Passing time in the house of Sickness...

Here are a few pictures taken in the middle of our 10+ days of sickness. It was a horrible week- all 10 of us living in our house got sick. I think it was the swine flu...mostly because i want it to be the swine flu so i can consider myself immune for the next several months and won't have to have a flu shot...But anyway, we survived and we even had some picture-worthy moments in the midst of it all! :)

Most of the time we felt like doing what Sophie is doing in the above picture: however, in her case, she was actually just having a fit over M. taking something that obviously belonged to her.

sweet, snot-stained Madeline

Will was the commander in charge- at least he'd like the girls to think so.

 

Artistic farmers?

I don't know what sophie is doing in this picture but her little face cracks me up for some reason.

Here's a picture of the first time A and i got to "get out" after "the sickness" Thanks to my sis and brother in law, we were able to put our kids to bed and hit the town...unfortunately, by the time we were feeling better, Greeley decided to go all winter on us...brrr. it's been freezing ever since. Well, actually not quite freezing but still only like 50 something.... oh well. we were still happy to get out and breathe fresh air. :)

Family picture

We have to make very concerted efforts to get a picture with us all in it these days. We have tons and tons of just the girls or just Will or Will and the girls or me and the girls or Andrew and Will or Andrew and the girls etc....... but every once in awhile someone nice (in this case Grandpa S.) takes a picture of us all together. This gives us a great sense of identity. Especially when it works out that we're all fairly color-coordinated. (Andrew must not have gotten the "orange, green or white" memo)   : )

Roughin' it

This was our first camping experience with kids (well, actually we cheated and only brought

1 kid) But still, it was the real deal: no bathrooms, no running water, no comfy beds etc.
Will loved it but Andrew and i were, for the most part, happy we only spent one night! : ) However, the fact that we went with some great friends who also has a young child and who also did most of the food prep work, was a huge factor in making it well-worth the sleep deprivation and other camping inconveniences. :)

Happy little campers going on a little nature climb.

Will and his little buddy, Madison

Early morning happiness

Even bigger accomplishment!

The picture of the 6 cousins went so well, we decided to go further and get all 10 of us with Nana as an added bonus! And believe it or not, it only took 2 tries to get all eyes [mostly] open and all faces [mostly] happy looking! woohoo

Cutes picture ever of......

six little cousins

(actually, it's probably really not the "cutest ever" but it is definitely the best out of the 20+ shots we took that day! It's a major big challenge to get 6 kids to not only sit still at the same time but too look rational as well! :)

Elias 2.5 yrs. Calliope 8mo. Gideon 8mo. Will 4yrs. Madeline 1.5yrs Sophia 1.5 yrs