Being silly...

This is Lucas' serious side he was trying to see how much alike he and the dinosaur could be.

No there is never a dull moment in our household:) I was being eaten by a dinosaur!

Ahoy matey! Kaleb being a pirate!

Road trip time...The Creation Museum

Whenever I get a little money on the side saved up the boys and I go on road trips. I usually make them somewhat educational and sometimes out of our home state so they get to see different states also. This time we traveled to the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky and stayed two nights in a hotel. The Creation Museum http://www.creationmuseum.org/
was the best road trip we have taken so far. It was incredible to say the least I highly recommend it to everyone young and old my three year old enjoyed it as well as the teenagers that were with us. Lucas and Kaleb learned so much as did I. It is a walk through the Bible from creation, to Adam and Eve, to Noah, to Methuselah. It is all based on the Bible and totally refutes evolution. They explain how the dinosaurs fit in the Bible when they lived etc. Thus all the pictures of dinosaurs they make them life like and you get a real appreciation for how it must have been to have lived with them. Noah's Ark exhibit was awesome you really could see how large that ship was. It really brought the Bible to life. It is somewhere I'd like to try and go to once a year it was that good and you will learn something every time. We also saw a movie in the 3D theater and a star show in the planetarium. We also visited some dear friends we haven't seen in five years who live close by. It was so nice to see them and have dinner with them. On the way home we stopped at Shipshewana a huge flee market where we found some goodies. I'll post on that later. I will post more pic's tomorrow of our trip but these are some of them.

A large dinasaur right out front before you enter the museum.


A T-Rex this was life size and let me tell you it was huge! I couldn't fit the whole dinasaur in one picture frame I wanted a close up of the head so you could get an appreciation for how large they really were.

These are a couple pictures from the Adam and Eve exhibit all the people were so real looking it is amazing what artist can do.


Here we have Methuselah Lucas thought he was kind of creepy. He moved and talked also the picture below tells about him.


Roman "petting" a dinasaur he thought they were all so cool. I do believe he might like one for a pet.:)

Feeding ducks...

Yesterday the kids and I went to the zoo with Sarah and her boys we had a good time. The "animal zoo" as Roman puts it is his favorite place to go. His favorite thing to do there is feed the ducks in the big pond. Feeding the ducks with Kaleb aren't they cute!

More food for the ducks please, Lucas.

Ah, crackers for me I'm hungry to.

Ok I'll share the rest with you.

Cute things kids say...frogs and moths

Kaleb is my animal lover! Last night as he's getting ready for bed he shows me this small moth flying around the house. I proceed to slap my hands together and kill it..I missed for all who wanted to know. Kaleb looks at me and says, "Aw Mom, leave the poor thing alone". I started laughing so hard because what kid is that concerned about a moth. I did leave it alone who wouldn't after your child says that to you. Lucas found the moth this morning on the floor in the kitchen clinging to life so I had him dispose of it.

The picture here of Kaleb was taken two years ago when we were out boating for the day. We were having a fun day at the beach. Kaleb found these two frogs and carried them around and played with them all day long. He made them a house out of sticks and everything it was so cute. He ended up killing them by carrying them around all day as you can see from the picture he would squeeze them together which killed them. We never did tell him that:) Well this moth and frogs made me think we haven't been to the zoo in awhile so I think we'll head over there this morning. It's hot but cloudy so I think it won't be to bad.

Romans Birthday party...

Roman blowing out his birthday candles as you can see he had a little difficulty with the last one. Dad ended up helping him at his request. He waited all day for that cake after he saw me make it.


This car after you shake it makes a bunch of noise and sirens and then takes off on it's own. He thought it was so funny and today it's his favorite toy to run along with tile in the kitchen.


This is the scooter we got him he loved going up and down the driveway on it with his brothers. It kept him busy for awhile.


And of course what's a birthday for Roman without a curious George doll. My parents got him this and it is really cute. George tumbles which Roman thought was great he took him to bed with him and came out toting him this morning.

Happy Birthday to my baby!!

This is a bug he found at the park the other night and was playing with it a good while. He was just fascinated by it.

My baby turns three today I just can't believe he's that old already. Here are a few things about Roman you may or may not know already.

1. His full name is Roman David
2. He loves his mama dearly but is mostly a daddy's boy.
3. He loves to be read to.
4. He is kind of a wild man no fear type thing.
5. He loves to boat and go fast and loves the water.
6. He's always trying to keep up with his brothers and wants to do whatever they do.
7. His favorite thing to do outside is "play golf course" as he calls it. Basically just hitting golf balls in the yard he'll do this for hours.
8. He is busy busy busy and never rests until it's time for bed.
9. Did I mention that he's busy
10. He loves curious George anything to do with him but especially the show. We thinks it's because they have so much in common:)
11. He is very curious and sometimes it gets him in trouble.
12. He has a very sweet natured personality and for the most part is always happy and smiling.
13. He was born on his due date bless him the other two were 10 and 11 days late.
14. He loves animals especially dogs and his favorite place to go is the zoo.


Happy Birthday to our sweet baby we love you so much! I'll post pic's of his party tomorrow since were having his party then.

relaxing..

This week has been so very relaxing! I had nothing on the calendar for the entire week and it's been bliss. After a very busy and hectic July it has been nice having a week to catch up in the house and yard. Yesterday we did go up to the cottage on the lake we were at a few weeks ago because friends are up there now. We took a sitter with us and went golfing for the day it was hot..hot..hot but fun. The kids all had a blast playing together and fishing and the sitters are good friends so they even had fun to despite watching 9 kids. I am now trying to get up the motivation to run this morning it's already hot out but I really need to get some miles in this week. On Monday I had ran and biked and pulled a muscle in my upper thigh so I've had to take it easy this week. Now I am itching to go run and I'm hoping my muscle is healed. Tomorrow we are spending the entire day on the boat kid free and I'm so excited. We haven't done that for two years..hope everyone has a great weekend.