Saturday, April 30, 2011

Soccer and Our Basment

The past few Saturdays have been very busy. Soccer season has started again and we are working on finishing our basement! Both boys are doing well in soccer and a re improving all the time Kyler has discovered it is fun to chase the ball and not the butterflies this year.  Conner has become much more aggressive and will get in the middle of it and get the ball out!

Kyler in the red shorts

Conner in the gray shorts with the gray shin guards.

Brandon has been so nice and has come down and helped Brian frame the basement! He has most of the tools we needed and did most of the work.

Thanks Brandon, we couldn't have done it without you!

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Easter

We had a beautiful Easter and although it was a little chilly it was so nice to have sunshine and no snow or rain.  The kids had fun decorating and eating sugar cookies a few days before.  It is so interesting to watch the different ways they frost their cookies.  Conner loves to put a little frosting and a few sprinkles, Kyler loves to use many differnt colors of frosting on one cookie, and Annie loves to pore on the sprinkles and eat the cookies.  She sat there devouring her cookie and with each bite would say "Mmmmm...gooood,...Mmmmm..goood".  On Saturday we colored eggs, the kids had a blast! Annie dipped her eggs over and over again.  On Sunday we enjoyed what the Easter Bunny brought and went to church.  After church we want to Grandma and Pop Pop's for the annual Easter egg hunt and dinner.











Who would guess that a 20 month old could walk in Mommy's four inch heals! So cute!

And they are off!

Conner and Kyler helping point out eggs forAnnie.

Happy Easter!!

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

The Zoo

Last week was Spring Break and we took the kids to the zoo.  They had a great time. Conner loved the monkeys and Kyler loved the train, the playground and the Orangutans.  Annie was fascinated with everything! We saw the monkeys first so any animal we saw after that was a monkey, except the elephants, they were "baarrooo!".  It was a beautiful day and we had a great time.







April Showers!

I can't believe that another month is gone! We have been showered with rain and snow and many exciting moments in our home this month.  Annie is back to herself again, I found her on the table spinning the light, "whee, Whee, WHEE!"(to quote her). She also tried climbing the shelves in the pantry and climbed in the dryer.  Kyler is always asking questions about how things work and loves to read and play games. We also got new sand in the sandbox which has kept Kyler very busy!  Conner is doing well in school. Scoring in the top of his class in math and spelling.  I had a scare a few weeks back when I received a call from to office saying Conner had been involved in an accident and they would like me to come check it out, and if he was going to remain in school, I needed to bring a change of clothes because he could not return to class with blood on his clothes.  So I hurried up to the school and he was OK. He had been hit with a hockey stick in P.E. There was a small cut under his eye and lots of blood. He didn't say much, so I knew he must be in shock.  With only an hour left of school, I brought him home. He had fun showing off his bandage and black eye at school the next day and loved telling and retelling the story anyone who asked.  His Uncle taught him to say .."you should see the other guy." Which also got some good laughs. He also lost another tooth!



The eye, five days later...looking pretty good!

Lost tooth number 2, the adult tooth already growing in behind.

Kyler and Annie enjoying the sandbox.