traditions

Around our house I like to find fun things for the kids to do and a few years ago we started a family tradition at Christmas time that we would make something as a family. Our family project as I like to call it. Well I found these and wanted to do them last year but the place quit taking orders before thanksgiving last year so we had to wait. So this year I decided to get our stuff early and then we would have more time to work on it. We are also doing some a Christmas gifts this year.I cant wait to get started on them!

easy fun idea

OK I have been trying to come up with some things for the kids to do now that its getting colder and I don't have a lot of decorations for Halloween and thanksgiving so I was looking on line and found this cheap easy idea. Place mat made with construction paper and coloring pages. So easy. I made some the other day and all I had to do was color with corey! took me maybe 45 mins. I used contact paper to make them last a little longer. And the ones for thanksgiving I am going to just let the kids color. I also have scarecrows and a Pilgrim had center piece I want them to help with.

Flag Football

We had to watch the Iowa vs Iowa state game this year. I don't know why ben gets so mad with his team losses! anyway jared was watching (cause we had a ton of snack food) and said he wanted to play football. Oh if you could have seen my husbands eyes sparkle! I said that the boys had just brought home a paper from school about flag football and ben wanted to see it. So done deal jared is playing flag football. I was a little nervous about this after the broken arm this summer but they were both so excited! Ben said he would coach if they need him to and next day they needed him so he is now the coach of the Saints in flag football. The boys are so cute and have so much fun.

camping

For labor day we went camping. I have to admit it was not the best time we ever had the kids were loud and we were not very well organized and there were alot of people. but I think we are going to do again with a little more planning!! I think the high lite was the kids found a ton of frogs in our camp site

COREY!

I have to post this even though I want to crawl in a hole and die! This year corey is 3 and not quite ready for preschool but wants to learn and play with his friends. So when some moms decided to do a mom school/craft club(dont really have a name for it) I thought it would be fun for him and me. We we had been going and learning a diffrent letter each week. Well a couple weeks ago we were listing to the story on the letter D and corey gets up and starts walking around. I dont think much of it. Well I SHOULD HAVE! He goes over to vent by the door and pulls down his pants and starts peeing!! OMG. It was like slow motion I could not get up fast enough to get to him. I was so embaresed! All the other moms were laughing and I had to clean it all up. Not fun. I cant blame them for laughing though if it would have been someone else I would have to. Its a good thing he cute!

First day of school

We were so excited for school this year cause for the boys at least it ment a new school! for the past year they have been building a new building and it is so nice! Sorry I dont have pictures of the new building. the school is so much bigger and more open then the old one. Alyssa and I happend to be going to the store and got to see thme demo the old building I had my camera and took some pictures. Alyssa 12 7th grade Brandon 10 5th grade jared 6 1st grade corey 3 mom school

jareds birthday

So jared turned 6 back in August and I tried to make a transformers cake for him it didn't turn out to good but it tasted good. He really wanted the star wars clone helmet witch makes him look like a bobble head toy when he has it on but he loves it!

coreys birthday

Corey turned 3 and we had a bug hunt our at flower gardens. It was alot of fun and the liked it I found the bug hunt on their website and we did 2 teams no one really won cause we all went home and had cake and ice cream.

Cast comes off

Jared ended up having another surgery on his arm to line the bones up. And then 3 more weeks of casts. He did finally end up getting one that was only up to his elbow for the last few weeks and we did wrap it up and head to the pool a few times. But finally on the 16 he did get it off for good and and then we head off to the pool so he could finally go down the water slide. I am so glad that is over with and hope it never happens again!!

Brandon turns 10

Wow its been a crazy summer and I have a lot of blogging to do... Brandon had his 10th birthday and we started out the day with a water balloon fight and Corey got the freestone gene for loving water fights! After dad got home from girls camp we opened presets and Brandon got his snuggie. then we went to see Night at the Museum2 It was a good move.

Need Chocolate?

Chocolate Cake In 5 Minutes! June 26th, 2008 | Author: Dizzy Dee | Category: Dizzy Dee, Food, Recipe Ingredients: 4 Tablespoons cake flour 4 Tablespoons sugar 2 Tablespoons cocoa 1 Egg 3 Tablespoons milk 3 Tablespoons oil 1 Mug Instructions: Mix flour, sugar and cocoa: Spoon in 1 egg Pour in milk and oil, and mix well Put in microwave for 3 minutes on maximum power (1000watt) Wait until it stops rising and sets in the mug Tip contents out of mug onto saucer and enjoy!

Father's day

We had so much fun this year for fathers day! Ben had gotten a blue-ray player the week before and we had also just went and seen the new Star Trek movie and so we bought the trilogy pack with 2,3,4 of the Star Trek series and the kids loved them! The picture quality is SO much better. We also did the most fun family home evening! We learned about being missionaries by being "fish-ionary's" so cute! I laminated and glued magnets to the fish so the kids could catch them! They even wanted to play again the next night

Never a dull moment

Late Saturday day night we were woke up by the sounds of a women screaming and could see cop cars and and ambulances for about 2 hours on the next street. Sunday after church our neighbor was telling us about it and said that the paramedics were on our block around 12am for our neighbor across the street. I must have slept though that one. Luckily our dog doesn't bark at everything I really fell bad that about this one he was only about 3 houses from home but I'm sure drinking was a factor. I cant imagine being a family member watching helplessly while this all unfolded. WATERLOO —- A 24-year-old man died in a single-vehicle accident early Sunday just a few houses down from his residence. Waterloo police were called to the accident about 2 a.m. On arrival police determined that a vehicle was traveling east on Hawthorne, when the vehicle left the roadway and hit a tree at 1421 Hawthorne Ave. The driver, Admir Miskic, 24, of 1427 Hawthorne Ave. was dead at the scene. He was not wearing a seat belt. A front-seat passenger, Dzemal Grcic, 21, of 233 Brookeridge Drive, was transported to Covenant Medical Center by Waterloo Fire Rescue with non-incapacitating injuries. The Waterloo Police Department continues to investigate the accident. Speed was suspected to be a factor, but the speed at which the vehicle was traveling was undetermined.

Aarons baptism

Ben's sisters oldest boy turned 8 so we headed up to ames for his baptism. Kind of hard to get 6 people out the door in church clothes by 7am the day after school gets out but we made it and it was alot of fun. After words we went to their house for a little family lunch to celebrate and also for Bens days birthday cake! The kids played and had lots of fun!

End of school...

Wow Summer has started and I have not blogged for a long time! We seem to be busy busy. Well the kids got out of school. Jared had kindergarten graduation (first time kittrel has done anything like that) it was alot of fun and I was so happy that ben got to go with corey and I. This is the last year in the old kittrel building and the new one that they have been building all year is so much bigger and nicer. We cant wait. For the last couple of years we have had a tradition of on the last day of school we roast marshmallow's and do smores that night. Its alot of fun and kicks off summer just right I think.