Easter

                                            Easter festivities were a hit

After the Easter egg hunt at mom and MA's church we were walking back to the car and I saw 2 kids running out to the field where the eggs were and later found out that they thought it started 30 minutes later than it actually started.  I heard Savvy yell "Cohen come here, they didn't get any eggs".  They ran up to them and gave them half of their eggs.  I was a mess… I found Michael and tried to tell him what happened but it was making me all weepy.  On the way home I told mom and MA and started crying again.  I was just so incredibly proud of them… and they did it all on their own, no prompting from adults.  They saw 2 kids hurt and chose to be kind… It still overwhelms me, they inspire me. I hope I can see the hurt and help like they did.

               Cue "everyone laugh and look at each other"…. true story  ;)

                             and this is the best we could do with 13 cousins

Mom can win everything these days!  She was drawn in a raffle at work and won amazing seats to a Grizzlies game.  Look at the guy photo bombing us… we had no idea until someone pointed it out ;)

Rainy Days

We have had SO much rain this spring.  After days of being cooped in we were desperate to play outside, rain or not

 I love being outside and working in the yard and this year has been exciting because we planted so much last year.  Most everything has made it and is doing good… and our earthworms, they are huge :)

Our Circus

Caleb was way over due for a haircut… now I love it, but he was ready for it to be cut

 We were all going outside to play and Norah ran out like this :)  I asked "Norah where are your pants?"  And she smiled and said "oops"

And Caleb has been known to forget his pants as well

      Sweet Cohen Aced a presentation about Alexander Graham Bell

 Norah, she might have the biggest imagination of us all.  She talks to herself, loves to pretend to be different animals, play momma, play baby, and when her and the boys play ninja she can play dead with the best of them

      He watched an entire movie cramped in his "home"

New Floors

We were finally able to replace our floors!!!  The carpet is 28 years old and had held up well but it was time.  The night before demo I had the brilliant idea to let the kids color all over our carpet, it was fun and hilarious and hours of entertainment.

 I wish I could find Caleb's finished project because this looked so neat.  He colored each space a different color… he's my little artist

 The floor company called me bright and early the next day and told me they couldn't come out that day….

Only a one day delay and the kids got to color more the next night.  I'm loving the new floors :)

At the End of the Day

At the end of they day, they really do love each other

They are my joy and my crown…

Hands down their most favorite thing to do together is to mess with Michael… Savannah has perfected her skill of jumping out and scaring Michael, I'm dying and trying to get it on video because it's hilarious.  It's a good thing we have a fun Michael :)

Becky's Birthday

For Becky's birthday we took her to the Beckham's lake house in Arkansas for a weekend.  It was wonderful, we slept and ate and talked and April got us matching PJ's :)

 Saturday night for dinner we had wine and cheese, it was a prefect little getaway to celebrate an amazing women!

Bugs and Storms

The kids shared a fever virus (how come its never a problem with sharing if its a sickness… but legos or notebooks or heaven forbid THAT exact stuffed animal, WW3 can break out in the Clay home :)  Luckily it was short lived

 We've been having some bad storms recently.  One night Michael fell asleep while I was watching the news and when he said "ITS HERE AND COMING TO YOU, GET YOUR LOVED ONES SAFE"  I made the decision to put all the kids in our bed, because at least we would be together… So I run and wake up the boys and they both blank stare at me, I tell them "Go to my bed, theres a bad storm"… Continue to stare at me.  I shake their shoulders and talk louder "go get it my bed"…. Sirens start going off.  Caleb starts to stir so I go to Savannah's room.  I wake her up and she is so confused and talking in an intangible language and clearly dreaming of something.  By this time I'm laughing but frustrated.  I'm going back to the boys room when I trip over Caleb laying in the doorway of Savannah's room only to find Cohen standing in the hallway staring at the WALL!  So now I yell  "Everyone go to my bed a TORNADO is coming" side note Michael is in a sweet restful slumber during all of this.  They finally maybe reach 10% consciousness because all 3 start walking like zombies to my bed.  I get Norah out of her crib and shepherd the tiny zombies to my bed.  I get everyone tucked in nicely and realize 6 people will not work in our bed, only to hear the news man tell me "whew, looks like we lucked out of that one", I gave that newscaster my meanest look and slept in Savvy's room… :)  All 4 (5 including Michael) of them are insanely deep sleepers and have no idea who or where they are when woken in the middle of the night… I'm on my own.  Like that one time I heard an alien baby screaming in our backyard and terrified shake Michael "what is that!"… intangible language… "Michael listen!"… alien baby screams… Michael "its a deer snorting"…. what are you even talking about it is clearly extraterrestrial … Then he wakes up to hear the alien baby scream.  We are pretty sure it was a fox screaming and is a noise out of horror movies. But again,  I'm the only reliable source in the middle of the night.
This is how I left them the night of the storm, Savvy is on the other side of Michael and NOT 1 of them remembered anything that had happened and wanted to know how everyone ended up in my bed

          Caleb and Norah made their own tornado shelter during one of the storms :)