Weber Week

Last week was spent in Iowa at my sister’s house!!! They were actually down in southern Iowa for the weekend, so we met up on Sunday and the kids and I rode back with them. We had a great time, but I think the week went WAY to fast!!! There was a lot of…

Driving/Chasing

Climbing

Digging

Chick Watching

Eating

But there wasn’t enough down time…these boys had so much to do in such a short amount of time!!!! We went to the park one day to have a picnic and play. The next day we went to the beach to swim. Renae and I need to remember to put sunscreen on ourselves!! But at least the kids were fine…I think Renae got burnt the worst!

I think my kids are still re-cooperating…they’ve been sleeping until about 9 am since we’ve been back!!!!

Thanks again for having us stay at your house Webers!!! We had such a great time!!!

Happy Father’s Day 2011

If you are friends with my on Facebook..you’ve already seen this, but here it is again! Happy Father’s Day to my Dad in Heaven who taught me to be very resourceful! (Notice his duct-taped shoe!!) Love you and miss you Dad!!!!

And a Happy Father’s Day to Rick!!! He’s gone for work right now, so we can’t celebrate with him, but we wish you a very Happy Father’s Day and we’ll do something special when you get back!!! Here’s a couple of pictures of the kids…these are things they HAD to have learned from you!!!

Yeah for visitors!!!

Well, this week went very fast! My mom, sister and nephews came down for a visit the beginning of the week. They come Monday night and got here in time so we could rock out a little before bed!

Early Tuesday morning, Rick and I left while everyone was still sleeping so we could go out for breakfast and then head to a seminar that Rick had to speak at. It was nice that I could go along and videotape for him. After we got back, we went to the park to play. When the kids were in bed….we painted the living room!!! Mom had actually started a little earlier while Renae and I were off shopping!

Wednesday morning we all headed to the zoo. I was thinking we would only be there for a couple of hours before the kids would start getting pretty restless, but we ended up closing the zoo down!!! The kids were great all day and Faith only took about a 15 minute nap!

Thursday morning we finished painting and put the living room back together before they left. It looks great!!!

The time always goes way to fast when they are here. I had more fun things to do that we didn’t get around too. Guess they just need to make another trip!!!

Week in Mason City

The first week in May we spent in Mason City. Rick’s brother is from Washington and he was coming back with this little girl, Izzy, so we had to get together!!!! Rick got to spend some time with some of his friends and he spent a lot of time trying to find a place to work! His parents don’t have internet and Sprint does not work up there, so it was off to the coffee shop (which was usually pretty busy), to the library (but they block certain ports that we need to get into for work) and McDonald’s (they didn’t have any outlets, so had to make sure the laptop was charged up). It was a little frustrating, but I think he stayed on top of most of the work stuff that came up while we were there.

One of his friends owns a bowling alley, so we went to visit them before they opened one afternoon. Noah wanted to play with every color ball they had. The balls got to be pretty heavy, but they had a ramp that he could just push them down, so it worked out pretty good!

Noah and Izzy kept me pretty busy. They wanted to play outside a lot, go to the park and walk down to the train tracks. One of the parks was only about 3 blocks away, but it was at a school, so we had to do that one in the late afternoon and evening. The train tracks where about 6 blocks the other way, so we walked down there about every time a train went past – at least it seemed like it! Faith was a little crabby and very clingy while we were gone…I finally looked in her mouth and seen that she had some molars coming in…yeah, I guess that would make her crabby!

On May 5th, Rick and I celebrated our 10 year wedding anniversary. We didn’t actually do any celebrating, but we did help cut down a big tree…does that count??? Paul & Marie have a tree that is brushing up next to the garage, so it needed to come down.

Even the kids helped!

We also had to get a picture with Grandma – okay, so it was my idea to take pictures…the boys wouldn’t think of that!!

While we were gone, we headed up to Rochester to visit my aunt and uncle one night!!! I can’t remember the last time I was there, so it was great to get to see them!

Iowa Birthday Party

This past Sunday, we celebrated Faith’s 1st Birthday with family and friends in Iowa. It was great to get together and see everyone again!!! It was such a nice day, that the little boys could even play outside…which ended up causing a little delay in the birthday party so they could take a bath! I think Renae might still be soaking Bodee’s clothes!!!

After the boys were all cleaned up, it was coloring time! I had everyone color a picture for Faith that I will put in her scrapbook. I was pretty impressed with everyones coloring abilities!!! We have some pretty good talent in our family!

Then it was time for presents!!! Faith received many great presents! Toys, clothes, books, no-spill bowl, money – everything was great!!!!

CAKE TIME!!! As soon as she seen the cake, she was trying to get it. We couldn’t even get thru Happy Birthday before she had frosting in her mouth!

Now, it was time for the rest of us to have our cupcakes! I had everything ready so the kids could decorate their own cupcake if they wanted to.

It was a great day to celebrate with family and friends and we had a great time. Although we could have done without the kids getting car sick. At least we were a little more prepared for it on the way back to Kansas. Now I just need to do a little more research to see what we can do to prevent it all together!