Happy Thanksgiving!

I just wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving to everybody. I hope you all had a wonderful day with family and friends. We had a really good time out at my Grandpa's. I always enjoy seeing my family, afterall some of them I only see once a year. It's wild looking around at everyone's kids they all grow up so fast. It seems like yesterday me and my cousins were the little kids running around. Time sure does fly.

Aaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!

Today I have my brothers kids, well all but one. Mercy had to go to the hospital last night for taking her Grandma's blood pressure medicine. Anyway, that leaves me my six, their 4, and the neighbor kid that pratically lives with me. So eleven in all. They all decided to take branches and boards they found, I'm not sure where excatly, they took all these items and more and built a club house around the swingset. No big deal they used their imagination and it kept them busy for a good while. Plus it looked sturdy enough there was no need for me to intervine. Pick and choose your battles I always say. So later on they take rocks and sticks and make a pretty impresive pretend campfire. I go out and look at their completed project and praise them for a good job. I come back inside to change out my laundry and I hear Emily say, [ she's really loud when she talks] " I'll find my dad's lighter so we can roast marshmellows!" Aaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!
Hold 'em up. I run towards my very ambitious children and tell them don't even think about it. Once I calmed down I explained how at the campground they use firepits, and we don't have one, you'll burn down the neighborhood and we'll be on the news. LOL! Another successful day keeping everyone alive especially my neighborhood! Aaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!! Crap I just realized I bet you anything their going to try to build a firepit. I better go find out before it's to late! Woosh!

Family Pictures

Yesterday we had family pictures taken. We've only done this once and it was at Wal-Mart, and we only had 2 kids, so it's been a very long time. A friend of ours at our church does beautiful photography, so we decided it's about time we do this. Let me tell you it is not an easy task getting 6 kids and a husband ready for pictures. Maya was dressed in a really cute outfit she got chili on her shirt, but it wasn't to bad so decided to not change her[ Joyelle can photoshop anything thats off] So overall my three older kids were okay. Ian was hard because he didn't like any of the shirts I picked out for him. We finally agreed on one and he looked very handsome. Elijah had to change three times due to food he kept sneaking our wetting his pants. Kalin I changed about five times because she has grown so quickly her wardrobe has gotten smaller and smaller. I finally settled on a dress and dressshoes that were a little to big, hopefully no one will be able to tell. She looked cute overall. I had a moment where I wanted to cry. It's been a long time since I've been able to go buy any of them nice clothes with nice matching shoes. They wear tennis shoes or sandals with everything.
Big Mario was the hardest one. He won't buy himself clothes. One because he's picky and gets frustrated easily, and two because he feels guilty if he can't buy the kids anything. So yesterday he was all peed off because he didn't like his options. Finally at 4:00, we were supposed to be there at 4 he chose a shirt. So, to top off our circus of getting ready I look outside and it's SPRINKLING!! But, we went anyway, it didn't rain and the sun came back out. The kids had a great time taking their pictures. Maya and Emily constantly wanted to pose like little supermodels. Elijah was always making a silly face or posing like spiderman. Kalin was completely distracted by the fountain. She kept saying,"look water!" Oh, by the way we went to Crighton Ridge park. It was beautiful. It has a lake with a fountain in the middle. It also has rocks with little waterfalls coming out. I'm excited to see how they all come out.
I hate myself in pictures, hopefully it's not to bad. Joyelle was trying to make the kids smile by being really goofy, she suceded except for Kalin she was to distracted. She made me laugh more than the kids I think. Anyway, it ended up being a great day.

BEWARE! ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK!!

Lately I've been having a nervous breakdown over my house, so my mom has been coming out the past couple of days to help me organize. she even bought me some totes, and a shoerack. My shoerack looks like you've just entered a deapartment store, it's great! Anyways, it's really hard to get all your daily chores done when you homeschool, plus make time to hang out with them, and cook meals. So as you can imagine organizing is almost impoossible. I've been taking it one room and closet at a time. All I have left now is my laundry room. Heaven help me thats a scary room! So, today was awsome, we go to clean under my kids beds and found the most ridiculous items. It was so funny we couldn't stop laughing. Here's a list of items we found:
1. rocks
2.asphalt[I don't know, don't ask]
3.old pizza [gross!]
4.dry pinto beans [incase they get hungry]
5.leaves [ for shade,duh!]
6. toys and clothes
Like I said enter at your own risk. Who knows whats going on in their little worlds. One things for sure, they keep me laughing!

woops!

Jennifer pointed out I forgot Elijah's picture. I thought I put it up? Anyway here he is!

Camping Pictures

Here they are, as promised. April got some really good ones.

Fun Times!!

This is the only picture I have of Mario. We didn't see him much. I guess he's getting to cool for mom and dad.

What a silly girl!

Maya's favorite way to swing.

Kalin all clean! It didn't last long.

She is so brave. Notice where Mario's head is. The ladder goes up even farther than that. It has to be a good 7 feet. she would go all the way up and slide down. I was so nervous at first but I should have known better she's been doing this kind of stuff since she was 15 months old.

I'm sure he's explaining something he did here. LOL!

Maya put herself to bed that night at 7:oo pm!

Marshmellows are the best! Emily had 3 and 4 at a time.

I love this picture!

Kalin was a mess most of the time.