Ok, since I have not posted anything for a LONG time, I thought I'd just do a quick run down of all that we've been doing in the past few months!
Jed turned 4 on January 15th! He is such a fun little guy and always makes everyone laugh! Here he is, having a blast at Chuck E Cheese's!!!
We totally redid our family-room this winter, complete with tearing down the old paneling and putting up new drywall (we hadn't planned on doing that part!).
Dad's favorite part? The new mantel, we had nothing but bricks before!
I turned 15 on February 10th! Here I am with Cal, behind the cake that Dad and Maggie made for me!
One awesome big brother turned 17 on February 17th! Here is Jed and Cal with Sam, the birthday boy!
After years of wishing and searching, we were finally able to purchase Mom's dream car of a chartreuse green bug!
On Maggie's 8th birthday on February 26th (YES! We have a lot of February birthdays!), we went to the American Girl Place in Chicago! She had been waiting for, and talking about, this for this for a whole year!
We took the train to Chicago so that we wouldn't have to bother with traffic (just us girls went)! She is getting so big!
The little boys will play Lego's for hours!!!! They are definitely following in Ben and Sam's footsteps!
We finished our newest book, "The Homeschool Experiment, a novel", written by Charity Hawkins, the first book we have ever sold that someone else has written. Go to our website by clicking
here, to check it out!
Maggie is playing on the UPWARD basketball team this year at a local church! She is loving every minute of it!
The "Lady Panthers" in action!
The convention season is approaching, so we are starting to get ready for that too!
Two days after Christmas, my cousin Daniel married Jackie! The wedding and reception were so much fun! I didn't get any pictures from the actual wedding but here are some from the reception.
My cousins Grace, Elizabeth, and Kristen
More of my cousins, Hannah, Bethany, and Rebecca. Cal was the only little boy at the "girls" table, he loved the cotton candy!
Anna, the third flower girl, twirling on the dance floor!
The pretty table setting.
Ben was one of the ushers at the wedding. 
This is what it looked like outside around dinner time...it got progressively harder however and when some of us went over to a friend's house later that evening the roads were TERRIBLE! When we got back home the power was off and remained so until morning! But it was beautiful nonetheless!
Here's Cal playing in the snow the next morning!
Jed...not wearing a coat. :)
Our little lumberjack.
How 'bout this one?!?!?
Sam cutting the tree down with this small audience! :) Don't worry, they got a turn too!
Putting on all the ornaments!
We got to see "Winter" from "Dolphin Tale", the new movie about a dolphin with a prosthetic tail! The younger kids LOVED it! 
We were able to stay at our favorite campground Fort Wilderness in Walt Disney World! Here are some pictures from our time there!
Cal all decked out in 3D glasses!
Cal was our little dare-devil this year wanting to go on one of the roller coasters and the huge water ride with a gigantic plunge at the end (I don't even like that one too well:)!
Making smores' at the campfire!
Yum!
Playin' in the pool! I think you can tell Cal was having fun! :)
