The kid will do anything

for a buck! I guess that Blake doesn't really hate pink as much as he says he would. For some reason Luke told Blake that if he put one of Makenna's bows in his hair and let me take a picture, then he would give him his $25. Now, I don't normally condone this kind of thing, but well.......I really wanted to see the pink bow in Blake's hair. (I know, I'm so evil!) He sure does look pretty, doesn't he?

They love her!

Bashful

This is Makenna being her bashful self. She'll be looking at you, and then you'll smile at her, and then it's a smile and then she looks down. I'm so glad I caught it on film.

Sleepyhead

From one moment to the next!

Go STINGERS!!!

I haven't posted a lot of basketball pictures this year, huh? Well, here's a few of Luke's first season. He loved it. Whenever he got the ball, he would have a lot of fun!!!!

Look who's....

writing his own name....... He's very into letters now. Niki got him a game for Christmas and it helps him spell words and everything. He's a spelling machine now. He's just now started writing words. This morning he had written OHIO. He's also very into States right now. We have a little state book, and he keeps drawing his favorites....

Texas a.k.a. Textus

Michigan a.k.a. Missionagain

Virginia

Converstation with Kaleb

I asked Kaleb to change Makenna's diaper today, and his response was:

"I'm too little!" Funny, how when it's to his advantage he uses that excuse, but when he wants to do something like his big brothers.....he's definitely not too little. That little booger!

Marching

We've been taking a TV sabbatical for the month of February. Well, actually, we started the second week of February. It was a challenge that our Sunday School teacher challenged us with to help keep our focus on God and to weed some of the garbage on tv out of our lives. So, we've not watched tv. The boys know that we can start watching tv in March. That being said......here's what Jakeb said the other day.

Jakeb: Dad, after we eat, can we go marching?

Dad: Uhh...sure, Jakeb, if you want too.

Jakeb running to the DVD cabinet: Yay! Kaleb, we get to watch a movie!!!!

We then proceeded to explain to him that it was two more weeks till March, and that marching is not the same thing as March.

a new bag

Cute, huh? This is what I got with my part of the anniversary money that my in-laws sent me. I found it on Craig's List....(I love Craigs List. If you've never been to it, you should check it out. they have tons of stuff on there.) Okay, so back to what I was saying....where else could you get a Vera Bradley bag with matching wallet and coin purse for $25!!!!! And it's cute to boot!

8 years & 8 months

Happy Anniversary to Us, Happy Anniversary to Us, Happy Anniversary to me and Eric, Happy "Anniversary to Us!" We've been married 8 years today. Crazy, huh? I can't believe we've been married that long! He took me out to a fancy restaraunt tonight called Jag's, and believe me...it was no cheap dinner this time! It sure was enjoyable though! We even got a free dessert!

And guess who turned 8 months old today!!! Yup, Makenna's eight months old. She's growing like a week. She rolls all around the ground, she's wearing 12 months clothes,has a total of five teeth now, completely on the bottle, and her daddy thinks that she is saying "da-da." What a big girl!

(Check out all the past months by clicking on each month: June, July, August, September, October, November,December, and January.)

Okay, guess again **UPDATED**

So we all went out to eat again....and ate for dirt cheap. Take a gander at how much we, a family of 6 + 1 baby, spent this time (minus tip). Everyone had their own meals, and three of us actually had Dr. Pepper. If you thought we at for crazy cheap last time, wait till you get a load of this one. 45 whopping cents!!!! How crazy is that???

boo-boo

Checl this out. Someone took a fall, and got a huge carpet/rug burn on his head. We were over at Richi's house when Kaleb decided he would start Richi's treadmill. Needless to say....this is what he now looks like! What's crazy is that he didn't even cry. I didn't even realize that he had a boo-boo until about 30 minutes later when I looked at him in the car!

Sneaky kid!

In between basketball games on Saturday, we went to Waffle House. On the way there, we kept seein police cars everywhere. All of a sudden we saw them all (at about the same time) pull into the parking lot of a an empty gas station, and handcuff the people who were walking through the the parking lot. We saw some major police activity. I mean, they a dozen police cars come and go. We never did figure out what they had done although some people were saying that they robbed the Arby's and then were cutting through. Anyways, Blake asked me what would I rather do...get a ticket or go to jail. Obviously, I answered......get a ticket. Anyways, he must have been thinking in his head about the time when he littered (click here to see it on my blog) and I told him the cops were going to gome put him in jail and then he thought for a minute after I said I would rather get a ticket and said, "It's a good thing I was sneaky when I littered."

Valentine's day

Check out my flowers my father in law sent me. Pretty, huh?

Patch the Pirate

We're taking a break from TV for the next couple of weeks which caused me to pull out my old Patch the Pirate tapes. (I'm talking very, very old.) I tried getting the boys to listen to them before, but gave up because they showed no interest. I'm not sure if they are completely bored without the Tv or what, but the other day, they sat there and listened to Patch the Pirate goes to the jungle. They loved it. They wanted to listen to more. Man, I loved Patch the Pirate as a kid. Seriously, he was the coolest. I can't believe I remember all the songs too!

Cherrios!

She had some cheerios today. She doesn't like to eat baby food. It's driving me insane. It takes her two or three days to eat one jar of baby food. I bought a device that's you can put a banana in a mesh bag that has a handle and she can suck on the bag and the get the banana through the mesh. She loves it, but it's so HARD to get clean. So today, I pulled out the cheerios. She was loving those!

boogers

If you have a queasy stomach, you might want to stop right here and not continue reading. However, if not, well... either way. it's your choice.
So we're in King's Kids at church on Wednesday and somehow the conversation turned to boogers and picking your nose which brought about the dialogue among the adult workers and my sons: (Oh, and you must know that Blake is on this kick about getting fat. He doesn't want to eat too much chocolate milk or candy because he thinks it's gonna make him fat.)

Blake: I don't pick my nose and eat it anymore. Luke does.

Luke: Yeah, I do. It tastes good. The word might have been "deelicious," but I'm trying to tone it down a bit.

Worker: Well, Blake you know that eating boogers make you fat...chocolate milk and boogers.

Luke: Oh Well, that's why I got a big belly.

Meanwhile Blake is smirking because now he's not going to get fat.

Blake: I do like boogers better than lasagna though. (Wow, that says a lot for mom's lasagna doesnt' it?)

And well, the conversation went on more, but that's all that I think anyone can bear.

Turn it on, Luke

The other day Eric was putting the boys to bed. After chatting for a few minutes with them and then praying, and instructed them that it was time to go to bed. In other words, it was time to settle down and be quiet. He turned to leave. However, Luke decided that there was more to say. Eric reprimanded him saying, "Luke, didn't you hear what I said?" Luke replied, "No, my EAR wasn't ON!"

matching

cute, huh?

Can you Believe it?

Look at this! I talked Blake into holding Makenna and feeding her. And he didn't even complain.

Tuckered out

Look at Kaleb...it's not even 11:00 in the morning, and he's wiped out!