12 of 12 - Because I like to do things out of order... and late

1. The family of 5 laundry pile up (approx. 8:20am)
2. Sammy with her favorite blanket trudging out to the van to take Hayden to Pre-K
3. Time to pick up Hayden! (I had already picked up Hayden at this point, but the snooze feature on my ever-so-smart-phone likes to assume that I didn't get the message)
4. Sammy being silly in the car
5. Hayden being silly in the car
6. The family of 5 laundry pile up (approx. 1pm) making a little progress!
7. A hand delivered invite to a birthday party! How fun! Sammy is so excited!
8. Amanda doing her homework.
9. It's what's for dinner.
10. Hayden really gets into his spaghetti!
11. Scout night for daddy. Otherwise known as the "eat and run night".
12. Amanda pointed out this beautiful sunset to me when I was about to lose my temper with the littles. Thank goodness for Amanda. Thank goodness for sunsets. We are all happier for them!


I'm linked up again with Amy's blog. You can check out tons more 12 of 12 posts in her link ups.

12 of 12 September

I can't believe it's been a whole month since I've blogged. I guess having two in school and one at home is keeping me busy enough... :) My goodness, I haven't even posted first day of school photos. What a bad mommy blogger I am.

Anywho - on to the main attraction: I present to you September 12th, 2011.


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I started off the day as usual, kissing Amanda goodbye, then Michael and then debating whether to drag my buttocks out of bed right then, or in another 5 minutes. (A morning person I am not). The littles had their own plans so I was not to have my extra 5 minutes. Breakfast, shower, everyone dressed and out the door to take Hayden to Pre-K. And that is when I remembered the date... but not my camera. I dropped off Hayden and got in the van only to get a phone call from the school nurse at Amanda's school.

1. Her throat didn't look any redder than it does in this black and white photo.
2. And she felt well enough to play a game of "oh my toes" (or whatever it's called).
3. The music we've been listening to in the van.
4. The "sick" child watching tv ever so quietly...ehhem.
5. On our way out again to pick Hayden up from school.
6. M is for Mouse! or Emers the Mouse as Amanda misheard me say.
7. Awww, they love each other! Sharing the love, sharing the germs. yay!
8. First signs of Florida Love Bug arrival... yuckers.
9. My lunch. Chicken nuggets and toast with blueberry jam - I know, sooo nutritious! If you look closely you'll see that one of my nuggets has a wing. or a nose.
10. Off to the library to pick up a book that's been on the hold list for at least 3 weeks.
11. Finally! The Help is in my hands,
12. Hubby came home early today 'cause he's sick. No really. He's gonna cough up a lung soon. Not like the other "sick" child in the house.

12 of 12 August

This was an awesome day for the 12 of 12 project! My hubby took the day off from work without telling anyone (but me) about it. Michael and I spent the night before packing up the van and hiding stuff under the seats so they wouldn't have a clue where we were going. Early the next morning Michael told the kids that his car wouldn't start so mommy was gonna have to drive him to work - and of course, they would have to come with us. We all got dressed and took a very, very long drive to "daddy's work". Around 2 hours later Hayden told us that we were going the wrong way to work. :) Another hour later we arrived at our destination: Anna Maria Island!

1. On the local bus to check out the island.
2. Samantha waiting for the bus.
3. Walking up the pier to the restaurant/popular fishing spot.
4. The wood planks of the pier
5. Pelican (they were amazing and eating quite well)
6. We saw lots of dolphins and a few up close!
7. a fish we saw a young boy catch - they threw it back for obvious reasons :)
8. Can't help but take pictures of this girl - love her eyes!
(didn't bring my camera to the beach and the camera phone pictures were kind of ehhh...)
9.- 12.  Stopped for ice cream before we left the island.

12 of 12 July!

Another less-eventful day in the Gove home

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1. Goodmorning Amanda! 2-3. Samantha is potty-training (nearly there! She only wears a diaper at night). Though this has led to lots of running around in just her underwear declaring that she is "Potteee-Twained" whilst doing a hula hoop like dance with her hand on her hips. It's priceless... and a little disturbing, hee-hee! 4. Hayden, ever the nudist... he sees no reason to wear clothes unless we are "going somewhere". sigh. 5. Making homemade blueberry waffles 6. Just about to eat them! 7-8. Making 2 kinds of fries... daddy likes the thin ones 9. Hayden redecorating the backyard 10. It's a jungle out there! 11-12. Hayden showing daddy all his hard work on the "treehouse".

