Micah’s Birthday

We celebrated Micah’s birthday this past week!  We did an evening party, serving dinner, then cake and ice cream, and finally opening presents.  We limited guests to family only, so it was a small party but Micah had a wonderful time!

As usual we celebrated as a family first thing in the morning.  Micah enjoyed opening his gifts from us and playing with his siblings.

Later on in the day I made the cupcakes and dinner.  I tried to keep things really simple and easy so I just put truck pictures on sticks and stuck them into the cupcakes.  I made my homemade chilli and a green salad and my mom brought french bread.  It was all really good and we had hardly anything left!

Micah had a hard time blowing out his candles, probably because there was no one available to hold him up so he could be high enough!  He did eventually get them out, with a little help from some cousins!

For each of my kids my parents buy them a trike, and this was the year for Micah to get one!  He had so much fun opening the HUGE present!

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!

When I grow up...

For Awana the kids dressed up as what they want to be when they're grown up!  Elijah dressed up as a farmer, Emmaline dressed as a Mom, and Josiah dressed up as an airplane pilot.  They had so much fun putting their outfits together!

Here is a picture of them all together.  Micah just had to get in on the picture, even though he probably has no idea what he wants to do when he's grown up!  (Jeremiah missed out because he was asleep.)

Emmaline just had to have long orange hair to be a Mom, not sure quite what that says about me!  ;-)

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.

Animal Birthday Party

This past weekend we celebrated Micah's birthday with an animal birthday party!  We kept the party small, just family.  We have decided to limit the birthday parties to just family until the kids 5th birthday.  So, it was a very nice size group.  We decorated with blue balloons and streamers.  I made animal cupcakes, with some help from the kids!  We had cats, mice, and dogs.  We did just one activity, a coloring page.  I figured Micah is so little he doesn't need many things to do, he just wanted to play with cousins anyhow.  :-)  Overall it was a good party!