Field trip to firehouse

A couple of weeks ago (yes thats how far behind I am) we took a tour to the firehouse with the girlscout troop. This was an extra special tour because it was at her Uncle Dan's firehouse and he was leading the tour, for awhile anyway until he got called out.
So here is Uncle Dan talking to the girls about fire safety and getting ready to put on a movie.

Here is a picture of all the girls in the bunkhouse.

After the firetruck had to leave on a call, they got a tour of the ambulance.

When the firetruck got back, poor Uncle Dan was taking care of Joey who was crying because of the loud noises the trucks made so another fireman had to help out with the tour.
Here is Adriana sitting in the firetruck.

Here is Andrew sitting inside the firetruck with a goofy look on the poor firemans face......hehe!

And last here is a not so good picture of the girls in front of the firetruck, if you can see them.

The girls all had a great time and we can't wait to do this again sometime!

Sibling love X 3

I realize that each of our children have their own room, but I'm not really sure why since none of them will sleep by themselves. Now Joey has taken it upon himself to also sleep in Adriana's room. So maybe I should just get a queen size bed in there and let them all share one room ;) Whatcha think?!

Monster truck show!

While Chris got to enjoy an evening out at the father/daughter dance with Adriana, I somehow got talked into taking the boys to the Monster truck show, and not just my two boys but also my ten year old nephew Jacob as well. So I convinced (alright dragged) my mom with me to help me out with all these boys. It actually wasn't as loud and crazy as I thought it would be and surprisingly enjoyed myself.
Here is Joey watching the show on MawMaw's lap. He wouldn't take his headphones off all night and just watched the show. I didn't know how he would do, but he really enjoyed the show and is still talking about the monster trucks.

My two boys watching the show. Andrew wouldn't wear the headphones which is a good thing we were up so high and the noise wasn't so bad. I think he wanted to be like Jacob though who also wouldn't wear his headphones.

Here is the three boys watching the show. This was pretty much the scene for most of the night as they were all three mesmerized by the show

So here are some of the pictures of the trucks doing their jumps.


And our favorite part of the night....the CRASHES!!!!

Butterfly kisses dance!

This past Saturday night Chris took Adriana to the St. Peters Father/Daughter dance butterfly kisses. This is the 3rd year they've gone to it and Adriana looks so forward to going every year. She actually bought the dress for this dance back in the fall and put it in a special place in her closet for the father/daughter dance. This year I decided to make it extra special and have her hair done in a hair salon. She was so excited!
Here she is waiting to get her hair done.

Here is the back of her hair after it was done.

I also let her get her nails done.


So here is the beauty queen after she was all dolled up!



I thought this picture was too funny! The boys wanted to sneak in on some picture taking!

Chris giving Adriana her corsage.

A picture of her corsage.

I thought this picture was really funny!

A father and his beautiful daughter!

Kindergarten father/daughter dance

Last week was Catholic School week which had lots of fun things for all the kids. Each day was a fun activity and they had a roller skating night on Wednesday night which the kids had a blast at, but of course I forgot my camera :(. Friday was the last day and it included a pep assemble before they were released for their half day. We were saying many prayers there wouldn't be a snow day since they were forcasting several inches of snow. Luckily our prayers came true and they did have school. Chris took the day off so he could dance with Adriana during the assembly. Adriana got to wear her fanciest dress to school and Chris got to dress up to come meet her. Well Adriana picked out a spagetti strapped dress which isn't allowed at school and the only white sweater I could find wasn't the best but what else could you do. So here are some pictures of Adriana and Chris dancing during their father/daughter dance. They danced to the song I Loved Her First.



It was very cute and took everything I had not to cry.

Baby Joey's 2nd birthday party!

This past Sat. we finally had Joey's 2nd birthday party. With having two birthday's in December it ends up being a lot so we decided to split them up this year and have Joey's in Jan. We also shared the birthday party with Joey's girlfriend (hehe) Reece who is just 6 days younger than Joey. These two kids are so cute together. When I told Joey he would have his birthday party with Reece he just kept saying "I kiss Reece", it was too cute. Apparently Reece was saying the same thing "I kiss Joey"! We really need to keep our eyes on these two!!!
I took a ton of pictures at the party so I will do my best to post just a few of them.
Here is a picture of the birthday kids playing together. Amazingly I didn't get very many pictures of these two as I did the big kids, shame on mommy!

I have a bunch of pictures of Andrew on here but just because his facial expressions were cracking me up!

Here is Adriana going down one of the slides.

My niece, Angeline, going down the slide.

My nephew Mikey!

My nephew Gabe!

Riley!

The birthday kids at it again! Just can't keep these two away from each other!

Some more of Andrew's funny faces!


Audrey!

I just love seeing all the big smiles on all the kids faces!
Here is the sign going into the party room!

The kids all waiting for the cake.

Here is Joey's cake!

And Reece's cake!

Joey while we were singing Happy Birthday to him!

Joey blowing out his candle!

I didn't realize until now that I didn't get any pictures of Reece and her cake :( I bet her mommy got lots of pictures though! It was a great time and all the kids had a blast. Happy 2nd Birthday Joey! I hope you had a great birthday big boy!

Team pink!

My little brother and sister in law had their ultra sound today and it looks like I'm getting another niece! Way to go team pink! So now I'm tied up with 3 nephews and 3 nieces! I can't wait to meet the baby girl in June!

All boy!

So my little boy loves sports, not just any particular sport but ALL sports! I must say he is definitely all boy. So his latest sport he is trying is hockey. My nephew plays on the St. Peters team and of course has lots of gear to share with us. So my sister gave us all of his old gear for Andrew to try out since I don't have the money to spend on it. Well at the Rec Plex they won't let you play hockey until you're 5 years old so I told Andrew we would let him go to the open skate times and wear all his hockey gear to practice so he will be really good by the time he can play. He was very excited about this and couldn't wait to go skate. So I took the kids today since Adriana didn't have school and the kids were getting cabin fever.
So here is Andrew in all his gear at open skate. His helmet is still a little big so he has to lift his head up to see out but he was sooooo excited and actually skated the best he ever has!

End of 1st semester!

Adriana is at the end of her first semester in school and received her report card today. I'm happy to report that Adriana is a straight S student! OK so you don't really get grades in kindergarten.....you get s for satisfactory progress, e for emerging skills, or ni for needs improvement. Not to exciting but she does do everything she is supposed to at this age and is doing wonderful! We are very proud of her and hope she can continue doing as wonderful as she is in school!

My silly kids!

I have a rule in my house that we can not say the words stupid or hate. So Andrew and Adriana have started tattling on each other and will tell me that so and so said the s or h word. Well they know they will get in trouble if I hear them say it so now they walk around and say......you're the s word........no, you're the s word. Not sure I'm getting my point across to them. Then onto the word hate. I tell the kids they can only say the word hate if they are talking about the devil. So now Andrew walks around the house saying "I hate the devil, I hate the devil, I hate..hate...hate...hate the devil". As much as I like hearing that he hates the devil, I know he is only saying over and over so he can say the word hate. I think I am slowly loosing the battle!