My little healthy eaters!

So,
Here was the menu for tonight's meal. I have to brag on my kids for a bit..... it is my blog!:)
On top of them being such great eaters, I am also going to tally the price of our meal for 7!

1. 8 filet of tilapia~5.99
2.1 package of broccoli~1.89
3.2 boxes angel hair pasta~1.78
4.1 large can of lite peaches 1.29

Now,obviously I would love to eat everything fresh but a budget for a family of 7 just doesn't always allow that...So, I do my best. Anyway, there were NO leftovers!!!
They ate everything!
We have started giving them smaller portions to cut down on waste and they ALL had 3 servings of everything...are you impressed? I AM!

And the total price of our meal~10.95!!!!! (of course I didn't add in the butter and milk I used so maybe 11.50?! Still....why would we EVER eat out??

Happy Birthday Kaleb!!!!

This little cutie is turning 1 today! I can't believe it's been a year Rachel! Anyway, here are some pictures I took of him before they moved far,far away!:) HE IS ADOREABLE!!!

" Please Connie!" " NO more pictures!!!"

BOO!

SWEET!

Dear Kaleb,

Happy Birthday little buddy! I am thinking about and praying for you today. I pray that you will grow to love the Lord with your WHOLE heart! He loves you more than ANYONE ever could!

We love you, Connie and Family

PS...Be good for your mommy and daddy and eat ALL your green beans!:)

Tag I'm it!!!!

My friend Rachel over at http://www.hyserfamily.blogspot.com/ tagged me and I thought it sounded fun.
Here are six random things you may not know about me.




1. I want to try out for American Idol! I have ALWAYS loved to sing and every time I watch it I want to go try out. I even have my song picked out!:) However, the fact that I am mom to 5 makes me think twice...who would take care of my babies??


2.I actually watched "The Hills" and liked it!!(when we had cable) I realize there is NOTHING good about the show...but for some reason I was totally into it!


3.I want to go back to school. I never technically graduated from highschool since I was homeschooled and I would like to get my GED and also go to college. I haven't totally decided what for, but my thoughts are: Working in the OB, doing midwifery,(is that how it's spelled? )or
getting my lisence in message-therapy.


4. If I could I would have babies until I couldn't anymore!:) I LOVE,LOVE ,LOVE being pregnant and the entire 1st year...after that....:) JK! My husband says...NO WAY!



5. I wanted to Marry every one of the guys in New Kids on the Block! They were all SOOOOO
hot!!! In 1989!!!!:)



6.I have OCD sometimes. When I go to someones house and I see a picture that is crooked...I can't stop looking at it until I go straighten it. It also happens when I see a table setting and the spoon,fork and Knife aren't equally far away from the plate. I know, I am WEIRD!!!:)


Well, thats all about me.
Now I tag:

www.tylerandconnie.blogspot.com
www.the-hodge-podge.blogspot.com
Sadly, I only know a few people in the blog world so that's all I've got.


Here are the rules:1. Link to the person that tagged you.2. Post the rules on your blog.3. Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself4. Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs5. Let each random person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website.6. Let your tagger know when your entry is up.

TAG, YOUR IT!

WHY???????

I am so tired of body fluids!!! Here's the tally:

MAX: 2 wets and 1 poop...no, they weren't in the toilet!
MITCH:1 poop(in his diaper when he got up from nap.)
AEVA:1 dirty and 2 wets(at least they were ALL in a diaper since she's only 1:)
SAM: 1 pile of vomit on kitchen floor. yay.


OY! Are you totally grossed out yet? ME TOO!!!!!



On a GREAT note though,
My Sammie became my sister today!!! She and I were going over her cubby verse and got to talking and she decided to ask Jesus into her heart!
She has known all the answers to the important questions for some time now but every time I asked her if she wanted to pray, she would say..no, not yet. I want to wait till i'm 5 like Cassie was. SO, I guess since she turned 5 a few weeks ago she decided it was time!:)
I have officially decided that is the best thing I will EVER witness as a parent...such a sweet memory! I will treasure it ALWAYS! WE got the phone and called all the family and then I got out our video camera and interviewed her about it. I did this with Cassie too and I am hoping it will help them when they are older and can't remember this very well!:) I was 5 when I became a believer and I only remember it a tiny bit. She was so sweet. We talked about how now she has the Holy Spirit to help her make good choices in her life...so when she told my mom on the phone she told her..this doesn't mean that I won't sin it just means that when I am going to hit my brother Jesus will help me think about it and choose not to!:) SO CUTE! SO simple yet so true!:)


So though I am NOT at all excited about all the YUCKINESS in my house right now...I am REJOICING in the LORD today! ARE YOU??

