Katelyn with her basket.
Ben chowing down.
Lauren, who only stayed with us one day and one night, showing how much fun she had!
Friday, April 27, 2007
More Easter Egg Hunt fun
Lizzy smiles big for the camera. How could she not be happy with all that candy?
Katelyn with her basket.
Ben chowing down.
Lauren, who only stayed with us one day and one night, showing how much fun she had!
Katelyn with her basket.
Ben chowing down.
Lauren, who only stayed with us one day and one night, showing how much fun she had!
Easter Egg Hunt Pics
The six older kids poised and ready to get started on the hunt for eggs (well really we all know it is the candy, not the eggs, they care about).
Holly eating the goods. She and Ben weren't too interested in finding eggs once they cracked one open and discovered the candy inside. Too tough to wait.
Anna and Charity inspecting their cache.
Adam, the only boy except Ben, races in front to be the first to find his 13 eggs (yes, I filled 104 eggs all by myself. I can see now why some folks buy those pre-filled ones). Thank heavens no one fell down in the process.
Holly eating the goods. She and Ben weren't too interested in finding eggs once they cracked one open and discovered the candy inside. Too tough to wait.
Anna and Charity inspecting their cache.
Adam, the only boy except Ben, races in front to be the first to find his 13 eggs (yes, I filled 104 eggs all by myself. I can see now why some folks buy those pre-filled ones). Thank heavens no one fell down in the process.
Easter week
Well, once again it has taken me a while to get to posting again, but at least it hasn't been 2 months.
We had a great Easter this year. Greg chose not to have bishopric and other meetings before church and had very limited appointments after, so we were all able to drive together, and he was home all morning. Easter sunday is our spiritual celebration of Easter. We had little lesson, a lot a review from the previous weeks FHE lesson. The FHE manual has a nice little program for Easter in it with scriptures and songs. We did a very shortened version for our family, but it is still nice. I really felt the spirit of the holiday and loved the article on the Sacrament, a reprinted talk from Elder David B. Haight, in the April Ensign. I thought so much about that. Easter itself was a very pleasant day. We don't do Easter baskets or eggs on Sunday, but I did give each of the kids (and Greg) a little treat gift at dinner.
The week before Easter was FULL. We watched our friends 3 little girls, ages 7, 5, and 2 for 4 days while they went away for some couple time. Our house was full and noisy and busy, but it was good too. It was great to get to know these girls even better than we already do. Holly, the 2 year old quickly came up with a fun nickname for me. She is in nursery with me at church and her mom generally calls me Sister Finch when talking with her. Holly affectionately calls me "Fincher". It is so funny. Especially when used in the sentence as follows, "Fincher, gotta go potty bad!" She had no problem calling Greg, "Papa", since her own dad doesn't go by that.
We were at home for those four days that week because I had too many kids to fit in my car all at once. Unfortunately the weather was freezing too, so we couldn't even walk to the park. They were all good about quiet time though and Adam went to play with a friend most of one day, which seemed to help. I also tried to have some fun things for them to do. On Friday, we added one more child to the mix when we watched another friends little girl for one night. Eight kids 8 and under! We dyed Easter eggs all together. The older ones really seemed to enjoy it. I hovered over the two 2 year olds to keep a cup of dye from ending up all over the place. Then Saturday morning we had our Easter egg hunt. Again too cold to go out, so we had it inside. The kids loved it, though. We had thought we found all the eggs, but we kept finding them for several more days. Then Saturday night we had our big Easter feast, ham, mashed potatoes, you know the usual stuff. One of the things I love about this meal is all the leftovers! This year I even got some recipes off the internet so I could use all of our ham up. We had some ham casserole on Monday and Split Pea and ham soup on Tues. and Wed. It was a hammy week, even without my sense of humor.
Anyway, we were so glad we could watch our friends, the Jensens, kids for them. They had watched ours for several days 2 weeks previous. When there is no family around, you find people to be your family. I got to love and know their girls more than ever. I am glad to know though, it would be pretty difficult to have that many little ones all at once. I love big families, but I think it is good that they are spread out at least a little more than that. It was exhausting at times! This was a golden opportunity too. I don't know the next time, we, or the Jensens will be able to get away like that. What a great blessing! I know it was weeks ago, but I hope you all had a great Easter and were able to think on the significant gift of the Savior's atonement.
We had a great Easter this year. Greg chose not to have bishopric and other meetings before church and had very limited appointments after, so we were all able to drive together, and he was home all morning. Easter sunday is our spiritual celebration of Easter. We had little lesson, a lot a review from the previous weeks FHE lesson. The FHE manual has a nice little program for Easter in it with scriptures and songs. We did a very shortened version for our family, but it is still nice. I really felt the spirit of the holiday and loved the article on the Sacrament, a reprinted talk from Elder David B. Haight, in the April Ensign. I thought so much about that. Easter itself was a very pleasant day. We don't do Easter baskets or eggs on Sunday, but I did give each of the kids (and Greg) a little treat gift at dinner.
The week before Easter was FULL. We watched our friends 3 little girls, ages 7, 5, and 2 for 4 days while they went away for some couple time. Our house was full and noisy and busy, but it was good too. It was great to get to know these girls even better than we already do. Holly, the 2 year old quickly came up with a fun nickname for me. She is in nursery with me at church and her mom generally calls me Sister Finch when talking with her. Holly affectionately calls me "Fincher". It is so funny. Especially when used in the sentence as follows, "Fincher, gotta go potty bad!" She had no problem calling Greg, "Papa", since her own dad doesn't go by that.
