7 months old

 trying to get 2 children to simultaneously look at the camera and smile is like trying to get the planets to align, kudos to the professionals.

 smile, they may not, but look like they are scared...no problem.

 moose in our neighbors yard

 giving the monkey a ride on the bouncy ball

 my handsome boy

 and beautiful girl

the ultimate picture update

smiley girl

but much more serious than her brother

                                   the house we built in 2012 and we are hoping to close on next week

                                              I think this is one of my favorites

 she is so sweet and delicate, but has really found how loud she can be lately.

                                           the inside of the house we're selling.

                                                               a boy and his dog

                                                     she is happy to be independently sitting up

I don't know where the rest of my pictures went I guess I'll have to do another post

Just wanted to post some more recent pictures, these are from December, so I guess not that recent.

 S always seems to have us in stitches, here he had gotten carried away with the green marker.  One night I was up nursing H and I heard S shout in his sleep "Chile LAY DOWN!" and that was it.  Hahaha.

 We made this guy in December and I told him if it rained he would melt, so after we made him, he kept going to the window to check on him to see if he melted yet.  Then it snowed more and he was concerned that he was getting buried, but he told me he had a new hat (made of snow).  Almost all our snow is gone now.  We also made a snow hay bale.

 J actually rode the carousel with S this year, we all did, but H and I rode on the bench.

A day I was making cookies, S told me he liked sugar then asked to have some cream cheese please.  I said "no, honey it's not cream cheese, it's shortening or lard"  he then asked "have some lard please".  No, I don't think so.