Chris & Kade build us a table!

These are my awesome boys building us a new family kitchen table.  This was a new type of a project that they haden't tried before. They kreg jigged all of the top boards together to make a table top and then connected the legs and skirting. They did awesome and it turned out beautiful.  It now sits in our house and we love and use it daily!!  Good job boys!! 

Movie Nights!

A year after getting our projector and screen, we finally got a soundbar to go with it...so we are now ready for Movie Night OUTSIDE!!  

The kids have been pretty excited to try this out.  We just have to make sure there is no chance of rain.  We got all set up on night (which is quite a process) and then just as we got the movie started it began to rain.  We had to clean up and postpone our movie.

Fun times!!

Quincy's 11th Birthday!

I don't know why I can't find pictures of Quincy Lou's Birthday, but they seem to be missing!  What I do know is that we celebrated and she turned a whole year older!  How is she already 11?  One more year and she will be in Young Women's!!

We had a family dinner to celebrate and Quincy got new clothes and money for her birthday.  Quincy is such a sweet girl.  She is an awesome big sister to Brinley and such a fun little sister to Kade, Em and Kylee.  Quincy is funny!!  Her cute sense of humor is popping out and we all laugh at the funny things she comes up with.  She is becoming a wonderful piano player, even though her dream in life is to quit piano!  She is also becoming quite the little actress.  She has been in a couple plays and absolutely loves to perform on stage.  She isn't scared a bit!

We are so grateful that 11 years ago she came into our family.  

Happy Happy Birthday Quincy!

We love you!

Easter!

Easter party with cousins at our house this year!  We colored eggs outside and had an Easter egg hunt.  Looks like the Easter Bunny left some cool flip flops again this year!

We are lucky to have cousins that live close enough to party with often. :)

Snorkeling anyone?

Since we are headed to Hawaii in June we took Quincy and Brinley to the Nat to swim and practice using their snorkel gear.  We were most worried about Brinley because she is the youngest and we didn't know how she would do.  She is a fish!  She was a natural.  She figured out the breathing so quick and loved it.  We are so excited to get her into the ocean in Hawaii where she might see a little more exciting things in  the water than the bottom of the swimming pool!

This is what Brinley had to say about her experience...

"I thought that it would be really hard at first, then when I got in and tried it was actually pretty easy. It was super fun and I had a great time. When we got ready to go snorkeling in Hawaii I thought it would be scary to have fish in my face!"