ARE YOU READY FOR SOME PICTURES?!

I'm home from church -am supposed to be resting...I'm sick with something. I thought it was allergies, but after 3 days with a fever and body aches that won't go away, I'm thinking it's more than just "allergies". John sweetly offered to take the kids to church so I could have some quiet time to rest. What a great hubby.

I thought I'd take the time to catch up from the last 2 weeks...so hope you're ready for lots of pics! :)

one of our local libraries started doing a Chinese/English story-song time every other Friday. My friend who's 2 daughters are VERY close in age to Andrew and Elizabeth, meet us at the library too. :)
the above is "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" in case you want to try singing it. :)


Last weekend we attended the annual fair that comes to our little suburb. The kids look forward to it every year. :)

how perfect is this? the 2 bounce houses they had are Spiderman and a Princess Castle?

what they wait for ALL year long-the pony rides. :)

sorry the next several have a red tint-we were under a big red tent for the petting zoo!

doesn't this face just scream, "puh-lease get me outta here!"?

this is a Jacob's 4 Horned sheep..it's crazy looking-4 horns going every where!

this is an alpaca (if I remember correctly)

oh my heck! the pig races were funny! But Andrew AT the races was even funnier. John and I laughed soooo hard. :)

Andrew would scream and cheer on the pigs..and I mean SCREAM at them. it was hilarious!

John and I each went on a ride with the kids -we're just not made to go on kiddie rides! :)

Last Sunday we celebrated the 2 boys', Josiah and Jeremiah, birthdays. Josiah's b-day is said to be 3/16 and Jeremiah's is 3/24 (Becca's bday too!) so we did the 2 boys' bdays together and then next weekend we'll celebrate the 3 girls' birthdays (Becca and her 2 cousins Janae and Julia).

the 3 little girls all squished so they could sit together. :)

a friendly game of family football in my parents' backyard

apparently my dad didn't get the memo he needed a do-rag (is that how you spell it?!) on his head. :)

if you're wondering what Andrew is doing -he's doing a little dance at the line of scrimmage there!

Jeremiah, or as we all call him, "Pudge" :)

thanks for the gifts but I'd rather just eat paper

ok-I'll ditch the paper and eat the sword

my sis had to wake Josiah up for his party -so he really wasn't all that interested in present opening...that bottle was MUCH more important

until he realized he got a sword too!

and of course, no visit with the cousins is EVER complete without a picture of Becca and her baby Jameson. :)