blizzard of 2011! :)

So. It snowed here in Arkansas this week. We got around 8 or so inches (which, apparently is the most that AR hs gotten in years!)...it was beautiful! While we were waiting for it to stop a little bit we had a mini-photo shoot in the living room window. :)
I love the snow. it's a bit of work to get kids ready to be out and playing in it, but it is sooo worth it!
The past month has flown by! Christmas came and went...we were fighting sickness in our family, so it was a bit of a bummer. January was pretty uneventful. I made a trip to Texas at the end of January to visit cousins/aunts/uncles...my first ever roadtrip with the 5 kids alone! It was a blast...i'm hoping to backtrack a little bit and post pics of our time there. Eventually.
Anyways.... time is flying by and we are plugging along! Thanks for checking in with us...i cannot believe the twins turn 4 in a month!!

leighton singing doe-a deer!

Thanksgiving 2010!

We had loads of fun with the Quillen's and the Hathway's this Thanksgiving. It was the 2nd time for the 6 of us to gather with our total of 15 kids....the kids had a great time together...no major fights to speak of... the adults had a great time of playing and sharing and enjoying fellowship with each other. We are blessed to be able to keep in touch with such good friends!

Fall 2010 pt 3

We had the blessing of seeing our friend, Marie, yesterday for about 36 hours. She was in AR spending time with family and had the chance to come stay 2 nights with us! It was so much fun to see her and catch up and let the kids get to know her again (it'd been 3 or so years since we'd seen her). It was great to have her around. :)

Fall 2010 Pt 2- Ama and Akong visit!

My parents came for 10 days to visit us! We had a great time of eating out, seeing the sites of little rock and hot springs, trying to get some school in... and just having them around.

in the peabody elevator!

visiting the hot springs bathhouse museum...can you imagine sitting in one of those steam chambers with your head sticking out??

fun at the science museum in hot springs!!

tom's birthday :)

Fall 2010 part 1...

Little Rock Airshow with some friends....it was really cool to watch!

and the pumpkin patch!

Wow. I thought i couldn't keep up with life before....homeschooling has really made life crazy. We have had a really busy fall with a lot of fun activities and visits from people....definitely been non-stop at our house!
I'm not going to ramble much...just wanted to post some pics for my m-i-l to see what the grandkids have been up to this fall! :)

chick-fil-a camp out!!

#62!!

randomly throughout the day they would call a "line check"....everyone would line up next to their number and they would go down and make sure it was you. you were not allowed to leave the parking lot once you got your place in the 100 first customers.

Josiah playing in the baggo tournament!

when our schoolwork was done we had a fun game of settlers. josiah won!

our tent!

we had an ice cream treat before bedtime last night

5 am....matthias was the first up.... it took a while to get the others up and going...

we did it!! in all it was a fun experience....

i arrived at cfa at 8am. i was number 62....they reached 111 around 11am. for those of you who don't know...chickfila has this grand opening 100 first customers thing...they give them 52 combo vouchers...one free combo a week for a year (or in our case, 10 or so free dinner's out for our family!). they fed us...breakfast, lunch, dinner and an ice cream bedtime snack throughout the day. the twins had mother's day out (which worked really well) and the 3 bigs spent the majority of the day with me (aj left early to go play with a friend)... doing school, playing games, reading... it was pretty hot but i had a good friend bring me her awning/tent/thing which saved us from a lot of sun! later in the day, tom came by to pick up the big kids....they went to church and came back when they were done to spend the night with me. i don't think i'd ever do it again without some friends...or having tom with me all day. but...am glad to have done it....we'll definitely be eating more chicken this next year!! :)