Earrings!

Cassie brought this home from school
the other day....so cute.When she was 3 she asked to have her ears pierced and I told her she would have to wait till she was 5. She forgot.I wasn't going to bring it up until she did.She brought this home and said "mom,I want to get my ears pierced.I was hoping that when I asked why she would come up a reason that was not good enough.Like,everyone else has them...well, she said,because I think they look pretty.Doggonit!Thats a good reason...so she will get them for her 7th birthday...at least I got her to wait another 6 months.:)Anyway, I don't know if you can read this well but she wrote the words just how they sound!:)She aslo drew rainbow earrings.CUTE!

For some reason these photo's didn't upload......weird.Cassie is playing mommy and puting the boys in their bed( a laudry basket)Cute!

Real live dolls...

These poor little kids.They are completely at the mercy of the older ones.Cassie and Sammie have so much fun..it's like having "real" Dolls!:)They do their hair and make them take a nap and say "Son, you better listen to your Mommy,or you will have to get a spanken!"It's funny to watch but I kinda feel bad for the boys.. they are forced to play house!Sorry Thomas!:)I know Charrie and I did the same thing to you!Although, you were always our dog:)I think the only reason he went along with it is because he got to eat cherrios and drink water from a bowl!I hope my kids continue to play well together.(the boys just kinda do whatever the girls say,like they really like it or something!)

SEE MY LOVELY HAIR?
CRAZY HAIRED CHILDREN!

Well, I just wanted to give an update of our trip to Ohio for the interview....didn't turn out to be what Tyson thought it was and they wanted him to work 5-7:30 M-F and Saturdays.....we don't want money that much, I would like to see my husband at least on occation!So he told them no.But we do LOVE it there and we are trying to look around the area still.Please pray that if thats where God wants us, that something would turn up.So, we had a fun visit with Matt and Charrie and also got to spend 450.00 on the van.(the water pump and radiator hose had to be replaced......FUN STUFF!

not a small thing!

Hey everyone!Just wanted to let you know, Tyson has an interview in Cleveland, Ohio tomorrow at 4pm!We are probably going to all go and stay with Matt and Charrie!I am really nervous!Please pray that if this is what God has for us that we would be at peace with it.It would be fun to live by them....we would probably look for a house in the same town as they are in since it's a little cheaper than living in the city!Thanx for your prayers.

Ashenfelter's News.

Well,I wanted to update everyone on all the family.Tyson is still looking for a new job.He has put his resume on career builders so we will see what happens.I am playing my first softball game tonight!I am SO excited!(not first ever, first this year!:)Cassie is almost done with school, only 4 more weeks!She is reading pretty well and she LOVES anything with numbers!(that does NOT come from me!)Samantha is coming out of her shell lately and can actually have fun when we are with a group of people!Before she would connect herself to my leg and didn't want to even LOOK at people. It still takes a while for her to warm up but she will leave me and go play now!The boys are good. They are into eveything!We took them to a ear,nose and throat doctor who said that we should put tubes in their ears because they had both had several ear infections. I asked a homiopathic(sp?)lady at church for any natural things we could do and she gave me this essential oil that I put in their ears...so far they have had no more infections and are sleeping so much better.Tyson is not all for this remedy and said if they get one infection we are putting the tubes in...Pray for NO infections!!!Well, keep praying for the job situation...we are trusting that God has something out there for us if we just wait on him!Love to all.Connie

Joli's birthday.

Miss Joliann is 3!
Wiating for cake with Joli's sister Natalie and Brant.
Samantha and Natalie(Brant's sister)Sam is finally being more social!
Eating the yummy cupcakes!
We had a party for the little girl I watch. She turned 3 yesterday.It was fun, but imagine 11 kids running around in my little house!CRAZINESS!We had a good time.The boys aren't in any of the pictures because they were napping... even with the noise they slept 2 hours!(they are finally doing better..Mitch slept the WHOLE night last night!YEAH!)Cassie was enjoying the newest baby in our play group..and Sienna was loving the attention!

new hiding place!

The boys found out that they can climb behind the couch...They think it's the coolest thing ever!It's funny though, because they get stuck alot!:)

Tyson's meeting......

Well, I wanted to post to let you all know how the meeting about the salary package went........NOT GOOD!They offered him 500.00 a week salary.Right now he makes 440.00.
They also said he needed to work 45 hours a week....he figured out that if he stayed how he was now and worked 5 hours overtime, he would make more than they are offering!Also, he had researched his EXACT position and on the lower end salary they should be paying him 30 to 35k.So he kinda feels like they are slapping him in the face somewhat.He has put his resume in at Medtronic(an orthopedic company)so we are hoping to hear back from them quickly.Needless to say he is very frustrated...we can't live off of that much with a 6 person family....anyway, pray that something comes so that he can quit at Signet and feel good about where he is working.Thanks for all the prayers....love to all. Connie

snack time!

Having an after dinner snack!yum!
My pretty little sammie!

Pester bug!

Before I tried to swipe the binkie!
Mitchell's very worried look!Max is my little pest, he loves to push people's bottons.Above,he is doing one of his favorite things, trying to steal Mitchell's binkie!Little Booger!

Great outlet buys!

I found this swimsuit at target for only 2.50...I don't know if Tyson will ever let Sammie wear it but I couldn't pass it up.I can either sell it at Kids Market or give it to a friend(like you Rachel:)It's a 4T.
My girlfriends and I took a weekend to go shop at some outlets in Ohio....these were my favorite(and BEST) buy of the weekend.I found these at the Childrens Place outlet for the boys this winter.The sweaters were 1.99 and the cute matching hat was only.99!!!6 bucks for all of it!Yeah me!:)I love it when I find the good ones...it would have been 48.00 normal price!LOVE IT!

playing outside.....

We are enjoing the beautiful spring!

MOWIN'!

The boys got to ride with dad on the lawn mower for the first mow of spring!Unlike their sisters, they were not at all afaid of the noise.They LOVED it!

JOBS!

Just wanted to let you all know that I officially QUIT my job when the school year is over!!!!!I am SO happy!This summer is going to be so great.Tyson told me to go ahead and do it a while back but I was scared that as soon as I did we would need that money....but the other day he said don't worry about it, I will take care of it, so I hurried up and told my boss before he changed his mind!!:)Also,I sent an email to some of my family and friends to ask for prayer and said in the email that tyson was looking at changing jobs...well, somehow(I think it was God)it got sent to tyson's boss!!!So that got the ball rolling and his boss it puting together a salary package and they will meet either next friday or the beginning of the next week!I am excited to see how our lives are going to change.........Trusting on HIS promises,Connie

yummy popsicles!

This is the boys first popsicle. They were a complete mess but totally loved it!Cassie finished hers before I could get the camera:)Sammie is the slowest eater EVER so as usual, she was the last one done!I had to end a nice summerish day with these....

summertime,summertime, sum-sum-summertime!

We had an absolutely beautiful day yesterday..I took the kids in the back yard and to the park.We are totally loving the spring weather...hopefully it last a while!:)

OLD pictures..

From left:Crystal,Charrie, Me,Tyler and Thomas.....How the years go by!
One of my favorites, mostly because of my dad's AWESOME hair!:)