Fishing

We first went fishing at the end of May. The boys were so excited to go, but Alyssah was beyond thrilled to go! She was so excited to use her Dora fishing rod.

I love this picture, they are so cute posing together! It makes it look like they don't fight!
Josh waiting for the big catch!

Alyssah catching a purple fish every time! She was so excited about it!!

Mark also trying to catch the big one! Didn't happen though.

Jake is so patient on the lake, he trys sooooo hard, and loves doing this, I believe someday he will end up doing something with hunting and/or fishing.

Jacob's End Of Year Celebration

I am going to keep updating my blog from where I was. I am now writing about Jake's Kindergarten End of Year Celebration. He was so cute there as were the rest of the kindergarteners. The teacher had them say a few poems, sing a couple of songs and a few other things.

At one point the teacher Mrs. Gerhing, went around the room and had them all say what their name rhymed with. Jacob said his name rhymed with makeup. So cute!!!
And she had them all tell everyone what they wanted to be when they grew up. Jacob wants to be a taxidermist. He said because he loves to go hunting. :)

The teacher had the kindergarteners read to us a book they have been practicing to read. It was so cute to see them all reading.

Jacob and his teacher Mrs. Gerhing. We loved her and so did Jake! We will miss her next year!

Finally!

My lap top is FINALLY fixed!! I ended up having a virus on it. Plus the hard drive went bad. So now it is fixed and my pictures are all saved. So now tonight and tomorrow I am going to put on some super cute pics of my children. I can't wait!! :)

The kids

We were getting ready to go to the pet and doll parade. The kids were excited about it!

Here are my red, white and blue kids!

YAY!

I have my laptop back!!! YAY!! And all of my pictures are here! I am so happy! I am going to post a few pics of my kids in the next post, then grandma and grandpa can get there fix of my cute kids! And anyone else who wants to see. :)

Housework

I have a ton of housework. And it never ends!! Today I am concentrating on my laundry!! I have so much of it!! But I have to get it done, Mark is going away on a business trip and is leaving tomorrow, so I need to get it all done. I only have maybe 3 load left. It is raining out again today, so I am sure I will have the house to clean later too, as the kids will be all inside. But that is ok, SOMEDAY my house will be clean. Kids will be kids and sometimes they are messy. :)

Ok

Well my laptop is broken. I am so sad about that. But we are getting it fixed. It will take a while though. I have 6 months of pictures on there though, that I don't have on my desktop. I am worried that the computer tech guy won't be able to get them. But Mark said he is pretty sure he can. That isn't good enough for me, I won't be completely happy until I see them. So I will be able to update some on my desktop computer, but not as much as I would like to. Not that I have been updating lately. But I am going to try to do more.

Our Beauty

Alyssah was really quiet. Mark went to investigate, and this is what he found. She found my makeup. And she told daddy that she was as pretty as a princess. I am thinking we need to stop telling her that she is our princess, it is getting to her head. ;)

This is right after Mark found her. She didn't realize that he was laughing at her, not mad. Not yet anyways.
Then she saw that everyone was laughing. (we were at my parents house) Then it was all good and she thought she was something else.

This picture reminds me of a really bad face lift. She is so funny!!!

She was hularious this day, I can't believe she found my makeup and tried to be so pretty. She is something else. :)

It is June

And it is cold out! Todays highs are in the mid 60's. And it is supposed to be that way for the rest of the week!! It is summer out for crying out loud! But at least it isn't snowing. That would be way worse!!

We are busy this summer. Jake is in t-ball, and swimming lessons. Josh is in swimming lessons. Plus all of Jake's games. It will be fun! But I have a whole bunch of kids this summer! I am looking forward to the money part, but not so much all the kids here. But I will handle it! I am also taking off 2 weeks in July and hopefully just enjoy my kids and bringing them places! That is my goal.

I plan on doing a bunch of picture post soon, so look out for them! :)

Jake loves to go with Dad!

Jake went with Dad to work with him. He was so excited to go! He always feels so big! He gets so serious when he gets to go, and usually gets to do some fun things! He got to go to Space Aliens with dad and his co workers. Dad said he was so good too! They got home a little bit late, but it didn't matter because Jake got to have so much fun with his dad.

Look at his big smile!
Dad and Jake all ready to go!

Goodbye!!

Boy Scout Awards (so many pics!!)

Boy Scout Races 4-26-09

Josh and Jake raced cars for Boys Scouts. They cut out there cars with dad at the high school and then Dad helped get them all ready to make into some pretty cool cars!! They were so excited to have him get them all fixed up. Josh chose black as his color and Jake chose green.

Dad getting Josh's car all ready to go!
Jake waiting for Dad to get his car done.

Dad putting on the decals to Jake's car. He picked out flames that had dragons on it. And it also had the number 7. Because he is going to be 7 at his next birthday.

Dad putting the last details onto Josh's car.

The cars all done!!!

Josh and his car right before the races.

Josh and his cub scout group. He was in the bear cub group this year.

Josh getting his awards for the year.

Watching the races. Josh looks so handsome here!

All the kids watching the cars going down, every car that went, all the kids were chanting there favorite number that they wanted to win. It was cute, they all were so excited!

Josh's car was in lane 3. His did win a few times, but he didn't place.

Jake's was in lane 3 too. He hardly won, but he was so excited to be able to have a car in the races. He felt so big!

Josh's award. He won for most unique.

Jake didn't win anything, but he got a ribbon that said, I did my best. He was proud!

Our basement mess

How lovely for us when we discovered that we have another leak in our basement. We found the mess on April 24th. (we have since found the pipe, and have fixed it) But our movie room is still such a big mess, still no one has come to fix it. Hopefully in a week or so. I miss watching movies down there.

The wall was all soft and mushy. Mark poked a hole in the wall with NO effort.
The little stage got wet too, but not the whole thing.

Because we have radient heating, we have to have a special padding on the floor, and unfortunately it soaks up the water like crazy, so half of the padding was ruined. But thankfully the carpet wasn't.

The paint peeled off very easily. It was bubbling with water inside it!

Mark cut the walls and took out all the insulation. This is what needs to be fixed now. It isn't very big, but it is such a hassle!

The hole in the ceiling.

The whole mess.

Sleeping Beauty

She couldn't handle it anymore. I love it when they fall asleep and they aren't in there bed. She is so sweet!! I just love it!

Lots to write!

I hopefully will be posting a few post tomorrow! I have a bunch of picture posts that I want to do, not sure if I will get all of them up, but I will definately try!! It is late now, I need to get to bed, but in the morning, hopefully I will have some time to get some of it done. :)