multitasking

is how we do things around here.

Watch a movie ...

play with the kids

get in a work out!

(killing 3 birds with one stone)

And then he taught Danna how ...

I can lift them while doing push ups a total of 0 times.

1 if you're being generous.

Funny faces

Do you like Mr. Potato Head at your house? We do!

He makes us feel goofy!

and his friends are pretty hilarious too!

my baby is sure growing up! She can now officially sit up to "play" with her sisters.

those times

You know those times when life is treating your right?

When your kids are best friends and they delight in helping out and making you happy ...

and your house looks clean, and the laundry has gotten cleaned, folded and put away ...

when you feel like you've gotten past the effects of holiday vacation ...

when you're spending less money and eating healthier and being more efficient with your time ...

and you and your family are all healthy and happy ...

and then you get slapped in the face by reality and everything seems to go up in smoke?

That was my week last week!

So much for patting myself on the back for my well behaved kids ...

and my semi normal routine ...

and my optimism for my 2 year old to be potty trained ...

and my enthusiasm for an organized house ...

and for sleep ...

But good news ...

Things are looking up again. The girls played in their room for 4 hours last night without fighting! And I was able to make dinner--including a veggie on the side ...

and now 2 of my girls are sleeping and the other is playing quietly. I'm crossing my fingers it'll stay this way this week.

Need some love this week my friends

bet you've never

gone sledding at a dairy farm. . .

well I HAVE!!! {rub, rub, rub in your face-- bwa ha ha!}

ahem ...

Aaaanyway,

It was AWESOME I TELL YOU!!!

Here are a few pics of the girls all decked out in their winter gear!

Here's my CUTE little niece

CUTE Brynn (and of course my CUTE hubby)

CUTE Carina

CUTE Danna

And this is my CUTE sister Amber and her CUTE baby again

Seriously--- is my family CUTE or what?

it was seriously COLD outside!

And here they GO! Uncle Talon got to go on the first run with the girls

they had a blast of course (wish I could have gotten a better shot of the pure delight on their faces)

Mike's turn

After a few runs we were getting a bit cold and dropped the babies off in the warm house so we could have some REAL fun ...

well after first petting the brand new calf (born the day before)

I know this looks disgusting and wish we'd taken a picture when we weren't sledding behind the tractor in mud but it was a BLAST! This was on our way to the empty field.

These cows were like, "what the?"

We had to pass through a field WITH cows to get to the field WITHOUT cows. It was fun till I looked behind us and the cows were following within about 5 feet of us.

Cows can be TERRIFYING ...

I had a mini heart attack

Talon was laughing ...

so this picture above is me (off the sled) attempting to protect my children from the huge and frightening curious cows.

warming up a bit inside the tractor

I wish I'd taken tons of pictures of us sledding behind the tractor but my hands (and rear end) were cold OK? Eventually the girls wanted to go inside and the guys went at it alone and got creative.

We are TOTALLY going to have to invite ourselves over here again!!!!! :)

Happy New Year!

New Years Eve: we partied hard. . . And then slept hard!!

Happy New Year to all!!!

(Here are a couple of my happy memories of 2010 :))

(this cracks me up!! You can't really see but she's playing with her lion rattle while sleeping. . .HILARIOUS!!)

Carina perches on top of the couch to sleep, like a kitten.

(Brynn was just little here)

(yessiree--kitchen floor--crazy kid)

(in a box, really?)

getting as much steam from the humidifier as possible :)

Here's to a relaxing 2011!!!