Hunter's Party

After Addie's party we headed over to Aunt Carrie's house for Hunter's Big Day. His birthday was officially a week away but we decided to turn 2-13 into party day. Hunter seemed okay with celebrating exactly a week early. He took a nap before the celebrations and it took a couple minutes for him to get in the spirit but once he was ready he was ready to celebrate his farm party in style!


Hunter was not excited about us singing Happy Birthday to him and covered his face for most of it.

Everyone was ready to help Hunter blow out his candles, but he did it all by himself.

Addie's favorite part....PRESENTS. Can you believe Hunter did not want or need any help this year. Addie found this very discouraging but remained a good sport about it.

Hunter got some really cool things that will keep him busy for many hours to come!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HUNTER!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ADDISON!

February 13, 2010......where were you. If you were not at our place according to Addie you missed the party of the year. Addie is still talking about her party. She loved every second of it. She is still reliving every moment. When she sees her Cinderella dress she reminds us she wore it for her entire party. When we sit at the table for dinner she reminds us that she blew out her candles in her chair. I have disappointed her because I threw away the princess tablecloth. I am hoping she can eventually recover.

Addie wore her dress and tiara for the entire party! It was a bit of a fight to get her to take it off in order to get her over to Hunter's.

Here she is in her chair getting ready to blow out her candles.

Even Addie's best friend got to come. She was even given a party hat. I made her best friend spend the party in the living room up against the wall, which I know makes me a mean mom and all but eventually Addie did not notice.

Here is the castle cake. It was not my favorite or best work I will admit. I should have ditched the plastic stands and gone 100% homemade but you live and learn. Addie demanded the princess cut outs so there you go.

And the birthday girl gets to blow out 3 big candles.

One stubborn candle that Luke got to help out with.


And then the presents........

Thank you everyone for all the wonderful gifts. Addie has loved playing with them all!!

BIRTHDAY GIRL

Saturday was Addie's birthday as well as her party. Addie started the day off with a huge smile and pure joy. She knew exactly what Saturday was. I told her Happy Birthday when she woke up and came in our room and she said, I know. It's my day. We then had to do a short review of the fact we had several parties to go to but we were glad it was her day.

Addie was ready to celebrate even before breakfast!!

Valentine's Day

Lucas needed a Valentine's box for his class party right before Valentine's Day. He had a plan on exactly what he wanted to do. A hunting theme box. He wanted it to look like a duck blind. We only had to help him with attaching the grass to the front.

Doesn't it look great?

The GreenWing stickers are from Ducks Unlimited youth program.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

Happy Birthday GG

GG birthday was last week. Lucas made the decision to get GG a cake she had never had before. An ice cream cake!! What a delicious choice for all of us. It was a wonderful night at home and a nice celebration.

We got GG a picture frame with her favorite great grand kids in it. We hope she loves it. Now daddy just has to find time to hang it on the wall for her.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GG!

Helper

I am so lucky to have such great helpers with the shoveling. Typically I don't mind shoveling at all. I sort of look at is as the best form of exercise I get on those days. This year it has been a bit much for Jeremy and I. Lucas declared last week that if it started snowing a little bit he was going to start shoveling right away so it was not so hard to push.

Today we were to get a lot of snow, like over 4 inches. It started last night was to continue on into Tuesday morning. As you can see from the below pictures the good educated weather folks were wrong! Lucas was not taking any chances though. He headed out right after I got home to scrape the driveway clean. Only problem was the cold. It was pretty much dropping a degree or two every hour. It was also very windy which never helps with shoveling.
I feel so lucky to have such a great helper. I am going to enjoy these years of helpfulness before they go by the way side and he moves onto video games and texting!

Lucas wanted me to mention you can pay him to do your driveway.

Superbowl

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. Sunday night was the Superbowl. We had our annual party. Oh how our Superbowl parties have evolved. This year we had more fun watching Addie dance with Lucas in her purple dress druing halftime then the scheduled show. Actually they may be a compliment to us because the halftime show was "The Who" and it was sort of painful to listen to. Cool to watch the light show, painful to listen to them try and sing. The kids on the other hand were entertaining.
Next year we are going to go back to a big party, yeah! I mean after all the Chiefs could be in the Superbowl next year!!




