Away for a week....

We were here.

We did this.

And this.

Some of this.

And this.

LOTS of this.

and this

and this

But mostly THIS.

Happenings...

A few conversations at my house this week:

Isaiah  "Let's pway Simon says okay?"

Hannah "Okay, but I get to be 'Simon'"

Isaiah "okay. Me be 'Says'"

Mike brought the kids home suckers one day after work.  He told them he had a "treat" but they couldn't have them until after supper.  Then, after supper, he hid them in his pockets and made them wrestle him to get them.  FINALLY after what must have seemed like FOREVER  I helped them find them in his pockets.  Unwrapping his, Isaiah smiles wide and says 

"OH DADDY, this is such a bwessing!!" 

After making an angel food cake, having it go flat and limp, scraping the sides off the useless pan and cursing all the while (okay, not cursing, but def. grumbling!!), after Mike makes fun of the cake, and tells me I "must need a new pan" (which I really do!! lol) I made the kids eat it anyways.  Hannah pipes up, as I'm STILL grumbling:

"Mom, just because it looks really bad, well, you know what?  It tastes brilliant!"

Aliah "mama, mama"  (sorry, couldn't leave her out this time!)

And, just for fun..a picture of one of our projects today:

Making boxes for all our "memories" (ie. pics/cards/momentos)... our other ones are becoming a tad too small!

I had a post ready, willing and able.  A silly one.  One that made me smile.  But I can't post it right now.  (I will another day.  promise)

Today, you MUST go to visit Angie (who is grieving the loss of a child) and read her BLINK post.  All of it.

Go on.  Go now.  Read it.  To the end.

Blink.

Blessings...

Two of my three blessings..(the third was sleeping!!!)

Sorry about the lack of posts.  Life has got me by the tail and is twirling me around silly!!  I'm back to work and trying to "get in the groove".  I really didn't make a ton of time to post right now, it's 10:46 p.m. and I've got a load of clothes in the dryer, as well as Aliah's birthday cake in the oven.  I worked 7am-6pm today, then went straight to Hannah's baseball game...needless to say, I've got lots still to do!!  But I did want to share this little pic with you.

I was playing 'hide & seek' the other day with the kids.  I just HAD to get a pic of Isaiah playing.  He was hiding from me, and he ran into our little "cubby".  (right under the stairs we have made a playroom of sorts with a chalkboard and some books, crayons etc...a hideaway for them).  I knew he was in there, but decided to "play up" the game.  As I was calling his name I entered the cubby looking around, being careful to avert my eyes away from him.  This was what he was doing.

Seemed as though if he didn't see me, then there was NO WAY I could see him.  TOO FUNNY!!!  A few moments later (after I took the pic) he scared me silly by jumping out of the cubby when I "just couldn't find him".  Then he laughed and laughed.

Oh to be a kid again........