Just one picture....

This is my attempt to get just one cute picture of the kids when they were all playing on and in the car. As you can see--it didn't go to well but some of the pictures are really funny! I gave up a long time ago trying to get all three kids to smile for a picture, but I sometimes still try! Oh well-some of the best pictures are just the funny ones that show how it really is around here--crazy!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Blaine really was nice and gave me flowers everyday the week of Valentine's. The lilies and tulips (my favorite) were beautiful. Kelsey loved posing by the flowers because she was convinced they were for her too. Ellie is our sweet little Valentine--but she does like to tell us "NO!!" a lot lately!
Cam made us an awesome Valentine card at school that said on the inside "I like you Mom and Dad. It's fun to play with you!"

Kelsey off to preschool

I took this picture of Kelsey because I thought she looked especially cute one day before preschool. She really likes preschool--mostly for social reasons. After school one day recently she had two of her best friends, Kiah and Makai over to play. It was one big pink, dress up, Barbie and My little Pony party!

Grandma Packer's Funeral

SO...long time no posts....sorry! Here are some pictures to catch up a bit!
My Grandma Packer passed away in January. She was 95 and lived a wonderful life and had such a happy reunion with my Grandpa who died before I was born (which is nearly 30 years ago--I'll be 29 for 2 more weeks!). I was blessed to be able to go to Utah (with just Ellie) for her funeral and see my family--its been quite awhile since all my siblings were together. Thanks to Blaine for holding down the fort at home while I was gone and to all our great friends who helped with Cam
and Kelsey for a week so I could go to Utah. It was great to see my bestest friend Shelley as well.
We will miss Grandma, but it sure it great to know we'll see her again.

My 4 big sisters (in age...not height for some) and my big brother

The magic of Christmas morning....

We had a wonderful Christmas! It's so fun to see the kids open their presents--especially from Santa!! Here are some pictures of the kids on Christmas Day. Cameron woke us up at 5:45 am telling us that Santa had come and he even ate the cookie we left out for him! Cameron got a snowspeeder from Star Wars, Kelsey a pink horse and Sleeping Beauty to match, and Ellie and new car! Our Christmas celebrating was short this year since we found out 2 weeks before Christmas we were selling our house and so we were packed and moved into a new house 2 days after Christmas and closed on our house on the 28th! Kind of crazy--but it is a blessing to have sold our house so quickly in preparation for our move to D.C. next August. We were sad to leave that great house we've had for 4 years now with so many great memories. We are now in a townhome in Lexington--the kids love the fact that it has an upstairs (something our other house did not have!).

Cameron's "Nightcap"

Cameron has being calling this funny hat his "nightcap" and he's actually worn it to bed a few nights and fallen asleep as the pictures show. We think its pretty funny. We're not sure where he got "nightcap" from--I think its from "The Night Before Christmas" where it says he's in his cap to settle down for a long winters nap.
He's a funny kid!

Time to decorate the Gingerbread House...

The Blood Family, awesome Mac Millar loving the candy cane, the Millar family, Brian and Liz Davis, and our gingerbread house for 2007

We had our 5th annual Gingerbread House Decorating Party this last weekend! This is such a fun tradition for us to have! We had 8 families over this year to decorate houses that Jaimee made during the week. Cameron whispered to Kelsey (not knowing that Mom was listening) "The best part about the gingerbread house party is that you can sneak around and eat as much candy as you want!" He's right--it is like a candy store that night and Cameron did help himself to lots of candy! It was a great night with some of our great friends here in Kentucky.