It warms my heart....

I am enjoying the fact that Christmas is less than 3 weeks away. This year it seems like we are really celebrating Jesus rather than thinking about what we are going to get!:) Our babysitter got us a chocolate Advent calender.( like my reflection?:) Each day has a piece of chocolate (it doesn't have the bible story though...so I guess it really isn't a TRUE advent calender!:) But we do have a real one my sis got the kids while she was here so we are reading each days part of the story while someone eats their piece of chocolate( we have to take turns..there are 5 of them!:)

We also have a book we read every night til' Christmas starting Dec. 1st( I got it for cassie when she was little) It gets old for me but the kids LOVE it! It was so cute to sit with them tonight while Cassie read the story!:) She blesses my heart.

It is such a simple book, but really makes a BIG point. It talks about all the thing we love about Christmas, like, Cookies, decorating the tree, presents, family ect., but each time it talks about what we love it says..BUT, thats NOT the best thing about Christmas! All the kids say that part together.(loudly:) Aeva even tries to say it..it's so cute! It goes on to say what the BEST thing about Christmas is: The birth of JESUS! And then we sing happy birthday to him. It's a fun tradition for them while also teaching biblical truths. I was telling Tyson the other night...our kids will probably fight over that silly 5$ book when we die because of the memories we are building.:) Makes me smile!

Christmas decor is my favorite!:) This is the cheap-after-christmas decorations I bought on 75% clearance a few years back. LOVE IT!

Snow ball candles....

And my all time fav. Candle mints. So Cheery!

Can you tell I am in the MOOD for Christmas??
Thank-you Lord for the gift of your son......

GOT NO TIME!!!

I think I need to stop blogging and do some Laundry,either that or buy more underwear!...what do you think?? Poor Max had to wear Sam's undies yesterday cause there were none of his clean. He then proceeded to poop in them(potty training and the runs don't mix well...ew.)and I told him," Max, you cannot poop in your underwear, ONLY in the toilet." He responded, "I not poop in my underwear, I poop in Sammie's underwear." .....Well. He's too smart for his own britches..er..I mean Sammie's. SHEESH!

Potty Training 102

Here we go again...the last one.... for a few years anyway! Max has been asking to go potty alot lately so I decided it was time to try again..he wore his Harley underwear ALL day yeasterday and didn't have 1 accident! YAHOO! I can see this in my mind...$$$$$$$$$!!!!! Daipers are spendy and only having 1 in them is going to be AWESOME! HEre he is in all of his glory!:) I'm the man mom!

Look at his cute little pose! He has the Burton/Ashenfelter chicken legs!:)

GRRRRRRRRRR! Very GRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Starting the Christmas season!

Our family tradition is to go and cut down our tree the Saturday after Thankgiving...and this year was no different.After breakfast with the family Samantha threw-up twice. She said she felt fine after so we decided to go any way. Here we are starting out to find the perfect tree....

Thomas,Steph and J.T. came to find a tree too!

The daddies got to carry the 2 little ones...

We found it! Though slightly Charlie Brown-ish....it fits us!:)

Aeva just chillin in the back pack.

Cassie helping Tyson carry it to the check out.

Steph and I..isn't she adorable?

out tiny tree looks really tiny up on the van!:)

Sweet J. T.

Love that smile!

So, after spending all that time picking out the tree..we get into the van and Aeva gets sick!

Thankfully she waited until she wasn't on Tyson's back or it would have been ALL over him..instead it got all over her seat and all over me. In my hair and on my face and coat. GROSS!

It was so discusting yet I was laughing and so were all the other kids!:) Sometimes if you don't just laugh, you will cry ya know? I took a picture even tho' it's discusting, so that I have something to remind me that I can laugh even in the yuckiest of times!:)

And here is our tree all lite up and ready for Christmas!:) We have watched Alvin and the Chipmunks SEVERAL(oy!) times in the last few weeks.SO when we turned out the lights to see the tree all lite up Mitchell said very excitedly, "It's gonna be a great Christmas!" I think he's right!:)

I was really tempted to grumble and complain that we were getting the stomach flu, but my mind kept going back to Thanksgiving, and this thought kept popping into my mind " Thank-you Lord that my children only have the flu! That over-all they are healthy. A lady from Tyon's work went to Indy last week so that her 4 yr old son could have surgery to remove one of his eyes that had a tumor in it... Another family we know also has a duaghter who had a tumor in her eye and lost sight in it, or a friend who's baby died after only 11 minutes of life. We are so blessed we want to complain about a silly stomach flu???? God, forgive me for not giving thanks for the many blessings you have given us. Help me to always remember how blessed I am.