Snow Day

You know when I was younger I don't remember having so many snow days. My kids are super lucky! Here they are outside in the snow. These were from last week's snow day. Of course since we had a crazy amount of snow last night and this morning they had another one today! I'll post those pictures later...

Happy Bday

He is now officially in the double digits. I know his birthday was last week but it's hard to keep up. We took him to Rocky's for his favorite... pizza! Happy Birthday Buddy! Thank to all the wonderful people that send him gifts and cards... he loved them all!

Basketball Tournament

Tons of basketball this weekend. The tournament started with a "pool" on Saturday. They won there "pool". They were placed first in the bracket on Sunday so they played the number four team. Unfortunately they lost the second game so they did not make it to the championship game. The game did go into over time but we lost by one point... Keep an eye on number "52"... He's the little man.

First Place

Yep she's that good! I might be slightly bias though! She did only complete against three other girls in the "snow plow sam" category but she did come in first place in both! This competition was in West Bend, WI. Her next competition is scheduled for February. She will be competing in the Badger State Games.

O Christmas Tree

Picking out a christmas tree is always a joyous experience. I may be exaggerating just a bit! We can never decide which tree to pick. Again this year we picked out a tree that is too fat. At least the kids got to see Santa and Mrs. Claus.

Yesterday

I'll start off writing about the basketball tournament last night. Yes, a tournament that only lasted one day. He played three games in just over three hours. This it the first time that I've seen his team play. I have to say that I'm impressed with the talent on the team. My fourth grader did rather well. I think he scored at least one basket each game. One thing he does have to work on is his ball handling skills but other than that he's come along way. They won their first game, lost their second, and won their third game. Their loss was a thriller though. They only lost by two points. My son threw it up with only 8 seconds left but missed. He was near the three point line when he shot. The coach commented to him that with 8 seconds left three more passes could have been made before a shot had to go up. I'm glad the coach mentioned it because he doesn't take constructive criticism well from me.

Yesterday afternoon I went to see Twilight. When I read the book I had a certain image in my head... The movie was good, but I had higher expectations. I did see though that they will be making New Moon into a movie! For those of you that have no idea of what I'm talking about just visit www.stepheniemeyer.com.

I'm about to start reading "The Hour I First Believed" by Wally Lamb. I'm extremely excited about this new book. He also wrote "She's Come Undone" and "I Know This Much Is True". If you have not read either of these two books, I highly recommend them.

Be Ok

Tonight I was extremely lucky to go on a date with my man. I have many kid obligations which I love to do but it was nice to get away. We went to go see Ingrid Michaelson play at the Barrymore. If you don't know who she is click here to see her myspace page. I have to say listening to her on her myspace page does not give her justice! She's is much better live on stage. In my opinion she is an extremely talented musician. My favorite songs are "Breakable", "Be OK", and "Overboard". Of course "The way I am" is awesome too... My daughter and I love to sing in the car to "Overboard". Yes she knows the words!

Piano Recital

Her first piano recital! She just started piano this year so she's no Beethoven... yet! Here is a glimpse of what she can do thus far! PS if you can't tell it's "Old McDonald".

Basketball

He played in a 4th grade basketball tournament this past weekend. Here he is sinking free throws just like his mother use too back in the day!

Halloween

I know this is about a week late, but better late then never! I had a vampire and a singer in my midst. Oh ya and the scary witch!

Skating pictures

Here are pictures from her ice skating event! BTW she got first place in both events! She was only up against one other person though... She was extremely excited to get a trophy! She plans to take her trophies to school for show and tell on Friday.

Skating

Sorry for the quality but it's the best I could at the time!

Nature

No school. No work. We all had a day off yesterday! We enjoyed a day at Devil's Lake. We walked and walked and walked some more. It was beautiful day for this activity. It was little windy but worth it. Of course took lots of pictures! Here is an example...

My little girl

My little girl is no longer so little. She needs two hands to tell you how old she is. I can't believe my baby is 6 years old today. We started celebrating yesterday by making brownie cupcakes for her kindergarten class. She is wearing one of her high school musical outfits her family gave her today. She is having a great big birthday party for her friends this Saturday at the bowling alley. Her birthday present from me is movie tickets to go see High School Musical 3 with one of her best friends!

All I want to do is give her hugs and kisses!!

It's been a pretty stressful week. I'm glad that it's Saturday :-) I have another day off before I have to go back to work. Don't get be wrong I love my job but I just don't seem to get much done at home EVER! I had the pleasure of doing laundry today... feels like I've done 10 loads and I have a ton more to do.

