Photos of the Kids

I know its been a long, long time since we last posted on the blog, but life has been busy. Laura and I wake up at 4:52AM every morning. She goes to the gym for an hour and I read my scriptures and eat breakfast. She gets home around 6:05 and reads her scriptures and eats her breakfast and I leave to go workout. She gets the kids ready alone - an amazing feat - and gets Haley to school by 7:45AM. Then, she goes to work around 8:00AM with Allie, Emily, and Joseph and works until 2:30PM. She makes a quick deposit at the bank for work and runs to pick Haley up from school by 2:55PM. She's home with all four kids by 3:10PM and by that time they're all hungry. I stay at school from about 6:30AM to 6:30PM every day and usually from about 9:00 - 2:00 on Saturdays. Sunday is my only day off. By the time I get home Laura has helped Haley complete her homework, unloaded and reloaded the dishwasher, fed everyone a snack, made supper, bathed four kids, done a load or two of laundry, swept the house, and managed to keep a smile. After I get home she feeds me and then I go study while she packs lunches for everyone for the next day. We usually try to meet up around 8:45 for 15 minutes of "together" time before going to bed around 9:00PM. Then, it all starts over again. So, it's not that we have procrastinated posting on the blog, it's that we have not had any time to do so.

This is Emily. She loves to crawl up in Joseph's highchair and also to get into his walker. She thinks it's fun. She's not really that far removed from the highchair.

Joseph always says, "Overweight is something that just sort of snacks up on you, Dad!"

Do cannibals get hungry one hour after eating Mexican?

Laura: Hey Emily, why does a milking stool only have 3 legs?

Emily: Because the cow has the udder.

Silly Haley and Allie.

What do you call a brunette with two blondes on either side?

An interpreter.

Why didn't Indians scalp brunettes?

Because the hair off a Buffalo's butt was more manageable.

A brunette says to a blonde, "Look, a dead bird." The blonde looks up and says, "Where?"

Haley loves grits, eggs, bacon, biscuits, and muffins.

Allie dressed herself.

Joseph looks like an ape.

You should see me flip Emily over the bar she's holding, she loves it.

Raise your hand if you're sure.

Emily didn't get the part in the Yoplait commercial. She did get the part of Pigpen in Charlie Brown Christmas though.

The cats left us a present. Haley and Allie wanted to cook it and eat it.

See, it's not very big.

As you can see, Emily is eating the breakfast of champions . . . Trix.

Thank you PopPop and Grammy for the swingset, the kids love it.

Emily loves being outside. She says that word very well.

Haley saved Emily from an Eagle that swooped down and tried to grab her.