A big day and Cole's 14th Birthday

Grandpa and Great Gpa play

Patrick, Doug, Errol and Walter

A good picture of Ron, Mary and Len

Big Daddy uses muscles to cut the cake! While the boys wrestle

The boys wrestle

Kara, Errol, Maxine and Walter

It was quite the episode to light the candles

Jade and great gma

Asia and great gpa

The snuggle bug with great gma

The girls with nei nei

The birthday dude, wow he is 14 already!

Drew and Gma

A scuffle

Doesn't Olan look like his parents!

A big day. I have been sick since Tuesday, when Olan called from the McInallys on Friday...I thought I was talking to Kevin...ends up his parents were in town and we need to wine and dine them to convince them that we are normal enough to let them take #1 son for the summer to work in the fields!...actually for Olan's dad. We'll let you know how we fared later, the bets are still out!

So after a big lunch, we headed for Gospel meeting and as we are at a red light at hampden and I25 we watch a cop handcuff and haul off a pan handler. It was really sad. But, the boys thought it would have been much cooler if he would have resisted so the cop would have brought out his gun!! Boys!!

Then we head to my gracious parent's house again hosting another one of my parties! You will note the guest list was primarily theirs...doesn't look like alot of teenagers does it! The boys' birth great grandparents Len and Mary joined us, it has been a while...we need to do more with them!

Hearts is what the world requires

Breakfast was heart shaped chocolate chip pancakes with Strawberries

The motly crew after their feast of a heart shaped pizza. Cole barely can look up from the Ipod. This was the 2nd night of the chocolate fondue.

The table looked much better on Friday night. Sunflower market had a sale on their 4oz lobster tails for 3.97, New York Steaks for 3.97#, Strawberries for $1.25, Stone crab claws for 5.99#, King soopers had Asparagus for .99#. So, when Tami came to get the girl, I gave her the steaks and Asparagus to cook and bring back over...great hostess I am! Hey I cooked the lobster and crab!

The party on Friday, Jade's class just had a treat and opened their valentines. I was glad for the simplicity!

The heart shaped pizza from Papa Murphy's, can you tell they threw the cheese at it.

A concert

Concerts are so much better at this grade level! Cole is pretty good!

Wrestling time

Cole's best buds Cameron and Jordan. I do not enjoy watching westling, it is very agitating to me! Drew is wrestling, too...but I can never get to the meets soon enough to get pictures.

Kung Fu wrestling

Drew entering into the wrestle, Cole convinced his new found older brother to send him a touch Ipod, he has not been separated from it since last Wednesday. I hope he takes better care of it than the Ipod he owned for 3 days last year!

With the boys teaching the girls how to wrestle, the girls show off kung fu moves...hmmm I wonder if my house can handle this for a few more years! A demonstation of why we won't buy new funiture for a decade!

Snaggletooth

I couldn't take it any longer I paid Cole a $1 a tooth to pull them out! This toothfairy business gets pricey.

Kitchen helpers

The girls do a great job of prepping the green beans.

Showing Olan her big eye guys

It was great to have a Pizza made for dinner

We fit all this in with the Chinese New Years celebrations, union meeting at our house, plus sold a cruise and mexico package...and big daddy got the bathroom into working order. I think it took a week to recover!

Happy Gotcha, CNY and Birthday

Can you even believe this was Jade at 6 months of age! We know the Chinese matched her to her daddy's hair! :-) 7 years ago we were handed little Dance!

Anna wants a big brother! Jade and Asia can't imagine Why?!


Practicing with their chop sticks

Anna Really wants a big brother!

Give me a brother now!

The boys were out numbered...a bunch of girls!

Things were rumbling as they ran through the house.

Ray Ray is happy that there is no Lion dance here!

A Chinese food potluck, it was yummy

My parents were very gracious to let us invade the house with all these kids. Anna was the hit of the night with all her love notes. At the beginning, we used to go to a restaurant..and if there was a lion dance all the girls would freak and cry! Not that it is calmer, but at least they don't have to sit still!