Are we DONE yet?

I get this question a lot in regards to us having more children. My advice "stick a fork in us to find out". We don't know. We tried the fork test ourselves but it hurt to much to wait for the results. I can tell you that our baby bottles were packed up to give away and Kya cried. She insisted we keep them for our next baby. We took her advice. :-)

You know you are too frugal when...

...you wash off the morning paper plates to use for lunch....

And, now, I finally think there really is something wrong with me!

*kudos to Autumn for the photo

Academy of Silliness

Since we homeschool, we decided to give our school a name. Kya likes Academy of Silliness. I thought it a little long, but she proceeded to argue with me. Well, here at Academy of Silliness, we have finished our first two week of Kindergarten. Part of our school work was creating a Numbers book and a Creation Book. The girls loved showing off their books.

Kya took this photo of Autumn and I think it is so precious. What a sweetie.

Since we finished up the first two weeks of school on Thursday and on Friday, we celebrated by making homemade playdough. I have to give this project a "Mom's Two Thumbs Up". I think it was my favorite project with the kids so far.

Here are the girls getting ready to start mixing and cooking.

The playdough cooks until it's sort of rubbery.

After cooking, you knead the dough for about 5 minutes. We under-cooked ours the first time, thus the mess on our hands. We had to re-cook it.

The girls playing with the final product, which last in a plastic bag for a long time.

The Fay Nasties

Well, YUCK, that is how it is around our county today. Tropical Storm Fay started bringing high winds and lots and lots of rain about 5am Tuesday and continued for over 24hrs. Needless to say, our town is flooded. People that did leave home before the floods came, many of them had to be transported back home by school bus or trash trucks. Even the water was going inside the door of the school bus. Fun! Dale tried to get out today but was not able to go across the street to even Walmart. He found a little gas station store on one of the back roads he could access, so at least the babies have milk. So here we are, just huddled in our home waiting to see what more Fay has in store for the Sunshine State and the Carolina's.

Fay Fay Go Away, Don't come back another day!

Autumn's Favorite Things

Here is our 3rd post about our favorite things. This is Autumn's photo list. She chose each of these items herself and took all the photos (with some assistance to keep her hands steady.)

Like Kya, she also chose to take photos of her family first. I was thankful for that but again, it was early morning and I didn't want to post the pictures. :-)

These are her favorite toys: her favorite bath toy, her piggy bank, the play kitchen in their room, and finally her bear & her bean bag chair. (We sent her that bear for Christmas when she was still in China, before we had travel approval. We made it at Build a Bear and recorded our voices inside of it.)


One of her most favorite toys is her hand-me-down school bus from Ethan Garcia.


This picture is the combo of several items (1)her guitar - She spends hours playing us songs on her guitar. We get bed time shows several times a week. They have to set up their "stage" and all. (2) Her "blankie" that she STILL sleeps with and watches movies cuddling (3) her Leapster and (4)her bed.


Autumn also loves playing Blues Clues Kindergarten on the computer. And she loves the website Starfall. She uses the computer a few times a week and it's one of her favorite activities.



Then, there is her very best friend in all the world....Frosty.

The Light House

"I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." - John 8:12



Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." - Matthew 19:14




I will walk about in freedom, for I have sought out your precepts. - Psalm 119:45



He settles the barren woman in her home as a happy mother of (MANY!) children. Praise the LORD. - Psalm 113:9



“And anyone who welcomes a little child like this on my behalf is welcoming me. - Matthew 18:5






For the LORD your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy will be complete. - Deuteronomy 16:15

Aaron's First Haircut

Admittedly, it's not really his first hair cut. I have tried to cut it myself a few times here at home but the last time I did a really bad job, so Dad finally took him to the salon for me. Dad and son both received a haircut that day. The salon had a special card they filled out with Aaron's date of his first hair cut, how old he was and then put clippings of his hair in it. Very cute.