Our last stop...

was in Dayton Ohio. We stayed the night at Jeremiah and Lydia's home and took the family to Quaker Steak & Lube. They had some really good food (I ordered an appetizer that had pretzels, onion rings mozzarella sticks and fried breaded pickles, which were surprisingly good! and I had some ribs and wings for dinner) and a really cool atmosphere, for Marcus that is! Everything was race cars and motorcycles! He was so happy!!! So all in all we had a good time with our family on our trip! But we are sure glad we are home!

the Wedding...

was beautiful! Jeremiah and Lydia were very happy! I can't wait to see all of the rest of their portraits. Here are a few pictures Adrianne and I took.

hanging out with the Ontiveros family

This was the only time we got to hang out with my sister:( We went to lunch on Saturday at Pizza hut. I wish we could of hung out more but at least we had Pizza Hut!

the Creation Museum

So here are some pictures of our trip to the Creation Museum(a museum based on the Genesis 1:1) in Kentucky. The kids had a blast and so did we there was so much information!! we spent 4 1/2 hours there and am sure we could have spent twice that easy, if we didn't have four kids to maneuver! But we had a blast and we glad we did get a chance to go!

A huge waterfall thing

A very detailed diorama of Noah's Ark

life size building of Noah's Ark

the girls in the Garden of Eden

A "Dino" as Matthew calls them, in the Garden of Eden

Matthew

Marcus being cool in his snow boots, race jacket and hot wheels sunglasses

Girls in the cafe

WE'RE HOME!!!!

So we got home after a million hours of traveling we made it!! I am too tired to post much more than these few pictures! So now I am going to curl up on my couch with my husband and watch Dark Knight with my hubby before he goes back to work tomorrow:( So tomorrow there will be more pictures and stories to go along with them, for now...GOODNIGHT!!

Marcus

So over the past week or so the gates that once kept the boys from going into rooms they shouldn't no longer serve their purpose any more, at least not for Marcus. He has found ways to get over them! I am actually surprised it took him so long to get into the kitchen because all he does is put a chair by the gate and climb over. And the one at the bottom of the stairs, I thought he was just strait climbing over that one but Micah told me that was not how it was going down. So we asked Marcus to demonstrate his craft. This is what he did:(sorry mom we had to show you and dad, he obviously got this gene from dad, Rick)

Don't worry we have started keeping the back door locked at ALL times and have thoroughly explained to Marcus how dangerous it is to play with the knives on the counter. Most of the time when he gets in the kitchen he just gets my stamps and stamp pads and goes to town, good thing I always have a magic eraser handy. And when he goes in the girls room he just plays with their stuff, stickers, glitter and Polly pockets etc. So yeah this is my life for the next ummm 18 or so more years!! BOYS ARE CRAZY!!!

this weekend...

My parents came up to watch the kids for us. Originally it was so that we could go to a wedding and some how we ended up with more than just a wedding to go to and everything overlapped!! Our choices were Wedding, birthday party, USC Stanford football game or Rams Niners game. Micah and I have not really been able to spend any time together without the kids and since we will soon have five of them we decided to go spend the whole day together and went to Palo Alto to see the USC Stanford game and go to dinner afterwards. It turned out to be a great day, long but great. It was kind of weird to be all alone like that and I honestly don't remember the last time we have done that. Actually the only thing that comes to mind is when we went to Monteray for our 3rd anniversary(and we have been married 7 years!) WOW that is pretty sad!!! So I am glad we did what we did. I am sure Mike and Katie's wedding was beautiful and Emma's party was fun, I don't regret not going to the Rams game because they SUCK! So I am very thankful we got to spend the day together even if it was for a football game:) And THANK YOU to my parents for coming up to watch the kids it was AWESOME!!!!! Also here are some pictures of the kids from this weekend.

Our view of the game from our seats

Marcus in the tree posing because he is a dork

My mom took this picture of Matthew, I think it is so cool and he looks so cute!

Here are the kiddos

Jenna with no legs

Adrianne posing for grandma

Jenna's school picture

So we finally got Jenna's school pictures, and here it is....

Jenna's Birthday party

Today we had a birthday party for Jenna at the bowling alley since she turned TEN on Sunday!!! She had a great time! I had a great time too since I didn't have to do anything for the party, here is a picture of her and her friends and a video of them singing her happy birthday...

