Take #1 and #2 : A birthday song from my kids. HILARIOUS!!!!!

In this 2nd take, watch for Daniel in the background:

W.P.A.F.M.

btw~ as you look at the pictures and read some of the captions, some will not match up, I have tried to fix it, but I have not been able to.













In the beginning............
































After about 15 minutes of reading and looking at history, I think to myself, "are we missing a kid?", but I think this often when we go places, then I usually take a head count, in which, all are counted for. But this time, I did not. Asher was at a friend's house, Abby had a friend with her, so I just thought maybe that is why I feel like I am missing someone. And then.....5 minutes later....I look at Cleyo, and say in a panic "Priscilla!". It just hit me all of a sudden that we did NOT have Priscilla! And I am not sure at what point we lost her. So, one of the kids say, "she was in our first picture" (which is the one above) and I ask "are you sure?", but no one knew for sure! Cleyo says look at the picture (thank God for digital cameras!) and..........she was NOT in the picture!
Even more panic sets in, it had been almost 20 minutes, I knew she was at the coat rack with us, but after that, I had no idea where she parted from us! And just so everyone knows, even though I have 8 kids, I do not have a problem with keeping track of them. :]

And we are thankful to say that we found her! She was standing at the front of the building with a staff member. As we were walking she stopped at one of those spinning coin thingies, lol, I'm not sure what to call them, but you put the coin in and watch it spin all the way to the bottom, she must have found it interesting.





















This was her after we found her. She was crying and pretty upset, but happy to see us. I quickly reassured her that if I was going to get rid of her, that I would not do it there!
JUST KIDDING!!!!!
Although, I did ask her if she thought that we would not come back for her, because she was still upset, and she did not answer, so then I asked if she thought I would bring her there just to lose her. And told her that we would always search for her, if she got separated from us, and that brought about a big smile.













Priscilla standing in front of an Italian plane. The woodwork was beautiful!















Daniel in front of his favorite plane. But......this was him at first as Cleyo brought him closer to it, he was afraid of it.


I.F.O. (Identified flying object)
We have things flying around like this, in our Air Force!!!????
And people still believe in U.F.O.'s!!!!!!?????
Seriously!!!!??????



The two biggest-cutest trouble makers I know!



























































































Sheldon's favorite plane.






























































































































































































































Grace, under a HUGE plane.










































Cleyo never looks happy in the pictures, but he was. We both need to learn how to smile!










A plane that describes us........ "Restoration work in progress".

























































This picture cracks me up! Shiloh was chewing gum.


























































































AND...........there always has to be one pouty kid.
The picture above Cleyo is having a talk with him about it. And the picture below.......
well...he did not want his picture taken pouting. Too bad! LOL!
















*The pictures are a little dark, sorry, my camera is not the best, but hopefully I was able to share some of the fun with you!

YAY for Snow !

Look at that snow drift out by the road.


















































The man, moving the snow.




































































Cleyo and the kids went out back into the field, to dig some tunnels in the large snow drifts.
















I was really bummed that they were so far away that I could not take pictures. I ran out back a few times to check on everyone, but quickly ran back in because it was so cold, and I was NOT going to walk all the way out there!

Until a few hours later........Cleyo came in to get me..........this was me following him out...............























Priscilla...on her way back into the house....





















Elijah...waiting for me to come in....

















Elijah...showing me around....






















They begged me for about 30 minutes to let them sleep outside in it. No, was the answer. Hoping someday they will thank me for that. ;]



















Me, crawling around (with no make-up). Cleyo hands me his cold, wet gloves and says, "here these will help", .........um.....no, they didn't!










My foot.


































The drifts were taller than Abby.







































Grace's sleeping hole.





















Running down to Abby's hole. Our house in the background.


















Abby's sleeping hole.


















There is a fence to the right, that helped to create large snow drifts, which was great for tunnels.























If you look closely, you can see the top of Sheldon's head. Every time I would try to take his picture, he would dive behind the drifts. Something happened when he became a teenager, he quit being a big ham that loved getting his picture taken.


















AH HA! Caught him!



















Maybe I will have more to post tomorrow.......................