My little helpers......

The other night Avery and Thomas asked if they could do the dishes. I figured I may have to re due them but was very open to let them try. I must say they more than impressed their mom in how well they cleaned them and placed them in the dishwasher. I loved watching their team work. There was no fighting over who got to wash them, they just worked together until the job was done. They are growing up so fast. I love my children so much. I love that they are mine forever!! I love how sweet and sensitive Avery is. I love how much Thomas makes me laugh. I love Brynnley's determination and love for life. I also love her little angelic face and kiss it too many times a day. She is one smart little 20 month old!! This morning we put her in bed with us at 7 and she didn't want to snuggle so she got out of our bed and minutes later I heard, "come on"..."come on." She had gotten her brother and sister up to go eat breakfast with her. She motivated us all to get going!

There was also a great TEAM effort on the Gardner ginger bread house of 2011. We had a blast and the kids decorated most of it. Eric gets credit for the roof. What can't this man do??? The kids had a blast. Brynnley loved trying to eat the candy.

We have had a few gatherings for Eric's work this week. One of which we were invited to Dr. Hasan's home(one of the Dr.'s Eric will be working with next)to have dinner. We were able to bring the kids as there would be many other kids there and a daycare lady to watch them all so we could enjoy a nice dinner. The kids had a blast and so did we. We got introduced to the best ice cream called Jeni's ice cream. We had heard about it but hadn't tried it yet as it is in Columbus OH. We found out night that here in Ohio they carry it at Whole Foods. If you know my hubby and I, then you know the first thing on our agenda that weekend would be to go and grab more of that delish ice cream. We got different flavors than we hadn't tasted that night and grabbed some Madisono's ice cream too(Dr. Hasan's and his wife love this kind as well). Check out our flavors!!! We had them all out and went from one to the other....double dipping and all! The kids thought all the flavors were really good too. We gave each of them a taste of the Queen City Cayenne(which has some heat at the end of a delicious chocolate flavor) and to our dismay they all loved it. They just asked for a glass of water after the heat kicked in a bit. It's not hot it just tingles the back of your throat just right. Mmmmmmm! The creamiest ice cream we have had yet!

Never judge an ice cream flavor by it's name....the sweet potato roasted marshmallow was pretty good too. I couldn't pick out my favorite!!