Football Season!

Curtis is playing his first year of football.  He is having fun.  Here are some pictures of his game.  He is one of the biggest on his team.  He is number 62.  As you can see in the group shots he is about a helmet above the other boys.  They won this game 19-6.  Yippee!

Curt's 9th Birthday!

Curtis Turned 9!

He picked ice cream sundaes for his birthday!

Yummy!!!!  Wonder what he wished for???

Curt's new room redo

We are moving kids around again.  Will I ever get it right?  Anyway...with age comes the wanting your own room.  Well I figured out how to make everyone happy..  That's what I am here for Happiness and Harmony. :)  

Painting over the gray.  Right here in this picture is almost everything you need to know about my first and last child.  Jacob picked gray when it was his room.  Curt's pick...I like to call it ELECTRIC GREEN!

Moved in.  

Look Space!  We Hauled out all the broken toys, things no longer wanted and general junk!

Book overhaul.  Going to give the "baby" books to someone younger.

Having a good time hanging out.


Well I will see how tonight goes.  I think Curtis is a bit unsure about having his own room.  He has always been with his brothers, or at least one brother.  Sometimes they all decide to sleep in the same room.  So I don't know how this will go.  I am sure it will be fine.  I think he just enjoys staying up and chatting.

4-H Sewing has begun!

We had our first 4-H sewing meeting last week.  It was fun but very crazy.  Lots of new members, which is always exciting.  We love to see 4-H growing!  Here is some pictures of Curt's project.  He finished it at home.  He was very excited!

Catch up post

Here is a post that is long overdue.  It is just a bunch of pictures on my camera from most of December.  So here they are in one long post.  We had a great Dec and holiday.  It was fun and we had lots to do.  My mom was here for the month and that was a great help in the Christmas department.  It is much more fun to shop with her than with Steve :)  Did I type that?  Sorry Steve. 

Curt's Baptism

Doug passing out programs!

Family Dinner Out at Parasson's...my favorite!

Jacob straw action shot

Doug whats with the hair? 

Christmas morning...

We found Maggie a spaghettio shirt.  She lives on that yuck...

Can you guess who got Jacob this gift...yes...Steve.

New Pillows

I thought I would spruce up some old pillows that matched the loveseat.  They were pretty flat and stained.  I made new covers for them and wrapped them with some batting to puff them up a bit. 

Birthday's Galore!

Curtis had his 7th birthday! 

 

He got a snuggie, books and a magnet game. 

Maggie had her 9th birthday!

She absolutely loves her doll house.

We are now officially done with kids birthdays before Christmas.  Now with 15 days left we can concentrate on Christmas completely.  I really need to get shopping so we can have a few things under the tree.  I don't feel as stressed, although I probably should be.  Oh well I am glad I feel fine.  I basically know what I am going to get everyone so it is just a matter of "getting it"

Well that is all for now.  Probably won't write again until Christmas...I will however still be following along with everyone else's blogs.  I love to see what and how other people are celebrating the season. 

Have a MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Halloween Pictures

Doug as a skeleton...not too far of a stretch!

Curt wanted to be a mime.

Jacob...rock star

Maggie the witch!

Curt again.  I think I did pretty well with the makeup!

I wasn't jumping on the bed....

If you are going to fib...don't have photographical evidence...documented by another sibling.

Library Book Sale...

The kids participated in the library program this summer.  The kids got tons of little prizes along the way, but they also got "book bucks" for each 30 minutes they read.   Well they started to add up.  We saved them for the book sale in the fall.

Books were 4 hardbacks for a dollar, or 5 softcover books for a dollar. Then assorted stuffed animals and whatnot.  CD's and DVD's and lots of vhs tapes (we don't even have a vhs player anymore)  It was so much fun picking out books.  Maggie had 12 book bucks and Curt had 5 book bucks.  We got tons of books and some stuffed animals.

We didn't have to pay anything extra...just used the book bucks.  Each kid still has a dollar left for the next sale.  The people at the sale were so impressed.  Maggie and Curt were beaming from their accomplishment of doing so much reading this summer.  We left with armfuls of books and the kids were so excited to do the reading program next year.  They plan on earning more book bucks than this year!