The Seven of Us

Things I Never Thought I Would Say--Until Children

This post will be occasionally updated as thing happen in life and things come to mind:
(1)"Stop pointing at peoples moles!"
(2)Before we realized it we would say "You better start being have!" It dawned on us one day that this in nonsensical. The word is behaving.

Life With Seven

I thought that we would acclimate Kristina into our family without much change at all. There are so many of us that I thought, "what's one more right?"
Our new addition, however, has caused us to do a bit of adjusting--in more ways than one. Here are a few funny things that we have encountered so far.
It first hit me that some things just aren't going to be the same when I was grocery shopping and realized that my brand of breakfast sausages only came six to a pack. Now I am off mathematically! Also, when we dine out the gratuity is automatically included in our bill as if we are a party of people or something. There are no additional legal seating options left in our car. When I cook breakfast I use eighteen eggs and an entire pack of bacon. Our washing machine broke so we went to the laundry mat to do our clothes. We occupied fifteen washing machines (almost the entire laundry mat)!! We take up a pew and a quarter at church and a whole block when we ride our bikes. There are a few perks that we now have as well. If we use the hair cut card that you get stamped for each cut, we automatically qualify for a free cut. And if we go to get ice cream we use up all the stamps in one shot, immediately qualifying us for a free cone.

My Trip to New Orleans

Today I went to New Orleans. Here are two Pictures I took with my new camera that I got for Christmas. I had fun. I saw the Mississippi River.

New Orleans Fun

I had a wonderful Christmas with my family.
Today was great too. I went to New Orleans with the girls. We ate lunch at Cafe Maspero, and then after walking around in the French Market we had coffee and beignets for dessert. Latter we had oysters in the French Quarter. (Me and Hannah did at least.) We got drenched in a down poor as we ran to take Kristina to see the Mississippi river. That's why we look so wet in some of the pictures. But the rain only added to the fun!

Some Funny (and Embarassing) Things My Kids Have Said and Done

http://religiouscontemplations.blogspot.com/2007/10/some-funny-and-embarassing-things-my.html

Boating

Today I went boating with my family. We saw some alligators. We went swimming with big fish. We also saw gar fish . The water was freezing; I could barely get in. My dad kept telling me to jump in, but I did not want to. He tried to drag me in and my brothers kept scaring my sister. My mom was taking pictures. My grandma and grandpa came along with us but did not swim.