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Sunday mornings are so long these days.  I’m not sure what to do with them yet.  We’ve got the 1:00 church schedule.

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March started off with Red Ribbon Week.  The first day was Hawaiian day and the girls looked so cute with big flowers in their hair that I had to take pictures. Read more »

I love the little smile on Thomas’s face.  He finds such joy in toy cars.  Isaac was a car lover too.
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Thomas is turning 3 on Friday, but he refuses to accept that he’ll be 3.  He claims he’s turning 2 again and that he’ll be 2 forever.  I don’t know why he’s so committed to being 2, but hopefully he’ll change his mind eventually because it’s going to be really weird when he enters high school claiming to still be a 2 year old!

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Few things bring me as much joy as seeing the love between my children.

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Everything is different when all the kids are home from school.  Thomas and Ila are the only ones not in school, so they spend their days together, but when everyone is home, Ila is glued to Charlotte’s side.  Isaac does his own thing and Thomas and Nicole end up together.  They’re the worst combination because they don’t understand each other.  Nicole has autism and doesn’t understand social rules and Thomas is too young to be able to compensate so they are regularly having mis-communications that turn into yelling and fighting.  They do enjoy each other and seek each other out to play, I just have to be nearby to facilitate.  Here they are playing with blocks together and generally having a good time.
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I’m not taking as many pictures lately.  I have mixed feelings about this.  Sorting through the massive amounts of pictures I’ve taken over the years is overwhelming, but I still love them and I’m glad I have them.

Here are my boys reading together.  One of my greatest joys as a mother is to see my kids enjoy being together.

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Charlotte was a little Jealous when we turned the guest room into Nicole’s bedroom so we decided to redo the girl’s bedroom for their birthdays which both fall within a week of each other in December.  Here are the before and after pictures:

BEFORE:

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I figure this is probably just one step up from just sharing the automated facebook thing this year.  I think I write Christmas letters mostly for my own Family History, because I’m really bad at sending them out.  The idea of writing all those addresses and buying all those stamps is really daunting especially with 3 birthdays in our family in December and all the craziness of Christmas.  So here’s the letter that I finished sometime in between Charlotte’s birthday and Christmas, but haven’t sent out to anyone (I did hand deliver a few).

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We started our Christmas decorating the day after Thanksgiving.  This is a picture of the kids watching Zach put the lights on the tree. Read more »

Ila turned 5 on December 8th.  She started the day off by helping me make Poppy seed muffins.

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Popcorn party with some of Ila’s best friends:

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This is our Elf on the shelf.  Charlotte picked the name MaryBelle for her.  I know that not everyone is a fan of this tradition, but I love that my kids still believe in magic and this adds a little more magic to the Christmas season.  This tradition also proved to be helpful in getting my hardest to wake up child out of bed because she wanted to be the first to find MaryBelle.

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Sometimes everyday moments make the best pictures.  This is Grandpa Cochran helping Ila wash her hands:

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I have so many pictures to share from today’s adventure that I thought I would give it it’s own post.

 

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Football is just a fun game to watch.  Isaac’s team played in the rain a few weeks ago.  It was raining for the entire game and by the end, he was wet and dirty and cold, but it was a win for his team. Read more »

One day I’ll get back to regular blogging.  But for now, here is a picture of each of my kids.

Isaac:

Charlotte:Nicole:   Ila:and Thomas:

 

 

 

 

Here are some of the other things I didn’t share over the last month or so.  Isaac and I removed the fence slats between our house and the neighbors.  We have a wood fence on the other three sides.

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So it’s been about a month since I’ve blogged anything and it’s intimidating to look at how much of life I haven’t written about.  Life has been super busy.

Isaac started Football.

Football is the most intense sport we’ve been involved in yet.  They started off about two weeks before school started with early morning practices five days a week for 1 1/2 hours each.  They also threw in a few afternoon practices as well.  Once school started they changed to three evenings a week for an hour and a half each.  They warm-up/practice for an hour before each game as well.   Read more »

Thomas and his best buddy having popsicles together Read more »