TeeBall ans LOB Softball, May

We started baseball/softball season in May. This is Ella's first year for tee ball. She's on the team Pythons and she's doing a great job!! This is Grace's third year playing, so she is playing on an all girls softball team. She is on team Inferno. He hitting and catching are improving dramatically!

Been Away for a While...

Sheesh! This spring and summer has been SO busy!! I have been away from the blog for so long!! Hopefully, I will get some time to catch everyone up on what we've been doing : )

Disney on Ice

Every year we try to go to Disney on Ice when it comes to town. We didn't go last year because it was the same show we saw the year before, so we were excited to see that they brought a new show to our town this year! This year they out on the Princess Classics stories - a short synopsis of the stories that we all know and love: Aladdin, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, and Mulan. Grace's Girl Scout troop got tickets for the girls, so all we had to pay for were tickets for Ella and me. We decided to make a girls' night out and went to Pizza Hut for dinner and then the show. We had such a great time! The only down side was the camera's battery ran down (I neglected to charge it before we left) right before Cinderella came on the ice. I did, however, get some really great pictures of the other princesses. This was by far the BEST one we've seen yet! Maybe next year, we'll get to take Daddy and Colt : )

Colt's Second Birthday

Colt got some really great gifts! Everyone was so thoughtful! The train was a really big hit with all the kids. I don't know if the girls thought it was theirs or Colt's but they have officially taken it over ; )

Colt's Party Decorations

On Sunday we had Colt's Second Birthday party. Of course, it was Spider Man : ) Many of the decorations were store-bought, but I decided to make a few:
On the treat bags, I hand made the little spider web tags. I found a Spider man movie font and typed the kids' names on white card stock and then drew webs around each name.

I didn't want to spend the extra money on a birthday banner, so I drew the same font as on the gift box tags on a larger piece of card stock and then did the webs around each letter. I then hand drew the Spider Man heads and threaded the letters and the heads together.

The cake was store bought. It had all the Spider Man characters on it.

We had a wonderful day with friends and family...we are truly blessed with wonderful people in our lives : )

Tobogganing!!

Lastnight we took the girls tobogganing up at Pokagon State Park. We had a great time! The weather wasn't terrible - windy though. We went down twice since the lines were pretty long. 34 MPH the first time, 36 the second. Guess who got to sit in front both times... : )

Hot cocoa at the warming station... YUMMY!

What a Busy Weekend!!

On Wednesday, Grace lost a tooth and received a $2 prize for her treasure from the Tooth Fairy. I tend to forget how excited kids get when they lose teeth.I don't particularly like this picture of her, but she wanted to show off her tooth space. We call this face the "extreme cheese." Thursday we had a day off from school since it was -22 degrees outside. It was a nice surprise to wake up at 5:30am and be able to go back to sleep after dropping Grace off at school for once. It's usually her school that has the day off, not ours.

Saturday was the big second birthday bash for my friend and babysitter, Tara's, little boy and Colt's best friend and wrestling buddy. He had a Spongebob birthday, so of course, my kids were in heaven.

Sunday was Uncle Mark and Aunt Deb's birthday. We celebrated with them at their home up in Stroh."AHHH! Sunday night bathtime!" Grace wanted lots of bubbles, so I gave her lots of bubbles ; ) My Valentine's Day surprise at work. I love lilies and this year, Chris got me a beautiful rose/lily arrangement. I especially like it when he sends them to me at work.