Adrianne...

So I got her first report card in the mail today and she is doing AWESOME!!!! She Got A's in all of her classes except Wood shop (she got a B), which I don't think she would have if she was in a different class. For some reason she ended up in a class where the kids don't listen!! So bummer for her but we'll see what she gets next time. Other than that I am very proud of her 3.83 GPA!!!!!!!!

Marcus

Tonight Marcus found some sweet tarts while breaking into the kitchen and when I woke Micah up to go to work he had a little convo with Micah that went like this:

Marcus: Daddy you want some candy?
Daddy: No thanks.
Marcus: It make you feel better, it'll make you feel happy...
Daddy: No that's okay
Marcus: It'll make you not so tired
Micah: okay

It didn't take long for Micah to be pressured into eating this feel better, happy, not so tired candy Marcus was slanging.

Family...

So we were super blessed enough to have our family over this weekend!! We wish that everyone could have made it and maybe someday we can have a real family reunion so that we can all hang out again like old times. Here are a couple of pictures from our dinner and all of us together before some of them left. So thanks for coming over Auntie Shayne and Uncle Dan, Aunt Laurie Uncle Darren Derek and Zach, Aunt Diane and Uncle Randy and Mom and Dad! I really hope that all 54 of us from Grandma Flournoy to Maggie can get together real soon!!

It's a BOY!!!

So today we had an ultrasound to check the baby and make sure everything was there and where is should be and the doctor said everything looked good. He does want to see me back at 28 weeks just to check the heart one more time but that is it. So yeah, IT'S A BOY! So now I am going to have three boys. I am excited that they will have each other as they grow up and will be close like Micah and his brothers although a little closer in age. I guess God saw that what he did in Rick and Tina's boys was good so he wanted to do it again!! Wow crazy isn't it!? So anyways here are some pictures of the little man in my belly...

here is his foot

I think he is practicing his karate chops in this picture. Smart kid since he is going to have two older brothers roughing him up

And here is his profile

here is his face

So here we see that it is a boy, the tech wasn't even trying to look at that she was actually checking some thing else and said "Um I am pretty sure that's a boy"

This is my family.....

on a Sunday afternoon. Marcus and I left for a couple of hours so that we could get out of the house. Micah, Matthew and the girls stayed home and played Guitar Hero World Tour. So when we got home from our outing Marcus put on his new Tony Stewart costume (that I don't think is coming off of him any time soon) and decided to rock out with Micah and Jenna. And yes if you look on the couch behind all of the commotion Matthew is sleeping there. The video is a little long but worth watching, Enjoy!!

The Pumpkin Patch...

We have been going to the same pumpkin patch for 3 years now. This year they added some bounce houses, pony rides and a DJ to their already fun couple of hay mazes, playground, farm animals and Fruit barn. So we were excited to get out and let the kids have some fun. Unfortunately Matthew is having some kind of allergic reaction to his antibiotics he has been taking for four days now and he started breaking out in a rash all over his body so we had to kind of cut it short. But I don't think the kids minded too much we were there for about an hour and they got their pumpkins, a treat from the fruit barn and got to hit up the mazes. All in all it was a good time. So here are some pictures from our visit. I have also put a picture up of the kids from last two years(the one from three years ago is Marcus only, the girls didn't go with me and him to that one) to see how they have changed. Hopefully next year we will be able to return since the farm is for sale:( If it is still there next year there will be five kids in the pictures instead of four. Funny little note, while there we saw a family who might have given us a glimpse in to the future. It was a mom and dad with their five kids the two older were girls about 14 and 12 the next were three boys probably around 5, 3 and one years old. I thought it was kind of weird. Especially if this baby we are having in March turns out to be a boy. By the we way we go in on Wednesday to find out what the baby is, WooHooo!! I can't wait!


yes, that is a Christmas tree at the pumpkin patch. This year they wanted to let us know they would be selling trees starting the 1st of December and if you take a tag off the tree and bring it back in December you get 10% off your tree.

Matthew thought these scarecrows were fascinating

Here is one of the classic pictures, these ARE Micah's boys!

Here is a better one

Here is the one from last year


And Marcus from the year before