Kid Comedy

The other day we had BBQ'd hamburgers and hotdogs. Doctor came in and put a hotdog on Megaman's plate. When he set it down, Megaman shouted, "Order up!"

I bought the movie "The Pirate's That Don't Do Anything" the other day. Megaman said, "Oh good, cause those pirates who do everything? I was getting sick of those!"

It's Flower Planting Time!

On Thursday we planted over 800 flowers in our front and back flower gardens. The kids were planting machines. All four worked so hard! We are so proud of them! It started raining about 15 mins before we were done. They were troopers and kept right on planting. At one point, Princess said, "This is SO fun!! We are going to remember this forever!" I don't have any after pics, I will try and get some on here next week.

Easter

We had a very nice, quiet Easter. Doctor took the three younger kids to the neighborhood Easter egg hunt the night of Dude's party and they each came home with 30 candy filled eggs! Crazy sugar!!!

On Sunday morning, Dude surprised me with breakfast in bed. He made pancakes for us all. So nice!
After breakfast, we read the Easter story from the Bible, then watched some videos of the Easter story that were recently made and released by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. They are incredible videos. You can watch them at www.lds.org

After getting dressed, we headed to church. Honey Bunch and I sang in the choir. She did a fantastic job, I am so proud of her. All the kids sang with the Primary children, also. They were adorable, and I am officially old with all my kids in Primary now.

Here's our beautiful/handsome kids!

I Have Been a Mom for a DECADE!!!!

Dude turned 10 in March. I tried to tell him that I was vetoing this birthday because I am not old enough to have a ten year old. He didn't buy it, so we went ahead with the celebration. He actually had 3 celebrations this year. Doctor had to go to Chicago the week of his birthday, so we celebrated his birthday as a family early. We went out to dinner and Dude looks like he didn't enjoy the bell ringing, shouting, and ice cream, but he did.
We came home and opened presents. Thanks to everyone! You guys are all great!!! He got an ipod from us, but not before Doctor game him a yellow pad that had "Dude's ipad" written on it.


The day of his actual birthday we went to Mexican (his choice). He was so sad about Doctor not being there, that he couldn't eat. It was super sad. I had him stay home from school that day too, because he was so sad. It was heartbreaking.

Last week we had his friend party. We had pizza, played four square and flag football and video games. It was a great time.

Happy Birthday, Dude, I love you so much!!! You rock!!!

Nanny McPhee

Losing teeth is a petrifying experience for Princess. She holds on to her baby teeth until they fall out on their own. One of her top front teeth was hanging on by a thread and she had great fun turning herself into Nanny McPhee.

Her tooth finally came out, here's the after pic:

Let's Go Fly A Kite

The other day, the kids and I flew kites in the backyard. It was so fun. Megaman picked the best kite because it was inflated and flew super easily.

Spring Break

It's that time again! Time for another blog overload full of updates.

Our spring break was the first week in March. We had planned to have a fun vacation at the Great Wolf Lodge. Unfortunately everything was stacked against us. Princess came home from school the Friday before the break with a fever of 104 degrees and a nasty cough. That night her fever spiked to 105 before coming back down. She recovered so we were set to go. Then a couple days later, Honey Bunch had the 104 degree fever with a nasty cough. The flu bug was just starting to reek havoc on our family. Since Princess recovered so quickly, we decided we would be ok to go. We headed down and stopped at our lot to run around. I wish we had brought our camera because the kids had a kodak moment running through the wheat fields. Oh well. We got to the Lodge in time to get in an hour of swimming before heading to bed. The next morning we went to ihop for breakfast and headed to wal-mart (it wouldn't be a day if we didn't go to wal-mart!) to buy things to have for lunch later in the day. Then we headed back to swim. We had been there for about 45 mins when Honey Bunch fell and cut her chin requiring 20 stitches. So, the vacation was cut short. On the ride back home, I started to get a fever. Yep, I had the flu. Then late that night, Dude and Megaman found themselves fevered as well. Doctor didn't get it until 3 days later. It was a break to remember, that's for sure!

On a positive note, we had a couple fun surprises. We decided to go to Applebee's for dinner and found out when we walked in that we were there on a kid's eat free day! Then at ihop the next morning, we found out that kids eat free there as well if you are a guest at the lodge! Pretty cool!

New Looks!

March was the month for changes. Dude participated in a wax museum as Omar Bradley and got his braces off. He is so handsome!!!!
Princess got glasses this month. The poor girl was having a hard time seeing the board at school so I took her in. She was so cute picking out her glasses because she knew which ones were my favorite and wanted to make me happy. She would put them on and then frown, but try to smile. Then she would put on the pair that she liked and her face would beam. I finally convinced her that my feelings would not be hurt if she picked the ones she liked and she was so relieved. This picture was taken after we had been swimming and had just gotten in town after a 3 hour drive. I need to get a better picture, but she is still cute in this one.
And Honey Bunch's new look comes courtesy of a fall during our spring break getaway at Great Wolf Lodge. She fell at the water park and split her chin open. Doctor didn't have his suture kit in our family car so we drove the 3 hours home for him to sew her up. There was no way I was paying for an E.R. visit and I don't trust anyone but Doctor! This pic was taken before the 20 stitches Doctor put in. Oh, and Doctor has all the after pics on his phone, so those will have to wait.

Kid Comedy

When I took Megaman to school the other day, he walked in and went straight up to the receptionist and said, "I am quite the gentleman." She didn't understand him and asked him what he said. He replied, "I am quite the gentleman because I love to open doors for people!"

Almost official!

So we were supposed to close yesterday on 5.22 acres in our almost new town. We had a minor glitch caused by some confusion over the restrictions for the property. Anyway, those should be cleared up soon (at least by tomorrow). We are super excited to have so much land for our kids to be crazy on!