An African & a 4 Year Old Playing Football

I know you need a laugh today, so here you go!!!!

Family Pictures 2010

Well, we finally got our family pictures taken!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!! Our family picture frame above our fireplace has actually been empty since June! Our family had changed so much over the past year that I finally just took the old picture out of there and left the frame empty! I am posting some of my favorites from our session with my friend Stacy. I am however holding back my favorite, Favorite, FAVORITE one of all of us that will be for the Christmas card! I have to keep some sort of surprise coming! Here are a few of the others:

My boys...

Us girls...

My loves.

JJ

Jayla

Justice

Sam

Peprah

Embracing the chaos!


And of course we must take a look at the out-takes!!!! These are the ‘real’ and ‘un-cut’ us! :)

JJ picking his nose...

All Justice wants to do is wrestle. Wrestle. Wrestle. Wrestle. Here we are at a timeout in between shots getting some wrestling out!

And trying to get this picture was hilarious. Jayla was bawling and I believe Jake’s patience had run out by this point as you can see (mine ran out about 30 minutes before this point)! But the fam endured the pain and now we should be all set until next year’s family picture session!

Thank you Stacy for photographing our crazy bunch!

A Friendly Little Scuffle....

I wish I would have kept the video going about 20 seconds longer....on the next tackle JJ wiped Jayla out flat on her back and she popped right up like it was nothing!

:)

See You Next Week!

I am going to take a little blogging break this week. Have a good one!!!!!!!

Jayla Pretend Reading

The other day Justice was watching Jayla ‘read’ aloud and he asked me if she really knew how to read! She does such a good job pretending that I think she could definitely fool some people! During her reading episodes she flips through the pages in the book and says a bunch of mish-mash, but also throws in a few recognizable words relevant to the picture on the page. Her favorite thing to do is this:

She sets up her little ‘classroom’ all in a row and ‘reads’ them a book. If she is in the mood, she sometimes will sit and do this for about 15-20 minutes straight with a pile of books! In fact, the other day in the waiting room at the doctor’s office she started doing this with the Reader’s Digest magazine! It was hilarious! When it was time for Justice to go get his blood drawn, one of the nurses decided to keep Jayla out in the waiting room so I could help Justice better. We went off to a side room to do the blood work, and came out about 5 minutes later and Jayla was still reading the Reader’s Digest out loud to the nurse! What a sight!

Here are a few videos of her in action….

Starting to 'read'….



Still reading.....



The end!