Michael heads across the street to shoot baskets (that is when we can pull him away from the ncaa tournament.
Jon went out for some snow soccer.
Becca was out for a while too and when she came in grinning I asked her why she was all wet:
Friday, March 21, 2014
Welcome Spring
So what do my kids do to welcome in spring?
Michael heads across the street to shoot baskets (that is when we can pull him away from the ncaa tournament.
Jon went out for some snow soccer.
Becca was out for a while too and when she came in grinning I asked her why she was all wet:
Michael heads across the street to shoot baskets (that is when we can pull him away from the ncaa tournament.
Jon went out for some snow soccer.
Becca was out for a while too and when she came in grinning I asked her why she was all wet:
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Sledding
My moms group just had a successful sledding trip! When we planned it we said that it would be contingent on the weather cooperating and there still being enough snow. With the winter we've been having that was no problem. While we almost had to cancel because of dropping temperatures, it decided to warm up enough just in time.
This is the first sledding trip where I didn't have to sit someone on my lap and take them down the hill against their will. All three kids were ready to go and took off!
This is the first sledding trip where I didn't have to sit someone on my lap and take them down the hill against their will. All three kids were ready to go and took off!
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Becca's Birthday #1
This week is Becca's birthday. The actual day is on Thursday, but our Thursday is a bit out of control scheduling wise, so we are spreading out the celebrations. Yesterday was part #1. Per Becca's request, we took a family trip to Crazy Bounce. In the past, she has always gotten too scared of the big slides here, so I was a bit surprised that this was where she wanted to go to celebrate her birthday. In fact, she has been waiting since Michael's birthday in August, always insisting on Crazy Bounce for her birthday.
My goodness did she have fun. She went on everything in the building and had a huge smile on her face the whole time. I guess the fun anticipation helped build her confidence. I can't believe she is just about 4 years old.
My goodness did she have fun. She went on everything in the building and had a huge smile on her face the whole time. I guess the fun anticipation helped build her confidence. I can't believe she is just about 4 years old.
Monday, February 10, 2014
Swimming Lessons
Jon and Becca just finished up a session of swimming lessons. I am happy to report that they have both become a ton more confident in swimming without life jackets on. They were even jumping in on their own. And our big news is that on the last day, Jon actually swam for 6 seconds without any floatation devise before his face started going under water and he grabbed the edge. They both can't wait to go back to the pool again soon to play around.
Monday, February 3, 2014
Snow Days
So with all of the snow we've had an amazing run of snow days. Back at Christmas our Christmas break was bookended by one snow day before and two after. Then last week we finished a string of a full week of snow days. We had snow days on Thursday, Friday, (the weekend), Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
The first Thursday we had a friend from our church small group come and play so her parents could still go to work. I was so excited to get them all outside, but it only lasted about 10 minutes before they were too cold to come in.
Come in for a snack and a movie. :)
So with the cold temperatures we did a lot of inside playing. One day we got out a bunch of legos and duplos and did some fun creative play.
The boys also did a lot of stacking getting ready for this coming season.
And Becca has been into doing her "homework" which is workbooks I've picked up for her.
Tim spent much of the break rebuilding his computer. For his birthday we had order a bunch of parts for our super old Windows XP computer and they arrived just in time for some snow day fun. My wonderfully gifted husband (with the help of youtube videos) took apart and rebuilt the computer and I'm happy to say that it turned on and worked great the first time! So he and the kids have been spending a lot of time playing minecraft and starting some minecraft video recording on it.
I did get the boys to forgo the new machine for the old video games once. The last time they played MarioKart together Jon didn't do so well. This time I smiled when I heard Michael say, "Wow, Jon, your actually pretty good."
As you can imagine things soon got a little crazy all cooped up in the house. Finally, when the weather got up to a balmy 8 degrees we forced the kids outside.
A couple of minutes later I found Jon wading through the snow to get to the back door to let me know that ....
Becca's boot and sock had come off and gotten stuck in the snow.
The first Thursday we had a friend from our church small group come and play so her parents could still go to work. I was so excited to get them all outside, but it only lasted about 10 minutes before they were too cold to come in.
Come in for a snack and a movie. :)
So with the cold temperatures we did a lot of inside playing. One day we got out a bunch of legos and duplos and did some fun creative play.
The boys also did a lot of stacking getting ready for this coming season.
And Becca has been into doing her "homework" which is workbooks I've picked up for her.
Tim spent much of the break rebuilding his computer. For his birthday we had order a bunch of parts for our super old Windows XP computer and they arrived just in time for some snow day fun. My wonderfully gifted husband (with the help of youtube videos) took apart and rebuilt the computer and I'm happy to say that it turned on and worked great the first time! So he and the kids have been spending a lot of time playing minecraft and starting some minecraft video recording on it.
