Thank You!

Thank you 2Ma and 2Papa for the cool t-shirts and bracelets from Hawaii! Jake wants to wear his shirt everyday and Abby tries to say fishy when she looks at her bracelet! We love you and miss you!

Jake's First Trike-a-thon!

Jake's first trike-a-thon was quite the experience! This little boy was determined to get many, many laps! He was on a mission and not about to smile too much! Jake biked 34 laps! He just kept on moving right along! I was pretty proud of him! They were raising money for St. Jude's Children's hospital and earlier in the week one of Jake's little friends who was in remission for cancer found out her cancer was back! It really hit home watching even the littlest kids make a difference for those who are sick!

Happy Easter!

Easter was a beautiful day here by us! We went to church and came home just to be with our family. Jake is so sweet and can tell us the Easter story now. I love hearing his own little rendition of the story. He knows it well just of course doesn't quite understand it all. At church we sang a song that goes "oh happy day, happy day, he washed my sins away, oh happy day, happy day, we'll never be the same!!" Jake loved that song and so did Abby and we were singing it on our way home and they were both singing and clapping along!!

On Saturday we had our Easter dinner with Ben's family. We had a good meal and a nice time. The kids got to stay with Ma and Papa and got to make a bunny cake and do an easter egg hunt! They thought they were pretty special (which they are)!! anyway I know my family was together and I talked to some of them including all my grandparent's which I continue to be thankful each day for them and their health! My parent's made it back from Hawaii celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary and were home to celebrate Easter! Baby Kaleb we know you were celebrating right there by Jesus' side and we want you to know we continue to think about you all the time!! Happy Easter to everyone we hope you felt the closeness to Jesus during this wonderful celebration!

Spring Break!

The kids in the hot tub.... then our trip home.... Jake was pooped out.... Abby had Jake's glasses on and when I say "cool dude" I stick two thumbs up... that's her own cool dude look!

Our spring break was kind of busy. My friend Renee VanKooten from College came to visit us! She was here from Sat. til Wed. We shopped, hung out and just played with the kids! It was a nice visit She gave Jake the piranha panic game which we play almost every night and jake pretty much beats me every time!! We left to go to Southeast Kansas to visit our friends the Spanglers on Wed. Jake found his new hero... He did absolutely everything Caleb did and wanted to be at his side every minute. They stayed busy on the trampoline, playing b-ball, going to the park, playing nintendo, watching ping-pong,sitting in the hot tub etc. The adults stayed busy playing guitar hero... I'm not very good yet but I was getting better... Ben and Jeff also played a little ping-pong... Teresa and I didn't make it that far she was enjoying beating me at guitar hero though:) Abby followed Kaylee around the house and played with anything Kaylee gave her! It was good times and hopefully we can make it back there before another year passes! The rest of our break we just spent together as a family, playing games, hanging out and watching some b-ball games!

The best of Abby!

Here is the best of our little Abby...she is getting to be quite the little personality! Spaghetti face drinking diet pepsi... spiderman hat and shoes...sunglasses homegirl... and our pretty little model! That's our Abby and we sure do love her! She has been a lot of fun the last couple months really growing and changing!

Jake and His Buddies

Gabe and Mia have become Jake's newest friends. We usually get together atleast once a week to let the kids play. They have a little sister Natalia that Abby likes to play with...well just kind of look at I guess:) Their Dad works with Jake's Dad at the highschool and their mom stays home with them like Jake's mom! Its been good to have someone to get together with for the kids and also the moms:)!

Basketball is over and I think Ben feels a little lost! He'll have his banquet on Monday and then it's officially done for the year! Over all I must say Ark City had a pretty good season and it was fun going to the games to watch them play! The 7th grade girls were not as successful:( But we had fun too! I'm on to softball now which has been a nice change of pace too! I'm still trying to get back on track with my blog, but I just can't seem to keep up!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Jake had a great party at pre-school. Here he is with one of his little friends!