Finger Painting or Finger Eating!!!

Only try this at home if you have the courage to do so..... Today I thought it would fun for the little ones to do an activity. So I found the courage to make some chocolate pudding and let them finger paint in the kitchen. I was right it was a great idea even though they made a huge mess they had the time of there life. While Kaiden really didn't care to much for the finger painting part he sure did get his fill of the pudding. He threw a fit when his bowl was empty and needed some more of that great paint, so I had to muster up another bowl of pudding paint for him to paint the inside of his mouth with! I also managed to do all this and not get a drop of it on myself ( keep in mind I was in white pants)! YAH for me LOL! Anyhow thought the pictures were priceless! Great activity if you can deal with a brown kitchen!

This was just the start of it!

He missed the cookie sheet that was out and

got the floor! It needed to mopped today anyhow!

Now he found the pan to paint on!

I knew he could do it!

Then to finish it off he painted

the inside of his mouth. He figured that

was the best place to do it! YUMMY!

Having 4 kids at home isnt enough!

I have been so busy and these days I haven't really found the time to write so I was feeling like I should do that to update you on what the family is doing. Sean about 2 months ago got laid off from his job so for the first month we wondered what in the world we were going to do. So we just joked about things at first and decided we could just live under a bridge if it came to that because as long as we are all together it doesn't really matter where we are. Well then as time went by it was getting more serious that we are going to have to find that little bridge soon, so he got a job with the city working for animal control. Well I decided I need to help as well and though I cant physically go to work with 4 kids at home and to have to pay daycare for that I decided to start my own in home daycare. Well it has finally taken off and I now have 2 babies and 1 older child in my home. I was nervous at first bringing more kids in when I have the 4 here and 2 more coming this summer but the more the merrier right lol. Well so far things are working out great and I am excited that I can help out and also still be with my children at home, cus we all know this is where I am most needed at. The kids are on there last week of school so I know life is going to get even more crazy but it is great and I love doing what I am doing! Hope it keeps going well for us but things are definitely looking up in the Allen home and we are so very blessed and thankful!

Building a play house.....Much harder when your tools dont work!

We decided to build our kids a play house in the back yard for the summer time. We have the girls coming and by then Kaiden will be walking so thought it would be a great idea to give them a play area so they can play outside this summer. Well we have so far ran into a few small snags but we have had a blast working on our project. Sean had two days off during the week so we got started on it not thinking it would take too long to build but slowly coming to the realization that it will take longer then expected. Anyhow some of our tools were not working right and so he started cutting all the wood by hand saw which was pretty funny, not for him but I had a few good chuckles watching him in action. We finally get all of our wood cut with the help of mom loaning us a electric saw... Thank you for that because it saved poor Sean's arms. We started to get the flooring put together when Sean got to one tough piece. He was hamming in the nail when it bent. Well the nail had to come out and in the process I heard a crack. He immediately put down the hammer and started to shake his head, I then asked him if he broke the wood and he replied with yep think so. Well I inspected the wood and noticed it was ok so I picked up the hammer and started to remove the nail when we then noticed the head of the hammer was broken. I immediately started to laugh uncontrollably when he picked it up to inspect it and this is what we got on camera. LOL. It was the funniest thing and we had a great laugh, and thanks again to mom we were able to get a working hammer.

• Lumber for playhouse... $150
• Hardware..... $35
• Buying Nails stronger the your Hammer... priceless

What in the world just happened.. LOL!

BATH TIME!

I haven't got on here in a while so I thought I would take the time to do that. I have been really busy with sick kids the last few weeks so our house has been pretty crazy, but we are all better now finally and they are all back in school... Sean went and bought me a new camera that I have been bugging for, for some time now and the other day I was giving Kaiden a bath and thought I would take some pictures for his baby book. Just as I got the camera out he made the cutest face ever and I was happy to capture the moment. He is such a ham and he just surprises us with little faces and noises that he discovers everyday it is great!

Well I am new to this my sister called me and told me that I needed to get on here and start blogging so here I am. I am married to the man of my dreams and we have 6 beautiful children. There names are Tyler "12", Paige "10", Kaleb "7", Hannah "5", Haley "3", Kaiden "8 months". We live in Midland, TX. Life can get crazy with 6 children but each day is a joy with them. I am a stay at home mom and Sean works at Schlumberger. Life cant get any better then this.....
Here is our newest addition to the family, Kaiden was not here yet when we took the kids picture.....