Englerville USA

wander through the many streets that are our life...

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Location: Chicagoland, Illinois, United States

>The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~Erma Bombeck<

Sunday, February 24, 2008

trying to catch up

Sledding day at Plum Creek with Heather and Gianna

The kids giddy with joy at the indoor pool

I must have looked for about 10 minutes for Isabella before I finally found her - she silently waited "hiding" in the baby doll bed! Too bad I wasn't playing hide and seek - she had me a little freaked out for a few minutes! I am getting payback, I did this to my grandmother when I was little - but I was much worse, she actually had to call the police on me!!!

Joe Cool waiting to get her first teeth cleaning and Kaylin showing off her sparkly clean teeth (they put these little glasses on the kids so that the light doesn't bother their eyes, the kids LOVE it!)

Saturday, February 23, 2008

trying to do picture catch up


On Thursday my sisters came over to watch the girls while I was at work and Gianna spent the night to go swimming with us at our fitness center. The kids had a lot of fun and decided to play "Sleeping Beauty" - can you tell who is the sleeping princess?!? Pretty hysterical how she just lay there with her eyes closed waiting to be kissed holding her construction paper flower! Excuse Kaylin's hands... her suit is about 3 sizes to small!!!

Painting with Auntie Gianna - this is only the beginning of the paint mess she made

On Sunday we went over to Mom and Dad Engler's for lunch and visiting - the kids all got themselves in here on their own and were all laying on top of each other "sleeping"! Of course by the time I got the camera they had awoken. (Thor, Cannon, Isabella and Kaylin)
On Saturday Homewood had their annual Chocolate fest - we joined my brother Don, my sisters and my mom for brunch at Blueberry Hill before we ate our weight in samples!

The kids had so much chocolate that they were running in circles over and over and over...