Baseball Tryouts!

Tonight Matt had baseball tryouts. He did a great job and I'm getting excited for games to start!!!

CONGRATS TYLER! One of Next Year's 7th Grade Class Officers!

I'm so excited for Tyler! He and his friend Liban won the Riverdale election!!!! Each of the 3 elementary that feed into T.H Bell hold officer elections during 6th grade for next year, and YAY Tyler won!!! I'm so excited for him and I'm so proud of him for being such a great kid. I can't wait for all of the fun things that are in store for him!!!!!

D.A.R.E.

Today we got to go to Tyler's D.A.R.E Graduation. It stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education it is also the great decision making model "Define, Assess, Respond, Evaluate". Tyler had a great time going through the program and I enjoyed the graduation. This year EVERY child in the 6th grade graduated. That doesn't always happen, but this year it did. I think it helps that we have such great Police Officers in Riverdale. Grandma Staten was up here on Friday and so she got to come with us too. Kyle and Nick both fell asleep on me and then Lucas fell asleep on Grandma. It made it quieter, but they missed out on the police dog demonstration which they would have LOVED! They woke up in time to eat cake and have Capri suns......of course :) The cakes were so cute! They had pictures of all of the kids and the D.A.R.E officers at their dodge ball game.

Tyler is such a great kid and I can't believe that he's nearing the end of 6th grade!!!!! It makes me a little weepy :)

How Do I Choose?

I've been looking at the newest picture CD from Mary and I just don' t know which ones to print for my wall! Oh the dilemma's when you have such cute kids! Here are a few!

Stylin'

Well, here we go! Matt has his glasses! I love both pair and more importantly SO DOES HE!

Lucy Mae

We've all been sick since little Lucy was born and so we hadn't had a chance to meet her yet. Paul called on Thursday and said that Clerie was heading up to her mom and dad's and could stop if we were all healthy. SO, they stopped by and we all got to meet little Lucy Mae!

Spring Break 2011

Spring Break this year was really early. 2 weeks before Easter actually, but because of that we really didn't have ANY set plans! Which since it snowed for the first 3 days is probably a good thing! Anyway, we started out out break by going to play at Toads with the Ovesons. Even better, we ran into the Moss family! We played laser tag, and mini golf and then headed back home ( in the blizzard) to try our hand at some cheese-less pizza! My sweet sister suggested that we spend that first day off from school trying to show Matt that we can still find things he can eat! She's so great. After some yummy (yes it was actually pretty good) lunch we all settled down to watch Tron. SO MUCH BETTER THAN I HAD THOUGHT IT WOULD BE! I even followed this one!

Friday Mike came home from work SO SICK! He never comes home and goes back to bed before 10. Even when he's sick. But this time he did. He stayed there until the boys and I were leaving to go to the rock and mineral show with the Ovesons. He really wanted to go, so he suffered through and the kids were glad he did. I've never been to the rock and mineral show before, but it was awesome! My kids were in HEAVEN! We were there for a few hours (until Mike couldn't do it anymore) and I can honestly say, I never got bored!After the Rock and mineral show I took Matt to the eye doc. Yep, he's near sighted. Poor kid got my eye sight :(. BUT he really likes the glasses he picked so hopefully he'll be ok with this latest change in his life.

Saturday Mike and I had to go to a Scout training in the morning. Not exactly a thrill a minute, but when I got home the kids had almost finished their chores!!!! They're such great kids!
Saturday night we celebrated Kyle's 3rd B-day! I can't believe he's already 3!!!!! Where in the world has the time gone? Anyway, it was a lot of fun. I love being an Aunt. There is just something special about that relationship.

Monday was our last day of "vacation" and I wanted to do something fun and OUTSIDE! Instead we went to a movie LOL! I did take Lucas tot he park later in the day though and that was wonderful!!! The kid can do the monkey bars! I had no idea! ANYWAY, back to the movie. Jamie and I took the kids (plus Logan and Chelsea Voigt and Chelsea Christensen) and went to see "Soul Surfer". I LOVED the movie. I cried and cried through the entire movie! Bethany Hamilton is an amazing person and the strength of character that she showed and continues to show is/was WAY beyond her years. My boys loved the show. Isaac was cheering out loud for her when she got back into the water and figured out how to get up on her surf board. So fun.
It was just nice to have one last day to relax and be together. I love my kids and I love every second that I have with them.