Work Hard & Play Hard

Over the past nine months, we sure have had our share of working hard. Whether it was working hard to just get through a tough day, or staying late at night at work to complete a project, or working hard on our house to get that baby on the market and sold...it's been a lot of hard work. But, just as I mentioned in my post last week, you have to remember to have some fun. So even though we worked hard, we sure did our best to play hard too.

You have already seen some of the fun we had at Halloween and getting our Christmas tree here, but there was so much more that has happened that you didn't see over the past nine months that it would be hard to write about it all. So in the meantime, here's a little summary through pictures, of how much fun we have had lately. There have been a lot of smiles that I couldn't have done without.

Papa came to visit for Christmas, and we all had a blast. By the end of his visit, Papa had Emma's new princess game down pat!

The kids ripped right through Christmas presents like usual...

...and we celebrated Birthdays with the big cousins...

...and had Wacky Wednesday's at school.

When we were snowed in for five days straight, we had Valentine's Day parties in the dining room...

...and despite Mommy's chemo brain and her inability to select the correct size mattress and box spring initially, we got big boy beds for big boys who were about to turn three.

We had Mommy/Daughter breakfast dates filled with chocolate chip pancakes and snuggles...

...and we celebrated The Squishy turning three with one sweet Ninja Turtle Birthday party.

 We had a blast dying Easter eggs...

...and going Easter egg hunting in the back yard with a Popcorn bucket...

...and an insulated lunch bag.

We made silly faces at Mommy when she was trying to take a nice picture of us...

 ...but then eventually we kind of sat still.

We played in our first ever season of soccer...

...but mostly just played with the grass.

Sometimes we would kick the ball, but most of the time it was the child that wasn't actually playing in the game...

...and the one that was playing in the game, was usually just taking it all in.

 We had lots of fun on Mother's Day playing in our swimming pool....

 ...and gave Mommy some sweet poses for pictures.

We went to the carnival when it came to town and we photo-bombed our big sister...

...and we had a great Memorial Day cookout at Mimi and Pop's house, complete with swimming and fishing...

...and of course filled with some more super sweet poses by The Squishy.

We celebrated Emma Kathryn as she graduated pre-school....

 ...and had one sweet cookout of our own, complete with slip-n-slide.

We celebrated Father's Day by running a muck in Raven's Stadium...

...sometimes getting stuck in the stands...

 ...but mostly running a muck.

And that pretty much brings us to today!

So as you can see, despite everything going on, our smiles sure outnumbered our frowns.