Random Fun

It's Monday! I have about 100 other things I should be doing right now and blogging IS NOT included in that list!!! :) But since I have no energy or inspiration to do anything else I thought I would get caught up on my blog. This past weekend we had a fall party for our Sunday School kids. There were about 40 kids and 15 adults in attendance. The Boardman's were so kind and let us have it at their house. We had pizza, chips, pop, and cookies. The kids had a lot of fun just playing around outside and then we took hayrides. Some of our little kids had never been out in the country and had never been on a hayride. They had a grand time along with all the rest of us!

Taking a hayride.

This is the first group that went out.

Getting ready to eat...

Alex enjoying his first pizza crust!

This incredible fruit boquet was sent to us from a family in our church last week for Pastor Appreciation! Thanks David and Maree!! We had a lot of fun enjoying all of the delicous fruit!

Alex has learned about the flash on the camera now! He knows when he sees the red light flashing that it is going to be really bright so he closes his eyes! Lauren snapped this picture and we both got so tickled at the funny look on his face!

Andrea and Travis getting ready to leave for Andrea's chemo appointment last week. Andrea loves it when one of the other kids get to go with her to St Louis. We try to give them all a turn every once in awhile.

Alex goes EVERYWHERE now! I found him under the piano bench the other day!

Well that has been our week (a small part of it!). This week looks to be pretty boring compared to last week so I am really hoping to get to work on all of my projects I have going in the boys rooms. We did get mattresses up in the boys room upstairs ( that is another story in itself! ). Now I need to finish up with painting and decorating! So I better run and quit putting off all I need to do! Have a great week!

Toya and Patti's Wedding

Toya and Patti got married on the 19th of September. Their wedding colors were brown and hot pink. ( the hot pink looks like red in the pics. ) Their wedding turned out beautiful! The kids all had so much fun being in the wedding!!! It was a first time for Luke, Andrea, and Alex. They all love their Aunt Patti and think Uncle Toya is great!! In fact Toya and Patti took them camping last weekend!!! I'll post pics of that soon!

The wedding party on the bridge at Cape County Park

Mike, Jeff, William, Toya,Patti,Bethany,Roxie,andLauren

Alissa,Andrea,Tyler,Jillayne,Toya,Travis and Branden

Patti and Dad.... mom made her dress, if you look close, there are little satin buttons sewn from the very top to the bottem of the train~ It was so pretty!! (my mom says this is her last dress to make! Sorry Lauren!)

Branden and Travis...the bell ringers

Andrea and Alissa... the flower girls. They got to the end of the aisle and still had quite a few petals left. Andrea doesn'nt stop in the middle of a project!! She stood at the end of the aisle and tossed petals until every single one was gone!

Tyler and Jillayne were the junior groomsmen and bridesmaid. They also pulled the aisle runner down and pulled the wagon with Skye ( Toya's cousin ) and Alex in it. They were both so good and looked so cute!

Tyler and Jillayne.

Luke was a candle lighter and an usher. Here he is with Nana.

Luke and Mammaw.

Alex and Skye after the wedding.

Toya and Patti with all of the kids.

The entire wedding party.

Alex is 8 months!

I can't hardly believe my baby boy is already 8 months old!! He is the happiest little guy and smiles all of the time! He has two new teeth and is very mobile! We are doing a room switch this week at our house so we could finally get him out of our bedroom. We moved Travis and Tyler upstairs to our guest quarters above the garage and put Alex in with Luke. Our hope is to someday be able to finish part of our basement and put all of the boys down there. For right now this will work. I didn't want Luke upstairs because I have to get up in the night and check his sugar. I will do a post on the new painting and decoration and painting....when I get it done!!! Luke and Alex are going with a sports theme, mainly football and basetball. Tyler and Travis wanted vintage motercycles. I am having fun trying to find stuff. If you have any great ideas let me know!

Alex was so excited when we sat him down in his "big boy" bed!!

Look at that happy smile.



Alex doesn't crawl on his hands and knees but he goes EVERYWHERE doing what we call the "army crawl"!

Pictures at the Park

I am so behind on my blogging so I will start from where I left off and try to work my way to the present!! Before Patti and Toya's wedding they wanted to get some pictures together. So Lauren, Andrea, Alex and I loaded up and met them at the park. I only got a couple of Toya and Patti on my camera but got some great ones of the kids. Now I wish the other boys would have been along but we will have to go again sometime! (Sorry about the underlining! I don't know how to turn it off!)

Andrea...she loves having her picture taken!

Lauren and Patti

Alex....he has never set in the grass before~

Andrea.... I love this picture!

Best Buddies!

Toya and Patti

Busy, Busy, Busy!!

Wow!! The last two weeks have been crazy!! We have had so much happen that my head is still in a whirl!! Only 3 more days until my sisters wedding so you can imagine how this week is!! It has been a lot of fun helping her get it all together though! All of our kids are going to be in it which will be quite interesting! I will post pictures of it the first of next week.
We were hit by IKE on Sunday and lost our power for a good part of the day. We have a generator but couldn't seem to get it hooked up to the stove and refrigerator.....go figure! I had prepared Sunday lunch for about 20 of us. Thankfully the Boardmans had power so we took all of our food and they so kindly let us cook it there and share with them! Andrea got to go to Emily Boardman's 5th birthday party. As ususal they had a grand time together! Well I'm off to get some more work done!


Nana and Alex

Great Mammaw and Andrea

The two princesses ....

Best Friends.....

The not so "Princesses" enjoying their cupcakes!

A shower!

No...its not raining here, but, we did have a shower! My youngest sister, Patti, is getting married on the 19th of September. So while my sis Penny was here last week we had a wedding shower for her! We had a lot of fun decorating for it. We each brought a salad and enjoyed tasting all of the yummy things there! We let the three little girls come this time and they thought it was pretty special. The first picture is of a bag I decorated with my Cricut machine that I got for Christmas. I really had a lot of fun doing it!!
The Tables

The Cake

Emily, Andrea, Patti and Alissa

Andrea, Alissa and Emily...the three princesses!

Mammaw, Patti, and mom

Sisters!!!

Visitors~

Nothing is as fun as hanging out with your cousins and your best friends!!


Katie Snodgrass and Lauren...best friends for life!! Hope you all will forgive me some day for this picture!
Tyler and Jillayne

Alissa, Andrea, Lauren, and Jillayne

Travis and Branden

Jillayne and Tara Snodgrass

This past week has been busy around here! We have had a lot of fun with friends and family stopping in to see us.

A week ago my sister, Penny and her 3 kids came to stay while her husband, Robert went to a church board meeting with Troy. She stayed for almost a week so they could be here for our youngest sister, Patti's, wedding shower. My great friend Connie Snodgrass and her daughters came the same day. Her daughter,Katie, is Lauren's best friend so she was overjoyed to have her here over the weekend! Connie's husband, Steve, came back with Troy from the board meeting and they were able to stay the weekend as well. We had a great time visiting and relaxing...as much as you can relax with 10 kids in the house! :)

We were off of school until today since we had company. The kids were more than thrilled to have the break! I'm glad we started early!!