Our little chef...

Last week Jimmy wanted to cook some dinner for us so the kiddos and I relaxed in the play room while Dad went to work in the kitchen...However Ella was much more into what was going on with Dad. She wanted to help. He was making Shepard's Pie...so there really wasn't much she could have done to help us. She certainly wasn't going to brown any meat...or cut up an onion...but Jimmy made a job for her anyway. He pulled up a chair and let her cut up a banana...and we pretended it was part of the recipe. She had so much fun. I think we may have a Chef in our future. I had to snap a few pictures.
Ella and her banana
So proud of her work
Trying it left handed...
So cute. Good work dad!!

Ann Arbor weekend...a little late :(

Back in January we had our FIRST girls only weekend up in Ann Arbor, where Maggie goes to school. It was our first all sisters trip together with no kids and no husbands. It was a nice relaxing fun filled weekend! When you have 4 sisters of our age it's pretty hard to find the time where one of us isn't pregnant...breastfeeding...or just flat out busy. So, it was a GREAT weekend!! Can't wait to do it again next year! :)

Maggie and Haley on night #1

Adie posing for a shot :)
After the bar...All of us DYING laughing because Marta can't walk in heels.
Maggie peeking behind Marta. We are about to walk by Marta's twin ( a 5'2" little Chinese girl with the same shirt on...Marta is 5'11" and had on 5" heels. It was GREAT)

Getting ready to go out on night #2
Marta and Haley
Not sure what we were taking pictures of...but our "WORDS" drinking game was too much fun!!
All the sisters! LOVE these girls
Maggie doing her "Single Ladies" dance with Teddi!
PUT A RING ON IT!!
Marta and Adie standing underneath the AIR vent because we were SWEATING from dancing!! (She is NOT singing I swear)
Adie and Maggie in mid dance :)
Maggie...what a doll!
Adie and Maggie again!
Haley, Maggie and Adam (the roomate) So nice.
The guy who kept trying to pick Marta up...we were dying laughing!!

So to recap the weekend it was a blast. Just thought I would share these photos! Happy Tuesday

YUMMY YUMMY

In honor of my diet I have decided to post some diet YUMMINESS that people send me or that I find. My first recommendation is a delicious Chicken dinner...YOU MUST TRY THIS. Delicious and so EASY!!

All you need is:
1 Red Pepper
1 Yellow Pepper
1 Green Pepper
4 to 6 Chicken Breasts (I cut mine in half)
Bottle of Italian Dressing (I was out so I used Newman's Light Sesame Ginger)
Angel Hair Pasta

Preheat over to 400
Slice up peppers and put them in the bottom of a 9 x 13 pan
Place chicken on top
Pour dressing over it
Put foil over it
Here is the recipe on Nina's page

Eat and enjoy...it's also FANTASTIC reheated and taken for lunch the next day if you are on the go like me :)

BOYS BOYS BOYS!!!

I could not be more excited for this news. For all of you mamas with BOYS out there you should be so pumped. Dana from MADE and Rae from Made By Rae have focused their blogs in February ALL about crafts and projects for boys!
We all know that there are a BAZILLION crafty ideas, patterns, tutorials and what not for all those beautiful baby girls out there...but Boy stuff is tough to find. Not this month. I am literally jumping for joy to start some amazing crafts for my little Tyler :) He has brought so much joy to our lives and it will be so fun to begin crafting for him too. Share the love for boys this month!!

Frozen at the Park

Yesterday, Ella and I braved the cold and went to the park. Since changing day cares she has a bit of cabin fever. Our new sitter comes to the house and she doesn't have her buddies anymore. So I like to get her out as much as possible. We are fortunate enough to have a park RIGHT across the street from us...so we walked over there and had a frozen park party!!

She played on the "Beaver" as she calls it...
She did the big girl swings...
She loves to go down the slides...

And a big smile before we left...
Glad we could get out and do one of her favorite activities :)

Where have we been?

Well it's glad to be back in the blog world. I should say that part of my New Year's Resolution of organization is to blame on my lack of blogging. I have been trying to get my house organized...which meant that some things got pushed to the side. Well organization time is taking a break because I have missed my blog soooooo much :) So, we are back with a quick recap of the end of the year.

We had Ella's first hair cut...she was so cute and happy.Mommy and her sisters were getting their hair "painted" as Ella calls it and she HAD to get hers done too. She even "painted" some of daddy's hair with water. She LOVED it!
Seems like a LONG time to go without a haircut...since she's 2 1/2...but her hair grew in pretty even, and there just didn't seem to be a reason to cut it. But, it was getting kind of snaggly on the ends so we took the plunge! She wasn't sad or scared at ALL!!
Ha Ha! Now comes NEW YEAR'S EVE. We had a blast hosting a New Year's Eve party for our family. We look forward to this kind of stuff. The stress...planning...grocery shopping. Worth EVERY SECOND. We LOVE LOVE LOVE to have our family over. I think it's because we don't get to do it very often, so we like to do it up BIG. All the family was there and it was incredible. Here are a few of my most MEMORABLE shots...
Tyler and Mimo posing before the kid pictures. He is such a happy baby boy.
One of my absolute favorite pictures. I guess Tyler was tired of chewing on his own fingers...he wanted to borrow little Meade's. Ha Ha. I love their adorable TIE ONESIES made by Marta...so cute in their man shirts. :)
Another cute one of the boys. They are majorly outnumbered in our family...so I am so glad they are going to grow up close in age. :)
ALL.THE.KIDDOS. I am in LOVE with this picture. It is just so perfect. Mia did awesome holding little Tyler. He starts to rage soon, so we didn't get too many of him. But, it was so amazing to get all the kiddos dressed up and together.
Love this one too. Little Meade is so happy and we are starting to reach our time limit on photo opportunities. ha ha
Here is the older girls doing their "kiss face." I made the girls the skirts and Marta made the Tie Shirts to match. SOOOOOO cute. (Kind of wish I made Ella's a little longer now...but oh well)

And to really end 2009 well we had a MAJOR dance party. The kiddos were going crazy. It was so fun. I was so glad everyone could make it down. I wish we lived closer to everyone and it could be a weekly event :) Love my family. Welcome back blog...Michigan weekend coming next!!

WOW

I have majorly been M.I.A. recently...with the Holidays and my circus life I have barely had time to sit still...much less post any blogs. Just to prove it, I will admit that my Christmas decorations...trees, lights, stockings...ALL of it...is STILL up. I haven't even had the time to do that. We have another CIRCUS busy weekend coming up...so It will probably be February before we get our stuff down. How sad is that. We can replace Christmas with Valentine's Day. ha ha. But, I know that there aren't many that read this or care...so to anyone who does read...Welcome back. I will have a fun MICHIGAN weekend blog coming up this week.