MILO!!

We have a new member of the family!  This one is another 4 legged baby!  Kristen asked for a puppy for her birthday in March.  We started looking and found some puppies that where available now so she got her birthday present a little bit early!  We went and picked Milo up this morning.  He is an 8 week old Mini Schnauzer, just like Maggie.  He is so sweet and we all love him already!  Even Maggie has taken very well to him.  She is staying close to wherever Milo is and checks on him everytime he makes a noise.  I think they will become great friends very quickly. 
Milo found a comfy spot on Papa's leg.

Puppy kisses.

They love each other already!

A little while later, Kristen was snuggling with Milo and Maggie jumped right up there with them and laid down.

I just had to share this picture.  Look close, I managed to catch Maggie with her tongue sticking out!

Maggie was standing guard while Milo napped.

How sweet are they!?

Friday Night Fun

It was just Kristen, Ian and I here for most of Friday night.  Randy was playing, Aaron was over at Heather's and Momo was spending the night with Sara.  Since I had all the ingredients to make some colored rice to use with Ian for school, we made that.  We had fun mixing it up but Ian wasn't happy that he had to wait for it to dry before he could play with it.
Here are Kristen and Ian getting ready to start.

Pouring the rice into bags.

Adding the coloring.

Time to SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE it up!!

Ready to put it into the oven to dry!

I will be sure to post pictures when we use it for some school activites.   After we finished the rice, they wanted something else to do so they made some oobleck to play with.  Oobleck is always a big hit!

We got it all cleaned up and then just hung out and watched a movie.  Aaron got home and he and Kristen thought it would be great fun to drag me out of my bed at 1AM to play Phase 10 with them!  It was fun so I wasn't too upset about it.  I think we went to bed around 2AM or so. 

Just a Few....

After our fun day on Tuesday, we did get some school work in the rest of the week.  I didn't take many pictures but here are a few.  Ian was having some snuggle time with Maggie one night and they just looked so sweet together.  Every night, Ian tells either Randy or I that " Maggie's been a good girl today" and " Maggie is a sweet girl". 

Kristen worked on her Explorers lapbook.  I will post more pictures of this when she has finished it.

Jacey has discovered she loves a blanket.  Ian thinks it is great that she has a blanket like he does and she sucks her two middle fingers like he sucks his thumb.  I had to get a picture of them together with their blankies.

Lunch time for Jacey!

While I had my high school girls' small group Thursday night, Kristen and Momo went next door to hang out.  When they came home Momo was all sparkly!!  Apparently, she and Sara had been having fun with the hair glitter and makeup!

Wow!  I think this might the post with the least amount of pictures for a week!  Not really, I have a few more pictures but I need to get them off the camera still so those will have to wait until later.

Heather's Sweet 16 and Silly Kristen

We celebrated with Heather last weekend for her Sweet 16 Birthday! Aaron's band, Against The Current, played for her party.

Momo having a good time at the party and looking cute too!

Silly Kristen picture number 1!

Kristen and Heather at her party.

Blowing out her number 16 candle!

Kristen and Emily.

Heather opening the gift we gave her.

And here are the rest of the silly Kristen pics!! I just had to share these!