Spring Fever

The beautiful warm weather today had us all in a springy mood. Mommy was sorting through Hannah's summer clothing and made Hannah try on a shirt. Hannah wasn't too happy about having to try on clothes. So I told her to model in front of the mirror and see what she thought.
"Is it cute, sorta cute, or ugly?" I asked.
"Ugly," she whimpered.
So much for that!

Kitty Kidnappers

Today someone came to take our 3 remaining kittens to a new home. Nathan calls anyone who takes our kittens 'kitty-kidnappers', though never to their face. So when the lady gets here, Hannah walks right up to her and says, "The kitty kidnappers came and took the other kitty."

At that point we had to explain to the poor lady what a kitty kidnapper was and that she was, in fact, also a kitty kidnapper!

Don't you love it when little kids say things like that?

The Great Shootout!

Today our house was the sight of the greatest shootout since cowboys rode the Wild West. It was boys against girls, with each side holed up in their bedroom. The boys were armed with Nerf guns, the girls with a marshmallow shooter. From windows and doorways they shot at each other, pausing only to shout insults and reload.

The girls were thrilled to find that the marshmallow gun is so easy to use that Hannah can shoot it. They took great pleasure in teaching her to load, fire, and reload. Hannah was begging to be allowed to "have more shooting practice." She's shaping up to be quite a little gunslinger.

~Megan~

Dominoes!

Hello! Life has been pretty normal around here lately. We have started a weekly newspaper for our family, but I can't find a way to link to it here.

Nathan spent quite awhile painstakingly setting up over a hundred dominoes, then knocking the whole row down. Here's the video:

Also a few pictures from the last couple weeks:

Ben and Hannah painting

Nathan painting

Hannah after painting and before washing

~Megan~

Meet Our Kittens

Introducing our four beautiful furballs...This is little Anna.

This might be Alexander, our only male.

I think this is Abigail.

This is Adeline. She has silky soft fur that poofed when she got a bit older. Now she looks really funny. Update: We have recently discovered that Adeline is, in fact, not a girl, but a boy. Therefore, he has been renamed Amos.

They are all seven weeks old now and oh so cute.

~Megan~

It Finally Snowed!

Edited to include photos:

The title basically tells you all you need to know about what this post is about. We finally have some snow! Granted it was barely an inch, none the less it is snow and we had our first snowball fight. Nathan and Josh attempted sledding, but didn't get far. Unfortunately we have all been sick with a cold lately, which put a damper on our enthusiasm to go outside. So we did not enjoy the snow as much as we might have. Ahh well, there will be more snow.

Amanda

Happy Halloween

Here is our late Halloween post. Before I tell you about our Halloween I have one thing to say, Happy Birthday Grandpa! We hope you had a totally amazing day. Now that we have covered that we may move on. On Halloween afternoon Amanda, Nathan, and Josh went with Grandpa and Grandma and Mr Vick to T.Ks to get free wings for Grandpa's birthday. Which were most excellent. After getting home we all got into our costumes. We all went as Star Trekkers. Unfortunately I don't have a picture of us in our costumes, Daddy took the pictures and I don't know where they are. When he gets home I shall ask him and hopefully add them to this post later. If you want a picture of us kids in our costumes scroll down and you will find it. Amazingly enough Mommy was convinced to let the whole family go trick or treating. We almost didn't go trick or treating as it was raining that evening, but we decided to go anyway and had a glorious time. We got home and had just enough time to wrap Grandpa's present and frost the cake(which Megan and Mommy had made earlier) before Grandpa and Grandma arrived to celebrate Grandpa's birthday. After which we all tumbled into bed. That was our Halloween. I hope you had an enjoyable Halloween.

Amanda