Way to go Saints!!

Snow and snow and snow

I am really going to try and do this post without any bias but global warming....I am to believe global warming is a serious problem for me. I can't go a week without shovelling the driveway. As you can see the kids don't mind it at all. I could up load all 500 pictures of us playing in the snow day after day but I will spare you that and give you a broad overview.
As you can see I tried to turn shoveling my driveway into a game for the neighborhood kids but the snowball fights won instead.

Even Addie got in on the fun.

I hear we might have spring one of these months. I won't know what to do if I don't have to bundle up for ten minutes prior to going outside!!

Wrestling season is almost over. I have not done the best at posting from every tournament this year but his season is wrapping up to be at 50/50 split of wins and losses. It is a bit sad considering how happy he is when he wins but we are using each weekend as a learning tool to be the best sport you can be. I will say this year you can really see it starting to click more in his head and next year should be pretty exciting because this year was his up year, meaning he had to wrestle kids a year old then him which means they had another year of wrestling up on him.

a pen.

the lee's summit tournament ended with Lucas in 3rd place. He has placed 3rd in most tournaments this season for his bracket.

Grandma Trish Birthday Celebration

Grandma Trish and PAPA came to town the last weekend in January to celebrate Grandma Trish's birthday. They had a nice dinner in town Friday night and then made it to our place just in time to go eat dinner with the rest of us. Our life suffers from chaos in various forms and that particular Friday night we had a large amount of chaos. We headed over to dinner and then brought back some hyped up kids. PAPA was kind enough to help them burn off some energy. You can see Taralyn and Lucas wrestling in the background. PAPA opted to watch those two and not participate.

The double team

Oh no PAPA took the Hulk hand Hunter's in trouble......

Not for long, looks like Hunter moves so fast even the camera can't keep up with him.

Saturday night after dinner we came back to celebrate Grandma Trish's birthday, on her actual birthday. What a nice treat for all of us.

Look at how young she is, only 6 this year.....haha

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDMA TRISH

There is a certain percentage of people in our house that love Texas. Anything Texas. We pretty much cheer for K-State in college sports except when Texas is playing.

Lucas is especially turning into a big Texas fan and Marissa next door is only encouraging this as she is also a fan.
Apparently Lucas loves Texas so much he needed to take a couple of pictures of Texas v Houston to remember it forever.

Note to self.....keep camera up higher or be glad I don't have to go to the expense of film development.

Snow Day

This is the first time in at least eleven years that I have had a snow day. Lucas, he has been out all week. Actually he has been out for the last three weeks when you add in Christmas Break. Friday was my first snow day. It was actually forecast to be so cold that Lanny decided to close the office early on Thursday and then all together on Friday.


I have to say I quickly felt a rush of excitement when that email came up on my computer. I thought I remembered how Lucas felt seeing his school cancelled everyday but seeing that glorious email brought back all those snow day feelings. My memory was a little off on the excitement one can feel for a snow day.

We did some cleaning around the house after Addie had her gymnastics class that morning. Lucas wanted to get out of the house and playing in the snow is out of the question with the windchill and cold temperatures so we decided to head over to the bowling ally.

The first game Lucas played with the bumpers. He did pretty good

Even got a spare

Addie played with her baby doll while we were bowling. We did talk her into bowling a couple of times for each of us but she was much happier with her doll.

Yeah, you read that correctly. Luke won the first game. I would like to note by a very small margin!!

Luke would like to point out that a win is a win.

Here is Addie giving it a try.

This is the second score. You can see even though this was taken before the official end of the game mom was the winner this game!!

I hope you all get the chance to get a snow day or take your own. It is worth every second!!

An electric evening

Well we are on who knows what number day of freezing temperatures. In order to pass the time around here we have resorted to some classic tricks. We are getting extra enjoyment out of it because it seems to freak Addie out to no end. What can I say people, if it would get to double digit temperatures we would play in the mountains of snow in our yard.

Even daddy has tried it

Poor Luke's hair is just no long enough for any great results.

Addie was captured and given the torturous balloon rub.

Hope it is warmer wherever you are!!