Lately

Good morning.  We're staying busy over here.  I'm still trying to find balance between everything we need to do, and all the things we want to do.

For now, here's a bunch of random photos from the past week.

Every month we get the opportunity to review new and upcoming videos for Amazon and this one was for the kids.  They loved it and we can't wait for it to come out!

Oh Xander.  I love this ham so much!  He's always been "Mr. Serious" in our house and since being homeschooled, I've seen him smiling so much more.  I love it!

As we did a quick shopping trip, I told the kids to calm down because they were being loud and silly as I was checking out.  It's okay for them to be silly, but they were being rude and disruptive as they were "having fun."  So, I told them that I was going to get ice cream and they would not.  They thought I was joking so after the lady handed me my mini blizzard, Sterling got upset because "we always get what we want" and this time they didn't.  Sometimes being tough is necessary to prove a point.  I think I made it loud and clear that day.

We made some cute cats for school one day

This girl loves Bobby Roode.  Also known as "glorious" to her.

She had a filling filled and it was a pretty tragic event, so I dug out glorious from my stash of toys and she was so excited.

My mother-in-law was sweet and sent me flowers

Lulu had a haircut and came out with piggies in her hair with bows.  Sterling was obsessed.

Xander's love for Dog Man books is strong. He has all of the books and he's read them all too.

I took the kids to the fair

They rode all the rides that they wanted

played games, won a prize, and deemed it the best day ever.

 We took our last morning of family clay time and I had to take a picture of my complete opposite kids.  Xander's always cold and Sterling's always hot.  It was in the 50s.  And Sterling was officially recorded as 1/2 inch taller than Xander.  It's always a competition in our house.

Right after clay class, we drove down to Nana's and Papa's.  It was a quick trip, but a fun trip.  The kids made their own news station and it was the cutest!

This week we are getting ready for a big trip coming up.  We are so excited, but first we have a few appointments to do, school work to get done, and getting our house back in order.

Have a great day!