v.a.l.e.n.t.i.n.e.s.

This holiday isn't usually a favorite of mine, but I'm so excited for this weekend! Cameron is coming HOME! It will be such a great break for us! I wanted to post a pic up of Cam, but to no avail, I can't get a single pic to upload for some reason, I keep getting an error message... But anyone who knows us, already knows what a hunk Cameron is, :) so I don't really need a pic! Heehee! Anyway, Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

Jace...

He is so0o funny to me! He said something hilarious and I wanted to get it written down before I forgot it... which is inevitable since I forget most of the funny things he says... anyway, so we were driving home from church and he got this little Valentine from a girl in his class... Here is our conversation as we're driving home:

Jace: Mom, I got this girly Valentine from Amber, but I wanted a Transformer.

Mom: That's ok, she's a girl so she gives girly ones.

J: Yeah, but I'm a boy and I'm giving car ones, but she'll like them cause she likes me.

M: Is that so? Do you like her?

J: Nope, but she knows I don't have a girlfriend so she gave me that lovey card. I don't need a girlfriend since I'm so busy playing with my toys.

M: Good! You ARE too busy! Girlfriends are for very older boys!

J: Yup! Love you Mom...

Heehee! He makes me laugh!! Thank goodness he's so busy! I do NOT need that right now!!

This pic is from this past week, they were rockin' out to BonJovi, Livin' on a Prayer! Enjoy!!

It's been way too long!!!

OK, my camera is junk and I haven't been able to get pics up for a while, but here's a bunch and I'll update tonight after the kids are in bed! Oh, the pics are sorta out of order, so I'll fix that later as well... these are mostly for Cam to see! Love you! Oh, Jace said something HILARIOUS just now: Mom, I'm almost in Dental school, when I'm big and old like Dad, like 29, I'll be in Dental school, too. Love it!!!


So here's the explanation of my pics...
Here is a puzzle that took us like 3 days to complete... it was a hard one, the kiddies and Dad got it for me for the BIG b-day... Jace was actually helpful, he's a puzzle fanatic and very good at it!


Here's a pic of Little C... I'm not sure if Jace or Campbell took it, but I thought it was funny...

Here's one of the lifesize paper dolls we've been working on. This is Jace's body. He wanted to make sure the dolls wore everything he does. So far we have his "pirate chonies", striped t-shirt, "white socks with the gray circles", and "awesome mohawk hair, but I want it brown like your's Mom". He still needs pants, shoes and a face, but that will come sometime this week. Campin' is still nakey...

One of my favorite pics of my kids. Jace is the best at picture taking. He just smiles and smiles till it's over, what a good boy! And I love Campbell in this one, cause that's so her... she just watches Jace and wants to be just like him. She's our feisty, curious one, always wondering what's going on.

Here's some old ones from Christmas that were still on the camera... so here's proof we believe in Santa:

All time favorite gifties, Bionicles... gotta love McD's Happy Meal Toys!! Jace cannot get enough of these things!

She was bossing us around in this one... she points her fingers and babbles with this fierce little look on her face! Love it! I'm sure she was saying, "NO MORE PICTURES!!!"

7 am, coming upstairs to see what Santa left under the tree... It was WAY TOO BRIGHT! (And way too early!) Did I really get up that early all those years to see Christmas morning?!! Crazy!

The Story behind the picture

First, I wanted to post some pics of my two little heartbreakers, and then the story... Enjoy!

Ok, so we are getting our pics taken at this awesome little rundown barn near our house, and inside the chicken coop (where the previous posted pic was taken) is a huge pile of nice big boxes... I'm thinking, 'wow! Those would be nice to have for storage when we move in May...' So after we take some shots and Teri is getting pics of my kids, I go in to check 'em out. I go to push one aside and it won't budge... OK, something is inside that box, something is inside all the boxes!!! This pile is as tall as I am!!! I call Cam over to check, and sure enough, there are TV's, Computers, Cameras, Vacuums... wow!!!!! So we call the police and let them know what we've found and then head out to finish up our picture session. On the way back home we see 4 cop cars parked there, one with lights blaring and sirens going, and like 8 cops looking through the barn. Later that night a cop came to get a statement from us. In total, there were 47 items in the coop that were stolen, all from Sam's Club. They had already caught someone the night before with the same merchandise but couldn't pin this to him since we didn't see anyone. He also said it was an inside job... how pathetic that people think they have a right to steal... Anyway, Sam's Club never reported it missing so the cops said the stuff would go up for auction in 30 days unless someone else can claim it... Anybody need a new flatscreen tv?!!

Picture session

Teri took our family pics yesterday and they turned out so good!  We have an interesting story to go with our picture session, so I'll get to that in a bit!!  Enjoy this pic for now!!