Jumper and Lisa, JMac's two frogs

Johnny Mac's frogs! He loves them!

Brother Sister Book

In the car one night recently, we heard the kids talking about making Brother-Sister Books. The books were going to include pages about each of their favorite things in different categories (favorite color, favorite animal, favorite food, etc.). They planned it all out and over the next two days they diligently worked on them in their "office" - a sheet draped over some boxes we've not unpacked yet... (Yet, yeah right. How about never will). I was amazed when I saw the finished products. Each book has their own favorite things along with the other's favorite things. For example, Johnny Mac's book has a page all about his favorite animal, the frog, as well as a page all about Dixie's favorite animal, the bunny. (You can see their drawings of each of these animals on the covers).

Their relationship is such a blessing to me. Sometimes they fight and drive me crazy, of course, but a lot of the time they are really precious with each other. They were so sweet working on these books together.

Cute kiddos

Here are all the kiddos with "Flat Stella." She was mailed to us from NC by Abby, my friend Kim's second grade daughter, as part of a class project. Flat Stella participated in our family activites for a week, and then we wrote a letter about her adventures with us and mailed it back to Abby's class. It was fun!

More Jesse Bruce

Jesse loves to grab his toes. Those little piggies are delicious!

Snaggle-toothed Johnny Mac

On April 7, Johnny Mac lost his first tooth!!! It was soooo exciting!! What a handsome fella!

Springtime breakfast outside!

(Jesse was taking a nap).

Two sleeping angel girlies

One night last week, the two girls decided to have a camp-in (as opposed to camp-out). It got really quiet, and when we checked, this is what we saw. Notice the globe-type light; it serves as the campfire, and they even "roast" marshmallows over it on toothpicks. Adorable!

Big Alex and little Jesse Bruce

We had so much fun when my mother, Grammy, and my fifteen-year-old nephew, Alex, came to visit! He was so sweet to spend part of his Spring Break with us, and she was so sweet to come with him so he wouldn't have to fly alone. We had to really twist her arm to get her to come, as you can imagine. :-)

Dress-up fun!

Granna and Papa's visit at Easter

Granna and Papa arrived and before they could even really get in the door, the big kids bestowed them with gifts: a homemade crown and ring for Granna and a homemade golf ball and golf club for Papa. We had a great visit!

Adorable Jesse!

Okay, so two weeks ago or so I tried to post a video Johnny Mac made about his frogs. I mean, I tried and tried. As you can see, it never worked. So for a MONTH now, I haven't posted one thing because my FEELINGS HAVE BEEN HURT. Yes, it's true, this stinking computer hurt my feelings. (Happens all the time, actually). And, of course, I don't really have time to do any of this (four kids = dishes and laundry and more dishes and more laundry), but it's so fun to know that the grandparents (and my precious friends and anyone else who's interested) can see how blessed we are by our amazing Lord. But I'm already on shaky ground even having a blog because of my love/hate thing with technology, so once I spent a couple of hours and had nothing to show for it, that was IT. But now that I've had a month off, I think I've somewhat recovered. Just wanted to explain where we've been. Hopefully, stuff will be coming soon!