We're all sick...

Yep. All but John (lucky stinker!). It was confirmed today what I have suspected - the boys all have strep throat. Pretty sure I am the one that started it and still have it but its "unconfirmed".

So here we all are, starting to go stir-crazy! John 'gets' to escape to work every day, but we'll be confined to the house till we aren't contagious anymore...

(Samson the Ebola Doctor)

Christians mouth... Nasty!

Jakobs mouth and "whoa" tonsils... YIKES!

Even the Dr and nurse today were surprised at the size of his tonsils! I imagine he'll be getting them out before too long.

I couldn't get a pic to show you of Isaac's throat. Not that you are terribly interested anyway!

Here's to a healthy Christmas!

Wordless Wednesday

(by Christian 11.23.14)

By Christian

~Jakob~

Every time I find

The time to remind

That I would be nothing

I would be bluffing

If I said I don't care

About that long hair

And about that grin

Right above his chin

But I don't own

That accident prone

Funny little man

He made me who I am

I love him with all my heart

It would hurt to be apart

Even though he farts

And his smart-alek remarks

I love his eyes

I wouldn't plan his demise

He was born to stand out

Not dawdle in the crowd

He is not a copy

He is an only

The one, the only

Jakob

(This was written by Christian. After a particularly rough day of fighting and generally not getting along, I gave them the 'what-for' and told them to go write as many good things as they could think of about each other. Chris came to me with this beautiful and eloquent poem a little while later. It was so heart-felt and sincere. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I have.)

Wordless Wednesday

Creatures

These are just some of the creatures I encounter as a mom of boys...

(Yes, this is a real bullfrog)

A 11 & 13 year old views...

These wonderful pictures were all taken by either Christian or Jakob.

My favorite is the one of them together, it reminds me that they DO love each other and aren't always at each others throats!

One Year (and a bit...) or 14 months

I failed to post this when we actually got married.

Then I did it again on our 1 year anniversary.

(I had a good reason for that one...)

Here we are, it's past our 14 month anniversary
and I am just getting to posting our WEDDING pictures!

My two beautiful sisters, who traveled many, many miles to be there for us on our wonderful day, as well as the days before. They helped with everything from my haircut (which Jenn still hates doing, but I LOVE!) to buying plants to line the aisle. It just wouldn't have been the same without them there.

I just found this one as I looked back at all the wedding pictures...
What a perfect picture of what we do, laugh together!

Thank you Mom and Dad for all the hard work and love you put into making this day beautiful and wonderful, we couldn't have done our wedding any other place.

Our wedding day was an amazing day of family coming together to make it possible.

Our lives together since that day has been absolutely.... fantastic!

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday