Our Home

I have many mixed feelings about sharing our home so publicly but the positives are outweighing the negatives. Especially after a visit from one of Mike's cousins, Marlene. She was madly taking pictures so that she could share with Mike's family who will never be able to visit and asked me to excuse her she wasn't being nosy. She teared up and explained how much it meant to their family that I kept the blog up and how much all the pictures and explanations meant to them. I started thinking about all the people that follow the blog that I don't even know about and what a blessing blogging has been to our family. We have family members on both sides of our family that haven't ever met our children and many that won't ever meet them but through the blog we can still be close. It is really hard for me to be so public because I know there are many strangers that read the blog too. I try not to think of that and just think of my family and friends, hopefully the other families of multiples that may be reading, and anyone else who may need to be inspired.

Anyway, here is our new home that we hope to live in for a LONG time! When we were searching I wanted a home that we wouldn't outgrow. We can stay here until our kids are out of the nest if we need. I am so done with moving.

 

 

Our neighbors house is for sale if anyone wants to be our neighbors!

 

 

As you walk in the house there is a formal dining room on the right and a living room on the left.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Grandma's" room- Our downstairs guest bathroom and bath.

 

 

 

 

 

Kitchen

 

 

Family room connected to the kitchen.

 

 

 

Upstairs we have the loft, decorated in Mike's Cubs paraphernalia.

 

 

 

loft

 

 

loft

 

 

 

Master bedroom

 

 

 

Toyroom

 

 

Toyroom minus the alphabet wall. I still haven't got that back up.

 

 

 

 

 

The Princess Room- Jaileigh and Annie's room.

Jaileigh's request when we moved was a pink princess room. We even let her pick out the paint color.

The boys baseball room.

Even though we have enough rooms everyone could have their own room, they all still want to share.

 

 

Our backyard view. We have a park behind our house.

 

 

 

Our side yard.

 

Hope you enjoyed!

Going To The Park

We have been riding our bikes to the park quite a bit. I finally carted my camera along with me and took some pictures. Today was a pretty funny day there.

First of all Jake and Jaileigh ran over to the fence, climbed it and then couldn't get down. I had to run over to save them. They were screaming but I thought they were laughing.

 

 

Michael was trying to climb it and this is his face when I told him to get down, "But why Mom?"

 

 

Annie ended our park play by announcing to everyone that she had to POOP, grabbing her bum and running saying her poop was coming out. Real nice!

 

 

The kids learning tricks from older kids.

 

 

Jakey

 

 

Anthony

My Girls

I love my girls!

C Is For Cookie

The Dairy

The kids love the dairy.

The quad squad sharing their bag of feed.

 

 

Annie took a bag for herself.

 

 

 

 

Nope, I'm not spoiled!

Morning Yoga

The kids always want to know what I do at the gym and I try to explain what exercising is but I don't think they really get it. I ordered this yoga for kids DVD for them so they could exercise too.

We Love Corn

Most of my kids LOVE corn!

 

Annie

 

 

Anthony

 

 

Michael- Is that a yes or a no?

 

Jakob and Jaileigh love corn too.



Mr. Michael

Ever since Michael has talked he has had a hoarse voice off and on. I just attributed it to his allergies and asthma. Anthony and Jakob attend speech therapy twice a week and I mentioned to their therapist that I thought Michael was falling behind in his speech. He can't say his "F"s especially when next to a vowel. "Mom, did you beed the bish" means "mom, did you feed the fish?" She allowed him to come in with Jakob and Anthony and brought up the issue of his voice. She recommended that I take him to our pediatrician to get checked out for vocal nodules.

So, I promised the kids NO SHOTS and off we went. Dr. Ambrose told me I needed to see an ENT (Ear, Nose and Throat doctor) and that they would need to use anesthesia to even see if Michael had nodules. He said since you drove all the way up here would you like your kids to get their flu shots. Argh! I promised no shots! I ended up bribing them with a prize if they were good. All of them screamed and had to be held down but Jakob. He sat up and held his leg and was so brave! They all get their shots in their legs because they are all so scrawny.


The appointment was right during naptime so I was afraid we were going to have a few meltdowns but we didn't. I was so proud of them! We drove home and they all fell asleep. By the time I got home though they were waking up and demanding that I stop for their prizes. All fo them picked out tech decks (little finger skateboards) except Michael. He wanted a BIG dump truck so we got a big Tonka dump truck for him. Off to see the ENT now.

Enjoying their candy from the pharmacy.

Annie, Michael, Jaileigh, Jakob and Anthony

Too Young For Make-up?

One early morning as we were getting ready for preschool Jaileigh decided to throw a tantrum. I put her in her room for a time out. She screamed for a little bit and then was silent. I suspected that she was playing with her babies like usual but little did I know she had snuck into my bathroom and helped herself to my make-up.

 

This picture is AFTER daddy cleaned her up.

 

 

Do you think that she is sorry? Nope! I think she's pretty proud of herself.

 

 

I used eye make-up remover on her after but she still ended up going to school with some on her. Her teacher probably was wondering what was going on!

Raindrops Keep Falling On Our Heads

Grandma Keeny gave the kids umbrellas for their birthdays. They finally got to use them in the rain and they were so excited! They use them every other day and pretend it's raining.

 

 

 

Jakob, Anthony, Jaileigh, Michael

 

 

Annie

Grandma and Grandpa

Grandma and Grandpa Pops came to help us get settled over Labor Day weekend. Grandpa and Daddy hung 5 fans in one night! The kids loved having them stay with us and they have named our extra bedroom "Grandma's Room".

Grandpa with all his grandbabies.

 

 

 

They were watching the dog part in Sandlot.

Jake

 

 

Michael

 

 

 

Annie giving Grandpa loves.

 

 

 

Anthony and Jake- stuck like glue to Grandpa.

 

 

 

 

Daddy reading his cooking magazine while Annie hangs out by him.

 

 

 

Thanks for visiting and helping us Grandma and Grandpa!

Getting Greener Grass

We purchased a short sale home so we had a few upkeep things to do to the house. One of the main things was the yard. The back yard was pretty dangerous and I didn't feel safe letting my kids play in it. The previous owners had left a lot of junk, glass bottles, tools, dog poop, broken boards, bricks, oil, etc back there. It was pretty much trashed. Mike and I tried to clean it up by ourselves and were quickly overwhelmed. We hired someone to haul off all the junk and he wasn't able to do it, there was just too much. While he was back there working an opposum scared him to death. We had to hire an exterminator to get rid of the rats, gophers and the opposum that were taking up residence back there. We then hired a landscaping company to finish the rest. They did an awesome job! I have never seen anyone work as hard as these men did; backbreaking labor in 100 degree+ weather. My kids loved watching them work. I had to stay on my toes to keep the kids out of the way. Everytime I turned around I would be missing a child and I would find him outside.

Saturday morning grass delivery. A huge semi truck pulled into our circle, unloaded his forklift, then unloaded our grass. The kids eyes were huge.

My kids just hang out in their undies, seriously.

 

 

Anthony and Jake hiding in the sod.

 

One of these days I will post some before and after pictures.

 

Real Surfers Now

Remember this?

 

 

 

They think that they are real surfers now.