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Here are more birthday pictures....more fun...cakes and cousins. Josiah loves his cousin Kaleb

Fishing with new pole with Uncle Gabe!

Last year birthday

Saw some of these pictures from last year. Josiah is now almost 7, but these are his 6 year birthday week pictures. We try to do something little every day for a week. The first is balloons in bed

Roasting marshmellow over the flame (gas stove)
Then cupcakes and a snow day.

School

Here are a few pictures from our real life everyday. Elijah doing Handwriting, which is what he alway defaults to when he doesn't want to do anything else. He can write well, but only in his handwritin book apparently. :)
Josiah is doing Math. He liked it until adding and subtracting between 10 and 20 came along....
Levi is doing whatever he wants with the shapes..which happens to be playing with them like marbles. He actually likes to do school with his brothers most of the time. HE ADORES THEM!..ok, when he is not biting and punching them....
Last picture is Josiah reading to E and L. He has just started to take off with the reading thing in the past month or so...He loves the Bible A Lela and U Ian gave him, and several times read us the entire Christmas section. Next to that his favorite thing to read these days is of all things...a Lego brochure (with star wars lego pictures, a new obsession since whales and dolphins)... and the Calvin and Hobbes comics that Chad got for Christmas. His brothers get the benefit of his new enthusiasm.

Friends

We had visitors in our basement for 4-5 days in early December. Friends of ours from church were moving and needed a place to stay for a few days in between houses. It was busy and fun! They are quite glad to be in their new house now though. Its always nice to have time with friends.

OUR REAL LIFE-CRAZY!

This is more of the picture of what really goes on at our house, although I don't know why I don't have a picture of Elijah...he would look roughly the same though.

Sunday Service

Don't remember why we stayed home this Sunday, probably sickness...whatever the reason the kids love to have church at home. This time they decided to lead the "Sunday School." We had Bible story, music ( with their wooden guitars), communion (all set up by them), prayer and Crafts. It was a hoot! We are wearing our crafts. Chad and I didn't do a thing. And we stayed in our Pjs!
Sometimes they are just so sweet....

Work day

Some of the best times we've had is working on other people's yards. More fun then working on your own I guess.
It was really a blessing to us to be able to do this, as Gil Woo died 2 weeks later. I am glad we got to see him and Vivian.

Dad and Mom were their with us and that made the time even more special. Gil woo took all these pictures and gave them to us.

Tree wrestling

And then there was what I considered to be the most humerous picture of the Thanksgiving weekend...the tree wrestling...reminded me of some kind of a Ranch "branding" event that would be done with cattle. The guys were really into it too it seemed!

These are a few of our Tree photos, though most of you were there!
Aren't Selah and Elijah STRONG!!

A serious little helper...

Our family tree photo

Fall Fever

Obviously this is before Christmas...though not too much before...I am going to blog some of our favorite memories whether they are in any kind of order or not.
SURPRISE!

This is Josiah, he wanted to rake "Grandpa" Jerry's lawn..our neighbor's next door.

Chad built a cage for all the leaves so we can use them in the garden...also works great for stock-piling them to jump in!

This is the perfect Elijah picture, I think he would jump off of most anything, depending on his mood, of course.
Looks like fun, huh. I tried it....works better if you're smaller :)