Wordless Wednesday!

Friday Family Fun Night!

Friday night we were pretty wiped out after spending the whole day in court.  Court days always wear us out...all of us.....from Tim down to Holland.  Since court was on a Friday we decided to just have a calm movie night.  After picking up the kids, grabbing a fun easy dinner of Chinese food, and a redbox movie we were set for our night!

We got home, took care of the animals, got our pajamas on, grabbed blankets/pillows/stuffed animals, and settled down with our dinner to watch....

It brought back lots of childhood memories for Tim.  He loved watching Yogi Bear as a kid.  We had a lot of laughs which we needed.  We also had lots of snuggles, and egg rolls!!!!  After the movie we all headed to bed pretty early since we were so tired.  Another lovely FFFN! 

Time flies!

I can hardly believe time is just zooming by.  We are already nearing the end of the month and our calender for May is already filling up.  It seems like it was only yesterday that we were pulling April Fools jokes on each other and now April is almost gone.  Trying to slow down and enjoy every moment of every day as they slip by.  To cherish every smile, hug, laugh and not to take for granted one moment that we have been given with each other.

Justice, Becca and Holland ready for church Sunday!

Friday Family Fun Night!

Tim and I've always tried to carve out Friday night's as our family night.  It doesn't mean it just us all the time.  We've been known to invite other families over, but mainly it's just us and the kids.  Because of the cost of a family our size we usually do things at our home.  Friday we had our weekly FFF night and we went bowling ....in our living room!

Holly bowling on the Wii!

Bowling is one of those things we love to do together.  The littles play a round, then the middles, then the oldies!  It gets rather loud during the games, but we have so much fun.   Lots of loving competition.  It's such a blessing to hear the kids cheering each other on and not breaking each other down.  

Jensen's turn!

FFF nights also mean food!  We had pizza, salad, fresh strawberries and hot brownies!  Yummy!  We even added to the fun by having make your own pizzas.  English muffins, pizza sauce and fresh veggies, italian sausage, pepperoni, pineapple and other things to choose from.  There were some very interesting combinations made...ugh.

Jameson rocking the Wii remote!

Justice in good bowling form!  LOL!

There are lots of hugs as well!

Peace out!

Thankful Thursday!

I am thankful for our new Aldi's that just opened.  We bought a bunch of strawberries for $1 a pound which was a wonderful deal!  The kids found this jewel in one of the boxes.  It was four strawberries grown all together into one beautiful berry!

Johnston and Becca were the only middles up so they took some pictures!

And more pictures!

Doesn't it look like a heart in Becca's hands?  So sweet!

 

Then they cut it in half and enjoyed it!

The rest of the strawberries were enjoyed as dessert served over vanilla yogurt!  Yummy!

Wonderful Wednesday!

The rain kept Tim home today which we always love.  It's out favorite thing having daddy home.  I am so grateful to have a man that loves us so much.  I'm so proud of who he has become and how far in his fathering skills he has traveled.  It's not easy going from a dad of two littles boys who you've learned your parents skill with as they've grown from birth, to being a parent of teens and young adults overnight.  No skills, no training, no connection at first.  It's a growing experience.  I love that the kids think it's like a holiday having Tim home during the week!!!

Holland asked daddy to fix her hair.  He looked at her horrified!  I tell you he is growing in so many ways.  Every daddy needs to do his little girls hair right?  So being the good sport he is he did her hair.

Of course he added his flair to it.  Here he is brushing her hair with the handle of the brush!  She thought it was so hilarious!

He had her laughing so hard!

Showing him what part of the brush to use!

It took him awhile, but she was a very good teacher and finally got her hair done.  He did a very good job actually!  She absolutely loves her daddy!!!

Spring must be around somewhere

We have been so busy today.  It's that time of the year where we reorganize, clear out our stuff, simplify, change clothing around, etc.  This is on top of school and general life happenings of course.  Today Jackson moved out to his own place.  So this opened up the window for us to move Max into Justice's room and clear out one of the beds from the upstairs boys room.  We have been busy moving, cleaning, and reorganizing just to accomplish the moving of one 13 year old!  I don't have pictures yet, but I will see about getting some of the rooms once we get them put back together.  We got about 90% of the rooms done today, but need to tweek things a smidge more.  Josalynd also got her own place down in Atlanta area where she works and will be starting college.  The place is located a few minutes from her job and a few minutes away from the college she will attend.  It is truly going to be a great thing for her.  So last night we cleaned out her room and Tim/Justice were able to deliver her stuff to her this afternoon.  Now we have our storage/school room set back up and have gained back the kitchen/play room space we had given up.  It's been a great day of starting Spring cleaning....getting everything fresh and clean.

 We also did some fun things like taking our bag of old broken crayons and turning them into something new and fun and interesting! 

 

 First the kids peeled, then I chopped all the crayons into small pieces.

Then the littles each filled three muffin tins with the bits of chopped crayons.

After the littles, the middles made three each.

Then into the oven they all went!  I forgot to take pictures of the new crayons, but they did turn out really neat and the kids have already tried them out.

Some wacky kiddos!

We also did some normal school stuff, but did some fun extra stuff as well.  Max and Becca have been struggling over Parts of Speech in their differing grades.  So we've been doing some extra fun practice each day to just help get things grounded. 

 Becca writing a sentence about a butterfly!

Max doing some extra practice as well.  Morgan in the background was studying about her newest person of interest...Florence Nightingale.

Johnston was working on compound words.  I wrote a bunch of words on paper and he cut them out.  Then he put the words together making compound words.  He stumbled a few times, but grasped it quick enough.  He loves hands on learning!

Davidson was working on compound words as well.  He struggled with it for some time, but in the end he conquered the assignment.  I'm proud of his perseverance.

The rest of the day is history.  Middles and littles are in bed.  Oldies, Tim and I are chilling together and munching on egg rolls that Morgan made.  Sometimes it's just nice to chill out with your teens and hubby, not busy and going, just chilling out!