Trouble

These two are serious trouble! They are either fighting like cats and dogs, or getting along great making huge messes. Russell hates to share his stuff with Anne, but she always wants it so they end up biting and hitting and all kinds of stuff. Annie is feisty too and she won't back down, in fact Russell is much more of a pansy than she is. The best thing too is that whenever I catch them making trouble Russell blames Annie. He has already learned that game, but clearly doesn't realize how ridiculous that is. When they get food out of the fridge he says that Annie did it. Sure buddy.

They can seriously be just the cutest together, but this is a rare occurance. Russy wanted to wear his dodger cap for opening day and Annie wanted to be just like Russy.

It always happens when I am nursing or getting ready. If I can just make it through the mornings I am good to go, but it's hard to make it through the mornings without a breakdown on my part because of some crazy thing they have done. Here Annie and Russ had taken her birthday cake to the living room and started taking big hunks and eating them and smeared frosting all over the couch.

I just don't understand what is in their little heads when they do this!! Why dump everything out?

 

I guess in a way it is partially my fault for always forgetting to put the cereal away in the locked pantry. You would think I would have learned by now!!

I found them behind the couch eating ice cream and Russ tells me that it was Annie who got it out. sure!

The problem with pictures too is that they never do justice to how bad it really is. Here they had pulled out about ten different games with a million little pieces and cards and mixed them all together! Why!?

They love to use Clara's stuff as their own. Russ loves to make anything into a vehicle. Annie just thinks that her bath seat is a really fun place to sit and hang out.

They are just so cute together though! The few times when they get along are just priceless!

 

Mothers Day

It's always fun to have my birthday and Mother's Day so close together. It's like a whole week of fun times for me. I especially love when my little kiddies do something special for me at school. This year was the Mother's Day tea with my cute Janie.

I love when I get to spend some special time with just one of my kids. I loved all the darling things she made for me, I could tell that she really spent a lot of time on them to make them extra special.

It was also fun to watch Janie and her best friend Maxim enter act. Theyarereally cute together.

Of course it is also a highlight to hear all the cute songs they sing. I especially loved how out of tune the songs were, but they just sung their little hearts out!

I look at this crew I have and I can hardly believe it! They are really all mine! I was pregnant and gave birth six times! That is crazy! It is so amazing! All I really ever wanted in my life was to be a wife and a mother, and look at where I am. All of my dreams have come true. I am so very grateful that Heavenly Father has blessed me beyond anything I could have imagined!! I have the most beautiful life!

 

Chick-Fil-A Family Night

We love to go to Chick-Fil-A for their family night because of the face painting and balloon animals they do. But we hadn't been in probably two years. Well when Kevin left on a business trip when Clara was 6 weeks old, I decided to take the kids there one night since it was one of the hardest things I have been through in a while, with having him gone and Clara being so difficult. I certainly didn't want to be thinking about making dinner! It was serious survival mode!

Lizzy decided to get her face painted as a clown, and I think she is just thecutest clown ever! Definitely not a scary one!

We thought that Russy wouldn't want to get his face painted because it kindof freaked him out but then he saw some boys with ninja turtle faces and he really wanted that. It was just seriously too cute!

Nellie and Jane did their usual flowers and rainbows. The lady that does them always does such a good job!

 

It was a fun way to pass an evening without our Daddy!