Blessed, moment by moment

Its time to bounce!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For Lillie's third birthday we bought her a bouncy house and have put it to good use. For some reason though it took me all winter before I actually set it up in our basement for the kids to play in. Good thing I did because it burns off some energy and they all love it!!! It takes up their entire play area in the basement but it is totally worth it, plus we don't play down there anyway in the winter because it is so cold.

Crazy shenanigans!

With it being Winter the kids have been locked up inside a lot and some days things get a little weird... enjoy!

swords!

fighting over the swords

photo by Lillie

Joshua vacuuming... he is obsessed

cheering on Da Bears

Yeah... he is in the band

oh Joshua!

This kid is so weird sometimes

we figured out Patrick fit in the shopping cart

and so does Josh!!!

believe it or not... no one got hurt

Patrick wanted to be pushed

Boots!

different day... same boots

this didn't end well!

Blizzard of 2011

Yeah... yeah... yeah I know everyone knows we were hit with a bunch of snow but I figured I might as well share the pictures we took of what it looked like around our house as well as the kids attempting to play in it.

Yes Lillie insisted we swing

AND... slide

most of the snow was taller Patrick

We built a tunnel

coming out of the tunnel

Patrick attempting the tunnel

Quick pause before he commits

Yeah... he did it

Gregg had to shovel a dog run

Our deck

My crazy kids!

He got stuck in there... took both Gregg and I to get him out

Valentine's Day!

I always do a photo session with the kids each holiday... I use to be much more creative but with 3 kids I'm just lucky if it looks semi seasonal and they are all in the picture. Here are some highlights from our Valentine's Day pictures.

The best shot I got!

DuPage Children's Museum

In January we took a trip to the DuPage Children's Musuem with Aunt Martha and her friend and her friend's nephew. The kids had a blast! It was great for them to burn off the some energy while doing a little learning. Winter is an awesome time to visit as it got the kids out of the house. Here are some highlights from our trip.

Playing a little music

Everything in his mouth.... ugh

My little Picasso

Attempting to make a huge bubble

Making bubbles with Aunt Martha

Lillie wasn't sure at first... so cute

Everything is a hat to Patrick... EVERYTHING

Getting ready to go in the wind tunnel... safety first

I guess Josh was the only excited to go home

Patrick's First PooPoo!

It was January 14, 2011, midday.

Patrick came to me and told me he had poopoos.

So we rushed to the potty and proceeded to push.

Moments later he delivered as promised.

He was so proud of himself and filled with joy.

Needless to say it is not a daily occurrence.

Spring is right around the corner

So I realized I have neglected this for 2 months. What can I say we are hibernating! Winter hasn't been very exciting around our house. We did get hit with a bunch of snow in February, almost too much to even have fun in. Hopefully with March finally here all the snow is behind us and it will start to warm up and we can get outside and start having some real fun. Spring is birthday season for the kiddos which is VERY exciting, mainly only for Lillie because she is the only one who understand anything.

Joshua is only 4 days away from turning 1!