Valentines 2010

I love these 4. (and their daddy a lot!)




Valentines makes me want to craft. Even though it is sort of a girl holiday (as miss Anna would say) we had fun with our 3 boys too. Music makers was so fun with heart shakers, heart faces, and my favorite mustache suckers. I found a pattern for love birds and had so much fun making them for the kids. They are the perfect size for little Ian's hands and my older kids liked pretending with them. Anna & I cut some potato stamps and decorated a handful of construction paper sheets. That's when she said, "valentines is sort of a girl holiday, well, I guess the boys have Halloween." That sounds fair to me:)

flash forward

Something about this photo made my mind flash forward 6 years (I don't know why I thought 6 years in the future, I just did). I could almost picture these 4 sitting around this same table gobbling down their breakfast. In 6 years Everett will be 14, old enough to go to youth dances, weird. Anna 12, a little beehive, (hopefully) super eager to babysit. Paul will be 9, in 3rd grade just like Everett. And Ian will be almost 7, like Anna, in first grade...my baby in 1st grade! I think the years will fly by. I think I'll miss the booster seat and the baby spoons. (not the diapers)

I love my kids.

saturday is a special day

Saturday was such a nice day, and we didn't have anything that we had to do.

So we played outside, planted some flowers, trimmed some bushes, went to an estate sale (well, me and a friend did), road bikes, played catch, and to end it all Chris and I went to see Avitar (that is a GOOD movie).

I love Saturdays!

Anna gives a little

of herself...

doesn't she look so stinking cute! She was happy to give a little (or lot!) of her hair to help out someone who needed it more than her. She was so brave, I was so proud.

1st place

Everett competed in his first pinewood derby...and he followed in his dad's footsteps and won first place! I guess it is family tradition to win. Chris' dad handed down all the research and materials to make a winning car. Chris had Everett draw up his car, mark it on the wood, Chris cut it out, Everett sanded, painted, sanded, painted and Chris put the wheels on. I think he let him do a little bit more than his dad let him do as a kid.

His first race down the track he won, the car next to him came in a hit his, busting his front wheel right off. We were all a little worried he wouldn't be able to race, but the judges let him hot glue it back together, weigh it in and race. He raced something like 12 times and won EVERY single race. I was a bit shocked. Chris was too, he kept saying there are a lot of engineer dad's in our area that could make some sweet cars. And they did, but I think Grandpa T's magic dust made for another winning car. It was fun to watch. It was good to see Everett win. I was proud of my boys:)

Paul's 3rd Birthday Party

Today was Paul's first friend birthday party. It was so much fun! He invited a few of his best buddies to celebrate. They pretended to be firefighters saving kitty's up in a tree, shooting out fire in cardboard buildings, and making their own pizza's. (cause everyone knows firefighters like to cook!) I think the boys enjoyed themselves. I know Paul was loving every minute of it. Especially the presents part. Happy Birthday Paul!

(thanks Rachel for taking all the pictures!)

Happy New Year!

Marti, Colby & Olivia came up for new years. We had so much fun!