12 of the 10th... say wha?

I went to Girls Camp on the 10th and for those of you who know anything about Girl Camp you KNOW that I barely slept, and had a heck of a lot more fun and photo opportunities on the 10th than I did on the 12th. The 12th was definitely my "day of rest" and my camera was far, far away from my thoughts. So this month, I am cheating for the sake of content. :)


I present to you my 12 on the 10th!



1-3. On my way to camp I couldn't help but stop and take a few pictures. The view, the sounds, even the smells out on the ranch were like a great big hug from God. 4. My first time shooting a gun. 5. I love 1st year girls! 6. Tiki torch + Wind = Burned Torch, 7-8. Pre-Testimony Meeting 9. The famous Holy Griddle 10-11. Testimony Meeting with our girls! 12. Happy camp leader!

12 of 12 - May

This day could be summed up in three words: Playdoh, Legos, and Tree-trimming.

It was a very laid back day for Sammy-Sue and Hayden, while Amanda is not in any of these pictures because she was at school. At one point in the day I decided to take the chainsaw to our tree out front because it's branches have been dragging across the top of the minivan and driving me nuts. I later got in trouble with the hubby for leaving the clippings in the driveway.

12 of 12 Challenge - April

1. Grateful to have lights in my bathroom again! Just part of our slow and steady bathroom renovation.
2. The 3 basket laundry pile up... not to worry, there's one more out in the hall.
3. Gasp! Our bed is made! Amazing!
4. My business cards arrived today, just in time for my wedding shoot this weekend! Yay!
5. Amanda has egg frying skillz - we named this one Ying and Yang Yokes
6.Amanda is my biggest helper. She is buckling Sammy into her seat - we're on our way to the playground and then to pick up daddy at work!
7. playground condemned....grrr.
8. Stopped at Sam's Club to pick up food for the Boy Scout Training thing my hubby is Grub Master for... Sammy was soooo tired!
9. Found this cute suit at Sams! Didn't buy it though.
10. Hayden gets a few more minutes of playtime in before bedtime.
11. Amanda noticed this dew/rain drop on a leaf of  the tree out front. Click - ugghhh. totally blurry. :(
12. Poor Sammy Sue got really sick after her exciting trip to Sam's Club. Greasy pizza and super-sized Fanta orange soda probably didn't help. She was up all night barfing, so I kicked Hayden out of his bed so I could stay near her all night.

Linked up with another Amy G. here

12 of 12 Challenge

1. Saturday morning tradition
2. Yard work
3. Keeping the little ones occupied during yard work
4. Picking Amanda up from a sleepover
5. Slurpee break
6. Someone must have stayed up mighty late at that sleepover (wink, wink)
7. My honey playing Civilization
8. We had camera shy friends over for dinner/games - this is what was left of Sammy's haystacks
9. Green cherries? who knew - great alternative for our red dye 40 sensitive boy though
10. One of the games we played
11. Where's Sammy? I see toes!
12. What was left at the end of the night of our super-sticky, 7-layer, gluten-free bars.

I'm linking up with a different Amy G  HERE

Post edit:

There really should be a pre-#1 picture of the first thing I did on the 12th, but I totally spaced about the challenge and didn't bring my camera. I spent an hour of the morning having breakfast with a friend... if I had taken a picture, it would've looked like this....Me: in a bright green oscar the grouch sweatshirt, Cathy in full on Grumpy attire, and the ever so pretty princess Garla, late to the ball we were having at Einsteins. :) It was a good day!

12 of 12 Challenge

saturday tradition: dunkin donuts, the sugar induced craziness begins!, mad libs baby, owie,
amanda teaching the youngers the art of wish making, sammy tells us "this is BLUE!",
hanging out at the mall germland, amanda's fancy new phone cover, {insert your own caption here},
my tired eye, amanda during computer time, just before our pre-V-day date...

I'm linking up with a different Amy G  HERE

12 of 12 Challenge

It seems fitting to post my 12 of 12 Challenge at 12 midnight. 

Don't know that I will keep this up, but it seems to me to be a fine idea!

 

astroboy, shower progress, lunchtime, nap time, tree berries, my little friend, 
tree climber, day old empty cans, my big friend, palm bark, washable graffiti, sweetheart

I'm linking up with a different Amy HERE