Dylan Turns 5

The boys are all settled in after a long night of playing hard. They stayed up until 12:00am.

The boys hits pinata a million times, and Mike still had to cut it to get in started for them. They were really funny, and it actually ended up keeping them busy for quite a while.

This picture made me laugh, I did not realize that everyone helped Dylan blow out the candles until I downloaded the pictures. I forgot to order a horse cake so I had to just buy one. Kris usually makes them but it did not work out this time.

The boys were settling in for some pizza.

Dylan got to have a sleep over for his 5th birthday. We did a Wild West theme. They had a horse pinata, searched for treasure, played games and just had fun playing together. He had 5 friends stay and they had so much fun. Mike took pictures of the basement when they were done because we had never seen anything like it. Baily was the babysitter and she cleaned it up for me, she is the best!!!!

Valentine Party

I had decided that our kids were too spoiled and I was not going to do anything crazy for Valentines Day this year, but what can I say, we love to celebrate. Maddie crawled into Mike and I's bed and said Happy Valentines Day, I love you. Then she followed up with what is Valentines Day anyway, so I showed her and I made them a special dinner and had the table all set in theme for them. It was really fun and they were very appreciative.

Go Upward

Grandpa and Grandma came to watch Maddie play basketball toward the end of the season. She really did learn a ton, and the team improved so much from their first practice, it was pretty amazing.

Go Keegan!!

I graduated from Hamilton, and my husband's family still goes there, so Friday we went to the Hamilton and Angola game. Mike's cousin is a senior so I had shirts made up for Maddie and Dylan to wear to the game. Here they are sporting the blue and white, this is one of the last times this will probably happen. We will be yellow and purple. It was fun, and Angola stung the Marines, some things never change. The cheerblock for Angola was chanting Just-Like-Every-Year.

Snow Days

Okay, all of the good moms of the world, or the dishonest ones, say we love snow days. Sometimes I would agree, however on Wednesday when we had our snow day, I hated them. My kids had every toy the owned out, while I was cleaning out cabinets in the kitchen, this is what they were doing in their bedroom. They were using the box as a house. It is one of the things I will look back on and think is funny when they are old and gone, or to show their kids when they call to tell me how bad their children are being. Atleast we ended up cleaning out the box, and getting rid of some stuff.

Mindi turns 30

This picture was from the end of September but I found it on my internal memory on my camera. My friend Mindi celebrated her 30 birthday at the winery in Bryan Ohio this fall. Here we are after a bottle or two.

Wild, Wild West Party

Every winter Michael's mom has a big themed party, just for the kids. This year it was Wild Wild West. Everything upstairs was decorated according to theme, complete with food, games, prizes and gifts. You cannot actually believe it unless you witness it. She has such elaborate parties, the kids are so lucky to have such a talented and thoughful Nana.
Here Kenzie and Maddie are doing the three legged race. They had it down to a science, they counted so they knew what foot to move when, they smoked the boys.

The kids had to dress up to fit the party. Here are all of the cowboy and cowgirls before they got to go upstairs and be surprised. Each year she tops the year before. TOO COOL.

She had a huge poster printed for each of the kids with pictuers of them all as babies. The things that they were each wanted for were things that fit the photo she used.

They each got a cook set to use when we camp, a webkin that was a cow or horse, camping coffee mugs, cactus plants, you get the idea.

Here is Nana with her girls. They had the aprons on because they won play money and then got to use it to buy stuff at the general store she had set up.

Thanks Nana for being so terrific.