Bringing Back the Chicken Sundays!

Four baby chicks
have found their way
into a box in our garage.
The boys are as happy as could be
with their girls.
Eric is the most excited of all.

There names are
Chewbacca,
Queen Amidala,
Mississippi,
and
Geronimo.

Basketball

He shoots,

He scores!!!

 The 2012 season

comes to an end.

Way to go boys!

High Chair

One evening,
while Kyler and Eric did this

Kacin was doing this

rebuilding and sitting

again and again

Too bad I couldn't get part 1 to upload.

This is only the end of his demonstration.

Valentine's Day

Kyler and Kacin worked hard
making Valentine's for their classes.
Some of them turned out more
like monsters than valentine's
but I thought they were cute nonetheless.

The boys were very invloved in making candy bar surprise cookies this year.
They nearly rolled all of the cookies themselves.
Yum, yum.

Eric is so good to me.
So awhile back I mentioned that since I'm always the one planning games
I don't really get to particiapte.
He sweetly agreed to make our Valentine's day plans.
He emailed me with two riddles for the boys and me to solve.
They led us to the grocery store to buy a heart shaped balloon.
Once we bought the balloon we were supposed to call him.
We figured out the answer to the next riddle was a local pizza place.
He met us there for a heart shaped pizza dinner and some arcade games.
Another riddle led us to Costco where we picked out a treat
(to Kacin's disappointment a box of granola bars, not ice cream)
and the boys bought me flowers.
Then we filled up our cart with all the regular costco items we needed to buy.
Eric's last riddle brought us to Lowe's to buy a part to fix our leaky toilet.
Even though half of our Valentine's celebration
was getting errands done,
we had an absoultely wonderful evening together.
And I think Eric is the sweetest man in the world.

Star Kyler

Kyler is Star student in his class this week.

Some of the things he wrote:

about how he loves to ride his ripstick,

he shows his family he loves them by keeping a good attitude,

a good book he enjoyed recently was "Henry and Beezus",

he loves going to Disneyland,

his favorite celebrity is George Lucas,

favorite color is green,

favorite song is "Oklahoma!"

Love this boy.

Swing High and Low

Highs:
beautiful weekend weather
a trip to the coolest park
playing outside
crockpot cooking
sharing dinners with good friends
Kyler's Star Student project
playing dominoes and hide & seek in the dark as a family

Lows:
despite a valient effort at patching, Kacin's eyes didn't really improve
broken glasses
Kacin's mild hearing loss (we hope temporary)
E traveling and traveling with plans for more travel

Such is Life

I've always known that if I don't write it down,

I'll probably forget about it.

But when I don't write it down correctly,

it doesn't help.

Contrary to what was written on my calendar,

Kyler's basketball game was at 12pm, not 3 pm.

We missed it.

Rather disappointing.

But

The extra hour in our day

did allow the three men in the house

to put up the trampoline.

I actually spent more than $10 on a new shirt.

And then I proceeded to shrink it in the dryer.

It will make a stylish shirt for someone's baby doll.

Eric arrived home safely after another

week of business travel.

I'm jealous that he is now ahead of me

in our race to visit the 50 states.

We have cardboard coming out of ears.

We bought bookshelves.

And a new desk.

We completely

top to bottom

filled our living room with cardboard pieces.

We are discovering hundreds of things to do with cardboard.

So while the office is now cleaned up,

the living room is a mess.

Such is our crazy life.