Burger King with Dina, Olivia and J.J.

Dina took the kids to McDonald's while their house was being shown and Olivia really wanted Paul to go.  We had something else going on, but she has wanted him to go to McDonald's with her since.  There is no McDonald's nearby with a play place, so we went to Burger King instead.  It worked out nicely, we had the place to ourselves for 2.5 hours.  I didn't get any pictures of Paul and Olivia, they were too busy crawling up through all the tubes.  Joy and J.J. were not quite big enough to crawl up through, so they stuck to the steps on the bottom.  I didn't notice until I got home that Joy was drinking J.J.'s chocolate milk in these pictures. 

Pictures with Fina

Last Saturday, we took pictures with Fina at the Cathedral of Learning at Pitt.  These are just the pictures I took with my own camera.  It went as well as expected and we got some great  pictures.  I still need to figure out how to download them.

with Baby Jesus

Look carefully between the railings, Paul wanted his picture taken in front of the skyscraper.  The kids were SO excited to go to a skyscraper, but Paul did not want to go to the top!

 We went to a restaurant called "The Porch" right across the road for lunch.  It was yummy, especially the freshly made doughnuts!

Rolls

I was super excited to finally make some rolls that were close to Grandma Speer's.  I told Paul that I think those rolls made me fall in love with his daddy.  The only problem is I can't stop making and eating these things.

Planes

The Planes movie came out on DVD Tuesday.  We went to visit Grandma Ely on Wednesday.  I told Paul if he was very well behaved we'd go get the new movie.  He was so we did.  He has been excitedly playing with the toy Dusty Crophopper Keli got him for his birthday ever since.  Instead of buying Joy one, I thought maybe we could make a craft one.  So we found a nice pattern on the internet and we made our own.  

Then, of course, when Paul got home from school he wanted to make his own.  So he did.  And in usual Paul fashion he had to take it to the nth degree.  So we built an aircraft carrier to go with it, complete with a rubber band plane launcher that would really launch his homemade Dusty.  And then he invented a game to go with it.  He built a "girls hideout" out of blocks and made a block "dice." We had to roll the dice and move the aircraft carrier in the direction it pointed.  The object was to move it into the "girls hideout" and destroy it.  It was quite clever and we had fun playing it.  Except, Joy kept trying to destroy it a dozen times and I had to put her in her thinking spot so we could play.  

Bucket Heads

Toenails

Tonight I needed Shawn to do "surgery" on two sore toenails, one ingrown and one with a hang nail.  Usually I'm a big chicken who whines and has a heck of a hard time letting him do what he needs to do.  Tonight I prayed that God would make me brave, and I was, and now hopefully I'll be in good foot health for the Turkey Trott!   God takes care of the big things and the small things!

Charlotte's 3rd Birthday Party

Put the bandaid on Lambie's boo boo.

 Balloon swords!

Cake time