I did get the boys to forgo the new machine for the old video games once. The last time they played MarioKart together Jon didn't do so well. This time I smiled when I heard Michael say, "Wow, Jon, your actually pretty good."
As you can imagine things soon got a little crazy all cooped up in the house. Finally, when the weather got up to a balmy 8 degrees we forced the kids outside.
A couple of minutes later I found Jon wading through the snow to get to the back door to let me know that ....
Becca's boot and sock had come off and gotten stuck in the snow.
Saturday, February 1, 2014
Snow
Well, we have had quite the snow in the last week and a half. It never dumped more than 5-6 inches on any day, and most days it was only about 2-3 inches, but it kept coming and coming.
This first picture is the snow out our back door. Impressive, but then you remember that there is actually two large steps down out our door to the ground and the snow is still almost a foot up over our door.
Here is the picnic table.
Tim actually measured and we have 18 inches on the picnic table. Amazing considering a lot of snow blew off the table with the huge winds we've had.
As Tim has been snow blowing, our piles have been getting quite large. It has been fun watching the kids try to climb up the ridges to get out in the snow to play.
My favorite thing, though is that even though we've had so much snow, we've actually had a couple of hours of this too:
Do you see it? Sunshine and blue skies! That is unheard of most days in Michigan.
This first picture is the snow out our back door. Impressive, but then you remember that there is actually two large steps down out our door to the ground and the snow is still almost a foot up over our door.
Here is the picnic table.
Tim actually measured and we have 18 inches on the picnic table. Amazing considering a lot of snow blew off the table with the huge winds we've had.
As Tim has been snow blowing, our piles have been getting quite large. It has been fun watching the kids try to climb up the ridges to get out in the snow to play.
My favorite thing, though is that even though we've had so much snow, we've actually had a couple of hours of this too:
Do you see it? Sunshine and blue skies! That is unheard of most days in Michigan.
Friday, January 31, 2014
Jon's Half Birthday
Jon's half birthday was a bit crazy this year. The actually day was this past Monday. Last Wednesday the snow craziness started for us. School was canceled Thursday and Friday and we didn't get out of the house much because the plows were having trouble keeping up with all of the snow. Saturday both Tim and I were pretty sick with a bad head cold. And Sunday I had a big day at church in the morning and then we hosted our small group for a family meal with 9 adults and 10 kids at our house for a couple of hours. So Sunday night we sit down to figure out what to make for Jon's half birthday treat for school and realize we can't make the cupcakes he wants. First, I don't have any cake mix in the house, and second, even if I wanted to get ambitious and make the cake from scratch I can't because I don't have any eggs.
So I got out a couple of options for Jon: muffins, brownies, or sugar cookies - all of which I had mixes for in the cupboard. Jon picked muffins. :)
The weather forecast was looking iffy for school on Monday so I waited until 9:30 to make the muffins just in case school was canceled. We literally got the call as I was putting the muffins in the oven - No School. So Monday morning we had 24 muffins waiting for breakfast. Luckily my family loves muffins. In fact, they were actually all gone by noon on Tuesday.
So then at dinner we wanted to do a family treat for Jon. He wanted to eat muffins and ice cream, but if you read the above paragraph you will know that the members of my family had already eaten a lot of muffins that day, so we decided on settling for just ice cream. (Not to mention that there is something weird about muffins with ice cream, even though it is not much different from cupcakes and ice cream really I guess.) The dilemma of candles in ice cream was solved by our trusty supply of play-doh.
To finish the story, we had snow days on Tuesday and Wednesday as well and I was actually able to get to the store and buy some cake mix. We actually ended up making cupcakes in ice cream cones for a fun school treat.
So I got out a couple of options for Jon: muffins, brownies, or sugar cookies - all of which I had mixes for in the cupboard. Jon picked muffins. :)
The weather forecast was looking iffy for school on Monday so I waited until 9:30 to make the muffins just in case school was canceled. We literally got the call as I was putting the muffins in the oven - No School. So Monday morning we had 24 muffins waiting for breakfast. Luckily my family loves muffins. In fact, they were actually all gone by noon on Tuesday.
So then at dinner we wanted to do a family treat for Jon. He wanted to eat muffins and ice cream, but if you read the above paragraph you will know that the members of my family had already eaten a lot of muffins that day, so we decided on settling for just ice cream. (Not to mention that there is something weird about muffins with ice cream, even though it is not much different from cupcakes and ice cream really I guess.) The dilemma of candles in ice cream was solved by our trusty supply of play-doh.
To finish the story, we had snow days on Tuesday and Wednesday as well and I was actually able to get to the store and buy some cake mix. We actually ended up making cupcakes in ice cream cones for a fun school treat.
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