Lots of Catching Up to Do!

Well all my faithful readers, here it is. My super long post of all things happening in Scott-land. We had a fabulous time celebrating with family a few weeks back. One of our Marbut family traditions (at least in my eyes) is the "couch picture". Sometimes, like at Christmas 2008, it is easy to get a good shot. But when you have 12 kids crammed into one frame where 10 are 4 or under, it doesn't always go so well.




But we survived, ate too many sweets (what else will happen at a candy party?), and slept way too little. Finley and Chloe have spent the past two weeks or so, asking to go to Emma's house, telling me repeatedly they like Emma's juice, and Chloe even said one day that her hair was styled like Emma's. So Emma, you are pretty popular here. I hope we can get together again soon.

Then we came home and had a monster yard sale. I removed a ton of stuff from the house and need to get rid of some more because we have a whole bedroom shake-up going on. Hopefully, by the end of the year Finley and Chloe will be moved into what is now our guest/junk room and their room will have a new purpose. The guest room has a much bigger closet, which they desperately need, and the space to start holding their toys. This will clean out our sun room and make it a functional seating area in our house. Wish us luck that we (you should totally interpret that we as Jeremy) can get it done on time.

This weekend is the Rattlesnake Rodeo and I am looking forward to it. I am hopeful the weather will be nice enough that we can get out and enjoy the day. We have made several trips to the rattlesnake pen and when we were there on Monday we saw this:

Before he took it out of the pen, we were advised to pick up the children. You better believe I had a death grip on Finn and my running shoes ready.