Merry Christmas Uncle Joseph!

I couldn't get our video to upload to my email so this is our "christmas letter" to Uncle Dobuf. If I can get one of Rodney I'll add it as well. He's still sick and sleeping all the time. This is our first snow that we've gotten to play in. The first one was a few flurries then it melted. So I figured we'd better go play in it while we could.

This one is from today (a few days later). We got a lot more snow this morning and mikey made a snowman.

This is Gavin eating snow off the van. BLECH!

Eat mor Chickin

So chick fil a had their cow appreciation day. You come with something cow themed and you get a free sandwich, come dressed horn to hoof as a cow and you get a full meal for free. And of course, free food is always a plus when you have children.

So Sarah and I spent our moornings making cow costumes. Hers were way cuter than mine cause she actually sewed them. I just used paper and tape...but I still got the free meal.

 Note the udder cuteness of lydia.

 And I seriously can't get enough of this kid...oh wait thats a baby goat...this calf...thats just weird.

 My boys in their cowstumes. Mikey was a texas longhorn, Gavin was a Zebu (he even used our mullet wig as the hump on his back (it fell off), Xander went as Babe, paul bunyons big blue ox. And Owen went as a Dead cow. hehehe. They never specified they had to be alive.

 Sarah and her monkies...cows....children....you know, those hoodlums running around.

 Danton and his bull nose ring.

 Sarah and Risa

me and owen just after we got home. My "pig tails" were suposed to be horns. They started out a little whiter than that, but most the flour fell out by the time we got home. Yes...I put flour in my hair. I've heard a little flour in your hair makes you look pretty. meh heh heh. All in all it was fun. I even had leftovers to take to daddy when we went home. Totally worth it.

4 Family Garage Sale

Yesterday was so much fun. I got to have some of my absolute favorite people stay at my house all day. My sister and her 3 kids, my cousin and her 4 kids, and my other cousin and her 3 kids. We decided to hold a garage sale to get rid of some of the stuff cluttering our house, and then decided to donate the proceeds to develop the willis family cemetery. Let me tell you, it was work, but it was so fun. The kids played in the hose ALL DAY, and us moms got to sit and talk and be together all day. It was fun. Not as good of a turn out as I would have liked, but we have plenty left overs and we're going to sell them again next week. Here are a few pictures from the day that I thefted from Kristin. Benny and Owen "selling" cookies at the garage sale. SOME of the kids eating pizza for lunch. It was a blast. We all sang primary songs while we waited for the pizza to cool off.

Camping Fail

Small children and camping don't mix. Enough said.

Camping Prep

That is IT! It's officially summer! Mikey got out of school yesterday. We decided the best way to kick off summer vacation is to go on a family camp out! We have a tent that hasn't seen much use for the past 3 years. We got it just after Mikey was born. We can probably count the number of times we've used it on one hand. I'm getting so stoked for this trip though. We set up the tent in the backyard to make sure it was in good working order. It's ready to go! We got it all folded back up and in the Garage until Daddy's weekend. His weekend is Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. So the soonest we can camp out is next week. I just checked the weather forcast and it's going to be nice and sunny. Time to go dig out my camping gear. I'm PUMPED!

Resurrection Time

So....I haven't been able to get one any of my blogs because I have the worst memory in a million years...but I've now refound the password to this one so hopefully we'll get some bloggin done. I am quite tired of facebook. Yes, I realize the last post was ages ago so...here we go again. the Resurrection of my blog. lets get it started!