Valentines Photo Session

These are the steps taken in order to get 3 children to take one good photo.

1) Chase children around in order to get them in coordinating clothes for the picture.
2) Wrangle them all to one area in order to take the picture.

3) Remove all toys from the area so they will be less distracted and will hopefully focus on the camera.

4) Put up the "Happy Valentine's Happy" background and continuosuly ask the kids to not rip it down.

5) Then say..................

"Please look at me!"

"Damon stop rolling your eyes"

"Joel, quit pulling on Olivia's hair!"

"Olivia, just stay right there for 10 seconds!" You guys, please don't rip those down................ aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh never mind!" And finally.............................."Yes we are all done!"

I love my little Valentines.

I get to love them all year long and for all the years to come and for all Eternity.

Pheasant Hunt Success

Before Josh got married, had 3 kids, owned 2 dogs, and owned his own business, he had hobbies that he could do every weekend if he so pleased. Now he if wants to spend some time doing a "hobby" he has to schedule it in somewhere.

So Wednesday Josh headed out to test Rocco's skills as a bird dog. He may not have admitted it, but he was excited to test Rocco out and I know that if Rocco didn't preform, Josh was gonna be ticked.

Despite the snowy conditions Rocco prevailed and Josh came back with a large grin. Rocco found numerous pheasants, waited for the "flush" command and even honor pointed. They killed 19 pheasants and now we have pheasant in our freezer.

Damon was excited about the pheasant. One nice cheezy smile, thanks. Luckily this time Damon kept the pheasant outside. Last time Josh brought pheasant home Damon was so excited that he ran inside, then upstairs to find me and I screamed because he was holding a dead bird in front of me.

Damon's Dictionary

My conversation with Damon tonight:

"So......what were you doing upstairs Damon?"
"I was upstairs cleaning up my bedroom & toyroom to make you happy and now I'm exasperated!"
"Exasperated?!?"
"Yeah....I'm exasperated."
"What does exasperated mean?"
"It means you don't want to clean up your room and just want to watch some nice, smooth TV."
"Oh, really."
"Yeah."

They're Here!

Lucky for me these eggs are already out........ even before Valentine's Day. I LOVE THEM! I love them so much they are the first non-family realted photo on the Blog. So even though Easter is still over a month away......thank you Wal-Mart for putting these on your shelves for my consumption and expansion of my thighs and wasitline.

Eating Like a Weed

We only have two plants in the entire house and both happen to be in the dining room on the floor. Bad placement when you have Olivia the Master Gardner in your house. Olivia thoroughly enjoys potting soil. She digs into the soil with her little hands and spreads it about on the floor. She also likes to taste test. If it's good enough for the plants..........then it's good enough for her. She is little Miss Mischievous!