Jeremiah's Birthday!

We celebrated Jeremiah's birthday this month.  He is a big 4 year old now!!!   We invited only family (we have decided to invite friends once they get to their 5th birthday), and it was a nice size crowd.

The Birthday Boy :-)

 The theme of the party was construction.  A friends of mine gave me her decorations from her son's construction party so I didn't have to make them, such a blessing!

I made the cake as always, as well as the cupcakes.  I went with very simple, to make things easier for me.  I still got lots of compliments on the cake though.

Kid Pics

Here are some pictures of the kids from October.  I hardly ever remember to get out the camera and take pictures, I'm so busy, so I appologize for the lack of pictures.  Also, I just realized there are no pictures of Elijah.  I guess he was working on school or reading a book or something when I took these.  ;-)  

Jeremiah and Malachi

The youngest 3: Jeremiah, Micah, and Malachi

My "Babies"  :-)

Josiah and his airplanes.  He's such a ham, he always wants his picture taken!

Emmy and Malachi.  She is so proud of her little brother and loves to hold and take care of him. 

Malachi

Love Malachi's hair in this pic, freshly washed!

And one final picture that Emmy took of me and Malachi.  :-)  Pictures of me with any of my kids are precious to me, since I'm the one normally taking the pictures I'm rarely in them.

Library

The kids had fun this week turning our living room into a library, including displays, a sign, and a box of books that people could buy, as well as library books to borrow!  We had just gone to the library so we had lots of books on hand to use! :-)

Display Table and sign

Hand lettered sign done by Elijah

The library!  Looks so comfortable and homey!

Easter 2012

                       Here the kids are, all dressed up and ready to go to church!  So cute!!!

Kids

It's been awhile since I took pics of the kids, and this past week I was able to take some.  So, here are some current shots of the kids.

Jeremiah's Birthday Party!

We celebrated Jeremiah's birthday this weekend!  We kept the invite list small, only family, and only the grandparents and my brother ended up coming so it was a very small party.  This was probably for the best as Jeremiah doesn't do as well with lots of people around.

The party theme was trains, Jeremiah is crazy about trains.  I made a train cake for him, I thought it turned out well.  The oreos didn't fit on the coal car so that is why I cut them up.  And, yes, the train engine is leaning slightly.  And I know that the caboose should have been red.  So I'm not perfect.  At least the kids were happy and didn't mention all the flaws.  (Unlike some of the adults at the party...)  :-(

Before everyone came over we opened Jeremiah's gifts from the family.  Elijah, Emmaline, and Josiah had made or given some of their things to Jeremiah.  So sweet!  We gave Jeremiah a small car race type track.  I'm not sure exactly what the correct word for them is but he loved it!

And before the party I thought I should get a picture of the big (or not so big :-)) birthday boy.  What a cutie!

When everyone arrived for the party I had all the kids color pictures of trains.  Then we went in the garage and played with balloons for a bit.  First we put all the balloons in the center of a sheet and shook it till they all bounced out.  We did that a few times, then let the kids just throw the balloons or whatever (Elijah popped a few, and Grandpa had fun rubbing balloons on kids' heads and sticking them to the wall!).

After the activities we headed up for cake! For anyone who notices that the smoke is gone, Micah ate it!  I had to redo the whole front of the train between the first picture and the party.

All the kids sat in the kitchen to eat their food.  And some adults too...

And finally, the fun part, gifts!  Jeremiah had just 3 gifts but that was good, so he didn't get overwhelmed.  

The gift from Grandma and Grandpa was HUGE!  What could it be?!?

Yay!  His very own trike!

Altogether it was a good day and most importantly, Jeremiah had fun.  :-)

Kid Pics

Some pictures that I took of a few of the kids this week.

Micah.  He came in from playing out back with the mark on his cheek and no one seemed to know what happened. (of course!)

Jeremiah.  What a cutie!

Emmaline.  I just had to get a picture of this!  She looks so feminine with her hair up and then she has the gun in the holster on her hip! (play gun of course)  You can tell she only has brothers!

Jeremiah had fun in the dirt!

Big sis and baby brother.  Only baby brother isn't so little anymore!

All the kids are fighting off a cold, thus the runny noses in the pictures.  Just so you don't think I never wipe my kids noses, they had all been wiped right before the pictures were taken.  :-)  And they are not normally so dirty either, that's why I took pictures is because they were dirty!

Jeremiah

I was just looking back at old posts and realized how few pictures there are of Jeremiah.  So, here are a few newer ones for you to enjoy!

Jeremiah hates to have his picture taken so this face right here is his default setting when I get out the camera.

 But, every once in awhile he actually smiles!

 

A Very Great once in awhile...

Kid Pics

These are some random pictures of the kids that I took this week.  They are not the greatest pictures but...I love to take pictures of the kids to share so here they are!

Emmaline, so serious, at least for this picture. 

 

Here, Jeremiah clowns around in typical "Jeremiahish" fashion.  He is really quite silly...

 

Josiah, fixing his airplane.  He loves to fix things!

Micah, swinging out back.  (Or being swung?  Whatever is the correct way to say that he was being pushed in the swing.  :-) )

 

Josiah on the swingset.  Look at me, Mom!

Elijah with a lego project that he built.  It is fun to see what he comes up with.  This is supposed to be a zebra, I'm not sure that I see it...!

Jeremiah's 2nd Birthday!

For Jeremiah's 2nd Birthday we celebrated with a old west/farm theme.  I made a barn cake and animal cupcakes and we decorated with "rescued" decorations leftover from VBS this summer.

After much prayer and discussion we decided to only have family at his birthday party.  Jeremiah finds large crowds to be overwhelming and usually has a "melt down" when he is overwhelmed.  So, it was just grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins, which is still a big crowd (13 adults and 10 kids counting our family)!