This morning we had a kid football game to attend. Of course it had to rain. VERY WET! He did really awesome though. He got to carry the ball. He made it about 20 yards before he was taken out by the defense. He doesn't seem to mind getting hit. I think it looks painful. The score ended up to be 12-12... a tie. I guess that's better than loosing.

I have obsession with the Twilight Series. I've read the whole series in two weeks. I just couldn't put any of the books down (that's probably explains why I can't get anything done around the house). I'm looking forward to the movie coming out in November. Now I have to find new books to read so if any has any ideas... let me know!

Bits and Pieces

Well my big man has his final football practice tomorrow before the first BIG game on Saturday. Of course he has to be on the field by 8:20am. What is that?!?! It is Saturday morning after all. I can't believe I let him play tackle football. I mean he is only in fourth grade. He seems to be enjoying it! So far at the scrimmage he played linebacker and tackle on offense. Boy... he can take those big boys down!

On the down side he had to get a retainer today. He sounds funny ;-) Don't let him know I said that! He has to wear it all the time. I'm not sure why but he actually seems excited about having it.

My little girl is starting her ice skating during the week tomorrow. Last Sunday she started working on her routine for her competition in November. One of her routine's will be to a Cinderella themed song. We also picked out the cutest outfit... also the most expensive I might add. All that matters is that she will be super duper cute!

Busy weekend

Why does the weekend have to be so busy? My son had to be weighed for his new tackle football career. Luckily he is under the weight limit so he can carry the football. Then it was off to his soccer tournament. He is an awesome goalie! Unfortunately the team lost three out of the four games. We keep telling him it's not about the winning or loosing but he seems to be crushed whenever his team looses. My little lady had a birthday party to attend. She said she had a blast! It was a tea party so all the little girls had pretty dresses on. She decided to wear the dress her dad sent her from Japan. As always she was adorable! Finally today is a day of rest. My oldest is off to a Brewer game with a friend and my youngest has ice skating this afternoon but that's it!

First day of school

At this point I don't think I'm aloud to call them "my babies" anymore :-( My oldest has started 4th grade. He's not to excited about the whole back to school bit. Now on the other hand my youngest started Kindergarten and was so excited about starting school! She got to see her old friends from preschool and meet new friends. She said her favorite thing the first day of school was organizing her new school supplies.

Madison Mallards

Last night we had the honor to see the Madison Mallards at there finest. For those of you who are not aware, the Mallards are the minor baseball team here (http://www.mallardsbaseball.com/home/). Unfortunately we left in the 5th inning do to it being a late night for the kids, but the Mallards pull through winning Eau Claire Express 11-7. The kids brought their gloves to try and catch that foul ball. No luck on a foul ball. My oldest got a Mallards helmet. My youngest had to pick the noisiest Mallards memorabilia though. She got a quacker and QUACKED all the way home!

Ice Skating

My beautiful daughter is completely excited about her ice skating competition coming up in August. We picked out a ice skating dress which we bought used. Do you know how much those cost new? WOW way to expensive. She even got new skates! Of course we rented them because we know she will grow out of them so quickly. I have to say renting skates was a great idea that was passed on to us by her ice skating coach. She not only does learn to skate but she has a private coach right now too! How lucky she is ;-) She does love being on the ice. It's hard to get her off!

June already

Really where does the time go... Seriously? I can't believe it's June already. As usual our lives are busy on this end. There was the infamous birthday party. I'm glad I'm not turning 40 ;-)

What about this crazy weather? Can you believe the interstate was closed because of flooding? Our basement had it's own pool! LONG STORY with that one.

Anyway we have many fun events coming up... Wisconsin Dells and Summerfest. Just to name a few... stay tuned...

Our busy lives

Summer is almost here! The kids are looking forward to starting there "sports camp". We are now very busy with many activities. There is baseball, soccer, T-ball, and ice skating oh and don't forget swimming lessons. All that doesn't even include the adults activities :-) I don't know how we keep up.

MS Walk

The MS walk was today. I walked 3.1 miles with two of the best coworkers :-) Thanks to all my family and friends that donated in hopes to find a cure for MS!!!

Soccer

He finally had his first soccer game (a few games had been rained out). He did completely AWESOME and scored not only one goal but TWO :-)

You'd think that I would have so many other things that I could be accomplishing right now but instead I'm making a blog. This is an interesting concept. I wonder how many people will actually check this out :-)

Anyway today I was able to get off work to see my son participate in his 3rd and 4th grade play. He had a small part as a "student". I guess I should actually tell you what the name of the play was... "Compose Yourself". He had a few lines and was even able to rap a few lines from a song. I wasn't thinking this morning when I left the house because I totally forgot my camera. The avid scrapbooking that I am was completely bummed out it too...