"Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body." (Elizabeth Stone)

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

What do you do in April when you live at your Moms?

Well, you get ready to move, play the AWESOME piano, finish a quilt, lose a tooth, play with cousins, do some fun photo shoots (indoor of course due to all the ridiculous snow) and all sorts of fun things!

Finish off your cousins desserts...
protect your ears when the movies get too loud...
Gaze longingly out of the back door at your sisters (who ARE clothed) jumping on the trampoline...
Play dress-ups in my old Dance Costumes...
Help Gran clean out the fridge...
Play with cousins (Jaymeson and Carson) while Mom takes a million pictures
Jaymeson ALWAYS greets Carson by patting him on the head...
Jaymeson also has an obsession with the phone...
There is also MUCH Lego involved during playtime...

Jarom and Kaia
This is a "Oh yeah?!?" face...
I LOVE this face...
Kaia's idea was to do Karate for the pictures.  This reflected their "competitive" sides...
This also was taken to reflect their personalities.  A quiz where they had to write it the fastest and get the most right.  The problem they faced was that they KNEW all THOSE questions...
I told them that it didn't matter because it wasn't a real test.  It was just for the picture and then they were okay.  Do we have nerdy 7 year olds?  Yes, we do!


Travis and Kienna
The only way that I could convince these boys to cooperate was to tell them this was a surprise for their mom.  At this point, Alanna came home, so I couldn't get pictures of Saryn and Jack.  Next time we'll start with them...

Hope you enjoyed my mini-photoshoot.  I didn't edit any of these, but I didn't want to delay another post on my blog again.  I'm hoping to start posting at least a couple times a week again.  So keep checking!

6 comments:

Brittany said...

I'm so glad you posted! This was so fun to see what is going on at home. I miss you tons!

Hayley said...

I wish you could have been here with everyone this last week. We miss you! I am happy to see pictures though!

Alysha Sladek said...

looks like you've been having fun! how did the grad photos go? where did you end up going??
can't believe kienna's lost a tooth! they're growing up sooooo fast!!

Brandy said...

mary-grace shared a letter that kaia had sent a few weeks ago. it was really cute. she really misses her! i am no longer the teacher and am in young womens.... it's different but fun! glad to see you guys are doing to good!!

Beryl Shoekel said...

I love these pictures Ash, everyone of them is really good of each of the kids, I'm sure Alanna will be excited to see them.
Never a dull moment it seems when kids are around!! Your mom cleaning the refrigerator, I"m sure they all really were a big help.

Alanna said...

Oh, I have so many favorites...
Jaymeson looking out the window, the empty fridge, karate and nose tweaking, and yeah those aren't the only ones. Let's make more memories... so you can keep snapping away at the at camera, okay?