North Carolina Friends!!

These are a little backwards, but it's ok. Laci Strickland came down from North Carolina to visit family and friends. And she had a little time and brought the kids over to spend the morning with us. It was raining, so we played on the back patio and inside. It was so nice for the kids to have someone else to play with. Eden even remembered that it was her friend Ella. Thanks Laci for the fun morning!! We love you guys! After everyone was done playing, we came in and had a some cake and juice. I had Eden help me make a valentine cake. But I didn't tell her why. I had Ella and Eden frost the cake and then everybody got to have a piece. The boys loved it and wanted more, but they hadn't had lunch yet. So when we told them all done, they both whined a little.

Eden and Ella eating their cake.

Ella and Eden playing together in the playhouse.

Eden and Ella on the teeter totter. At one point we had all four kids on it. They loved it.

Noah James throwing the soccer ball at me. What a cutie pie. A little shy though. : )

I LOVE THIS PICTURE!!! This is Eden and Ella sitting for a picture. They know each other from reading the blogs. Eden will always ask who's that. They are only 3 weeks apart on age and so is Covie and Noah.

Covie playing on the slide.

We had a hard time getting these rambuctious one year olds to sit for a quick picture. I wasn't sure it was going to happen. LOL

Covie and Noah. Finally got them looking straight at me.

Randomness

We decided since it was raining we'd get out the good ol' playdough and have some fun.

Covie loves to play with playdough, but it's always a chore when you have to keep him from eating it. YUCKY!

Eden and I made flowers for her mommy.

That's the green frog I made for cove. He loves to play and then he smashes them to bits. He's definitely ALL BOY!

Aunt Kelly brought Evan over for a play date. We have a lot of fun. We ate pizza and we colored together. Eden loves to have her cousing Evan come to play.

Say "Cheese".

Eden laid down to take her nap and I just kept her doll house out for her to play with when she woke up. Well, Cove woke up and he got his alligator and decided to play Florida doll house. He had the gator knocking on the front door and then he went around and had the gator playing in the house. I had to grab the camera fast because the next thing I knew the gator was eating the baby and Cove was growling. LOL

Cove playing Doll House his way.

Ashley's best friend Megan came for a visit and they went to a concert in Orlando. So I got to watch the kids for the night and Megan had brough her son Ryder with her. So I got to have a sleep over with Eden, Covie and Ryder. This a picture after I finally got them to go to sleep around 10:30 pm.

Adam got a chance to go try out for an indoor Football league team in Oklahoma City, OK. So he had to quit his job at Abercrombie to be able to leave. So his last night at work this is what he came out to find. His employees left him their goodbye messages. LOL Too fun. He went to OK tried out, he was the smallest one there, but he did get a position, but he injured his shoulder and decided he wanted to come home rather than do permanant damage. So he's home and currently looking for a new job.

In January, Dean had a managers meeting in Denver and so he took a few extra days and flew up to Oregon to see his mama and Daddy. And his sister Donna came down to buy daddy's truck for our niece Shannon. So I told Dean to get a family picture of all of them. Daddy's health is getting a little more frail each year so Dean needed to go out to see them and I wanted to have a picture of them all now. Every day is a gift from God that He is still here with us. I married into such a wonderful, God loving family and I am blessed to be a part of them.

Dean's daddy. Richard Frank LaFollette. He's 83 years old. What a wonderful man he is. He took a fall last fall and is in a lot of pain in his back. He doesn't do much these days except sit in his chair. I love that man.