twin art

for those of you who don't know the twins, how they have constructed this picture is typical of who they are. matthias' is on the left...the perfectly placed leaves and flower...the colored in nose. leighton's (my stubborn, free-spirited angel) picture is on the right and says it all. we were playing hi-ho cherry-o today and matthias was carefully cleaning up, placing all the fruits in their same colored basket. leighton proceeded to place the oranges and cherries in a red basket and matthias wouldn't have it. they are very funny kids and i love watching them grow up!

February Fun!

This winter has been fun...the twins will often ask for AJ to have a sleepover with them. They have gotten into the groove of having her sleep on the floor with them in their room on the weekends. Josiah usually ends up in the girl's room on the weekends, too. Sweet sibling friends.

AJN and AJM...there are 2 AJ's in her class, so they both put their last initial after their name on their papers.

getting ready to go outside!

We really enjoyed the 4 or so inches that we had this winter! Of course it came around the same time that our family in VA had gotten almost 3 feet... but we will definitely take what we can get. :)
We are doing well here in Arkansas! I cannot believe it is about to be March 2010!! Time is definitely flying by really quickly. We have a lot of fun things going on in the next couple of months. Cub scout activities for Josiah, Children's choir concerts for Kylie, my friend Jenn is hopefully coming in a few weeks for part of the kids' spring break, I am flying to VA in May to be in a wedding, homeschool curriculum decisions to be made.... life is definitely full. Thanks for checking in. I hope to be posting more often as Spring arrives and we get to be outside with the flowers blooming and such! I'm excited to visit some of the pretty places that I've seen in my AR friend's pictures this spring!

playing catch up (again)...Dec pics

Josiah's 9th birthday....i made a very sad attempt at a pokemon cake...at least it tasted good! :)

The kids at church one of my favorite ornaments. :)

the 3 littles playing "explorers" with their hats and parrot.

We had fun baking and decorating cookies over christmas break!

I am trying to get caught up with pictures of our goings ons.....thanks for checking in!!

ABC's by Matthias...

Some January pics...

proud panty wearers. :)

Matthias doesn't like his picture to be taken...he thinks if he closes his eyes we can't see him!

Sleepovers in each others room with new christmas sleeping bags!

Sweet girls

Josiah's snowball. He saved it to throw at Tom when he got home from work. :)

Leighton's first snow...she wasn't very happy...and she had an eye infection that day.

Matthias enjoyed cleaning the snow off the car for his Daddy!

Sweet. cold AJ

Our first snow in years....see the accumulation on the deck??

December happenings!

the kids at the chrismon program at church...the twins were not being cooperative that day.
Josiah on the cub scout float during the Sherwood Christmas parade!

after decorating the christmas tree!

Gingerbread houses at the library...so much fun!

twins being funny....pumpkin head leighton with extra matthias arms. :)

Tom's gift at the church christmas party was a hit! what a funny guy. :)

This time of year is busy as ever...still trying to keep up with the chaos of life. The kids have one more week of school and then they'll have two weeks off for Christmas/New Years and we are really looking forward to it! It will be sad to be so far away from family for Christmas, but it will also be nice to be in our house and not have the craziness of travelling and such. Thanks for checking in and I will hopefully continue to post more in the next week or so!

Thanksgiving Feasts!

Wow. It's been an insane month....I'm beginning to think that chaos and insanity is our new "normal". :) I am going to try (for the grandparents) to post more regularly b/c (as I am experiencing) these 5 kids are growing up so incredibly fast! So....here are a few pictures from our past week (and I hope to be more consistent). We are leaving (this morning) for Crossville, TN to spend Thanksgiving week with the Quillen's (dear friends from seminary)...our family of seven is descending upon their family of eight....and we will eagerly await the arrival of the Hathaway's (family of six) later in the week. 15 children and 6 adults under one roof....I am soo excited! Anyways, I will plan on posting pictures of our eventful Thanksgiving week when we get back! Thanks for checking in.....

Notice the gap in her bottom teeth?? She lost her first tooth a couple weeks ago....I can't believe it!