Ted E. Bear

T Jay got to bring "Ted" home from school on Wednesday! He was so excited to do all sorts of fun things with him. Here he is "helping" Jess with his car! I thought it was really cute!

Once There Was a Snowman!

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Our kids love to sing, "Once there was a snow man." For some reason, they think that once they have melted they disappear and can hold out a leg or arm that can be seen while they are holding it out, but once they tuck it back in, they are invisible again! Silly kids. I thought I'd share a weekly FHE occurrence here at our house.

Our little "Monkey Babe"

"Does anyone out here need some toilet paper? 'Cause I brought some, it's right here! No, Mommy and Daddy don't know that the bathroom door got left open. They don't know that I washed my hands in the toilet, either! I'm ALL clean!"
"I love it when I find a chair that isn't pushed in because then I can use it to climb on the table and steal Summer's lunch! Oh, and her drink, too. I like to pour out the drinks and then splash them!"
"Hmmm, now let's see, I've cleaned the bathroom, cleaned up Summer's lunch. Hmmm, my work here is done! Oh wait, I want to polish off that Mac & Cheese!"
"This Mac & Cheese is delicious! I am so glad Summer left some food for me!"

Peek-a-Boo!

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Matthew is such a silly boy! He is really getting a great "cheese" face when he sees the camera. His new favorite game is to get in the closet and pull the doors shut and then throw them open and say, "Boo!" This time he is just giving us "cheese" because the camera is on!

Our New Life!!

It's official!! Jess gets his dream job working as a Project Manager developing wind projects! We are very excited to move to Florida. The FPL Energy headquarters is in Juno Beach, Florida! Wish us luck as we change climates with a temperature difference of 83 degrees! I think we are up to that challenge! All I can think of is that I won't have to begin bundling children 20 minutes before I have to leave to go somewhere! Here we go on our newest adventure!!!!

Week in Review

I have been a slacker blogger this past week, so to catch you up a little, here are some pictures and posts.
My friend, Jamie, made this yummy (& pretty) birthday cake for me. It was very nice of her and I really appreciated it!
Summer watching a princess movie in a nee dress that Grammy sent her. She loves dresses. In fact, all she wants for Christmas is every type of dress-up she can think of. We'll see how she makes out!
Climb-y climber-ton likes to get up to the table and try and draw like the big kids!
Dancing Summer in one of her many dress-ups!
Summer got to bring her classroom's traveling "pet" home over the weekend. It's a Teddy Roosevelt bear. She had fun playing with him.

Jess' "Fini Flight"

Waiting for the bus to take us to the runway to see Daddy land his last Flight in the Air Force! Look how bundled they are! Matthew could hardly move!
Jess shaking hands with his friends that came out to meet him.
Jess is finished flying for the Air Force.
The Fam.
The Plane.