Here are a few pictures from the past months..........
My 2 brown sheep, as Bryan calls them.
Victoria and Alicia at the Battle of the Thames. Moriah and Joel came too. It was quite the day, one I know my sister will never forget. Hannah (her daughter) went missing for what seemed like forever, and we really don't know how long maybe an hour give or take. Everyone was looking for her but she wasn't turning up. It was so frightening especially as time went on. Nicole finally found her at their van, which was quite a ways away. Moral of the story, always have a meeting spot for your children where ever you go!!
The next night Bryan and I went to an 1812 Ball, it was so much fun. We went with our good friends and had a great time! We have been teaching the girls what we can remember and would so love to do it again! Next time we want period clothing!
We celebrated Victoria's birthday day a little early with Bryan's family, Victoria made a butterfly cake.
Alicia enjoying her cousin Daniela, she is so much smaller then Joel.
The girls and I enjoyed a last camping trip in September, the weather was beautiful and we had a wonderful time. Bryan came out in the evenings and we had a few visitors in the day.
Our yearly (if it works) trip to Greenview Aviaries, here are Victoria, Alicia, Noah, Moriah, Hannah, Cassia, Titus, Ellia, and Esther. We later found out how dangers this ride can be, when Nicole and I thought we would give Titus and Cassia a fast ride and Titus fell forward and cut his lip. Nicole took off to the Doctor while Mom and I watched the rest of the children.
Bryan likes to take the girls swimming during the cooler months to the local public pool. The girls love it and I love that he washes their hair after! Swimming is out for the next little while as Bryan dislocated his shoulder yet again(4th time in 5 years).
Joel was not often in the wrap, but when he needed to go in it I was very thankful for it. I think I am making supper here. Notice my THM book in the back ground. We are really enjoying their way of cooking and eating!
This was from the summer, but you will still find me sitting and kissing those chubby cheeks! He is so sweet and kissable! He is also into everything now, at least that he can crawl to or pull up to his knees at.
We had our first hay harvest, doesn't this picture look so country! Unfortunately the hay was too wet and most of it was not used. But it was fun to watch!
We had 2 extra munchkins for a weekend. An almost 4 year old boy and a 1 year old girl. It made things extra busy, but I did enjoy it too. You can tell this picture was taken on a Saturday night, the girls love rollers in their hair so they can have curls on Sunday.
I have so many pictures of our little man, the girls love to use the camera! This one I just love and have thought of framing, but don't know where I would put it.
Well, that is a little of 'catch up' for not being on here lately. Life continues to fly by and keep me very busy. I have felt bogged down by all that needs to be done around here and the fact that the girls have not been helping out enough. I gave Bryan a call at work one day for some advice about what to do with one of our girls and to let him know how overwhelmed I was feeling and he gave me some great advice! Instead of giving the girls individual chores and work times, we all work together. I do assign different jobs at the moment, like V- washes the dishes, A - dries, M - loads the dishwasher, but we all work together. I am really liking it and the house is staying cleaner. It has only been 2 days so we will see how it goes.
I had better go as my husband is home and ready for his supper.
