Mother's Day - Sunday May 9th

This is a very late post... but I had to post these fun pictures! On mother's day we went to Papa and Grandma Bonnie House for dinner.

The girls played dress up and put nails on.

.... and the boys were outside taking care of all the Cowboys!
We had a wonderful dinner and enjoyed watching the kids play.

Happy Birthday... Daddy!!!!

Today is Sam's BIRTHDAY!

Happy Birthday HUN!!!

You are the best DADDY and HUSBAND in the world!

THANK you for all you do for us!

(This picture was taken 2 years ago on our cruise for his birthday)

WE LOVE YOU... xoxoxoxxo

Nate's Birthday Party - Saturday, May 8th

On Saturday, May 8th we went to Nate's Birthday party. It was at a fire station. We had yummy pizza, played games and watched Nate open his presents. We also got to tour and play on all the Fire Trucks. It was so much FUN!!

Here is Nate with a Fire Truck

Here are all the kids at the party.
Nana, Kora Lily and Sam

Kora Lily loved sitting inside the trucks...

Big Girl Driver...

Kora Lily climbin' around...

Daddy chasing Kora Lily...

Kora Lily sitting on the hose...

Kora Lily loved playing and running around all the trucks... thanks for such a fun birthday party Nate :o)

The end of our Florida trip....

While Jill and Ryan were gone at the wedding... we had a great time with the kids... We played games... went swimming... eat lots of "SNACKS" and baked & frosted cookies.

Here is Cooper, Eli & Scarlett with one of there cookies...

Kora Lily in the swimming pool
Scarlett and Eli in the swimming pool...

We had to go out and buy yellow rings for all the kids... they were fighting over the one yellow ring that the Butler's had.

Lil' Willow... after her nap...

Scarlett playing with Willow outside...

Eli, Scarlett and Cooper getting ready for a "NAP"

When Aunt Jill came back home they had to show her their new trick with jumping in with the yellow tube on.

Kora Lily and Scarlett tickling each other....

All the kids the night before we left...

Willow, Scarlett, Cooper, Kora Lily and Eli....

Even though Kora Lily and Cooper decided to get sick and throw up all night after Jill and Ryan left... We STILL had a GREAT time... lots of kids and all! The weather was perfect and the kids were fun! Can't wait to do it again this summer!!!!

Florida....

On Friday we thought we better get to the beach again before Jill and Ryan left for the wedding. So we packed up all the kids again for another day a the beach....

We left Willow and Sleeping Kora in the car until they wanted out.. (less time in the sand)

Kora could eat her lunch without eating more sand then bread :o)
The kids loved the Ocean and actually got WET the second day.
They would keep saying.. " I am not afraid of the water"

We even built a little sand castle.

Aunt Amy holding her two babies for the week...

cooper and willow

Willow and Kora's feeding time...

that sums up day two..

ok.. blog is fixed! Yah!!!!!

So back to where we packed up the jeep... and headed to Florida to baby sit Scarlett and Baby Willow......

Kora, Eli & Cooper

in the car...
We drove through the night and hit the beach as soon as we got to Florida in the morning. The kids slept the whole way down and NO TRAFFIC for the drive!

Kora at the beach Then the water came...

... and she didn't know what to think...

... so she went down...

.... down....

once she got back up... she loved the beach...

she couldn't stop ....

Scarlett playing at the beach

Willow playing at the beach...

...... to be cont....

So we packed up the Jeep....

So we (Amy, Eli, Cooper, Kora Lily and I) packed up our Jeep and headed to Florida to babysit Jill and Ryan's girls. They had a wedding to attend and needed baby sitters. We left on Wednesday night and drove thur the night. We arrived at Jill's at 7:30 am on Thursday morning and headed to the beach right away. The kids slept thru the night and did pretty good in the car ride down. I told Amy I that we are getting to old to do this trip all in one shot. But thanks to Sour Patch Kids, Combo's, Pepsi, Coffee and BAD Singing... (and a phone call in the middle of the night) we were able to stay awake once again for this trip to FL.

Well all the kido's are in bed... so I better take advantage of the peace and QUITE and get some shut eye myself...

I was going to up load some photos... but I am getting a blog error saying I have already uploaded to many images to this blog.. hmmm.. ??? I will have to look into that.

Kora Lily...

Kora Lily has been so excited to go out side and play in the grass, stones and mud! She doesn't stop... she goes from the grass to the stones to the grass... to the stones....and she loves it! Another pic of Kora Lily outside.

She was helping daddy clean out the garage and claimed her house back. She had played with this box in the house for weeks until mommy moved it to the garage.
Last weekend we spent an evening with some couples. One of the couples had a little girl that was born about 1 1/2 before Kora Lily. They played very good together.

I was trying to get the girls to smile... but they wanted to eat there fingers instead.

(Kora Lily & Jenna - 13 months)

Easter... Egg Hunt...

Hello everyone... and once again... a much needed up date on our blog is needed! If you are still checking out our blog we appreciate it, for we do not keep it very updated! Sunday after celebrating Christ resurrection in church... we headed to Grandma Hartzlers for an egg hunt. Each year the kids line up and race to find all the eggs hidden in Grandpa and Grandma's yard.

Kora found TWO eggs... and that was enough for her. One for each hand!!!
She wasn't sure why she needed to put them in the bucket...

Lizzie n Kora at Grandma's

She got to sit on Aunt Beth's lap while the kids exchanged egg for quarters.

... playing with the buckets of eggs....

if only she was a little bit taller!!

We had Nana over for dinner and she brought

Kora a BIG Easter egg filled with goodies!!