We were at home for those four days that week because I had too many kids to fit in my car all at once. Unfortunately the weather was freezing too, so we couldn't even walk to the park. They were all good about quiet time though and Adam went to play with a friend most of one day, which seemed to help. I also tried to have some fun things for them to do. On Friday, we added one more child to the mix when we watched another friends little girl for one night. Eight kids 8 and under! We dyed Easter eggs all together. The older ones really seemed to enjoy it. I hovered over the two 2 year olds to keep a cup of dye from ending up all over the place. Then Saturday morning we had our Easter egg hunt. Again too cold to go out, so we had it inside. The kids loved it, though. We had thought we found all the eggs, but we kept finding them for several more days. Then Saturday night we had our big Easter feast, ham, mashed potatoes, you know the usual stuff. One of the things I love about this meal is all the leftovers! This year I even got some recipes off the internet so I could use all of our ham up. We had some ham casserole on Monday and Split Pea and ham soup on Tues. and Wed. It was a hammy week, even without my sense of humor.
Anyway, we were so glad we could watch our friends, the Jensens, kids for them. They had watched ours for several days 2 weeks previous. When there is no family around, you find people to be your family. I got to love and know their girls more than ever. I am glad to know though, it would be pretty difficult to have that many little ones all at once. I love big families, but I think it is good that they are spread out at least a little more than that. It was exhausting at times! This was a golden opportunity too. I don't know the next time, we, or the Jensens will be able to get away like that. What a great blessing! I know it was weeks ago, but I hope you all had a great Easter and were able to think on the significant gift of the Savior's atonement.
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Blog backlog-- the ultrasound
I don't know if there is anyone even checking our blog anymore. I know it has been almost 2 months since we have posted, our longest lapse ever. I hope to become an active blogger again. It's not that our life is THAT boring, quite the contrary, it seems endlessly filled, and when it is not filled, I just want to sleep! How it happens that I feel like writing tonight, I don't know. I am exhausted from a very busy, long day, Greg still isn't home, and I have some sort of head cold or allergies, but .... the thought came to me that I should blog, so here I am.
Instead of starting 2 months ago and filling you in, I will start by letting you know what is going on in the here and now, and then maybe in subsequent posts I can fill you in on the past 2 months.
About a week and a half ago (that's close to here and now isn't it?) we went to Iowa City (about and hour away) to see the specialists at the U of Iowa hospital because they will be monitoring our pregnancy closely (you all did remember we are expecting didn't you?). It was great to have an ultrasound done and be able to see the baby. As always, we wanted to know the gender of the baby. Drum roll please....... we are having another boy! So far he is doing very well. He was moving around quite a lot, but our amazing ultrasound tech was still able to see everything the docs wanted to. To date, he is healthy. The only discouraging thing was they did some blood work on me, and my titer levels (how they measure the amount of antibody in my blood) had gone up, so instead of waiting four weeks to go back, we have to go back in 2 weeks, which is this coming Monday. I think the baby should be well at least for several more weeks, but they just want to be sure. The hardest thing about these appointments is that they are not something you want to bring children to, so I have to leave the kids for 4 or more hours. Not to mention that Greg is essentially taking off a half day for each one that we go to. It's frustrating, but I am glad that it is only an hour away for us, and that Greg's boss, at least right now, seems to be pretty understanding. I really like having him there. Having experienced this with Ben, you just never know when they are going to keep you there and want to do an amniocentesis, and that is NOT something I would want to be alone for. Anyway we will keep you posted. I was SURE the baby was going to be a girl, so we don't have a boy name picked out yet. Any suggestions?
Well I think that is about all I will do for tonight. It is a start anyways. Don't give up on us just yet, we will try to keep on blogging.
Instead of starting 2 months ago and filling you in, I will start by letting you know what is going on in the here and now, and then maybe in subsequent posts I can fill you in on the past 2 months.
About a week and a half ago (that's close to here and now isn't it?) we went to Iowa City (about and hour away) to see the specialists at the U of Iowa hospital because they will be monitoring our pregnancy closely (you all did remember we are expecting didn't you?). It was great to have an ultrasound done and be able to see the baby. As always, we wanted to know the gender of the baby. Drum roll please....... we are having another boy! So far he is doing very well. He was moving around quite a lot, but our amazing ultrasound tech was still able to see everything the docs wanted to. To date, he is healthy. The only discouraging thing was they did some blood work on me, and my titer levels (how they measure the amount of antibody in my blood) had gone up, so instead of waiting four weeks to go back, we have to go back in 2 weeks, which is this coming Monday. I think the baby should be well at least for several more weeks, but they just want to be sure. The hardest thing about these appointments is that they are not something you want to bring children to, so I have to leave the kids for 4 or more hours. Not to mention that Greg is essentially taking off a half day for each one that we go to. It's frustrating, but I am glad that it is only an hour away for us, and that Greg's boss, at least right now, seems to be pretty understanding. I really like having him there. Having experienced this with Ben, you just never know when they are going to keep you there and want to do an amniocentesis, and that is NOT something I would want to be alone for. Anyway we will keep you posted. I was SURE the baby was going to be a girl, so we don't have a boy name picked out yet. Any suggestions?
Well I think that is about all I will do for tonight. It is a start anyways. Don't give up on us just yet, we will try to keep on blogging.
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