Last Day of February

What a Title for a blog! Well, it has been a busy last two weeks and I am doing good to get this blog in before March starts. I have had Joy School for the last two weeks and I know that it shouldn't be so time consuming but I like to do a good job. I really don't know how home schooling will go but I do know that I can get so much more done when it is just my kids around and not other people's kids. Here is a picture of Scott, Amelia, and Raquel having a tug-o-war with their Joy School friends.

Today we were downstairs and we have this big box of the McDonald's balls. I told the kids that if they dump the balls out they will have to pick them up. Scott said he didn't want to clean them up so he didn't dump them out but Amelia decided to test me and she dumped them out. I told her that she couldn't do anything fun today until the balls were cleaned up. Then I went upstairs to shower. While I was in the shower Amelia came upstairs crying and sat down on the couch next to Scott, when Scott saw her he took her hand and said "I help you Millie" and they went down together and cleaned the balls up. I was so happy to see them helping each other.

Nathan is crawling so I will have a picture of that in my next post. But he also likes to ride his walker/ride on toy. Every time he is on it though he always gets a lot of help.
This is Nathan enjoying his first Vienna Sausage. I think they are disgusting but the kids went in the storage one day and found a can of them and begged me to open them. They ate all of them, I don't even know why I have them in my food storage? Maybe this picture is why!

When I see Amelia and Raquel together like this I am so happy and I just hope that they will always be such good friends. I don't know if it is better to have girl, girl, boy, boy or to have a boy in between the girls. When I was growing up it seemed that Lance and I would team up against Karl and Jolene. Definitely not something I want to have happen well maybe it will help to have the girl be the oldest.

I am now the Music Chorister for both Senior and Junior Primary, before it was just Junior. I am very nervous but I know that if this is the right thing then it will work out. The reason I say it that way is because sometimes I question the ideas of our Primary President. But I will do my best!!

Happy Valentines Day

Happy Valentines Day! It is great to see Alycia's blog. After reading hers I realize that I am a person of very few words when it comes to blogging. Oh well, maybe the more I get used to this the more I will have to say.
Last night we made Valentines with the kids for their Joy School friends. I love seeing Newell get all crafty, even thought he just does what I tell him to do.

Since Amelia and Scott got to do Valentines Raquel had to have one of her own.

Each of the kids got a book for Valentines Day. Unfortunately I only had Christmas wrapping paper but I don't think they even noticed!!

Newell got me a new toaster oven and some new socks. I told him I did not want candy!! My new scrapbooking program also came today but that was my birthday present. It is called Scrapbook Factory Deluxe. I have Photoshop but I really don't like having to find and bring in every image that I want to use. This way I have a program specifically made for scrapbooking and it even has templates already for me. It was rated #1 for scrapbook software so I will update you all on how I like it.

We Love Valentine's

Tonight for family hour we decorated cookies and cut out

paper hearts so that we could give the Grandma's and Grandpa's
a "heart attack" the kids really liked the idea of hiding
and jumping out to say "We Love You."

It is always fun to dance with Grandpa!!

Happy 29th!!

I am 29!! The other day I had all of the kids in the tub together and as I looked at their sweet little faces I realized that I am old enough to have 4 children. I don't feel that old!! Looking back on my life I am just overwhelmed with the many blessings that have come into my life. The greatest of all being my family.

The kids really like mini cupcakes so we made them for my birthday cake. Amelia saw a book with a cherry on top of the cupcake so she insisted that we buy cherries.

We went over to Brad and Christina's house for dinner what a fun night, Thanks you guys!!

The Family

Well, here I am blogging!
I am so blessed to be a mom
and I realize that this is my Greatest Joy

and there is nothing I would rather be doing. I have 4 wonderful kids (Amelia, Scott, Raquel, and Nathan)

who keep me pretty busy.
And a wonderful husband who supports me in all that I do
(that is righteous of course.)