a little bit of family time

As I mentioned at the end of my last post, our family is entering a new stage.  A stage where we don't have any babies in our family.  Everyone is potty trained!  Naps are becoming optional.  So because of all that--we are more flexible and we can do more!  It is pretty fun, really...even though I very often find myself longing for another baby (sniff).  But that's okay, I am content with these 4 blessings that the Lord has given to us!

So...at this stage of life, we are able to do things like family slumber parties!  Last weekend we had our second Mueller Family Slumber Party (remember the first one?).  It was lots of fun, even though everyone got less sleep than a normal night.  

We started off by baking cookies (see how helpful these girls are??)

And then we watched the long-awaited "Frozen".  Kaine and Halle have been begging to watch it, after hearing about it at school.  We all thought it was a pretty good movie :)

And of course we had to listen to 'Let it Go' about 6 times afterwards :)  Daisy wanted Nathan to dance with her...so cute!

Our family slumber party ended with all of us sleeping in the living room.  Lots of fun, but not as much sleep.  Oh well!


Then a couple of nights ago we went to Panera with the kiddos (Thank you, Lucas and Crystal for the gift card!)  Our kids love going to Panera, much to my delight:)  We then went to try out a new playground in town.

We ended our evening with ice cream at McD's...we ate outside because the air conditioner was blasting inside the building.  But outside, it was getting VERY windy!  As you can see by Kaine and Daisy's faces, they weren't loving it :)

So...Nathan pulled up the van and we piled them in the back to finish their ice cream.  They were much happier with this arrangement!

It is so much fun spending time with these four!  Never a dull moment :)