End of March

Another round of catch up through pictures:

Grae stole my Jamba Juice and she was so proud - her sassy face

brain freeze

silly girl

my cute little man

our little rascal

nose scrunch

making homemade tortillas

and makin' a mess

this is what we do when its storming outside and Mama has a headache

she loved it

.lol.

having fun driving around

silly boy Ezekiel

somebody got into the blueberries

love my middleman's little feet

made some tomato soup - yum!

Pictures

So I already admitted I've been a bad Blogging Mom --- but the good news is I'm getting back to everything and feeling great! So lots of updating to do and lots of pictures to throw at ya - so I'm just going to be posting loads of pictures until I get caught up and then I'll get back to blogging about the real stuff you want to read {you know what I'm talking about - about me going crazy, or about the kids stuffing something down the toilet and flooding the whole downstairs, my never ending streak of butter fingers breaking something practically daily, the sometimes adorable but mostly hysterical things my kids say... you know all the blessings and adventures of Life Raising Five} 

Mocha Dog! 

Baby Grae playing with her big sisters barbie and ken

sisters coloring the fence

he is getting so big!

picking out recipes from Chef Chloe's Kitchen -- he's always had a thing for pretty chefs - his old favorite was Chef Giada

giving the attitude, lol

Big girl bed!

she loves climbing up and down

um, why are you eating the peel of a kiwi Ezekiel? - answer: "because its yummy" strange he is!

yup, eating a peel of the kiwi - turns out all the kids liked it... its super healthy but I think I'll pass

Bubba loves to help in the kitchen - making chocolate syrup (and its vegan)

love it! 

ha ha! Shortie trying to kiss Bubba!

"Hmm? I'm not doing anything I'm not suppose to..."

My Conrad - aka bruiser 

Redo

I'm working on redoing the blog... have yet to find something I like. Its a work in progress and I have so many things to blog about and hundreds of pictures to sort through and figure out which ones to post. Bad Mommy Blogger, I know!

Jello

When we were out grocery shopping Shortie saw some jello and asked what it was and if we could make some. I'm not big into jello, never have been, its something about the texture and funky jiggle it has... however I knew those would be the exact reasons the kids would love it. So one afternoon we had funny making home made jello. We made some fresh juice in our juicer -- blood orange and lime, then we bought some super awesome strong 100% juice grape juice, and apple cider. 

side note - gelatin gives the creeps more than jello itself. Gelatin is made out of animals skin and bone -- um, eww! You can use agar agar instead of gelatin and its much friendlier and great for clean eating. 

blood oranges 

Zekie helping make the lime one

Conrad mixing the apple cider jello

Shortie making the blood orange jello

Bubba made the grape

cut them using a biscuit cutter so each little one could have one of each flavor

so excited to try it

trying to use his fork

Grae ate all of hers and was asking Shortie for more

then she ate all of the pieces Shortie gave her and started asking Bubba for more

she licked her plate clean!

Play Time

Its so nice to have beautiful warm weather again! We've been trying to spend as much time out enjoying the weather before it gets too hot. 

so cute 

making a silly face

he realized he had mud on his fingers while making a silly face

temper time

so proud of his mess

big girl doing the slide all by herself

up she goes (and dancing while she climbs)

growing up way too fast

Mocha Dog

Ezekiel having fun coloring