St. Patrick's Day

This year for St. Patrick's Day we decided to have some fun...

so we put on the best green shirts we could find, drew shamrocks on our cheeks and on our hands with a green marker (I wanted to do the whole face paint thing but I didn't have any paint - and the celebrating st. patrick's day thing was pretty spontaneous), made shamrock shaped sugar cookies with green frosting and green sprinkles (mmmmm yum), listened to Irish music all day, and ran around the house doing Riverdance moves... It was AWESOME!

It might not sound that awesome to most people - but to a mom who just cleans and picks up toys, and cooks and disciplines all day - it was a nice change from the norm. Anyway maybe we'll make it a tradition - We'll call it the "St. Patrick's Day - dance - around - the - house - doing - nothing but - being - silly- day". Sometimes you just need those kind of days. I told Talen that we were going to make St. Patrick's day cookies and all day, until we finally made them, he kept saying "mommy, we are going to make patrick's cookies?" I thought that was really cute - and apparently I need to go to art school because he kept calling all of my perfectly drawn shamrocks butterflies. Geez!

The Richmond Aviation Museum

We've been trying to plan a family activity once a week on Saturday's where we take the kids somewhere fun - and last week we went to the aviation museum - the kids had a blast - if you haven't been - you should go - it makes a great little outing for little ones who love airplanes.

Not for the faint of Heart

If you get grossed out easily then these pictures are not for you - Last Saturday Talen had 4 bloody noses in less than 24 hours - It was completely awful - but we made it through - I'm just glad that they stopped - he had the first two while sleeping about 2 hours apart and then he had one at church that morning, and another one when we got home from church - It was very traumatic for him - I think he was pretty disturbed by it - Finally on the fourth bloody nose the initial shock factor was over and so we took pictures. Poor little Dude. Hopefully they won't be coming back. If anyone has experience with little dudes or dudettes that get bloody noses we are open to any advice or expertise that experience has taught you :)

It's been a while

A lot has happened in the past little while - I'm so sorry to have not kept up on the blog - my two brother's and my sister-in-law and my little adorable nephew came to visit a couple of weeks ago and we had a great time together - so hopefully after today I'll keeping up more regularly again - below are some pictures from their visit as well as a really cute scrapbook.



Ward Hoedown - dressed to impress (Cory (youngest) Carlie (middle)Cameron (oldest) Bethany (Cameron's wife)


Talen, Kendal, and Kashton (Brother's cute baby boy)


Cameron and Cory Hatching (Children's museum)


Cory and Kashton (Children's Museum) You kids are so handsome!

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