My family

I am new to this whole blog thing--so hopefully I will get the hang of it and you can enjoy my little tidbits about our fun family! We have grown to 9 people here at the Tietjen Zoo! Austin is 9 and the best helper in the world. I could have never survived having twins without him (and Dad of course!) He loves to do things outside, build things out of Legos, and is addicted to Discovery Channel. Some of his favorites are Myth Busters and Dirty Jobs. Hunter is 7 and quite the ham! He loves to make the babies laugh, loves school (is very good at it), and loves to play outside. He also loves to cook--he can do Ramen noodle and Mac-n-Cheese all by himself......now if I could just get him to do laundry! :) Mason is 5 and is our character of the family. He is always keeping us laughing. Like tonight.....he asked to say prayer and it went something like this, "Heavenly Father, please help us to be good, so we won't have any sins and we can come back to your house, and please bless us that we will be able to go the library at school and get a book, and read it, and take it back and get another one. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen." He gives me those much needed laughter during the day!! Emberlyn is 4 going on 16! She is quite the drama queen; something that has been a huge adjustment for me after 3 boys. She is ALL girl and has her Dad wrapped tight around her finger. Liberty is the boss of the family. She makes sure that every one is doing what they are supposed to, or at least what she thinks they are supposed to be doing. She is such a doll and we love her sweet smiles. Then theres our wonderful twins! Brinley is 9 min. older than her brother and she knows it. She does everything first, and then shows Brigham how to do it; which was fine until she learned to climb the stairs. She can take 5 or more steps, makes the funniest faces, gives you five and just today learned to spit! Brigham is my sweetheart! He loves to play with his sister, takes afew steps (he does have a bit more chub to move around), gives you five, claps, and hollars for his Dad. No lie, if he is trying to get his Dads attention he just hollars Dad! We love our babies and love watching them play together. Hopefully I will keep up with this and you will have fun watching our family and the fun we have!!