters and whatnot. They have these awesome frames for $1 each! One dollar! Paints were on sale too. Yay! Each kiddo got a frame, two colors and a neat little package of about 8 paint brushes each ($.99 for each of those!).

Here's the pictures.



The finished products!

Not sure what I was thinking with Jacob's colors ~ hard to see his name but he's happy with it!



Jenna



Jasmine ~ Obviously also known as Princess ~ the 58 is her and Daddy's special number. It was Daddy's football number in high school. Jasmine just happened to be born on May 8th, 5/8. Talk about a daddy's girl from day one!

Beautiful weather = Park time

We have a great park not far from us and today proved to be a great day to go. Obviously, everyone else had that idea too. Not that I thought otherwise or anything. We stopped at McD's and grabbed some lunch to eat there and then to play. Here's some pictures of our adventures today at the park. **Is it not weird just a few days ago, I shared pictures of my children in snow suits playing in snow?**

Chad and Uncle Jamie

Someones loves their Uncle Jamie very much! He follows him the second Jamie walks in the door from work. These two are going to be inseparable. It's so cute watching them together.

Jamie was playing PlayStation and Chad just climbed right up there with him. I tried to get the picture without Chad noticing but he did and immediately started with the "CHEESE!" Hilarious!