Grandma is 80!

I love my Grandma!  She is the best for sure!  She and my *cousin-twin, Jeremy share the same birthday.  It is rare that our entire family is ever all together at the same time.  We all made a point to come together to celebrate Grandma at Johnny Carino's for her 80th birthday!  It was great to have us all together.  I love my family!  Here are a few pics from our night!

A quick CHEESE!

Me and my sweet mama!

Grandma and her cake!  Yes that's an old school pic of her on the cake!  

Grandma and Papa and all the great-grands!

The WHOLE fam!!!  

*so I call Jeremy my cousin-twin because we are 2 months apart and were always together and mistaken for twins when we were babies/children.  He is the one in the orange shirt who is like a foot  and a half taller than me now!  We definitely still look alike but he towers over me!  Love my "cuz"!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Couldn't you just squeeze her?!

The elementary age kids at our annual homeschool skate party.

The whole crowd!  So blessed to be a part of this group!

Jossalyn's first tea party

Jossalyn was invited to her first tea party to celebrate Lilly's 4th birthday.  It was so sweet!  She was the youngest there but because Lilly loves her so much (Agnes like if you will....think Despicable Me) Joss was at the top of her invite list.  They drank lemonade out of tea cups, ate sandwiches shaped like tea cups and tea pitchers, were served by the sweetest women in cute ruffly aprons, and got girly lip gloss too!  I made Joss a cute little outfit to wear and we both had a great time seeing some of our best friends!

All the girls in their cute red hats!  Bryleigh and Joss both with sweet smiles!

Such a little priss pot!

3 of the 4 buffalo ;)

along with wonderful memories in Disney, we brought back....

....the norovirus!  It was NOT fun!  Poor Jaxon had it for one day on vacation.  Thankfully the others were able to steer clear.   Until we got home that is.  Thursday morning we went to Bible study.  We hadn't been there 15 minutes when Camron and Caden's teacher came and got me.  Man down.  Caden got sick!  We came home and quarantined him.  Later that night, Camron followed suit.  Now, Jaxon's vomiting, etc. lasted about 12 hours.  Camron's closer to 24.  Caden just couldn't shake it.  After a text to a sweet nurse friend, I took him to the dr.  I had to literally carry him.  He was so weak he couldn't even hold his head up.  The Dr. was obviously worried.  She gave him some meds and instructions to go straight to the ER if he was still vomiting that evening.  We prayed he wouldn't throw up again.  He didn't!  The next day he was able to keep a little food and liquid down.  He did end up getting sick once more but we think his stomach just needed time to recuperate.  It was not a fun time but we are so thankful everyone is over it and Mommy and Daddy-O were able to stay healthy!  (and the house got a deep clean)