Music Loving Family x 10

Ours is probably one of the few places you can hear; Irish Washerwoman, Bach's Third Cello Suite (on the piano), Red Haired Boy, and Amazing Grace going at the same time. Oh, and Erin likes to throw Row Row your Boat in.

Music is fun, pretty, but sometimes a little annoying!!! :)

Sarah is my sister.she plays what I play. and she loves horses. and now I've seen horses up close I think I LOVE horses!!!!!!!!!

Practice Night - part two - more photos

The Light Crew

The button pusher

Ryan is SO funny!

I have the screwdriver!

Sweet MeMe

Sarah's Birthday!!!

Today is Sarah's Birthday and she is 6!!!
Here are 6 things about Sarah that you might not know:
#1 Her favorite color is teal.
#2 Her favorite food is peanut butter&jelly sandwiches ~GRAPE-jelly~
#3 She has a teddy bear named Teddy ~of course~ who is always hiding and can never seem to stay clean.
#4 She LOVES horses. She has books and calendars in her room and wanted one for her birthday. Lets see what happens...
#5 She actually looked at her presents and told me she had so many she wouldn't know what to do if she got any more!!! How many kids have ever said that to you???
#6 She is always making us laugh with the crazy things she does.

So lets all comment and wish her a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

~P.S. The top picture is when she was 2 maybe the 2nd is when she was 5 and the 3rd was this morning when she open a gift from all of us.

I know we've seen a few to many Jane Austin type movies when...

I know we've seen a few to many Jane Austin type movies when my little sister tells me she is not hungry so she will not be down for breakfast but she might take a little something in her room later on.

Publish Post

A new movie

Here is what happens when Erin, Ryan, Emily, Jamie, and Sarah go off by themselves!! Sorry about the quality of the movie. That (alas) is what happens when they film themselves without hiring a professional. Just kidding! Enjoy!



Besides I recently discovered I have more people on this blog than I know. Last night I found out two families go on a lot.

A Normal Birthday At Our House

So it is your birthday!!!

You start the day out by everyone singing to you to wake you up!
And...you don't have to help make breakfast!

Then before we start breakfast you get sung to again which is always exciting seeing as how not one of us can carry a tune and we all like to sing our own little way for example one person will decide to come in with a simply terrible bass part while another will come in with a ear-piercing-glass-shattering soprano.

You get to open a present at the breakfast table and then you get to take off from chores afterward.

You get to make your own cake and ice-cream -that is if we remember!
And through out the day you get special privileges like no school work,you get to pick the movie if we watch one, get the mail, and so on.

Well then dinner rolls around.

Well your siblings have made a special dinner for you and your Mom&Dad because they are so wonderful -Right Jess?:~)
So you eat with your parents while you listen to the rest of us eat in the kitchen -Yikes!

Well after dinner we all get together for cake and ice-cream and someone says something like "Um... Where's the ice-cream?" Well we forgot to make it!
So we all raid the freezer to look for ice-cream from the last birthday that is one of the good things about being in a big family- the ice-cream was only a few weeks old!
Well we all eat then we move on to the presents!


There are like 50 cameras all taking your picture OK maybe not but it sure seems like it.
Well say you start with a card from your grandparents and you get around 10 dollars,

Michael takes it and wads it in a ball,

Erin tells you that you could get a violin mute,

Daddy rolls over and snores,

Rachel asks what you got,

Jamie takes a picture,

Sarah chases Michael,

Mommy tells Michael to give the money back,

Emily asks how much you got,

And someone shoves another gift in your face.

When its all over you are sad yet glad that your family loves you so much!-Right Jess:~)
And the next morning everything falls back into routine like nothing ever happened until another birthday rolls around!

-Erin

Friends and Family - hiking

Just kidding!

After the hike up the cliff, I mean hill!, we stopped at the cross.
Daddy wished his burden would fall off, like in Pilgrims Progress, but unfortunately Baby Brother and the backpack stayed on!

Baby Brother loved their trains

Lots of Kitties

Second Sister and "Skunk-face"
They named him we didn't

I am NOT killing it! I am being very gentle!

Finished!

Oldest Brother at the chapel!

Taking a break - a much needed break!

Oldest Brother inspects the great and interesting rock

Everyone stand on the edge of the rock and make the mom's nervous

My sweet brother

The moms and two of their little ones!

We had so much fun with the B Family. There were 17 kids and it was so much fun.
A hike to the top of the mountain, look at the cross and the chapel, and then back down the cliff... I mean trail! It was a trifle steep!!! But we had so much fun.
Don't ask how far it was, because all I got out of them was that it was 20 up and 20 down. Yeah right!

You can't tell, but I am way above them!

Sweet Little Princess

Mommy and Mrs. B- two great moms

We were hiking, so it's a little blurry, but here's Little Sister.
It was a great trail!