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!!