Life with the Bussis'- 12.9.15

I can't believe that I just typed the date in the title of this blog of December 9! Oh my goodness, how is it December 9 already?! I feel like the past few months have just flown by. And I don't really see it slowing down anytime soon. Before we know it January 15 will be here and then probably a week later :), the baby will be here! Craziness! But even though time has gone by quickly, I feel like we really haven't done a whole lot. :) We have our normal weekly things, storytime at the library, Bible study, but then we spend a lot of time at home, which we've been doing a lot of baking lately. And they boys have really come to truly enjoy playing together and I have to say, the past couple of weeks while we still have fights and tears, it has gotten so much better! It's so fun to just watch them play or even just listening to them play. They love to chase each other and even though we've had a few bumps, bruises and bloody noses, they get right back up and keep on chasing each other. :) I don't know if I will ever fully understand boys, even after having 3 (maybe 4), they just have to be rough and crazy all the time. :) But they have so much fun doing it, the smiles and giggles that come out of them make me try really hard to shut my mouth and just let them play. :)

 

I am not a crafty person, so I just had to show you these adorable sock snowmen I made at GEMS, I'm quite proud of them :) and very thankful for a co-leader who is very much crafty so the girls can make cute stuff

Our big event for the week was going to pick out a Christmas tree! The boys are at such a fun age where this is a big deal to them and they loved getting to help pick it out

Watching them tie it up so it's be easier to take home in our van

Putting on ornaments

All decorated!!

Saturday morning I went over to church to practice for Sunday and when I came home I found this, all three just playing nicely together on the couch. It was so cute and made this mommy smile

They love playing with Daddy

Micah didn't want to come with me to the grocery store Monday morning, so Jonathan got to come and while he was not the helper Micah is, he was highly entertaining :)

We finally got the Christmas lights up outside

Remember how I said the bumps and bruises :). So while I was putting up the decorations outside the boys were out there with Steve chasing each other. Steve would run backwards as they tried to catch him and then turn and run. So David decided to try that and was running backwards and turned right into a tree :) But it hasn't slowed him down in the least

My baking assistant. No idea why he made this face :). We were taking a picture to send my Mom to tell her he needed a new apron so he didn't have to wear mommy's (my Mom made him one probably 3 years ago that's a little small now :)) and this was the face I got :)

Cutting out our Christmas cookies. It was so cute, Saturday I was watching The Pioneer Woman and Micah loves to watch it with me. She made these Christmas cookies and Micah told me he really wanted to make them. So we did :). And they turned out really cute, are delicious, and are making great Christmas treats for our Children's librarian, Little Lambs leaders, and anyone else we need to give something to. :)

I did eventually lose my helpers :). Of course, given the fact that David and Jonathan were just getting flour on their hands and then clapping and watching the flour go everywhere, I wasn't too disappointed :)

They did come back to taste test :)

And put the sprinkles on

 

But yes, they turned out very cute!

And that's all I got. :) Steve and I did get to go out to dinner and to the play "The Christmas Story Musical" on Friday night with friends. It was so nice to catch up with our friends and the play was so cute. It was based on the movie "The Christmas Story" and was just really fun. And then last night I got to go to the Michael W. Smith Christmas concert with the Grand Rapids Symphony with a lady from church. It was awesome!! But unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures :). But I'm guessing you'd rather see pictures of our adorable children than us anyways. :)

Life with the Bussis'- 12.3.15

Not too much to share from this past week. It wasn't so much that we didn't do anything, I just forgot to take any pictures. :)

Like Thanksgiving, this is the only picture I have from that day. :) Can you tell Jonathan is trying not to smile. :)

Friday morning the boys "helped" me put up some Christmas decorations. This is what they thought we were suppose to do with the stockings :)

 

The boys got to go to Steve's parents house overnight on Friday with their cousin Bentley. Micah and Bentley made gingerbread houses, as you can see the are very proud of them. :) 

 

My boys in blue :)

This was so cute (at least I thought so :)). When they got up from their naps on Sunday David just went and snuggled right up to Micah, so sweet

Jonathan set up a little office for himself

Thankfully Micah wanted to go with me to the store again this week. I'm pretty sure he put 90% of the items in the cart for me

He just loves being my helper. I think he's going to be such a great helper when this baby comes!!

It was pretty cold outside while he was helping me both at the store put the groceries in the van and then at home bringing them in the house, so his reward for helping mommy was a cup of hot chocolate with whip cream on top, as you can see he was pretty excited about that (although he pretty much just at the whip cream on top :))

Making some guacamole. Whenever one helps mommy make something, they all have to help.

