Real Beauty

I have been enjoying some time looking through my pictures on the computer and I came across this picture of Grandma Weezy. I just love her so much and I think she is so beautiful. I wanted to post this picture just because. It was taken during homecoming and Grandma was sitting outside the assisted living home waiting to catch a glimpse of Amber as she went by in the parade to the football field.

A Little JJ Love....

It's the Little Things...

Sometimes it is the little things in life that make us the happiest. Kenzie just loves to have her hair curled with the curling iron, but it takes a long time to do and her fine hair doesn't hold the curl for more than an hour or two. For those reasons, we really don't do it very often, but she recently went to a birthday party and wanted to have her hair curled and so I did it for her. After it was all done she went to the bathroom to check it out and then went directly to find her daddy to show him. Of course he told her how beautiful she looked. With that, she literally skipped down the hall with the most precious smile and said, "Thanks Mommy for curling my hair...I love it!" That made it worth the effort a million times over. I just love to make my kids smile and I know that she won't always want me to do her hair, but I will always remember how this little thing made her so happy!

Sledding!

The kids have just been dying to go sledding at the resevoir, so after church today we let them grab some friends and we headed out! My mom and dad met us there and we all had a blast. Mom and I took pictures and held sleds and all those "mom" types of things while Dad and Chuck had fun with the kids. I took 93 pictures, so you can just imagine how hard it was to pick what to put on the blog. I thought about making a collage, but I really wanted you to be able to see their faces, so I just downloaded a ton for the blog. I think I will put the rest on facebook. I just love watching the kids when they go sledding...those are some of the most full bellied, whole hearted laughs and giggles you will ever find! Watching them have so much fun brought back so many childhood memories for me...I can remember many a winter that Mom and Dad brought me sledding with friends or cousins! This is what being a kid is all about! Enjoy our many, many pictures! :0)

Game Night!

We had some good friends over for the Buckeyes game. What a great time we had! We snacked, watched the game, and played some Wii! What more can you ask for? The pictures below are mostly of the girls playing Wii Just Dance. Oh my goodness...if you haven't tried this, you HAVE to try it! It is so much fun! In the pictures are our friend Sandy and her daughters, Ellie, Emily and Kimber. Emily babysits for us fairly often and we all just love her! She is so much fun and such a nice girl! Ellie is super sweet too. She came to spend some time with us even though she wasn't feeling well, and we were so glad that she did! We also had Brock's friend Jeremy over and his parents, John and Jackie joined us, along with his little brother Jessie. We really enjoyed having them join our fun for the evening! I don't think Tim (Sandy's husband) made it in any pics...he was pretty into the game and I didn't get any of the boys...I'll have to try harder to get everyone next time. We were so glad to share a fun evening with these friends. Oh, and......GO BUCKEYES!!!!!! O-H.....I-O!!!