It "Dozen" Get Much Better Than This

They were working hard! Everyone's head was down and they were serious about this!

Flour on the cheeks??? Yeah, I have no idea either....

Look how intently they are all working! Don't you love Isaiah's apron??

Having a great time!!! Wish you were here!!

Yeah, a picture of me in it would have been nice huh......Next time. It was a little busy yesterday.

Savannah, singing in the car for her baby sister: "Frosting, the snowman was a jolly happy soul...."

She sang some more and then Talisha broke in and insisted that she wasn't singing it correctly. "It goes like this: Frosting, the snowman was a jolly happy soul. With a corn cob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of gold!"

Wow, now that's some snowman!!!

Ok, this is all completely normal.

I'm sure every little girl carries around 4 babies at a time. So it should not seem strange or out of the ordinary to see one small little girl, arms loaded and yet perfectly content, holding 4 babies.




Ok, maybe only at our house........

Just waking up.....with her babies! She's going to need a bigger bed!

What well behaved babies she has!!

Talisha, singing Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer:....."then one hoggy Christmas Eve...."

She's got a few of those mix-ups in her Christmas carol collection. The funny thing is, she thinks those are really the words!!!

She is 4th from the right in this one! Yeah, not a huge crowd, it was a pre-season game!

Hopefully we didn't embarrass her too badly......wait, but then again, isn't that my job????

I have been dreading getting our family picture taken.....it's so much work, so much stress, so many tears, so much screaming and that's just from me!!!! Aww, I'm kidding but it is a ton of work.....and stress. But Scott had a great idea and I thought, why not???

So watch your mailboxes, our Christmas letter will soon be making it's way to your home with this adorable, crazy family picture enclosed!! If you don't receive our letter and picture every year and would like to, send me a note with your address, so I can add you to our list!

My very sweet, talented friend, Sarah came by yesterday. She brought her camera with her. I was still needing to get pictures of Talisha, Savannah and Isaiah and I was dreading taking them to the studio.

SISTERS!

Miss Talisha!

Miss Savannah!

Mister Isaiah!

As parents, don't you love doing something so funny to your kids that you actually laugh out loud??? Now I'm not talking about something mean or degrading. I'm talking about good old fashioned fun.

Kids are funny. They don't mean to be. Most of the time, they don't realize what they said was hilarious.

Scott wakes Thomas up every morning for school. One morning Thomas, who was still very tired says in this perturbed voice to his dad, "You can't just come in here and wake people up. I was sleeping!" Oh really? Sorry about that.

This morning as Samantha was getting her breakfast, she noticed the condition of the tub of butter. "What happened to the butter?" she asked. "Oh Isaiah took a wire whisk to it yesterday." That happens at your house too, right?

I was having a conversation with Savannah about doing certain things when she was older. She still has a little trouble saying her "g's" sometimes so the conversation went something like this:

"Mama, when I fro up like you, I will wear shoes like this!" She was putting on a pair of my heels. I was busy putting clean clothes away and wasn't really paying attention. "When you 'fro up' like me? What are you talking about? When did I throw up, Baby?"

"No Mama, when I FRO up like you!" "What do you mean? I don't think I'm understanding what you are trying to say!" Shakes head back and forth, "I mean when I'm a Mama I will wear shoes like this!" "OHHH, gotcha! You mean when you grow up."

By this time she was done with the conversation and left the room, probably wondering to herself how I honestly make it through the day.

Happy Tuesday All!!!

I don't know about your mother in law, but mine never ceases to amaze me!

Scott had a phone call from her last night. The first words out of her mouth were, "I'm ok." With an opener like that, there's no telling what happened.

Turns out she was robbed at gun point yesterday!! She works as a manager at a dry cleaners in Kansas. She watched the guy pace back and forth, smoking for awhile across the parking lot so when he entered the store, she had a pretty good idea what was going to happen.

He had a gun. A big gun. He pointed it at her. He demanded money. She gave him all $142 of it. He wanted the safe opened. She told him it was empty and it would be a waste of time. He still wanted it opened. So she did. She had already pressed the 'panic' button on the floor by this time, with her foot.

He told her to turn around and face the wall. It was at this point that she had a feeling he was going to shoot her in the back. She wanted him to look her in the eyes if he was going to shoot her. She started to turn around and then she stopped and turned back around and said, "No, I'm not turning around!"

It was at this point that he turned and ran out the door.

She had a feeling that he would have shot anyone who walked in that door. She thought he was going to shoot her as well.

The police came and watched the whole thing on the security cameras. The guy was good. He had on a hat, glasses, gloves and never turned towards the camera. If they catch him, he gets 5 years.

It's not the first time she has been robbed at gunpoint. When we lived in Arizona, she was at the bank one day when a group of gunmen entered the building. Everyone dropped to the floor while they demanded money. She had a gunmen standing right next to her, pointing a gun at everyone, including her. She actually made it out of there with her purse still intact!

I think most of us will go through life never experiencing something like that. It just amazes me that it's happened to her.....twice. In fact last night when Scott started to tell the kids what happened, the first thing they said, in unison was, "Again???"

We love you Nana. Be careful out there!