So the twins just have not shown any interest in potty training. And seriously, it's time. So we decided to bring out the big guns and I bought 2 Cabbie's from the Planes Fire and Rescue movie, put them where they will see them every day, and told them if they go on the toilet they get to play with them. David was pretty excited about this

As was Jonathan

And it worked for Jonathan. Unfortunately not for David. The rule is if they go on the toilet they get to play with it, if they go in their diaper, it gets taken away. We'll see how this goes. :) Micah was 3 1/2 before he decided it was time to be done with diapers, I was hoping the twins would be sooner, but we shall see. :)

Jonathan told me it was bright in the house :)

Love my silly boys!!!

Life with the Bussis'- 11.27.15

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!! We had a good one that started with a wonderful service at church. Thanksgiving is actually my favorite holiday, I think because there's no extra hoopla around it. :) And the Thanksgiving service at our church is one of my favorites. We always do a special food drive offering during the service. The first year we lived here I thought, okay, I'll just look through my cupboard and grab a few cans to bring. And then I was highly embarrassed by my few cans as families brought grocery bags full of food. :) I think I've played for every Thanksgiving service since we've been here and it's so neat to get to see everyone walk up to the front during offering and place their food on the stage. And yesterday was extra special as I got to watch Micah and David go up and put food up there (for some reason Jonathan just didn't feel like it I guess :), so Micah made 2 trips). After church we headed over to Steve's parents for turkey dinner with his parents, grandma and sister's family. We came home for naps (I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who actually slept :)), and then headed to the Bussis Thanksgiving (Steve's Dad's family) which was a lot of fun too. So it was a great day (and I didn't take a single picture :)). As for the rest of the week, we had a pretty good one.

The boys really do play so nice together. Well, I don't know if I should say play nice :), they really enjoy playing together :), a lot of the time that includes chasing each other, roaring at each other, and pushing each other off the couch. :) But given the fact that we are inside most of the time these days, it's nice that for the most part they get along.

My 3 handsome boys all ready for Bible Study

 

David is our silly little guy :). He seriously did this for at least 5 minutes straight. I don't know how he didn't get dizzy, I got dizzy just watching him :)

We made a trip to Meijer. I usually just go to the local grocery store in town, but we needed to get an Angel Tree gift and Meijer had some good sales going on, so we made a trip out of it. And I say a trip because my boys made it seem like an adventure. :) They first were super excited about the fake snow they had in the store. :) They were just amazed by it for some reason and thought the lit up snowman and Elmo was pretty cool. :)

And then they got to check out fish!! David was a little disappointed that there wasn't any Nemos there, but they still loved seeing the fish :)

And then, they got to go to the bakery and get a cookie! At our store they just get a generic Oreo cookie, here it was a bakery pumpkin cookie! This is one exciting store! :)

And then they got to top off their trip with a ride on the Sandy Horse!

David

Jonathan

Micah

So that was our fun morning outing, a trip to Meijer. :)

Micah and I went to the Christian high school's play Shrek the Musical with Steve's mom, sister, and Cousin Bentley! These boys were so good and seemed to enjoy the play. The students did a great job!

This was my view at breakfast Saturday morning (the point of this picture is for you to see what's in the background, although my children are pretty cute too :)). Yes, that's snow!

And just so he wasn't left out, this was my view to the side :)

There were 4 very excited people in our house (can you guess the one who wasn't excited :)?) They were asking to go outside as soon as they woke up and lucky for them their Daddy was willing to go with them. :)

 

 

Micah wanted to go with me to the store on Monday and I would be okay if he came with me every week, he was so helpful! I just had to point to what I needed and he got it off the shelf and put it in the cart. And he's pretty strong, he can handle the milk and even a 12 pack of soda! Made it so I didn't have to lift a lot. :)

Of course he wasn't a lot of help when we got home because we are getting new windows put in and they had just delivered them when we got home and he was way more interested in checking that out that helping bring the groceries in. :) And then while Steve and I were talking to one of the workers and not really paying attention to our 3 lovely boys, they decided to through every single shoe, coat, hat and gloves that we had in the hallway down into the basement. :) They thought it was fun until we told them they had to now bring every single one of the things they threw down up and put it back where it was suppose to be. :)

Our library has passes to the Children's Museum you can check out so we went with some friends this week which ended up being perfect timing to get us out of the house for a while while they're putting our windows in

The bubbles is always one of their favorite parts of the museum

Making flags

My cute bumble bee

Getting to watch a video in the basement to get out of the workers way :)

 

We had to bring a dessert to the Bussis dinner so the boys helped me make Oreo dessert. They thought it was pretty fun to get to use the food processor (and since I only have a mini, it took 3 times to crush all the Oreos so they all got a turn at running it :))

Smashing down the crust

Mixing up the pudding filling. They did an excellent job, it was delicious!!

And it's moments like this that make me realize how incredibly blessed I am and cause me to pause and thank the Lord for the beautiful family He has given me! A loving husband who is a wonderful father to our 3 precious boys!!