A Family Affair

It has been so great to have Kevin home for the last couple of weeks. It would have been nice to have taken a big family vacation but we still had some good times together and have good memories.

Joey just HAD to wear his Batman costume in order to play with his Bat Cave. The fun thing is to watch him play with his Daddy who is just as silly as any other child. Usually Daddy is the Joker and Joey is Batman Joey who sends the Joker to jail.

I have been really excited to use my new camera so we went to the park, fed the ducks, and took some candid pictures of the kids. I love my point and shoot camera but the pictures are so much more crisp and precise with the DSLR. Its totally made me want to scrapbook more.







See- He is just a big kid. And we love it!

Since we are moving in less than a month we are trying not to buy any food so we can get rid of the food we have and not have to throw it away or something. This night we made pizza with a weird spaghetti sauce. It didn't taste very good but, we had Joey help us make the pizza and he actually ate it. So it is true that if you involve your children in making meals, they will eat it.

This is my favorite. I was in charge of Super Saturday at our ward. It was a lot of fun, but also a lot of work. My garage was totally neglected and then we decorated for Christmas so it was a big mess in there. I barely could make it to the deep freezer. On Christmas Eve, I just about had it! We went through a lot of our boxes, got some stuff ready for a garage sale, threw old magazines and papers away that we had for about 4 years and counting, condensed boxes, I mean we weren't messing around. One of the benefits of moving so much is that the military moves us, so we don't really take the time to get rid of things cause we don't have to do the labor. But it was just too much. So this is what it looked like before.

We went to Walmart, got Rubbermaid that were color coordinated for Christmas, got grey ones for every thing else, got out my Label Maker, and Walla!

Since we were doing so much cleaning, we decided to wash our cars as well. The kids had a blast spraying the water. Well, at least Joey did.

On New Year's Day, we went to Florida Caverns State Park. It was really cool. We were able to take a tour of a really cool, dark, wet, cave. We saw cave formations such as stalactites, stalagmites, draperies, rimstone pools that looked like glass, and enjoy the nature that surrounds it.

Emma playing on the steps waiting for the tour. They both had a lot of fun. At one point, the tour guide turned off the lights and had us see like bats. It was incredible dark. So dark we could not see our hands in front of us. Wow!

That little dark spot in the middle is a BAT!

Very beautiful and crystallized.

Joey and the tour guide turning on the lights in the cave.

Joey, Easton, Emma, and McKay. We went with the Burton family. They are a cute family that is also Navy. The boys had so much fun running around together. They all behaved really well.

Love that face! The camera just loves her!

So, we have spent lots of time together as a family. Now its back to the real world- Kevin goes back to training, Joey keeps doing Joy School, and I get ready to move.