A few more...

i don't have any real good recent pictures of Gage...poor third child. I'll blame it on our broken camera. I will try to get some more soon tho'...

So...we made this pinata for my brother's graduation...do you like our one eyed alien? It was way fun...but I don't think I've seen Keith that confused and shocked in awhile. I mean, think about it...Elli and I spend DAYS making this thing...then we all hit it with a bat...and then the thing breaks and candy and twinkies and waterguns and all kinds of goodies fall out of the sky. talk about one confused 2 year old. (Notice Sam making away with all the twinkies...)

These next few were from our trip to Arkansas...I sure do miss that neck of the woods :). It was a lot of fun. This is Tommy's folks backyard. Pretty cool, huh? Anyway...Elli loved going fishing with Daddy...in the first picture Tommy was actually trying to get a fish I had caught. The darn fish swam under a log and wouldn't come out. Eventually the line broke and the fish got away with my hook (that I baited all by myself with a live squigly little worm from the compost). I was so bummed it got away...I'm telling you it was huge! ;) *grin*

Elli scaling the fish DJ caught.

Well, I suppose that'll be all for tonight...I can't believe it's only 9:30...I might actually get to bed before 10 tonight. I really will try to get more pictures up. Things are going good...we've been busy...but I suppose that's good. I'm trying to think if there's anything else exciting going on that I can write. Gage is getting so big...it seems like the time goes by faster and faster with each child. I'm getting the hang of having the three of them...but not to the extent that I actually have free time...just to the extent that I'm not going totally insane. Today I went outside and Keith was building something very carefully with some scrapwood in the woodbox and he looked up at me and very seriously said, "I'm working." It brought back so many memories of my brother Paul...it seems like just yesterday paul was two years old and talking about how he was a "hard worker". They are so much alike. If 18 years from now Keith is "working" as a missionary like Paul is...I will be one happy mommy :). Anyway...I'm exhausted...goodnight online world :).