Happy Valentine's Day

The girls decked out for Valentine's day.  Eliza's shirt says Auntie forever on it, thanks Aunt Leslie and Aunt Taunie for the awesome shirt.  

Are you in love with Grace's dimples?  I am.

Owl Valentine's shirts, guess who picked them out?  Grace told me she was actually dressed as a flower today.  She planned on hiding with just her head sticking up.

Adam in the background in his non-Valentine's apparel.  He managed to fall from the top bunk in the girl's room last night and knock himself out.  It was the 1st 911 call we have ever made(knock on wood).  He seems to be in fine spirits this morning and it doesn't seem like it slowed him down at all.  He also told me that the baby was his Valentine.

It is amazing how fast hugging progresses to wrestling.

Daddy Daughter Dance

Brian took the older girls to the Daddy Daughter Dance over the weekend where the all the daughter danced and all the dads stood against the wall and talked.

If you are wondering why the picture is in black and white, my kids have been working on their Odyssey of the Mind project out in the yard which involved spray painting PVC pipes red.  It looks like there was a battle on my lawn.  

My living room has also fell victim to Odyssey of the Mind and is currently home to a paper mache roof.  
I am pretty impressed with their crafty little minds.

The 2012 models

Look who came to visit.  Cousin Adele the other 2012 model.

 She is 6 months old.  Look how roly-poly she is. Her blue eyes are to-die-for. 

I think I will bite her.

Smack.

Okay, I guess we can be friends.

Merry snapped some pictures of Eliza and me..

More of Eliza and her mom.

Her eyelashes have finally grown, she hardly had any when she was born.

Due date and Fishing

Today is Eliza's official due date.  She is 6 wks 5 days old.  I sure am glad I am not pregnant today.  

I was going to take some more pictures of Eliza in her blessing dress but as soon as I got her in her dress and asleep I had to go pickup the kids from school.  All I got was just one shot.

Yesterday, we (minus Brian, plus Papa) went fishing at the coast.  You can totally see the that we were fishing in this picture.

And this picture.

And this picture.

Baby Eliza slept on the pier.

Oh well, we had a fabulous time, caught a few pin fishing and absorbed our weekly allowance of vitamin D.

Grace's new best friend

Christian and his family (Brother Mike, Tricia and Hannah) came to visit from Wyoming.

Grace  and Christian are now BFFs.  It was so fun for them to get to play together.  We visited the children's museum in Tampa, unfortunately  I did not take any pictures, Tricia snapped this with her phone outside the museum.

Blessing Day

Eliza was blessed today by Brian. I keep having to make one more blessing dress from my wedding dress material. I am out of fabric so this is the end of the line.

All the kiddos, I didn't realized we all were coordinating until Brian came out and asked if he was supposed to wear a red tie.

Eliza and her proud parents.  Eliza is pondering the 5 unsolvable math problems.  She is pretty much a genius.  

Grace had all her babies in a row on the couch. I think Eliza is trying to eat her puffed sleeve. Eat your heart out Anne of Green Gables.

Eliza talking to her Papa.

Eliza yelling at her Papa.

Eliza snuggled up after the picture taking.  Her eyes are finally opened.

A random picture of Adam, my little mouse and Grace with cheese envy.

Happy Birthday Brian

 Happy Birthday dear Brian.

A chocolate cake for the birthday boy.  Grace chose the heart sprinkles and put the candles on the cake.  Papa was here so he made Brian a fancy dinner and then we went fishing.  How could his birthday get any better?