Kids Carnival

I wish I had some more pictures to share, but I left the camera connected to the computer and drained the battery. I didnt realize this until we were getting ready to walk out the door and I charged it for oh, 5 minutes. The picture above is all the charge got me! Which is ok, since I love love love back turned, hand holding, walking pictures. IL looks like he's lagging behind, but he is actually holding T's hand.

We went to the Kids Carnival that is held each year at the subase youth center. It's highly overpriced and each year they have less rides but the boys absolutely love it. It was IJ's first year to be able to do anything and he had so much fun. I wish I would've gotten a few pictures of them! Even though it was expensive, I was so glad we went. My boys amazed me. We drove to where they had a shuttle bus, and had to wait in line for it to come. All the other kids were running around, getting in trouble and my little guys, stood there right in front of us and waited for the bus. No complaining, no fussing, no running about. Then we got there and they continued to warm my heart. T held IL's hand for so much of the night, and helped him on and off the rides. At one point when they were standing in line, I looked down and saw T's hand resting on IL's shoulder! It was touching to clearly see the love and compassion they have for each other.

T's friend from school was there, his name is Seth. IL thinks all the school friends are his too. Seth fell on this big pirate ship slide just as Adam was taking IL and IJ to another ride. Seth was crying and T ran over to make sure he was ok. Seth was fine, but IL was already on the other ride. It was a motorcycle carosel, and when he came around to where T and i were standing, he yelled "T, is Sef ok?" He was so concerned for another that he hardly knows, even though he was on a ride! It just warmed my heart all night to see how caring they were!

They continually amaze me and teach me each and every day. I have been so blessed with them.

Do you know the Muffin Man? He lives on D Drive!

T decided that he wanted to make a snack. He came up with a recipe all on his own and decided to make chocolate milk muffins! He came up with all the measurements (which I then modified to actually work! His had half a bag of flour!) and when he told me he wanted to use chocolate milk powder, I didnt think it would work!
But my oh my, these were some tasty muffins! Nesquick and white chocolate chips (which the kids think are vanilla chips!) make for a tasty muffin!

Here he is mixing them all by himself, he also cracked the eggs and poured most of the ingredients in, I just did the measuring! He put them in the tins on his own, and even helped me put them in the oven. I have never let him help with the oven and I didnt have any intentions of letting him help anytime soon. But he asked and was so so pleased with himself that he was allowed to help me. He is growing up so fast, another foot and a half and he'll be taller than me!

After he realized he was being watched. He had to show off!

I love watching him watch the fish as much as he loves watching them!

Oh so interesting!

Here come those Hall's!

I feel like I can't give enough substantial updates through Facebook and I don't have the time to talk to everyone I'd like to on the phone. I'm also somewhat tired of paying for my babyhomepages site and I've run out of free picture space as well. So I'm going to try to keep everyone in the loop here on this "blog". Pictures will still be regularly added to Facebook for the time being, at least until we are finished with the Navy thing..
As most should know, we've got 3 wild and crazy boys, T is 6, IL is 3 and IJ is 20 mos. I'm not going to use their real names on here, and I ask if you leave comments, that you dont either. I have an overactive imagination that makes me think people might be able to track me and my kids down over the internet and claim them as thier own. I've never claimed to be sane, people.
The boys are not calm children, they are very bright and outgoing. They are loud and they are fun. They can be alot to handle. My brother in law, had it right when he said "people will see you coming and say "agh, here come those crazy hall boys!" Thus the name of this blog:)