so long

the blog will be dormant for a while but come April be looking for some exciting posts.

mt. melrose update

ok here is the update, we have the top 2 stairs clear. the rain today did help but I think it will still be a while.

Saturdays AWANA games

sparks was the green team
hooray Colbys here
event one= 1st place

balloon volley
B in the bean bag grab= the middle plus one bag
our marathon runner= 1st place (easy)
a little congrats from KB

Bethel boys are number 1!!!
now it's time for the sparks, Liv was the only kindergartener on the team
a self portrait, thanks to Colby for taking pictures so I could watch the games.
sparky crawl, liv HATES this one

balloon battle "uncle Gladdy told me to keep my hand like this" and she did the entire time.

sparky pop pop
a little coaching from Donald
great job to all our family participants, 2 points for good sportsmanship
"we're all winners"

when will Mt. melrose be gone?

my wonderfully creative aunt betty thought we should have a "when will the snow be gone contest" so I'm opening it up to all of you. When do you think we will have stairs again? This photo was taken today 3/12 at noon.

he's always been a bit over the top.

notice that big bear has the pillow

winterfest part 2

we went power tubing behind this sled. sadly no pictures taken
this is the tubing run and it is as fun as it looks


who doesn't love tubing at midnight?

what a difference a day makes

For those of you who are able to link to Wendys blog you already know that in the last week she has gotten the opportunity to travel to China for her work and leave before Easter! What you don't know is that she found out she can take 1 companion and I, Tammy am that person. You read right I am going to China in less that 2 weeks. David gave me the go ahead this morning and my heart is beating 100 miles per hour! I had thought my first step in China would be to be bringing home my baby, but am so excited to be able to visit her country first! Let me give the proper props to my man he is so amazing and I thank God he is mine!

some not all

This weekend we went with David to winterfest in northern WI. So here are some pictures the rest are on B's camera (my cameras not done yet ugh) look closely at the hotty on the base.
one of our friends also brought the family so it was fun having play mates along
you will notice not to many pic's of the 2 older of my kids simply because they don't play with me to much anymore, high schoolers are more fun I guess.

LOVE this one! It was KB's first winterfest and I was glad to be there for it.
this was their "trophy" they were very proud of it.

I put this one in just so you could see how wintery it was out
total F-U-N
the band, no name just the band.

and I wonder where he gets it from?
some of our favorites
Gray is crazy about sooz, it shows because how often do you see him smile for a picture?
man he had a great weekend with the ladies,
a little dancing to our favorite band. We ahd a great time as you can see

FYI

yes he still loves his buddies.

This ones for Rhonda, but read along.

this week we had our baby B from safe families and as I was changing her diaper Gray said "hey she looks just like hot chockie" (what Rhonda calls hot chocolate, and so do we). He can be so cute, and how innocent and fresh is that. It will keep me going for a while.

no camera, no pictures.

what you say Tammy with no camera is it true? well not fully my purse camera is in the shop, thanks Brooke for convincing me to but the warranty, so all I have is the huge one and I don't enjoy carring that one around or leaving it in the car. My hope is to have it back by winterfest.But to give you updates. Baby "B" is back home already she was the perfect baby and told Lydia if she need time away again (like giving birth) to give us a call we'll be there. I however have been SICK! I never get sick, and I have had 2 back to back. First flu, gross, and now head cold, annoying, but if this is it for the year I'll be happy to check it off my list. David has also got the same illnesses I have ,he always gets sick, but thankfully hasn't gotten them as bad as I have. none of the kids got the flu and only a few of them the cold. G has remained healthy and has a one month check up at the Dr. in the morning so we will see how that goes. As for his life changing after tonsils as I had hoped, NO, he is just a handful tonsils or no. Eating has no complaints so that's great but no other improvements to speak of, sad.

baby B is here. Livs is loving it!

we picked up another safe families child (temporary foster care) last night. A 1 year old girl, Liv couldn't ask for more she is bursting with glee.

another child in the double digits, yikes!

yep that's right Sky is ten and we start off the day how else? sticky buns, thumbs up.

then we were off for the auto show
" you can just give me this for my birthday"
the army booth was my favorite

they drove this tank over and right in to the exibit hall, the helicopter landed in the parking lot and rolled in. I would have love to have been there on that day. I asked this soldier if he drove it in he said no I drove it in Iraq I let my guys have a turn. FYI this tank hold 6 soldiers, and where he is sitting is where 4 missles usually sit and it will go 65 mph. wow!

this is the monster .thank God for our armed forces.
this really is a truck could be yours for 8,000. it was like a toy car sooooo cheepy! I think it's safe to say there are no air bags.
this was my favorite car display it was really cool and all our kids won these cool Scion caps, surprise gray wasn't interested in such a normal photo
7:00 of to dinner, yes we were at the auto show ALL day. His pick Hard Rock.
this was funny because G had been telling Sky all day that he got him a simon. We would say something like the bags empty I guess you don't have anymore gifts, G would say "yeah I got him simon" or "sky do you like simon?" "i can't wait till you open my simon" so Sky did a wonderful job at being excited to get simon from G. you can tell G was so happy to give it to him too.

they made him stand in the middle of the restaurant and we all shouted Happy Birthday! he was embarassed that explains the hood
Liv wanted to make it a football cake
with lots of sprinkles
Sky got a sleeping bag , G got the box.