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!

Finallly a BIG snow!

If you want to call roughly around 6 or 7 inches of snow, a big snow, than that's what we had! Sadly for this area, that's a ton. I snapped some pictures (from inside of course ~ me and snow are NOT friends) of the kiddos out front playing.

The Musser Wedding

The day finally arrived! Jason and Katie getting married! If you remember from past blogging, Jasmine was asked to be a flower girl in the wedding. She was beyond ecstatic this morning, waking at 6 am, ready to go to the salon.

At 8:30, we went to get Kaylee at Katie's parents' house. Katie and the other ladies were busy getting their hair and make-up done at Katie's house. Jasmine's hair didn't take long as she doesn't have a ton and it's not thick. Kaylee's hair, however, took quite some time. It's long and she has a ton of it. Both of them looked gorgeous when we were finally done, getting back in just enough time for the girls to hop in the limo with the other ladies.

I ran home (literally, since we live only a few houses apart) and got ready. Off to the wedding we went. The wedding party was beautiful coming down the aisle but I have to say my favorite part was seeing Jasmine walk with Taylor (Katie & Jason's son). She did such a great job. Not that I thought she'd cry or be a mess but she's a pretty shy girl and I didn't know how she'd do keeping her head up and smiling. She did perfect! I could really rent her out as a flower girl!

The wedding was absolutely beautiful. Of course, it wouldn't be a Musser wedding without a few laughs. Just a beautiful day!

The reception was a blast but what else would you expect when Katie is the bride. You could tell Katie personally picked the songs the DJ played. Thanks for the NKOTB songs! Lots of fun dancing going on. Jasmine even did the Cha Cha Slide! We sat at the *Down Under* table which were all neighbors. Lots of laughs!

It was a beautiful and happy day! I only got three pictures. Either I'd forget to take a picture or just not in a good spot. I will be getting pictures from lots of the other cameras that were flashing and I'm sure Katie will provide me with all the pictures Jasmine was apart of. For now, here are the three I have...

As I said before, there were tons of cameras going off all day so as I get those pictures, I'll add them here so keep checking back for more!

Kaylee, Taylor and Jasmine being announced at the reception

Kreativ Blogger Award

Sandy Jenney of Organize with Sandy gave me this great award. She has a fabulous site that gives you tons of organizing ideas and product reviews. Definitely check her out! Thanks Sandy!

Now there are some rules to go with this great award...
Name 7 things that you love and then pass this on to 7 Kreativ Bloggers.

My 7 Things That I Love...
1) God
2) My husband
3) My children, including my doggy
4) My family
5) Being a SAHM
6) The mountains
7) The internet (blogging, keeping in touch, connecting with friends)

My 7 Blogging Friends That Are Kreativ...
1) Alida ~ The Bowles Family
2) Jen ~ Immaculate Eclection
3) Danita ~ The Good, The Bad and the Beautiful
4) Vicki's Blog ~ A Work In Progress
5) Super Healthy Kids
6) I'm An Organizing Junkie
7) Rachael ~ The Merrick Family

Pick up the button from my site and put it in your sidebar and link it back to my site. Make sure you put the links on for the 7 bloggers you give it to - show your blogging love. Don't forget to either e-mail them or leave a comment for them to let them know they won.

Jenna's new *talent*

Jenna wanted to show off her new skill and wanted me to take a few pictures. Isn't she amazing?

I finally got cleaning people

They do windows.





They vacuum.





They work for cheap. You can pay them in snacks. Whenever they see me getting ready to do windows, dust or vacuum, they want to help. Who am I to deny my children the simple pleasures in life? Jacob even changes the little trash cans in the bathrooms. Such great little helpers.

Happy Birthday James & Jacob! Again!

Oma, Opa and Uncle Boo came over today to celebrate the boys' birthday, along with Opa's. I made pulled pork in the crock pot, pasta salad, beans and chips (well Lay's made the chips). I made the famous Rainbow Cake again but didn't get pictures of it this time. I also made Boterkoek for my dad, which is a Dutch butter cake. He said it was really good. Jamie said he was just being nice. I liked it.

The boys got come wonderful gifts from Oma and Opa. They each raked in $20 from Uncle Boo.



We had lots of fun and lots of laughs, as we always do when we get together. Thank you Oma, Opa and Uncle Boo for spending the day with us and for the wonderful gifts!

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Can you believe he killed this thing in two days?

That's my baby right there.

My big spoiled Bear. I love that dog!

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