Still Young at Heart

We attended that Jr/Sr banquet at the Soltera Clubhouse.
It was beautiful and reminded me of a villa in Tuscany.
We left the girls with Sarah (thank you) and Elijah with Grandma and Grandpa (thank you)
I LOVE kidless activites! Especially if I can spend them with my cute hubby.

I found my dress at the Goodwill for $10 and had help accessorizing from Megan(thank you).
Arianna told me I looked like a princess. Mark said I was hot.

I ate Chicken Parm and stuffed shells and Mark had Beef Tenderloin with mashed potatoes.
We sat with the Endyks and the O'Dells. Good company.

I am so thankful for my husband. He is the most talented and smartest person I think I have ever met:) and I am so glad that even though life is tough and raising kids is even tougher, we still are in love and I KNOW it will last a lifetime. We are committed to each other and have GOD as our foundation which binds two hearts together more than the strongest super glue:) As long as we are growing closer to God, we will grow closer together
because we have HIM in common.
I love my life and the partner God has given me...

Here are some of the high schoolers(senoirs) we were "chaperoning". They all looked so nice and it was a nice evening. Brought back memories from my high school days- so glad I am past that!

Elijah found the DVDs

STINKER! but he's so darn cute... its hard to get mad!

Info- Mercials

We do not have cable. SO, my girls are only able to watch cartoons on quobo which is like PBS. They enjoy them and so do I seeing as they are all good, not trash. But, the twins never see commercials (except when they are at grandma and grandpas and they LOVE commercials) instead they see infomercials- things you can only buy off of TV. Today as I was doing the dishes from breakfast, Arianna comes to me and says that we need a Roto-Tool so we dont have to dig in the dirt with our hands. Its so funny- they know them all and always tell me when the product would come in handy. Like the cell phone clip- they can tell me all the benfits of having one- I couldnt find my cell phone in my purse one day, so Arianna told me I should get the clip on TV because then it wouldnt get lost! Funny.

Pancake Fiends

Pancakes are my girls FAVORITE food- they would eat them morning noon and night:)
I made up this great recipe that works well for us... I mix up all the dry ingredients and store them in separate baggies so I can just grab one in the morning and add the wet ingredients. I used to buy pancake mix at the store, but this is still easy, cheaper and healthier!
Dry ingredients...
Before hand I mix reg flour, wheat flour and wheat germ
all together and then use that mixture for my recipe.

1 1/2 cup of dry mixture
3 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar

Add....
1 egg
1 1/4 cup milk
3 Tbs butter (optional)

And I add a few chocolate chips for flavor:)
Super easy and yummy

Elijah Update

My poor little guy has quite a week. Tomorrow will be his 10 month birthday- where has the time gone. This past weekend he went for his 9 month appt and weighs 16lbs 2 oz and is 27 inches long. He had 3 shots since we were a bit behind. Well, that night he got croup SO bad! He was struggling to breathe, so we took him to the ER. Marks parents watched the girls(we are so thankful) so Mark could come too. We spent 6 hrs there with no sleep. They gave him steroids to open his throat and a nebulizer treatment to help him breathe and then monitored him for 4 hrs to make sure he responded okay to the treatments. He did and we were able to go home at 7am. We went home, then to a soccer game, then to a birthday party and we were supposed to go to a play but it was too much on NO sleep. Elijah did okay during the day (we didnt take him all those places- he rested at home!) but by night time he was wheezing again. Sunday morning, we took him back to the ER where they redid all those things and sent me home 5 hrs later. We havent returned to the hospital and he seems to be on the mend.
Thank the Lord!
I am SO ready for HOT weather and no more sickness:)

Elijah is growing up. Sniff.

Can you see his two little teeth? He just got them and can now bite!

He crawls all over the house (army crawls) and LOVES to play with toys and his sisters! He is constantly pointing at things with his little finger and grunting. He loves to laugh and be tickled. He also just learned to clap and wave and raise his eyebrows which makes Mark and I crack up!

He also loves to hit things and make noise. This is the first difference I can tell between having a boy baby and a girl baby! Its great!
If I didnt already have 3 girls, I think I would LOVE more boys!!

Don't we look spiffy!

Make sure to freeze this image in your brain till next Easter since Mark NEVER wears a suit:) Doesn't he look sexy?:)I may be biased but I think I have the CUTEST kids ever!

Arianna
Sophia

Elijah

Ella