Story Time

 Britton wants to join in at story time too.

 Ella's hair tickling Cary's nose. ☺

Bugging the sister already too.

Photography

As if my life isn't well documented already, I resolved to be part of a 365 challenge/ Blessing book challenge.

Sometimes I need to break out of my photo ruts and that's why I thought it would be fun to be part of the 365 challenge, which is taking one photo everyday, and try and make it interesting. The Blessing book challenge is to take a picture of a "blessing" and aim for posting atleast one a week with a caption. I figure this is kind of what I do anyway, so I'm trying to combine both in a way, and I've already kind of failed. LOL. ☺

So maybe it'll just be my original blogging, but hopefully I won't fall off the wagon this year.

 1. Mom's kitty, Ahava, comes over and hangs out in our yard a lot. It took me a while to figure out that we had a gopher that was working it's way all across our yard and that's why Ahava was so intriqued, well, that and I think she likes the kids. The other morning I looked out my kitchen window and I could see the gopher digging another hole and it's head would pop up while it was pushing dirt into a mound. I mentioned it to our neighbor, Brad, and he brought a trap over to get rid of the gopher and so here is Ahava watching the trap. (The gopher has been gotten rid of and I was feeling kind of bad about it...I am my mother's daughter.) ☺

2. Britty (yes, we call the poor kid "Britty", I'm sure it will be one of those nicknames that dies out when he's older) has been sick for 3 weeks now, and this last week he has been SO clingy to me (and only me!) and it's been really hard to get anything done. I'm not really into the whole "wearing" my child, but in cases of desperation, you do what you have to do. Otherwise, I had a very pitiful little boy following me around crying in a trail of drool and tears so then I'd have to pick him up and go cuddle on the couch all day. He's so cute.

(No, I still haven't hemmed my curtains there in the background.)

 3. I've done zero decorating in this house. For one, I really hate the idea of poking holes in a freshly painted wall, and I want all new stuff. ☺So it kind of feels like I don't have anything worthy of poking holes into the wall yet. Heh. I've really been wanting to make something to hold all of my jewelry though, so I grabbed an old mirror that I wasn't going to be using, screwed some hooks in the bottom, popped a plastic grid thing in the front, hung it up, and viola'. I've only been wanting to do that for a year now...

 4. Britton eating a snack. Even when he's sick he's a happy boy, as long as someone is paying attention to him. As usual, I get carried away taking pics of the kids.

Wow! This is my 700th post too!

My Kids...

Ella gets her great fashion sense from me...



"Mom, take a picture of me!"
The favorite new phrase around here.



"Take a picture of my cool trick of a foot in the air."

No children were harmed in the making of this photo.

Awww...I love these guys! ♥

By the way, Aidan came home from somewhere with that book, so if it's yours and you'd like it back, let me know! ☺

Grandma Arlene's 80th Birthday party!

Grandma Arlene turned 80 on January 7th. We threw her a little party even though she insisted she doesn't like being the center of attention. ☺

I didn't take very many photos and I didn't take all of these photos, someone else must have had my camera. LOL. I know that because I was in some of them, and not in a flattering way either.

Mom, Anita, Sharla, Loretta, Daryl, and Malcolm all made it. It was nice to see everybody since we didn't make it to any of the Hanks gatherings in 2011.

Amber and Grandma

"My hands are sticky!"

Kaylee wasn't sure what to make of all the new people.

Aidan cleaning up the leftovers.