March Madness Bracket Busters: Kid Picks

It’s the most wonderful time of the year!  Christmas March Madness, Baby!  This year we decided to get the boys in on the MADNESS of March by picking their own group bracket.  It turned it to a rowdy, hilarious, and thoroughly entertaining process.  Their Final Four Team Predictions: Indiana University Murray State Cincinnati Purdue With …

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Climbing the Walls and Windows

If this video isn’t proof that boys need physical activity, I don’t know what is…   While I was doing laundry, packing, and planning for a trip for six to the south last week, they were climbing the walls  the windows.  My word, these boys need to climb, wrestle, flip, run, tackle, summersault, explore, MOVE! …

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Happy Birthday, Daddy!

We adore you!

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This Competes With The Zip Line At Super Bowl Village

  We are so excited to be the host city of the 2012 Super Bowl!  Indianapolis has transformed into a masterpiece and we can’t wait to go downtown and take it all in!  There’s lots of family-friendly entertainment, and one of the biggest hypes has been the zip line takes off from a 95-foot launch …

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Section 7. Row 17. Seats 1-6.

I can’t even fathom how much it would cost to take our family of six to a NBA Indiana Pacers game with lower level tickets. I’m thinking it could pretty much pay for a vacation somewhere warm. But when six tickets were offered for FREE through a friend of Brad’s in his professional organization, we …

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Be Here Now

Source: etsy.com via Jen (QuatroMama) on Pinterest   I remember when the boys were tiny and we were so anxious for them to sleep through the night. Sometimes I miss those quiet moments in the middle of the night when I didn’t rush back to bed, but held them a little longer in the darkness. …

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The Hugging Punishment

The spanking debate is so 2011. Hugging is new school. When you’ve had all you can handle with arguing, bickering, and fighting between brothers – make them HUG. It might seem controversial. Perhaps a tad cruel and unusual to some, highly affective, nonetheless. Hugging for harmony. Bet you’ve never seen THAT in a parenting book …

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I Can’t Even Blame the Halloween Candy…

You asked what happened to the balloons after our “Fruit of the Womb” costume disrobing…. Surprisingly, we only lost one lone balloon during our neighborhood Trick or Treating, and transporting it to a few stops.  It was pretty funny to watch them just bounce off the ground when they tripped.  Those Hobby Lobby party balloons …

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