Hello out there!

OK, I started out my day waking up at 6am to run on my treadmil, I finally was mentally prepared to get on the machine a little after 6:30am, but I did 3 miles at 5.0 mph- thanks to my new shoes (up from my 4.5 that I have been training at all year), so I was pretty happy about that.

Then we had a pretty amazing breakfast. And then headed to church. Our pastor Kevin is still in Africa for one more week and then he'll be back home. We miss him, he is a great biblical preacher.

Now.... you really going to think I'm crazy but we have a couple other kids over, too. I mean if you have 8 what's 2 more right??? We really are having alot of fun this summer. We got the pictures to prove it!!

Ok, to be funny, cause you know I like to be funny... here's a before picture...

And after....

Here's every one's cup, there are 12 but we ended up with only 10 kids (including my own)... We have Jade, Kent, Austin, Tessa, Hannah (not Laura's baby), Philip, Tae, Nadia, Shane & Alex.... and Jeromy hahahaha!!! Just kidding sweetie- I couldn't do this with out you, seriously!!!

Here's Shane and Alex.... this is Shane's first time spending the night at our house woo-hoo!!!This is one of my favorite things to see kids do.... being creative and drawing/coloring...Here's Shane and Alex's artwork... Here's a close up of Alex's drawing, he drew looking into our living room with Shane standing in the middle of the room... Michelle.... I think you have a budding artist- actually all the kids have talent....Here's Nadia's drawings...And Laura, you'll like this... Tae drew a picture of you and her...While I was making dinner, Jeromy played cards with some of the kids...Now this is something me and my brother Nick would do when we were little, we would make menus up and make the food our family would choose on it. I remember this being so fun, that I thought the kids might have fun with getting to choose some of their dinner choices... they got to pick what kind of bread and vegetable they wanted...We were having ground turkey with spaghetti sauce and these really cool swirly noodles that all the kids said they liked...And this bread we got at Costco, it is so delicious! We love both the garlic and the whole grain breads, they come 2 in a pack for under $5!!! The kids loved that, too!These girls love them some raspberries... I know how that is!If you're wondering how I keep my sanity mom... I have a cup of coffee in my cozy made with love....After all the kitchen was put back together, we were going to make cookies again. Jeromy requested SnickerDoodles... well of course we can do that! Nadia was the only one who wanted to help make cookies! We missed you Beriah making cookies. But it was nice having Nadia mix the dough and rolling the balls in the sugar/Cinnamon mixture!!!There was enough for everyone to have 3 cookies, 2 tonight and one tomorrow after breakfast...Then we thought it would be good for the kids to burn off some energy... outside... the kids were kind enough to pose for a picture... here they are in height order, not necessarily age order... Kent, Austin, Philip, Hannah, Jade, Tessa, Tae, Nadia, Shane & Alex... a bunch of awesome, hyper, crazy, sweet, loud kids!Here's a video of them attacking Jeromy... he loves it...

Here they are playing a game, Jeromy's in the back ground keeping an eye on them while he works at his lap top... I knew that thing would come in handy!!

Anyway, they are starting to get into the ice-cream... gotta go get the kiddos rounded up for bed... pray for us :o)