Random Joshua Pictures

 If you've read my blog since way back, you know my posts used to be WAY more frequent and entertaining. Then life happened - mainly homeschool life! So all those entertaining things are still going on around here, but I'm finding it much more difficult to make time to write about it. 

 I realized the other day that I have gone almost a year without sorting and organizing my digital photos! Gasp! So I'm making a great effort to get back on the posting bandwagon...as best I can. This post is a sort of catch up post for Joshua.

 My little buddy is 6 1/2 and just finished kindergarten. 

He makes us laugh all day long with the quick witted things he says. 

 This picture was from splash night at church last summer. 

He had fun shooting all his friends with his water gun. 

 He loves to hang out with all his grandparents! This is at Shrimpy's (an awesome little hole in the wall place right by Buc-ee's in Madisonville - try their bread pudding!!!) with Grandmamma and Dodie. 

 Playing the ipad in a box? Why not? 

 He LOVES to build with Legos. His personality is very different from John David's though. John David was always very, very particular about his sets and built them completely on his own from the time he was 4. Joshua isn't at all organized and once a set is built (with help from whomever might be passing by) it will probably never be all together again. 

 This was early in the school year. He was practicing skip counting 2's. 

 He definitely still loves Mommy a lot, but he's Daddy's buddy too! He adores Daddy! 

 Joshua and D were working on a Lego set together. 

(Notice the turtle stuffed animal on the table. The kids loves his turtles!)

 Joshua's buddy Jackson in Houston. 

If only they could be next door neighbors!

 It's a selfie!

He practiced "blob mapping" a lot this year with all the continents and oceans. And of course he did it with a green marker - green continues to be his most favorite!

In Our Car

 In case you've never gone on a ride with us...

 now you can feel like you have.

 Sometimes it gets a little loud.

 Sometimes there is dancing.

 And making fun of Mom kind of dancing.

And sometimes I put on a movie for them, and stick my earbuds in for me.

(Mostly we just listen to our timeline song and our Story of the World CD's though. 

We are super exciting people and that's how we roll.) 

Easter 2014

 After church we spent the day over at the farm. It was a beautiful day! Sadly, I didn't get a picture of everyone together in their nice clothes before the egg hunt AND before John David ran inside and had a lightning fast wardrobe change. 

 There's a lot of places those eggs can be when you've got a lot of land. 

At least this year nobody hid eggs in the middle of thorn bushes like last year!

 My parents got baby bunnies and chicks. It was perfect for Easter. 

(And I can tell you that the chicks are nowhere near this size now!)

 Some bluebonnets scattered about sure made for pretty pictures!

 My niece, Audrey, got in on the candy action.

 Joshua did the best because Daddy was helping him (that's what the other kids say anyway!).

 John David LOVES animals!

Of course, you have to have at least one goofy picture!

It's All Coming Back To Me

We loved living in Indiana. Really, we did. The seasons were beautiful and we even have lovely memories of all the fires and cozy nights during winter. We have missed it so much. 

And then it snowed today. A lot, actually, for Texas. 

A very short time later I remembered the unlovely parts of an Indiana winter. 

Bitter cold. 

Clearing the elements off the car before you could leave. 

Driving painfully slow. 

Freezing your booty off even with the seat heater on that normally burns you. 

Messy car floors. 

Messy house floors. 

Messy bathroom. (Somehow that's the weather's fault. I'm still working on how.)

BUT, it is still beautiful and the kids love it so much! They must be freezing right now, but they're working on a snowman anyway. Their Texas gear doesn't protect them from wet snow too much! (Can you tell I took this from inside?)

And right about now I'm noticing my six year old is wearing wet shoes and NO socks. I guess my post is over! 

Packing has Begun

We closed on our house. Renovations are happening there and I am packing here. How many days should this take? Seems to always take longer than it should (especially when I stop to blog!). 

I think we'll take this guy with us. (Have you seen the new Christmas Veggie Tales? The kids were singing the Silly Songs with Larry song called "I wrapped Myself up for Christmas" while putting Joshua in the box.) 

Aulora's 7th Birthday

On Aulora's 7th birthday I took the younger three to a children's museum in 

TheWoodlands and then to a splash pad park. Gran went with us too! For dinner we made lasagna at home and cousin Natalia joined us. Happy Birthday, Aulora!