Baking with the Boys

I made puppy chow on Saturday and the boys really enjoyed licking the bowl that was used to melt the chocolate and peanut butter.  It was so yummy!  Saturday was a very busy day for us.  Alissa  and I went to the Antique mall here.  I'll need to remember to take our parents when they came up. It was really nice and then we had lunch at Mango's.  When I got home, it was such a beautiful day that I decided to go for a run. Ran 4 miles in 40 minutes!  That is awesome for me!  I know that it is still slow, but considering that last year I ran 12 minute miles to be able to run 10 minute miles for 4 miles is just incredible. I never thought I'd be able to do that. I was completely dead after that though.  13 miles is seeming longer and longer, but I can do this! 

Next weekend, we have Ty's party.  I'm trying to get myself organized now so I'm not pulling my hair out by this time next week.  He's inviting a lot of friends from his school.  Okay, not a lot because I had to cap it.  There are only so many kids I can handle.  He could only invite 10 friends and boy did he have a very hard time picking those 10.    

Birthday Card

Here's his birthday card!  I think it turned out great!  Thank you picnik.  I couldn't have done it without you.

Star Wars Theme

 

 

 

 

Joel let the boys watch the Star Wars Trilogy and Ty loved it.  He wants a Star Wars themed birthday and I had the idea to create his own bday card invitations.  Fastenal's print shop can print them for as cheap as I would pay at the store.  I took these pictures to give me something to go off of and then I used picnik to create a really cool card. At least, I think it's cool and Ty's pretty excited about it too and the kids will love it.  I'll post the final product soon.  Too bad that when I finally learn to use picknik (in  a very limited way), they are going to be going away.  

Ice Skating

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These are pictures from when we took the boys ice skating.  It's been a very busy week this week with work and with planning the Super Bowl Party.  Ty's birthday is coming up as well and so the month of February is keeping us all hopping!

Loos Family

Loos girls and Kelner boys

I love Halle's faces in these pictures.  She definitely takes after her dad.  :)

 

 

Pretty Kaia.

Cute Deke

A few weekends ago the Loos family came down.  We so enjoy having them over. 

We had basketball tonight for Tyler.  When we got home, I made pizza for them and as we were sitting around the table, Ty begin to tell us about his day.  On the playground, they play chase and the girls chase the boys and lock them up and when the boys get free, they get revenge on the girls.  I asked Ty what he thought about this and he responded with: "I like being caught by the girls."  And so it begins.  

Christmas Morning Pictures

I got Ty a Packer's jersey for Christmas, but I couldn't resist teasing him by wrapping up a Patriots Jersey and giving that to him first.  He was a little surprised, but still so polite.  "Well, I like the Packers, but this is still nice." BTW, our boys apparently have an aversion to clothes.  They just don't like wearing P.J.'s

Finally, gave him his real gift.  He loved it!

Deke was super excited about all the Scooby stuff he got for Christmas.

Sorry, these are so late, but I guess better late than never.  We went to church today and the boys were both being a little rowdy.  Joel took Deacon to the back and Ty followed.   Ty is too old to stay back there and when they came back, he was being a little loud.  He wanted water and was running around the back a little bit.  It really annoyed me and when he got back to the pew, I shot him the "mom" look and mouthed "sit down and don't move".  He could tell I was not happy and he's now learning to read and write so he got the etch a sketch and wrote "I my sory mom."  Well, you just can't stay mad at that, so I gave him a hug and told him I loved him.  He then wrote: "Thank you"  and continued to write little notes to me all through the service.  It was still a bit distracting as he doesn't know how to spell all the words so he would ask me.  Some of his other notes were: "I will do 2 chores."  Haha.  I never make him do chores, but apparently he knows it will make me happy if he does them.   It was just too cute and he's reading skill are really coming along.  His teacher does routine assessments and his last one she highlighted all the words he knew and wrote "Wowza" on the assessment sheet.  Can you tell I'm a little proud of my guy?

Happy New Year

Hmmm...Juice

It is soooo gooood.

These were some funny pictures from New Year's.  The boys drank some sparkling grape juice and I showed them how to do toasts.  Ashley and Malissa came over to babysit for them so Joel and I could go out with some of our very close friends (Bradbergs and Polly).  The town may never be the same.  What a great way to ring in the New Year. 

We took the boys ice skating today.  Joel and I made the grave mistake of thinking that we could put on skates too and skate with the boys.  Yeah, that was not going to work and we figured that out pretty quickly once we couldn't get past the bridge without falling down.  We both took our skates off and put our boots back on so we could help the boys.  Tyler actually did pretty good without us. At least he skated better than either Joel or myself.