Thank you pinterest

I love pinterest...probably spend too much of my time on that site pinning lots of great ideas. That is where I found this awesome project!



It is just 4 pillows in an envelope type pillowcase that I sewed. It was so easy and fast. I love it. And the kids love them too!

They can lounge and watch a movie or read books on them...but this is how they are used most of the time in our house:


An instant house. So fun. The kids love them! You should have seen me at walmart trying to carry 8 pillows with three kids in the cart. There were pillows stuffed in the cart, under the cart and I was carrying like three. And Emery was crying. So funny. Oh well...I survived.

Speaking of Emery...she is as cute as can be. Here is a picture of her in the famous bear suit!

Quite possibly

This could quite possibly be my favorite picture of Emery that I have taken so far...right after bath time. Nice.

Why I haven't been blogging

We have had a couple of sick kids this last week. Sadie just had the normal cough...it is pretty sad that I just think it is normal now for her to have a nasty cough. Zac got a fever last Sunday and it was 103 and 104 for three days! He had a little ear infection so the doctor gave him a prescription and he is doing better now, but for those three days, he was a pretty sad little man.

And Sadie was a little stinker too...probably because between nursing Emery and caring for Zac, she was a little left out .

I just thought this picture was funny...he wouldn't eat anything except sweets. And when he did a lot of the time he was crying. But he would not let that yummy chocolate or whatever he was eating out of his mouth. :)

This was last Sunday morning...I found them like this on the couch. Let's take a closer look...

Poor little Zac...the only thing that would keep him from crying was his pacifier, so we let him have it while he was sick.

Daddy and Emery catching up on some sleep. ha ha. SO cute!

Anyway, both kids are healthy just in time for Sadie's birthday tomorrow! So hopefully we will have a few days of healthy and happy kids. And Hopefully, I will have the energy to blog in the evenings again!

Sadie's Best Friend

This is Jake. He lives across the street. Sadie loves to play with him. But her favorite thing is to go over to their house for lunch. I don't know why their sandwiches are so much better than mine, but apparently they are! :) She loves to do everything with Jake. We aren't looking forward to when they move away, but right now our plan is to keep them here as long as we can! :)

I think they are a little mixed up!

The kids were playing dress up the other day...Sadie chose this:

And Zac chose this:

Nice....Sadie...I think that is a little too small!

Yeah...she stuffed her skirt and shorts into that outfit. Ha ha.

Many faces of Emery

Emery is 2 months old! Hooray! I visited a friend the other day and she was like "it seems like 2 weeks ago you were still pregnant!" and she is totally right! Time just flies by. But we love our little Emery so much. Sadie tells me all the time that Emery is her most favorite in the family. ha ha. She had her 2 month check up yesterday and she is in the 75th percentile for weight and height. Nice. Here are some pictures....A lot of them.






Isn't she a cutie!? I just realized that most of the pictures of Emery that I have are of her in that little bouncer chair. It's funny because she spends hardly any time in there...but when she is in there i have both hands free and I don't have to worry about the other kids jumping an her or anything like that, so I take the opportunity to take pictures. Ha. We sure do love her!

Car Track

The other day we went upstairs and I promptly cleaned the floor and vacuumed. I decided that since the kids were already asking me what we could do that was fun (and it was only 8 am) that I would get out the masking tape and make a car track for them to play on. They liked it and we left it on the floor for three days. I think I originally saw this idea on Pinterest.

Our friends Jake and Andrew came over to play too. They had a lot of fun with this!

The whole thing....the part that went onto the couch was the airport and the buildings (squares) were the library, the post office and houses.

Maybe next week we will make a different car track! It was a lot of fun. And even better, the kids loved helping me clean up the tape and peel it off the floor. Nice.