Friday, April 24, 2015

Baby Shower for 5 boys!

Sam's friend Jaden was about to get a new sister so we threw a GREAT surprise party at Lori's house with some friends.  I ordered the cake from Amphora and it was delicious!  I made the topper from pompoms. 

 
The kids were so excited to shout "surprise!"  Jiyeon called and said that she would be running late...to her own party!  We kept telling her to hurry up.
Lori was so generous to host all of us at her beautiful home.

Surprise!  She started to cry and was shocked.  I loved it.

The 5 boys - or should I call them men with 'staches?
 
Present time!

Jiyeon stopped by a few weeks after the shower to say hello.  I took this picture of her while she was on the phone (with her husband!!)  Who would of know that sweet baby girl Ayleen would be here less than 12 hours later!  Jiyeon looked fabulous!  Welcome to the world little one.

Monday, April 20, 2015

January 2015

The lady at the wallpaper store gave us a wallpaper book that we could use for crafts and cutting.  It was a really fun activity for the kids for a few days (until the wallpaper was all over the house.)  You can also see we are in the thick of our kitchen renovation by the background of this photo.  Our kitchen entered our living room for 2 months.
 
Marta is such a happy little baby!

Clara running some errands with me at Pottery Barn Kids.  She found a "lovie" and a comfy bed.

The kids waiting for our morning carpool and got to sit on our new kitchen pantry!  I love my large panty that is now installed (pictures will be coming).
 
The day we got our floors refinished, we could not go on our main floor from 5 pm until around noon the next day.  I had a crockpot in my bedroom and we ate stew on the floor for dinner.  Memories!  When they refinished the floor with the second coat, Marta had a seizure that night and I had to run out to the ambulance.  The kids all followed and ran on the second coat of the floor.  Now we have little sneaker footprints from the kids and chaos of the seizure/ambulance in the finish of the floor.  Oh well.

We had quite a bit of snow days so we met up with our friends to swim at the indoor pool.  They have six kids too (not all pictured) and so we are quite the crew for the lifeguard.  Afterwards we always order lunch.

On another snow day, we met the same friends at Chick Fil A for milkshakes for Brooks' birthday.  "Excuse me, would you please split 6 milkshakes into 12 cups and put two cherries on each?"  -says me.

Rita ran with me to the mall and we found this crystal hamburger.  She still talks about this!

Long distance gender reveal for Marvin and Lindsay! 
It is a GIRL!
 
We were invited to Dave and Anne's house for lunch after church one Sunday.  Marta made a new friend with "Heather."  (They actually have two cats so it is either Heather or Opie.)

Saturday, April 18, 2015

Marta 9 months




 
Pooped through her bloomers onto the FLOOR!  Yuck!


We won the stocking!!

We received a phone call to come into ZIP dry cleaner because we had won the World's Biggest Stocking!  The kids had no idea that I had signed up to win it.