three days until Christmas O.o

the house is full of secrets 

older brothers teasing you about gifts

little sisters begging to show you the gift they got for you

                         

hyper little brothers eating too much candy

a mother who can't stop laughing at your begging

a father who wants to give the biggest Christmas surprise away early

                                                       
                                                 dogs who have no idea what's going on
                                        a cat who will soon be waiting on the roof for
                                  Santa if she doesn't quit waking everyone up at night.
                                                        a leetle turtle who just eats and sleeps
                                  a snake, who pretty much does the same thing as the leetle turtle

                               
                                      bedrooms doors are being slammed in peoples faces
                                         half a million random trips to Wal Mart
                                    because somebody forgots a whole bunch of stuff.

And now.. I have to go find a gift, I hid it so well, I can't find it.

wooooow. 

I do not think Aaron and Elijah are capable of being serious in a photo

                                                     
                                                         he's "all cited for Christmas'

                                                           
                             Rachel : "mawahaha. *starts laughing like crazy* lets make weird faces."

 
                                          he's all "super duper cited for Christmas"
       

                                                      I have the best siblings ever.

July 4th {Part Two}

I decided not to post as many pictures as I planned in this post.

Enjoy and please tell me what you think of them!

{Anna}

4th of July {Part One}

I took *so* many pictures July 4th weekend, I decided to split them up into two posts. {Note : I didn't watermark the firework pictures, only because I took so many of them I didn't have time to watermark them all. Please do not use any of my photos without my permission. Thank you very much!} Please tell me which you like best, and I will be post the second post in a few days.

{Mom and Micah}

{Elijah}

{My parents}

{And I had to throw in some Bokeh photos}

{Anna}

Aaron and Elijah

facepalm

Facepalm is a colloquial term referring to the physical gesture of striking one's own face in a display of exasperation. It is similar in function to a sigh. In Internet discussions, the term is used as an expression of [...] disgust or general woe. (via Wikipedia)
See also: facedesk - The act of planting one's face into a desk at high speeds, usually due to frustration. (via urbandictionary.com)

Olivia explains over here, what a facepalm is. And I thought a "Facepalm"

would be very appropriate, for the picture I'm about to post.

Operation Jelly Donuts

Well. I don't have much to explain in this post.. Other than.. The picture's explain everything. Except the title. The title means nothing. Its just to catch your eye. (If it does.) I mean, the title would be boring if I just said "Funny Pictures". Aaron put some of Abi's socks on the other day, and Abi didn't want him to wear her's. So I told him I had some really cool one's for him to wear. He was thrilled. Then of course Elijah wanted some, so I got some more out. And how did Micah get into some? Well.. I'm not exactly sure. He just ran out into the kitchen with them on. Doodad that he is ♥

Micah was laughing at the other boys while they made faces.
And I had to die over this picture.
So. Operation Jelly Donuts is complete.

-Anna

Reactions when a wasp is in the house

I'm slowly writing up a long post with pictures and other random things. But its taking a while. So I thought I'd write a blog post with some random reactions and weird saying my family says. At my new house, it seems we are infested with wasps. Usually on warm days if you look out the window, you'll see my older brother running past with a stick and a can of wasp spray, yelling. He enjoys its, and everyone watching enjoys it also. Usually we get at least one wasp in the house a day. Unless its raining or the weather is cold. (Today we had a wasp in the house, and its cold today!) So, I thought I'd share the reactions of all my family members when there is a wasp in the house.

Dad : "Joshua can get it."

Mom : "Where is the wasp spray? Is it in the.."

Joshua : "Somebody bring me a broom! And a cardboard box!"

Rachel : "I'll go in my room."

Abi : "(She's usually the first to notice one. She got stung by one last summer, so she's terrified of them.) Rachel come on! (They usually both go and hide)"

Elijah : "**laughs** I got the fly swatter! (Elijah loves killing bugs, typical little boy.)

Aaron : "**continues to do whatever he was doing before."

Micah : "Anna!" (He says my name "Nana!")

And MY reaction.. Usually I don't care, or I'll run for my shoe.

All the boys enjoy killing the wasps. And Joshua wants to make a smoke bomb to throw in the attic. (Careful, my brother really does make bombs/smoke bombs. )

Joshua : "*talking to me* What's it like being the most annoying person in the entire universe?"

Me : "Annoying." (He says I'm annoying! Sheesh.)

--

Me : "I miss living in Germany, don't you?"

Joshua : "*nods* I miss living in Germany."

--

Me : "The murder wasn't accidental."

Kyleigh (One of my sisters, er.. Friends. She could pass for my sister though)

: "Of course not! It was accidentally on purpose!"

--

Aaron : "I just teasing myself."

--

Aaron : "Its floofy."

--

Micah can't talk much yet, but here is a little "sample" of his conversations with himself. (He talks to himself on the phone)

"Hiiieee. Momee? Dadee!! Nana! Bop. Hiieee. Bop. Nana!!!"

We've taught Micah some sign language. He can say "Please, More and Thank You." I've tried getting him to do it on video, but of course, he'll only do it when you don't ask him to.

So here is my very random post, just because I wanted to post something. And couldn't really think of anything else to post. Besides pictures, and I think I've posted way too many picture posts over the last few weeks. But I do have to leave you with one picture.

(He's forever trying to steal my camera!)

Happy Birthday Elijah!

My goodness! Its Elijah's sixth birthday! He's getting so big! I remember when he was born, he was so tiny. **goes and tries to find a picture of when he was born**

Elijah told Mom and I that he wanted for dinner Brisket, Salad and Mash Potatoes and Gravy. He also informed me he wanted nut/oatmeal/m&m cookies for dessert, with chocolate ice cream. He changes his meal "plans" constantly, finally he settled on Brisket. I hope he doesn't change it tomorrow... Aaron thinks its his birthday also :)

In this picture he was busy very silly. The pictures are horrible because he wouldn't sit still! He was wiggling all over the place. **laughs** And I found a picture of when he was a bit smaller. He had awful curly hair ♥ Anyway, below is the picture of him when he was.... Three? I think :)