I Think What The Situation Needs....

Is Some Imagination!

We have been listening to the Imagination Movers CDs for years in our car - Andy and I actually like them too! (and Andy has the hots for their friend Nina on the show).

Angela found Groupon Deals to get tix to the show last week in Cincy and I decided to be "Fun Mom" and take all the kids with the Markarians. I surprised them after school and told them we were on our way - they were so shocked!

All the kids had a blast. Ang and I felt old. Oh well...fun was had by all!

And....I can't post pics cause I erased them already since I already printed. But I assure you - the pics of the kids dancing in the aisle is hilarious!

Classic

Tonight, Will picked a book from Andy's bookshelf for bed - some thick book about the history of Ulysses S. Grant. We asked Will to pronounce his name...and he got it right!

Then Jack said - "Hmmm....I thought his name was 'Useless.'"

Classic.

Easter 2012

We headed out a day early for the kids' spring break and headed to Florida to visit Grandma Jenny and Grandpa Bill. We had not seen them since Christmas! We had a great 12 day vacation!

Once we had a couple days in the pool and we bid Daddy farewell, as he went to THE MASTERS, we headed to the Easter Egg Hunt at Grandma and Grandpa's church in Pt. St. Lucie


Easter morning - sleepy, happy eyes because the "real" Easter Bunny, not a "Costume Easter Bunny" as Jack calls them, found us in Florida!


This is how we found the kids each night as they "watched a movie" and the adults played cards. Each of the kids passed a "swimming test" - Jack swam the entire pool to the end and back (without taking a breath on the initial length of the pool!!), Will swam the length of the pool and Brooke learned how to swim. Ice Cream for everyone!

Easter Morning Mass


The always sad Departure Photo....and here we go for 16 hours in a car!


We have a huge framed map in our kitchen that displays all the places we have been as a family. Each trip we stop somewhere new so we have a fresh "pin" for the map. This usually involves a college football stadium. This trip we saw the 4th largest football stadium in the country, The Tennessee Volunteers.


We love Peyton!

Happy to have sun, happy to have Grandparents that let us visit....HAPPY to be home!

Friends...

Are the family you pick for yourself.

We love our Markarian Family. We especially love them at our first trip to Dave & Buster's - FUN!

Smarty Pants

Brooke loves to wear these fake glasses around the house and then put them up in her hair like her Mommy does. This is how we went to the gym last week....

Lil Miss Smarty Pants. Love this girl.

So Thankful...

For this Grandma (and Grandpa, too!) that allow me to leave home for days at a time and KNOW my kids are so loved and cared for.

Thanks Peg - I am so thankful for you!

Just a Funny...

I was taking a shower the other night and Jack ran in - thinking it was his Dad - and when he saw me he said "WHOA!"

I said "Is my bare butt that bad?"

Jack's response, "Well...it is pretty white. It looks like it has not seen the sun for awhile."

Thanks, Jack.