Ode to MJ

Like him or hate him he was an icon of my era and he made a difference in the world.....so thank you Michael Jackson for the great music, silver glove, moonwalk, and especially the cool parachute pants one little girl proudly wore in 1986!!

Special People

Mr. Harold and Mrs. Flo are two very special people in our lives. They have been very generous to us over the past few years and we are very appreciative of it. We consider them our babies extra set of grandparents. Recently they built John Carter a bird house and of course he wanted it painted ALL RED!! So, Mr. Harold did the wood work and Mrs. Flo painted and she also added a little white heart because she said John Carter was always in hers. Here are the pictures of the day they came over and put it up.

Just a side note...God puts special people in our lives for a reason. He lets them teach us life lessons that we will hopefully pass on to others one day. I truly believe in the concept of "Paying it Forward." So, thank you Mr. Harold and Mrs. Flo for always being so kind and thoughtful.


Mr. Harold digging the hole

Filling the hole with rocks

Packing the dirt

A pretty red birdhouse and three

special friends!

Fun in the Sun with Kendall

These little sillies are in love one minute and fighting the next.
Mrs. Amy and I think they'll probably get married since they
already act like it!
Thanks Miss Kendall for sharing your water slide with us.

The Twins are 5 Months Old!

This was the "happiest" picture I could get.
(Eli is on the left and Davis is on the right)



They're just not glad about growing older....

Turn up the volume and listen.....

The laughing babies on our playlist cracks us up because the boys are just starting to laugh like that. It's really the sweetest sound you'll ever hear......


Davis is eyeing Eli (like he does most of the time)


My silly boys....John Carter had been eating Cheeto's so he's sporting an orange mouth!


Their new favorite toys! For some reason they notice each other more when they have caps on.
They "talk" to each other and laugh out loud when they're in the excersaucers.


John Carter's new passion is turtle and frog hunting. Here he is showing his brothers his latest catch.....the poor frogs in our yard don't stand a chance.


This one kind of scares me....I call this "Devious Davis" and "Evil Eye Eli." John Carter has always been such a good child, but I think these two will be the death of Tim and me. I can already tell that they're going to gang up on us! (By the way, they're 4 months old and already weigh half of what John Carter weighs and he's 3 1/2!!) I'm scared for John Carter too because the two of them will probably be twice his size and I can only imagine what furniture is going to get broken around our house.....That's just life with boys I guess...

Davis & Eli's First Date

Lilly (I think) and Davis


Lilly & Davis holding hands



Davis, Lilly, Eli & Emmilyn

The two sets of identical's....

My friend Alison had a set of identical little girls about 6 weeks after the boys were born. Alison and I are determined to have them date when they're older, so we set them up at my sister's baby shower for their first little date. We'll see what happens in about 16 years!

Rock Stars

Eli (left) & Davis (right)
"Rockin' it on their 3 month birthday!"



I got a little smile from Davis in this one.

My Boys were little rock-stars last week. They got to "feel" a guitar for the first time. I just hope they love music as much as their older brother. John Carter says they're going to start a band. I can't wait!!

Date with Kendall

Here are our two little explorers.
They were playing Diego & Dora.


They love each other!


They were doing some heavy handholding!

We had a great time at the Kid's Dug-Out with Kendall and Mrs. Amy. John Carter didn't even mind that I brought his little brothers to crash his date! Could this be the future Mrs. John Carter Clark??

Got Milk?

Explaining pregnancy and birth to a three year old has been relatively easy until I got to the part about how all mamas are able to feed their babies. We studied cows and dogs for instance and I showed him pictures of what it looked like. When he found out that we get our "people milk" from cows he wanted to know why milk from all the other animals wasn't in the grocery store too?
Well, once we convinced him that:
1. No, unfortunately I wouldn't be able to feed the other animal's babies and
2. Even though it may look (and feel) like the breast pump is violently sucking your "napples" down a clear tube, I will in fact, be keeping them attached to my body, he suddenly became very interested in my breast pump.
One night after Tim had given John Carter his bath and put him on our bed while he got his PJ's he came back in the bedroom to find this:


John Carter is buck naked, sitting on our bed watching Sponge Bob while he "pumps."
...and by the way, he said when he pumps, his milk is always pink...

John Carter and his brothers