First Day of School

The summer went by so fast and before we knew it the first day of school had arrived. The kids had all gone to JCPenney's for new hair cuts. The girls both searched the Internet for their new look.

Alycia is a 6th grader (last year as an elementary student), Lillie is in 4th grade and Davis is in 2nd grade.

They all came home with smiles and seemed to enjoy the first day.


Cal did not anticipate the first day of school with joy. He tried to make a deal where the girls could go and Davis could just stay home with us. He had a rough first day but took a 3 hour nap (summer wore him out)!

Easter 2012

The Easter Bunny came early to our house this year.... With early church and Spencer actually home the whole weekend (no DJ's).  We asked the Easter bunny to deliver the baskets Saturday morning so that we could focus on what Easter is really all about on Sunday....

Friday night we dyed Eggs.  I love how excited Cal was.... he is at that age where everything is new and he gets SOOOO excited!

Then on Saturday morning the kids set out to find the baskets the Easter bunny left for the kids.  The Easter Bunny likes to hide our baskets outside and tries to make them really hard to find!  This year they were harder to hide since they were bigger baskets...

Happy Easter!

Tim and Margo come to Visit

Alycia, Lillie, Davis, Owen & Cal

 

 We loved having family come and visit...  We took Owen and Margo with us to Science City (poor Ethan was sick and Tim stayed home with him.) 

 It was a fun weekend including trick-or-treating together!

Halloween... 2011

We have a Pirate, Ahoy (Lillie)!

We have Optimus Prime/Pirate/Starwars (Cal)... It's so hard to be 3 and have to make decisions!

Anakin Skywalker (Davis)

A glow in the dark creation (Alycia)...

The Rock Room Concert... A fun time had by all!

So the girls take guitar lessons and each year their AWESOME teacher puts on a recital.  This is not boring snooze fest recital.. This is a Rock Concert!  They get to play with a live band, sing... Like I said a fun time is had by all!

Alycia Rockin Out...

Lillie with her guitar

Spencer and Cal... waiting for 

the festivities to begin.

 Davis.... watching "transformers" instead of watching the real show.

Spencer and Amy... when was the last time I posted a picture of me.... 

probably never so take a good look 

because you might not ever see one again...

No Electronic Weekend!

The kids school brought home a note saying that their school was sponsoring a no electronics weekend. No phones, televisions, DSI, iPods, computers, etc.

Spencer and I are thinking no way we can't do it... We did it and survived. We started at 7:00 p.m. Friday night and took the kids to sears to get a basketball. Saturday we spent the morning riding bikes then we headed to Isaac (our nephew's) eagle scout award ceremony. Then on to science center for the afternoon.
















You know when you are exhausted and you you rent a movie and come home and relax. Nope not for us. Instead we had a family sleep over. We brought everyone's mattresses and blankets down. Told stories and fell asleep.










It was fun to spend the time with each other but we are glad we have our electronic devices back.





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5 day weekend

I have enjoyed my 5 day weekend because of the snow days. We played in the snow, went sledding, and pretty much lounged around. Too bad Spencer had to work.

Today we went to McDonalds in the freezing cold just to get us out of the house.


















I am ready for the kids to go back to school. Just for one day then we have another 5 day weekend because of the Martin Luther King holiday.

Snow Day!!

We got the call at 6:00 a.m. That school was closed for the day because of snow. We lounged around all morning and then we cleaned a bit and then we got ready to go play in the snow.



This was Cal's first year going out by himself and he loved it!!!













Alycia even shoveled!





The kids played outside for a while and patiently waited for Spencer to get home to go sledding



We had a great time. Cal even went down and loved it but didn't want to try again.

Some favorites

Spencer's family had boxing gloves growing and he has always wanted some for our kids. This year Santa fulfilled that wish and Cal loves them the most!