But occasionally I'll have an evening where my husband has left to sermon prep, dinner was uneventfully successful and all four kids were tucked in calmly and happily (maybe slightly due to the excitement of Easter the next morning!) by 8 pm and so I am not completely and utterly exhausted as I enter my room to wind down for the night. Typically these days I still would not choose to spend my extra energy on the blog, but rather reading, watching silly TV, or lets face it..sleeping. But tonight I felt like 'What the heck? I'll pop a few phone pics up for old time's sake and say hey to all the internet peeps!"

So.. "Hey blog-o-sphere friends! Here's a few glimpses of what we're up to these days!"

Macy and Carter have been doing Karate since January. They got to try it out for a few months as a Christmas present from Grammie and Poppie and we have all been VERY happy with it, so we decided to continue for the time being. Karate was definitely nothing I ever pictured in our families dream activities, but hey, you go where your kids blossom right? Karate is developing some awesome drive and habits in our kiddos, love seeing them love something. Here they are with two of their buddies right after they tested and earned their yellow belts.

Cooper makes this face every.single.time. he hears someone even mention the idea of being silly or making a funny face. It's his go-to and it never fails to make me laugh. His stinkin' cheeks are unbelievable.

Jude and Cooper loooove to match. I don't actually have much for them that completely matches, but we are lucky enough to occasionally get some hand me downs from a wonderful woman with twin boys a few years older than mine, and sometimes they have matching sets, like these PJs for example. They get so excited when anything of theirs matches, even the colors of their sippy cups or lollipops honestly... but especially when it's clothes. The best part is that whenever they realize something matches you can absolutely count on them shouting excitedly and then bumping together whatever matches (including their bodies/bellies) and saying 'Cheers!' It's hilarious. Twins are SO SO fun :)

Macy continues to amaze us, I really don't know where she came from. The girl can make anything. Her absolute favorite way to spend time is making things out of paper or robots out of trash (recycling!) She won't let us throw away paper towel tubes, water bottles, pieces of plastic or metal or heaven forbid a cardboard box. Today she made an entire outfit, shoes included out of gift wrap tissue from presents my mom gave the kids yesterday. Ridiculous. Here she is with a house and furniture she made out of construction paper. She'd learned that day in school how to measure different dimensions with a ruler and draw those dimensions and lines into a 'plan' for a house. Most kids stopped with the drawing of the plans, she came home and had to actually build it. The girl knows what she's in to.

Finally. Three boys has become a lot of fun, and a lot of chaos. The twins are officially old enough to (think they can) hold their own against Carter, and Carter is loving having full time side kicks. Atleast once a day he lays flat in the middle of the living room and yells, "Twins! Wrestle me!" To which they happily oblige :) They are also ALL still deeply enthralled in their love of super heroes. Thankfully Carter has acquired quite the costume collection so we have enough super heroes to go around. This is at least a once a week sight in our home. Usually more often than that :)

And there ya have it. You can now imagine you've peeked into our little world over here and feel like though you may not read from me for another month, you might have a pretty good idea of what we're doing behind the un-updated blog page.

Happy Easter to everyone. He is RISEN :)