Sunday School Picnic

Here is Elianna with her Sunday School class at their picnic on Sunday

Creative Block

Elianna found a rectangle-shaped scrap of construction paper. She held it up and said, "I'm going to make a project with this!" Feeling quite pleased to see her creative juices flowing, I asked her what she was going to make. "A door!" she replied. Hmm... turning a rectangle into a door wasn't exactly how Picasso got his start. So I asked how she was going to do that, hoping for a bit more creative genius to show. She looked at me like I was an idiot and said, "I'm going to draw a doorknob on it!"

Good thing!

Selah was pushing the envelope a bit one day, and I told her in my best "stern mom voice" to come here now. Sensing that punishment was near, she gave me her sweetest smile and said, "Mom, I want to hug you." She ran up and started snuggling me, and I couldn't help but laugh at her devious little self. Seeing me smile, she sat back and said, "Good thing I'm 'have'!" (As in, I was telling her to behave, and she heard it as "be have."

Uncle Jonny's home!!

We had a lot of fun with Uncle Jonny during his leave in May. It went by WAAAAY too quickly, but we did try to do as much as we could cram in. We went to Chuck E. Cheese, Toledo Zoo, a couple parks, shooting, and even a long weekend up north. The girls were very excited to see him. Elianna especially has had a hard time with him being gone. The boys were pretty indifferent - I think they'll be more interested when they're older! ;0) We are so proud of Jon and how well he's doing. He was in the toughest platoon, but in the end he was glad for that. I was very disappointed not to be able to go to his graduation!!! Here are some pictures of that:



Sarah was very proud of him, but then he told her they needed to get serious.





The cool thing was, Jon was here for Mother's Day, which happened to be my first Sunday back to church! The twins were cleared to be around people on May 6th, so the timing was perfect. We talked Mom into coming to church with us, so the whole family could be there for the twins first Sunday/Mother's Day! Here we are at church for the first time as a family of six!

And here we are with the fam. The funny thing was, we took a few pictures before we realized we forgot the girls! They were still in their classes... Ooops!


Without Girls:

After remembering we have two more children:

Uncle Jonny with the munchkins

Me and my wittle bwother