living with the wild

Well friends the cards are done! There are actually 2 so you will get one of the two in the mail with the annual Christmas letter by Jason....

Right before Thanksgiving we got the urge to get our pictures taken at Sears. Yes we had not taken Tana's 12 month pictures - we used o...

Yes I realize some of you might have just gasped at the thought of me finally updating my blog. I have a list of 48 posts to get through. ...

This is a hard post to write because today, March 27th (yes Ally's birthday), Grandpa Melvin went to be with his precious Savior and Lor...

Tana is our third child and you can tell it by our actions. We would have NEVER done this with our first and probably a little later with n...

I think that we got some good pictures for our card out of this sitting, but Tana is the girl of many many faces. Her face does not hid wha...

Here are one of many attempts at getting a good picture for the Christmas card. I know that I am biased, but these are the sweetest and cut...

Every year the star on the tree is the big deal - there is only one star and only one person gets to put it on. Last year the kids declare...

I know that Brenda likes to post blogs in the order that they happened, but I felt like I should sneak in a quick one here to say Merry Chri...

I know that I changed my background to Christmas last night, but I think that Thanksgiving is good to have before the Christmas "giveme...

This is completely out of the ordinary for Jason and has taken me several years to accomplish, but we finally went to a Hawkeye basketball g...

I make everyone smile so much. My daddy doesn't think that he can handle any more of me, but I am so cute that it is hard to say NO!

This is a typical evening bath time for us. Tana LOVES being in the tub with them, but they don't like to share the room. For some rea...

Not sure who he was cheering for - probably the last couple Cards game - which were hopeless. I walked into my mom's kitchen to find hi...

The first tooth at the Willis house has been lost, but it hasn't been lost by the oldest - but Drew. November 12th Drew and Ally came r...

After Halloween, we went out and got some costumes for our dress-up box. This lovely wig is HILLARIOUS especially when it is on Tana. Some...

Last years Christmas program was a flop - Drew refused to sing and cried on stage. This year he did great. Notice that he is the tallest k...

This just made me smile about her little behind. Her pants are a little big and just slide off when she is on the move!

We had a hard time with Drew's party. H1N1 was going through right at the same time as his birthday and we were just waiting for someon...

My mom and sister stopped by before we headed out with the kids. They posed with Rachel. I think Rachel's costume is the scariest. Tan...

Ally LOVES to carve pumpkins. My little princess is not at all afraid to stick her hand in and pull out the guts. She played with it and s...

Holy Cow, I can't believe 5 years ago we had a sweet shy little guy. Okay he isn't little by any means though - he weighed in 53# a...

We headed to Matt and Ashley's wedding in South Dakota. It was a long drive and a long weekend in a small hotel room, but a lot of fun ...

Tana got to meet and sit with Grandpa John for a few minutes before we left South Dakota. It was hard to hold on to our wiggle worm - she g...