These are for you, Tory!

January - Mom and Pheebs

February - LOVE, Ethan and Beck!

March - David and Tom, and hopefully SPRING. but that may just be TOO much to ask.

April - Easter & Aunt Lanie

May - Melanie and Duncan!

June - will be taken up by #6. he gets a month all to himself. until he gets here, it's just another quiet, grandkid kinda month...

July - when it rains, it pours...Char, Pipes and Molly...three of the funniest characters around!

August - Scott, Nora and Andy - again, three of the funniest characters around.

September - a quiet month for our family so I loaded it up with grandkid pix...Mom and Dad will have 11 this June.

October - Grandpa, Will and Levi...busy. manly.

November - give thanks and 2 anniversaries

December - Christmas and Laurie

So Tory...am I a good cousin?? I finally got pix of the calendar I made for my mom...after returning to Indy from Cincy, the kids and I made a visit to my parents place...for a visit and turkey dinner (yum yuuuuum!)...I got really productive and thought it'd be nice if I actually took pix to show you.

I hope this makes your spring break week a little more tolerable. (what I'd give....)

Hugs to you, my cousin.

Be back later to start posting pics from our weekend/birthday get away....small doses. small doses.

Calendar #1

January 2011

Feb

March, obviously...

April

May 2011

Junesy

July

August 2011...ok, so in August, Nora didn't get a month to herself, because her Dad also has a birthday the same mo. Sorry, Bean...I think next year's calendar for Beck will contain all of the hilarious self-styled pix of Nora's outfits. Keep 'em coming, Beck.

umm, September

October

Novembs

December 2011...

Ok, Tory...this post is mostly JUST FOR YOU! I will have to get some pix of Mom's calendar still...but this is the one I made for Beckyboo.

I bought a great little 8 x 8 kit, which I would definitely recommend. You can totally improvise and use your own supplies but when you get into a time pinch, like I did, that kit was uber handy. (I'm a horrible procrastinator)

Wanna know what's going on here? I bet you do....

We are moving the 3 boys up to our room and taking their room. This will be interesting. I'm thinking now that I'm "moving" back down to the lower level it will either 1.) stay a little neater/cleaner, which would make David a happy, happy boy or 2.) get a little messier, which would make David an unhappy boy...

Our room is a bit bigger than the boys, and quite honestly, with 2 of the 3 being teenaged men, they need to spread out a bit. And heck, if everyone's predictions are correct, we need a bigger room for we will have four teenaged or little men in our home. which is a scary thought.

On that note, I'm outta here...taking my female children and heading to Dick's Sporting Goods to look at new tennis shoes...should be a good time.

now if I could keep my tongue outta the hole where my molar used to be...ick.

Repeat: reasons to hide your camera from your kids & calendar pages..

I leave to make lunch and this is what the kids do!
She resembles a Hobbit...minus hairy feet.
Ethan loves to take pics of people's eyes, noses etc...
These are Levi's winkers

Beck, I am just about done on your calendar

Today was a miserably rainy, 63 degree (whaaaaa?) day here in the swell midwest! Indiana is suffering from some serious flooding right now! We are safe in our ark! Meanwhile, I have a full plate but without writing all of the mundane little tasks I have before me, one of the biggest feats will be completing the calendars I had hoped to have completed last weekend, for dear sissy and dear mommy (part of their Christmas gifts)...I'm coming, girls...Beck, yours will be done before mom's..(sorry momma). This is NOT cool in my book.

Melanie and I walked in the rain today. My treadmill is down. bummer. I came home and rode on the recumbent bike as well. Great motivation for losing weight (besides the obvious ones like being uncomfy, lack of clothing, and not being able to do the tango, etc) is watching Biggest Loser...Love.....that....show.

We ended our evening with some praise time, Bible reading and prayer as a family, David came home at 7:30 tonight! It is such a blessing to sit around in our living room, sing some songs to praise the Lord, read some really good scripture (Matthew ch. 6 tonight) which ends with Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you... I pray our kids seek God's will for their lives first and foremost...above all else. We are reading thru the New Testament as a family this year, which has proven to be quite interesting thus far...the first chapter of Matthew is such and such begat this guy who begat this dude...etc. Mel was worried because she wasn't sure how to pronounce the names. cute girl! :) wish I was half as tender-hearted!

> Forgive the rather chatty post, I did drink some coffee at 9 p.m.

<>Beck, we need to see each other, I am having some serious withdrawal and I know Molly is missing Nora...let's hook up sis! I miss you something fierce!

> Up next, the Divine Miss M's 6 month birthday (Jan. 9) as well as a celebration of my mom's birthday on the 10th...will have to look out some "fun" pix for this! Until then, peace out!

~~I'm slightly addendum happy this week...but, in the post just south of here, I need to correct myself...the title should have read that I act like I have nothing better to do...don't ya hate it when you have a lot to do but you want to avoid it for as long as possible? that is what I was doing. I wanted to correct myself so I don't look like a COMPLETE loser/slacker! ok, thanks!~~