I'm back!

I know we've been MIA on our blog here for awhile. We've just been so busy and Chad and I both often need the computer and we only have one working one so not much time left for the blog. Some random pictures of the last few months. My mom and Lara got to come down for Canadian Thanksiving. It was so nice to spend it with them! Lara and my mom and I went to the Panthers game that weekend, and they actually won!!

Carowinds this past weekend. Parker rode the biggest rollercoaster he was allowed to right and LOVED it. We finally got Kennedy on it and she loved it too. She ended up going on it 5 times.

My mom gave this hat (that matches a cute coat) to Kennedy. We found it in our winter stuff and just had to try it on Emerson.

I think this is the cutest picture ever of Parker. I just love his smile.

We got this for Emerson after we saw it in a catalogue and it was just too adorable to pass up. I found it on ebay for much less than the catalogue. Can't wait to get some pictures of her in it.

Several years ago we got some costumes on sale at Old Navy for $5 so Chad could use them for pictures. We found one in the closet and had to try it on.

I'll try to get some more pictures up soon.

Cruise pictures

Here is a link to a slideshow of pictures from our cruise. Warning - there are a lot of pictures and they seem to be in random order. I'll post about our trip later, at the moment I need to go get Parker in bed. Kennedy and Chad went to see Disney on Ice tonight and Emerson is asleep so Parker and I have just been having some one on one time.

http://www.photobiz.com/slideshowbiz/slideshow.cfm?slideshowID=88263&photographerID=6802

If you need a password it is cruise.

I don't have time to post pictures from our cruise right now. Here's a link to a slideshow Chad made on his website.

I've been a little behind on posting lately. I've spent the past few weeks getting pictures of all the kids old clothes and listing them on ebay and then getting everything that sold packaged up. It's a very time consuming process, but worth it since then I get to buy more clothes! We leave tonight to drive to Miami for our cruise. Here are a few pictures of the kids we did on Labour Day. I'm not sure why all my pictures lately are looking like they're really bad quality pics when they get posted. They look normal in real life.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHAD!

We're not really doing anything for Chad's birthday today since we leave for our cruise on Friday. But we couldn't do without some kind of cake to celebrate Chad's special day. We got a cookie cake and when I picked it up in said "Happy Birthday Chaz" even though I spelled it for the lady and she said chaz and I said no d like dog, somehow we still ended up with Chaz. They spelled Kennedy's name Kenneey when we got her cake there a few weeks ago. Guess spelling isn't their forte. Oh well, let's hope it tastes good!

I saw a quote somewhere today, can't remember where or who said it but I thought it was so true.

"I was a great parent before I had kids."

I know it's true for me. Before I had kids I knew exactly how I would parent. My kids would never watch TV, never eat sugar, fast food or meat products, never be the child in the store having a tantrum, they would be perfect because. I was going to be the perfect mother, after all it's the only thing I ever really wanted to do with my life. And then I had kids. Enough said I think.

I often get comments about the number of kids we have which I don't really understand. We only have 3! I know many people with three kids. I know a lot of people with 4 or currently expecting their fourth. Today at the grocery store a lady looked at me and then the kids and said you're a very brave woman. Now the kids were behaving well at the store today so I wasn't really sure if she meant brave for having 3 kids or brave for taking 3 kids to the grocery store? That was not a rude comment, but I've gotten quite a few of those too. A friend of mine, who has three kids, was recently asked "did you do that on purpose?" by a complete stranger. Anyways, I just don't really get the comments since there are plenty of people in the world with 3 kids. Now if I were expecting my 19th like the Duggar family (which is more than the 10 I would personally like but I think it's great for them!) I could understand the comments.

We went to a pink and brown themed ice cream birthday party last weekend for the 1 year old birthday of the daughter of a friend of mine (who has 4 kids!) and I just happend to have the perfect dresses for Kennedy and Emerson that I had been saving all summer. I wanted to get pictures of them eating ice cream in them but didn't want to ruin the dresses so they've just been hanging in their closets. Well, Emerson wore it for a couple of hours to Kennedy and Parker's party. Anyways, they looked so cute!

We'd been using this truck to keep Emerson from going up the stairs because it was easier for the rest of us to get over than a baby gate. Unfortunately our little mountain goat just figured out how to climb into it and then over it to get up the stairs!