Mother's Day...

 For Mother's Day.... We went on a weekend getaway to one of my FAVORITE places.. Callaway Garden's. It's so beautiful up there and makes me feel I'm in the mountains which reminds me of "home" in Utah..

 The boys were excited for an adventure..

 We went to the butterfly museum and saw lots of pretty butterflies but my favorite one was this blue one and I tried following it around to get a good picture.. this is the best one I got.

 My cute boys..

 The whole time in there, Aiden was saying how he wanted to hold a butterfly and they just kept flying away... On our way out Ping saw one sitting on a leaf and just put his finger over and it moved on him and then Ping put it on Aiden's finger.. You can see the excitement on his face! He loved it!

 We then went out to the bridge and saw all these baby turtles! They were so cute!! I wanted to take one home!!

 There is this beautiful Church in the middle of the park. surrounded by trees and a lake.. You can actually get married there if you want.. It is beautiful!

 Stained glass windows inside and pews..

 Just me and the boys! I love their faces off!

 Some cute Mother's day shots.. I love these pics.. We have come along way.. :)

 Me and my Love.. He is such a sweet and loving guy.. I'm so lucky! He makes me feel so content and safe and he works so hard. I love our relationship and how easy it is.. We get along so good and we both are wing nut's so it works out great!

We got home and I got to open my cute Mother's day gifts from the kids.. I'm one lucky mama! :)
May 13, 2012

Movies, BBQ's and Paper Airplanes...

 I'm still not used to having such a LARGE family and was shocked when we decided to take the kids to see The Advengers one day in May to see that it costs $98.00 for all of us to a movie! Geez!  We will proly have to wait till movies come out on apple tv from now on.  Haha.. But we had a great time and we all LOVED the movie.. Thor was gorge, Ironman was funny as ever and Hulk was my fav! Who knew I would like that movie so much?.. :)

 We have had lots of cookouts/BBQ's this spring/summer.. Ping is a beast on the grill and cooks us up yummy food! The kids love playing outside. One thing I love about the weather is dusk time.. It starts to cool off and it's just perfect outside..

 Aiden LOVES art and so we pleased to find out his school has art and he gets to make things. He made a snake with wings. :)

 One day the kids wanted to make paper airplanes and so Ping made them each a airplane and then they went outside to test them and then the whole neighborhood of kids wanted one.. So my sweet hubs sat there and made one for each of the kids. He earns cool dad points for that one. One of the many reasons I love him so!

I was on a baking frenzy and finally perfected my chocolate chip cookies! They looked and tasted delish! Proly why I have gained so much weight since I got here! ;) Love weight! I was on a cooking and baking frenzy the month of May! :) lol..
May 2012

Bits of everything..

 We have this beautiful park not far from our house, that we love. It has a cool bike trail through all these trees. The boys loved it! I also loved it! These are the moments I enjoy.. Feeling the breeze on your face as you ride along, hearing the boys laugh and listening to Ping tell them that are alligators under the bridges! ;)

 See how beautiful it is? The trees are so tall and big! Aren't we cool in our shades?..

 We also had our first visitor! My sister Ashley came to visit! We miss them so much! It was so fun having her here. We took her around and showed her our area and went shopping, out to eat..

 We also had to work a little mini show downtown in Atlanta while she was here. It felt like the old days and it was so nice for to get ready and "go to work" again. I miss it. Its been quite the adjustment going from working everyday to be a stay at mom. Its crazy cause I love being at home but I do miss working. I think I want to try and a get a part time job here. We could use the money (poor ping paying for two households is no joke) and it gets so stressful at times and I think it would help me get out the house for a bit. (anyways more on that later)

 I miss my sister dearly and it was so nice to have her here and see our little family dynamic.

 The boys received some scouting awards..There is always something going on with this many kiddies.. That's Caleb up top, he is 8 and Justin on the bottom, he is 9.

 We had a fun filled night of playing family rock band. Everything was going great til they started fighting over instruments. (we haven't pulled it again) lol..

 Aiden's class did the famous Egg drop project and I got to go eat lunch with him and watch his egg drop. We filled a tennis ball container with cotton balls and put the egg in the middle.. Our egg didn't make it. :( But it was a good day. Aiden was so excited to have me there and I got to meet some moms and his friends.

Most nights Ping is busy working away.. He works too hard trying to support all of us. Don't know how he does it.

April/May 2012

First weekend all together...

 Our first weekend with the kids was CRAZY! They were all so excited and hyper to be together and even though we have rooms and beds for everyone they all wanted to sleep together!

 Packed in like little sardines.. Caleb, Tayva, Cameron & Xavy and on top Aiden and Justin..

 We had a BBQ at Grandma's house and we talked and played football and wrestled/rough housed..

 I enjoyed a nice swing with my Tayva girl..

It was a bit overwhelming... okay i'm lying it was WAY overwhelming. It's a lot to go from 2 kids to 6 and I'm learning everyday how to cope and do it better. Meal times are insane around here prep, cook and clean up. It feels like I'm in the kitchen all day. I can only hope that I'm patient enough and doing a good job.. We are lucky that for the most part they all get along pretty good. :)