Our weekend

And a little Thursday thrown in too.

Thursday night we headed into town to run some errands and eat with Lolli since Jay had a meeting. Ax joined us and they were all so sweet holding hands here I couldn't resist...

After some errands we met Lolli at Chick-fil-a to eat.  She had a friend's foster baby and Lucy was CRA-ZY over him.  Seriously she wanted to hold him all night...all 6 lbs. (only 3 weeks old) of him!

Friday was a hard day for our family.  We had some major decisions to make and Friday was our deadline. Decision was made...bittersweet...mixed emotions.  Maybe someday when it is not so fresh we will share with the cyber world.  If you know us personally, feel free to ask we will share.

Anyway, due to the high stress of the day, we decided to veg out and go eat pizza Friday night.  We were drained and pizza sounded like a good choice.  Afterwards, we came home and worked on a robot project Karis had to do for school. I helped, she designed.  Meet Daisy...

Thankful God's mercies are new every day and Saturday was a new day.  Jay's sister Jessica and her boyfriend Ben came over Saturday morning to hang out for the day and they brought Valentine goodies for the kids.  Needless to say, they were excited and high on sugar for the remainder of the day.

Here they were watching a video Jay has laughed hysterically over for the past few days.  Laughter has been good for the soul!

Last weekend we had some storms come through and not much damage that we knew until we saw this this week about 2 miles from our house.   Yep, that is a trampoline IN a tree.  YIKES!

After Ben and Jessi left, we had some friends, Chris and Tabitha, over for dinner who also have 3 kids.  We had a ball and so did the kids!  We are very thankful for friends!

Sunday after church Brayden had a birthday party at Bounz and Karis and Lucy got to stay too.  They were all in kid heaven and had a ball!

It was Caden's 5th birthday and he and Brayden have played on the same baseball team for the past 2 years.  Brayden was SOOO excited to get invited to his birthday party.  Happy Birthday Caden!!!

Sunday night we did a little chillin' and recooping for the busy week ahead!

Picture dump

Wow I need to catch up before I have 200 pictures to post.  Been a wild week as always and can't believe it's already Thursday!  Glad tomorrow is Friday....I love the weekends with my family!

Kiddos have been on-the-move this week.  It is getting hard to catch pictures of some of them because they are such busy bodies all the time.  Especially this one...into...everything haha!  And smiles the entire time...other than the occasional "mmm" which means either "hold me" or "I want cheerios!" :)

Into everything exhibit A

We did manage to go outside a few afternoons this week because it was in the 60's...in January.  Go figure?!

After baths the other night, Brayden was watching the Little Rascals one of his favorite movies.  Here he did not know I was taking his picture and he was doing the "I hate girl" pledge they do in the movie.  Cracked. Me. Up!!

Exhibit B haha

This cutie has started "squealing" in excitement this week when she is really happy.  Scared me at first I thought she was screaming, but no.  Got this cute little tooth grin.  :)  And she is pointing...another one of her new tricks.

Something was "Mmmm" good....

The leaves out here are absolutely out of control...hence this picture.  Yea, we had to clean off the trampoline and the garage just to be able to function outside.

Aw :)

Yesterday Brayden had a little accident and slammed his head into the corner of a door frame and BRUISED up his forehead.  Afterwards, he had a bad headache and went and laid himself in his bed to rest and fell asleep.  He doesn't really nap anymore (maybe once every week or two to catch up) but because he has self-napped (another first I believe) he couldn't sleep last night.  So we let him lay in our bed to fall asleep and we would move him when we came to bed.  One of my favorite things to do is to see my children sleep.  This sweetness is what we found....

So I had to go catch a sneak peek of my princesses too!  Lucy is sleeping with her Bible...melt my heart.

This sleeping ON her Bible gives a whole new meaning to "Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep...."

This morning Hazel had a cutie little bow on and she looked so cute!

I had some helpers help me paint/craft this morning...

Somehow managed to not get a single pic of Landon this week.  He runs from the camera recently and is gone in the afternoons when we go out.  Babies are certainly easier to photograph...they can't run from you ha!  I will have to make up for that soon!

Crafts are fun!

I saw several of these crafts on Pinterest and have wanted to make them for a long time so this is the first of many I have started and finished.  This was super cheap, probably $7 to make.  And it only took about 2 hours to complete.  The original tutorial can found here.

All you need is a (white) wreath, 2 packages of coffee filters, and a hot glue gun. 

It is super full and takes up alot of space, not to mention super cute!

Also for another project (that I am still working on), I bought this styrofoam insulation from Lowes.  Seriously it is now one of my favorite things.  This pic below is only half of it (I had to cut it in half just to get it in the car) and the whole thing was less than $20.  It is kind of like a really cheap canvas.

There was so much of it, I was able to do LOTS of stuff with it. In this pic below (under the coffee filter wreath), I painted some insulation black and then wrote in a white sharpie paint marker our family name and one of our favorite verses Psalm 40:5.  It seriously took 5 minutes to paint and 5 minutes to write it (with drying time in between).

I also covered this big "L" in twine...super easy project as well.

I also painted some little bird houses and cheap fruit white.  Karis also helped me do some of the painting.  :)

Another insulation painting that I found here...

These projects have been really fun!  Thanks Pinterest!

Awards, crafting and weather

Friday Karis had her 9 weeks ceremony at school and she was very proud of her awards and we were too! She got an award for Honor Roll (All A's and 1 B) and Perfect Attendance.  She already had her ribbon/medal from last nine weeks but she got a star pin to add to it.  

Way to go Karis!

Brayden and Lucy were proud of her too!

Friday night our hubbies had a conference so the kids and I went to Paige's house to hang out.  Then Mari-Morgan came home with us to spend the night.  Saturday I decided to work on a few crafts that I have been wanting to do off of Pinterest.  So Saturday morning off we went to some craft stores to get some supplies and spent the rest of the day working on them.  The girls all picked out some things to paint as well. :)

Sunday morning I snapped a few before running out the door...

Last night Lucy was putting on pj's and it was over her head and then she said, "I am getting married!!!!"  (like a veil) haha 

This weekend's weather has been CRAZY, or this whole season, to be exact.  It has been exceptionally warm for January and not even a threat of snow yet.  On Friday it was in the upper 60's and then by the next day it had dropped 30 degrees.  It was cold Saturday!

And these crazy temps caused all of this Sunday night.  After 9 we started hearing the tornado sirens and knew we had to get kids up.  They slept right through ALL of it crammed like sardines in the closet!

Oh and Lucy was freaking out there was a fire out the window...Jay was starting the grill haha!

OH!  I have to show you this new product for all of you who are allergic to peanuts/peanut butter.  Trey's mom is going on a gluten free diet and found this Wowbutter/Soy butter.  It tastes like peanut butter but is 100% peanut free.  Unfortunately neither of my kids that are allergic to peanuts don't like it but I LOVE it.  Give it a try!  

On a more serious note, today is the 4th anniversary of my best friend Amber's car wreck/death.  I do miss her so and long to just talk to her.  So very glad she is in Heaven and I look forward to the day we meet again. 

I am still working on some of the crafts I have been working on this weekend.  Pics coming soon!!!