House Full of Boys!

Last Saturday we celebrated the boys birthday. We had most of Jared's family over and the kids had a wonderful time. We crammed an extra 15 people in our tiny house. We didn't do much but let the kids play. I had put together a quick treasure hunt for the kids. We had dinner, opened presents and then ate cake. Here are the pictures: Looking for treasure Following the clues Eli found the treasure Aidan's castle cake Blowing out candles Below are a few pictures of some play dates we went on the last few weeks - one to a goat pasture and the other to hands on and then ice cream. Visiting the goats Adley The kids and their friends After ice cream Eating ice cream - Yum!

Have I ever told you how much I love my boys!!! Well I do, as much as they make me crazy sometimes (all the time), I love them. I love all the funny faces they make, the things they say, they dance and they sing (especially Adley). I can't get enough of "I love you mommy", or "will you tuck me in mommy", or "scratch my back mommy" or "play with me mommy". They make me smile and laugh and sometimes they make me want to pull my hair out and cry (but we won't go there now). For the most part they are all wonderful. With the energy these boys have we will definitely have to be in a bigger house soon (pray please that this happens), we are just running out of space and the noise can be a lot at times. This past week the older boys had birthdays - Aidan turned 7 and Adley 5. Wow, time sure does fly by. Things I love about Aidan: He loves to read and learn about new things, especially science stuff He is a good helper with the baby He wants...

A couple weeks back I took this video of Eli from my phone to send to Uncle Greg. Just thought I would share because I think it is so cute! Sorry its sideways - thats the way I took it with my phone and there isn't a way that I'm aware of to rotate it.

We had a great Halloween this year! Early in the week we carved pumpkins. The boys designed the faces and Jared carved the faces (or used power tools). Then on Friday night I had to work and met the boys at church for the halloween party. Aidan was a Knight, Adley a Ghost, Eli a dinosaur (or an alligator, depends on which mood he was in) and Liam an Elephant (only got one pic of him in his costume and it wasn't a good one, I may cheat and put him back in his costume today for a pic). Jared did a fantastic job on Aidan and Adley's costumes. Aidan's is made from cereal boxes. Then we went trick or treating on Halloween with some friends from work with their kids. This was the first time we took any of the kids trick or treating that wasn't at the church. The kids had a lot of fun despite the light mist of rain which turned into a downpour. They were all very good sports! We had Alien pumpkins this year! Daddy using the power tools - made it so much faster! The...