Malaine loses another tooth!

Our toothless girl just keeps getting MORE toothless! We were at the lake over the weekend and her bottom tooth was hanging on by a thread. She refused to let me pull it though. As if I would have pulled it but there were many with us that were willing! So instead I had a tap on my shoulder at 5 AM, while we were sleeping in a bedroom with 8 of us might I add. "Mom, I lost my tooth!" So I did what any good parent would do and told her to lay it on the dresser and please go back to sleep. ;-) I love the first picture, she sure enjoyed her brownie!

Backwards to the Beach!

Back in March Mark and I were able to get away to the beach for a week! We stayed on Ft Walton, which is where we had went with the kids back in October. The weather was not so great overall. Rain, COLD. But we still enjoyed sleeping late, eating, movies, shopping, reading and relaxing, just the 2 of us! We are so blessed with a wonderful babysitter who is great with our kids, thanks Megan! Along with grandparents who are very helpful and live close by!
Pictures are not in order, but the food is at The Melting Pot, YUM! We did get a few days on the beach. Cool, but still got burned. On our way home we stopped in New Orleans. We had never been and figured we were so close. It was an ok time. Not a place I would probably choose to go again, or am sure I feel I SHOULD go again. We did see some neat things, but also saw so much sin it was kind of depressing and dark. We did enjoy some new foods though and the architecture really is beautiful. Overall a wonderful trip. Wish we could do that every year!! ;-)

It has come down to this

This my friends is what happens when you drive a whole lot of kids around. The vehicles just get bigger and bigger!

We began our marriage with a cute little car such as the picture above. We thought we were so cool. Red little sports car, very fun!

Was not to long and we moved to one of these. Cool right? Till you add kids and travel alot and need to climb around inside the car and perform gymnastic feats to get from the front to the back.

So then we purchased one of these. Which for the record is what I still drive because I am a big baby when it gets bigger than this! But when you add in 5 children, you realize you are going to have to upgrade. Especially when 5th child has sensory issues, and so does momma so the screaming from the back seat are just not a good combo.
So in came this bad boy. And we have loved it. Leather cushy seats, Big TV with wireless headphones, spread out, NICE! Till you run out of seats that is. It only fits 7. We now have EIGHT!


Welcome to the world of BIG ugly vans. FIFTEEN passenger big vans. We searched high and low to find one that fit us, meaning our budget! It is HUGE and we have plenty of room to grow. ;-) Mark will be flying out of town next week to drive it home. We are debating, should we add a daycare logo on the side just to make people think?? hehe!

Someday I have promised Mark we will stop having children and he will get to drive one of these! Ha!!

Till then we are thankful that we will get to fill up these seats, or most of them anyways!

Password to New Blog

I have added a 2nd blog for just some of my posts. If you want a password, please email me. ;-) Laxton@htc.net I hope to keep up better on this blog. I will add a note when I update that blog. No worries, nothing crazy going on, just need to keep some things more private. Not to mention my kids are old enough to read my blog now so maybe I might just write about them on their too and NOT give them a PW. ;-)

Possibly adding Password

Just a heads up... I have removed a few posts (for now)and I am trying to figure out a way to add a password just in case. If you know how I can do that besides going to wordpress, please let me know. I do not want the entire blog password protected, just certain times with a certain someone. ;-) If I need to do the whole thing, I will give a shout out before I pull it. Might just start a 2nd blog for those posts. Things are fine, no worries.

Crazy Hair Night at Awana

Makenna is missing because on Wednesdays she goes home w/ my cousin Amy for piano lessons and I take her daughter Jaylyn. Mavery had worn curlers in her hair the night before so refused to let us do more w/ hers! Crazy hair night is the kids favorite at Awana!

Going Backwards, Valentines Day!

I never posted these, I don't think, but think they are so cute!

Church Easter Picture 2010

Every year as we go into church for Easter they snap a family picture. Was pretty happy to get everyone looking and smiling!

Baby Chicks!

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On Fridays we attend a home school co-op and are able to take some fun classes. Not in place of what I teach, just as extra fun. The kids take things such as art where Makenna has been able to really do well at her sketching. Sawyer's favorite this year is Robotics where they use computers and lego's together, what could be better! Malaine enjoys anything that her cousin Jaylyn is in, I think her favorite is The Magic School bus. Even Sage & Mavery get to take a few things. This year for the first time I decided I would teach a class. You can basically choose anything you want to teach on, so I thought it would be fun to do a class based on the American Girl dolls. We have had so much fun! Sometime I will share all the excitement we have had in there, but I came across these pictures today and wanted to share. Each week we cover a different girl, and on the week we learned about Kirsten, my co-teacher and dear friend thought it would be great fun to bring in baby chicks! So off to Rural King we went (local farm store) and purchased our minimum of 25 baby chicks. I took just a handful home for the night, and my kids sure enjoyed them! They are pretty cute I must admit, though I am in no hurry to raise chickens for sure!

Easter 2010

I know, I hear ya, I am a blogging loser. I have a whole list of excuses, but they are lame even to me. I really do want to catch up, hopefully I will very soon. But I wanted to at least share my Easter cuties from today along with some quotes from the kids.
On Saturday night before bed we did the resurrection eggs as a family. As Mark was asking what came out of Jesus when they pierced his side Malaine says " I think his appendix came out!"
When asked where Jesus prayed, Malaine said " OH wasn't it in the forest?!"
Sage, is able to tell the entire story in her Sagey way. "And then they nailed Jesus on the cross, and they stuck him in a cave and put a HUGE stone in front of it but after 3 days he rose again and rolled that stone away and now we get to go to heaven! " (all said in one breath) Last was so sweet from Mavery. When we opened the nails, in the shape of a cross, she grabbed it and jumped up and said, "Jesus died for ALL OF US on the cross, so we can go to heaven!" If you know Mavery, you know she is very animated and watching her tell this was so precious. To think of this child just coming home a year ago, and already getting that Jesus died for us, it melts my heart. Well that is till today Mavery asks my dad "Where is your daddy?" My dad replied that his dad died. Mavery: Oh, did he die on the cross too?! ;-)

Fun at the park

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After many MANY days of cold weather here, we were all thrilled for a nice day to get outside and play! We visited a sculpture park not to far away, that we had never been to. We will be back for sure. It was a perfect place for our family. Lots of room to run and run and run! Mark and I commented all day on how EASY the day was. No strollers, no diaper bags, everyone was happy! It was a very good day, and for that we are thankful.